This survey characterizes an emerging research area, sometimes called coordination
theory, that focuses on the interdisciplinary study of coordination. Research in this area uses …

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 …

In Zeiten, in denen mehr publiziert als rezipiert wird, in denen Texte allerorts abrufbar sind,
ist die Neuauflage eines Buches für Verlag und Verfasser ein Grund zur Freude–zumal sich …

" Die Frage nach der Technik und dem Handeln hat eine lange Tradition. In ihr wurden die
Sphären der Technik und des menschlichen Handelns überwiegend streng getrennt. Die …

A personal intelligent agent (PIA) is a system that acts intelligently to assist a human using
natural language. Examples include Siri and Alexa. These agents are powerful computer …

Multiagent systems combine multiple autonomous entities, each having diverging interests
or different information. This overview of the field offers a computer science perspective, but …

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 …