Intelligent Agents III. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages

Modelling and design of multi-agent systems.- Is It an agent, or just a program?: A taxonomy for autonomous agents.- To be or not to be an “agent”.- What Is an agent?.- An agent is an individual that has consciousness.- Agents as a Rorschach test: A response to Franklin and Graesser.- From agent theory to agent construction: A case study.- If Z is the answer, what could the question possibly be?.- Practical theory and theory-based practice.- QLB: A quantified logic for belief.- Dynamic belief analysis.- Belief revision through the belief-function formalism in a multi-agent environment.- Formal specification of beliefs in multi-agent systems.- Reasoning about collective goals.- Formalisation of a cooperation model based on joint intentions.- A reactive-deliberative model of dialogue agency.- Towards layered dialogical agents.- A rational agent as the kernel of a cooperative spoken dialogue system: Implementing a logical theory of interaction.- Modelling social agents: Communication as action.- The threshold of cooperation among adaptive agents: Pavlov and the Stag Hunt.- How can an agent learn to negotiate?.- A cooperation model for autonomous agents.- Designing and implementing a multi-agent architecture for business process management.- Emotion-based attention shift in autonomous agents.- A deliberative and reactive diagnosis agent based on logic programming.- Reactive and motivational agents: Towards a collective minder.- A multi language environment to develop multi agent applications.- The design of a coordination language for multi-agent systems.- A knowledge-theoretic semantics for concurrent MetateM.- Knowledge-based situated agents among us a preliminary report.