A helpful abstraction of a group of agents is a set of interacting roles, or sets of normative behaviors, that the agents can assume. An important characteristic of real-world agen...
James Odell, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, ...
We present our Component-Based Agent Framework, which enables a software engineer to design a set of agents by using a visual compo nent-based toolkit (Sun’s BDK), and wiring tog...
This paper shows how to verify a Multi-Agent System specification using human organization metaphors. This proposal applies Activity Theory, which has its roots in Sociology, to st...
While multi-agent systems seem to provide a good basis for building complex software systems, this paper points out some of the drawbacks of classical “agent centered” multi-ag...
As agent-oriented paradigm is reaching a significant level of acceptance by software developers, there is a lack of integrated highstraction tools for the design and development o...
Pericles A. Mitkas, Dionisis Kehagias, Andreas L. ...