Precisely when the success of artificial intelligence (AI) sub-symbolic techniques makes
them be identified with the whole AI by many non-computer-scientists and non-technical …

Jason is an Open Source interpreter for an extended version of AgentSpeak–a logic-based
agent-oriented programming language–written in JavaTM. It enables users to build complex …

Research in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has recently led to the development of practical
programming languages and tools that are appropriate for the implementation of such …

The notion of an intelligent agent as an entity which appears to be the subject of mental
attitudes like beliefs, desires and intentions (hence, the BDI acronym) is well known and …

In simulation projects, it is generally beneficial to have a toolset that allows following a more
formal approach to system analysis, model design and model implementation. Such formal …

Socio-Technical Systems demand an evolution of computing into social computing, with a
transition from an individualistic to a societal view. As such, they seem particularly suitable to …

In this paper, we discuss the potential role of answer set programming (ASP) in the context
of approaches to the development of agents and multi-agent systems especially in the realm …

Over decades new technologies, algorithms and methods are evolved and proposed. We
can witness a paradigm shift from typewriters to computers, mechanics to mechnotronics …

This chapter tackles the relation between declarative languages and multi-agent systems by
following the dictates of the five Ws (and one H) that characterize investigations. The aim is …

The paper presents a knowledge representation formalism, in the form of a high-level Action
Description Language (ADL) for multi-agent systems, where autonomous agents reason and …