For a long time, researchers have sought artificial intelligence (AI) that matches or exceeds
human intelligence. AI agents, which are artificial entities capable of sensing the …

Software engineers continually strive to develop tools and techniques to manage the
complexity that is inherent in software systems. In this article, we argue that intelligent agents …

The study of multi-agent systems (MAS) focuses on systems in which many intelligent agents
interact with each other. These agents are considered to be autonomous entities such as …

The concept of an agent has become important in both artificial intelligence (AT) and
mainstream computer science. Our aim in this paper is to point the reader at what we …

Reasoning about knowledge—particularly the knowledge of agents who reason about the
world and each other's knowledge—was once the exclusive province of philosophers and …

The study of computational agents capable of rational behaviour has received a great deal
of attention in recent years. Theoretical formalizations of such agents and their …

A new computational framework is presented, called agent-oriented programming (AOP),
which can be viewed as a specialization of object-oriented programming. The state of an …

This paper explores principles governing the rational balance among an agent's beliefs,
goals, actions, and intentions. Such principles provide specifications for artificial agents, and …

How do we decide how to represent an intelligent system in its interface, and how do we
decide how the interface represents information about the world and about its own workings …

An architecture for a rational agent must allow for means‐end reasoning, for the weighing of
competing alternatives, and for interactions betwen these two forms of reasoning. Such an …