Agents Breaking Away

Ideal and real belief about belief: Some intuitions.- Emotions as commitments operators: A foundation for control structure in multi-agents systems.- A logical and operational model of scalable knowledge- and perception-based agents.- AgentSpeak(L): BDI agents speak out in a logical computable language.- A methodology and modelling technique for systems of BDI agents.- Formalising the Contract Net as a goal-directed system.- A coordination algorithm for Multi-Agent planning.- Modelling approach and tool for designing protocols for automated cooperation in multi-agent systems.- Analyzing the social behavior of Contract Net Protocol.- Effects of different interaction attitudes on a multi-agent system performance.- Bacterial Evolution Algorithm for rapid adaptation.- Distributed interaction with computon.- SIGMA: Application of Multi-Agent Systems to Cartographic Generalization.- A decision-theoretic model for cooperative transportation scheduling.- A real-time agent model in an asynchronous-object environment.- Coalition formation among rational information agents.- Cooperating agents implementing distributed patient management.