This paper presents the specification of a programming language for implementing the deliberation cycle of cognitive agents. The mental attitudes of cognitive agents are assumed ...
Mehdi Dastani, Frank S. de Boer, Frank Dignum, Joh...
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has a requirement for complex and evolving systems to manage its weather forecasting, monitoring and alerts. This paper describes an agent-bas...
Sandy Dance, Malcolm Gorman, Lin Padgham, Michael ...
Optimal behavior is a very desirable property of autonomous agents and, as such, has received much attention over the years. However, making optimal decisions and executing optima...
Agents interacting in a multiagent environment not only have to be wary of interfering with each other when carrying out their tasks, but also should capitalize on opportunities f...
Interacting agents that interleave planning and execution must reach consensus on their commitments to each other. In domains where agents have varying degrees of interaction and ...
A collective obligation is an obligation directed to a group of agents so that the group, as a whole, is obliged to achieve a given task. The problem investigated here is the impac...
The problem investigated in this paper is the distribution of goals addressed to a group of rational agents. Those agents are characterized by their ability (i.e. what they can do...
This paper discusses some modeling issues concerning the communication between goal-directed agents. In particular, the role of performatives in agent communication is discussed. I...
Abstract. An important aspect of agent autonomy is the decision making capability of the agents. We discuss several issues that agents need to deliberate about in order to decide w...