Front matter
1-20
Modelling and design of multi-agent systems
David Kinny and Michael Georgeff
21-35
Is It an agent, or just a program?: A taxonomy for autonomous agents
Stan Franklin and Art Graesser
37-39
To be or not to be an “agent”
Cristiano Castelfranchi
41-43
What Is an agent?
Charles Petrie
45-46
An agent is an individual that has consciousness
Mario Tokoro
47-48
Agents as a Rorschach test: A response to Franklin and Graesser
Michael Wooldridge
49-63
From agent theory to agent construction: A case study
Michael Luck, Nathan Griffiths and Mark d'Inverno
65-66
If Z is the answer, what could the question possibly be?
On developing formal methods for agent-based systems
Michael Fisher
67-69
Practical theory and theory-based practice
Gerd Wagner
71-85
QLB: A quantified logic for belief
Alessio Lomuscio and Marco Colombetti
87-101
Dynamic belief analysis
Antonio Moreno and Ton Sales
103-115
Belief revision through the belief-function formalism in a multi-agent environment
Aldo Franco Dragoni and Paolo Giorgini
117-130
Formal specification of beliefs in multi-agent systems
Massimo Benerecetti, Alessandro Cimatti, Enrico Giunchiglia, Fausto Giunchiglia and Luciano Serafini
131-140
Reasoning about collective goals
Gabriel Sandu
141-155
Formalisation of a cooperation model based on joint intentions
Frances M. T. Brazier, Catholijn M. Jonker and Jan Treur
157-171
A reactive-deliberative model of dialogue agency
David R. Traum
173-188
Towards layered dialogical agents
Pablo Noriega and Carles Sierra
189-203
A rational agent as the kernel of a cooperative spoken dialogue system: Implementing a logical theory of interaction
Philippe Bretier and David Sadek
205-218
Modelling social agents: Communication as action
Frank Dignum and Bernd van Linder
219-231
The threshold of cooperation among adaptive agents: Pavlov and the Stag Hunt
David Kraines and Vivian Kraines
233-244
How can an agent learn to negotiate?
Dajun Zeng and Katia Sycara
245-260
A cooperation model for autonomous agents
Jörg P. Müller
261-275
Designing and implementing a multi-agent architecture for business process management
Timothy J. Norman, Nick R. Jennings, Peyman Faratin and E. H. Mamdani
277-291
Emotion-based attention shift in autonomous agents
Luis Miguel Botelho and Helder Coelho
293-307
A deliberative and reactive diagnosis agent based on logic programming
Michael Schroeder, Iara de Almeida Móra and Luis Moniz Pereira
309-323
Reactive and motivational agents: Towards a collective minder
Darryl N. Davis
325-339
A multi language environment to develop multi agent applications
Agostino Poggi and Giovanni Adorni
341-355
The design of a coordination language for multi-agent systems
Mihai Barbuceanu and Mark S. Fox
357-374
A knowledge-theoretic semantics for concurrent MetateM
Michael Wooldridge
375-389
Knowledge-based situated agents among us a preliminary report
Renwei Li and Luís Moniz Pereira
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