Agent technology currently plays an important role in complex software development. The
underlying paradigm offers a large repertoire of original concepts, architectures, interaction …

The BDI model forms the basis of much of the research on symbolic models of agency and
agent-oriented software engineering. While many variants of the basic BDI model have been …

Multiagent Systems (MASs) have evolved towards the specification of global constraints that
heterogeneous and autonomous agents are supposed to follow when concerning open …

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 …

Nowadays a whole bunch of different agent platforms exists that aim to support the software
engineer in develo** multi-agent systems. Nevertheless most of these platforms …

In the literature on agent systems, the proactive behavior of agents is often modeled in terms
of goals that the agents pursue. We review a number of commonly-used existing goal types …

This chapter presents 3APL, which is a multi-agent programming language, and its
corresponding development platform. The 3APL language is motivated by cognitive agent …