Robustness, through fault tolerance, is a property often put forward in order to advocate MAS. The question is: What is the first step to be fault tolerant? Obviously the answer i...
Katia Potiron, Patrick Taillibert, Amal El Fallah-...
Programming languages based on the BDI style of agent model are now common. Within these there appears to be some, limited, agreement on the core functionality of agents. However, ...
Abstract. More and more aspects of concurrency and concurrent programming are becoming part of mainstream programming and software engineering, as a result of several factors, such...
In agent theory and agent programming, goals constitute the motivational attitude of rational agents and form the key concept in explaining and generating their pro-active behavior...
Nick A. M. Tinnemeier, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules C...
Design patterns document expert design experience in software system development. They have been applied in many existing software systems. However, pattern information is general...