Agent software is a rapidly develo** area of research. However, the overuse of the word
“agent” has tended to mask the fact that, in reality, there is a truly heterogeneous body of …

A systematic review is provided on artificial agent methodologies applicable to control
engineering of autonomous vehicles and robots. The paper focuses on some fundamentals …

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 …

Abstract JADE (Java Agent Development Framework) is a software framework to make easy
the development of multi-agent applications in compliance with the FIPA specifications …

The advent of software agents gave rise to much discussion of just what such an agent is,
and of how they differ from programs in general. Here we propose a formal definition of an …

Abstract Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agents have been investigated by many researchers
from both a theoretical specification perspective and a practical design perspective …

The concept of an agent has become important in both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
mainstream computer science. In this article, we present a survey of what we perceive to be …

Computers are not very good at knowing what to do: every action a computer performs must
be explicitly anticipated, planned for, and coded by a programmer. If a computer program …

The construction of large-scale embedded software systems demands the use of design
methodologies and modelling techniques that support abstraction, inheritance, modularity …