The rational agent community uses Michael Bratman's planning theory of intention as its theoretical foundation for the development of its agentoriented BDI languages. We prese...
In this paper we define the concept of conversation policies: declarative specifications that govern communications between software agents using an agent communication language. ...
This paper asks a new question: how can we control the collective behavior of self-organized multi-agent systems? We try to answer the question by proposing a new notion called `So...