Multiagent systems (MAS) research is well established yet there is little development of agent technology in industry. It has been suggested that this is due, in part, to the unav...
A review of current agent-based systems exemplifies that a Western perspective is predominant in the field. But as conversational agents focus on rich multimodal interactive behavi...
This paper presents a mechanism for dividing an agent oriented application into the three IEEE defined scoping levels of essential, conditional and optional. This mechanism is ap...
Mainstreaming and industrialising agent technologies requires suitable methodological and technological support for the various engineering activities associated with managing the...
The goal of this paper is to illustrate how frameworks and patterns address complexities that arise in the design and implementation of high-performance distributed software syste...