In this paper1 we introduce eXtensible MetaGrammar, a system that facilitates the development of tree based grammars. This system includes both (1) a formal language adapted to th...
Norms represent what ought to be done, and their fulfillment can be seen as benefiting the overall system, society or organisation. However, individual agent goals (desire) may con...
Observation is becoming a crucial issue in the engineering of today's systems: the common practice for dealing with their complexity is to encapsulate their subcomponents abs...
Numerous agencies and agent systems are being developed or portrayed as vehicles to deliver novel types of e-commerce services to users. However service agents in one agency are p...
Mobile agents, programs that move within a system performing a set of tasks, are an active field of research. The focus of current research, however, is on the development of exe...