Intention is choice with commitment
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Requirements engineering in the year 00: a research perspective
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
SBIA '02 Proceedings of the 16th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Formalizing a Language for Institutions and Norms
ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
A Meta-Model for the Analysis and Design of Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Modelling strategic relationships for process reengineering
Modelling strategic relationships for process reengineering
Tropos: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Automated Planning: Theory & Practice
Automated Planning: Theory & Practice
Semantics of declarative goals in agent programming
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Goal Types in Agent Programming
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on ECAI 2006: 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 29 -- September 1, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy
CAST: collaborative agents for simulating teamwork
IJCAI'01 Proceedings of the 17th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Identification of reusable method fragments from the PASSI agent-oriented methodology
AOIS'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Agent-Oriented Information Systems III
A study of some multi-agent meta-models
AOSE'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
A metamodel for agents, roles, and groups
AOSE'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Automating model transformations in agent-oriented modelling
AOSE'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Towards a Catalogue of Patterns for Defining Metrics over i* Models
CAiSE '08 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Applying and extending a semantic foundation for role-related concepts in enterprise modelling
Enterprise Information Systems - Towards Model-driven Service-oriented Enterprise Computing - 12th International IEEE EDOC Enterprise Computing Conference (EDOC 2008)
Modeling and reasoning about service-oriented applications via goals and commitments
CAiSE'10 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
On the elements of an enterprise: towards an ontology-based account
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
An ontological analysis of the notion of community in the RM-ODP enterprise language
Computer Standards & Interfaces
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The software agent paradigm has received considerable attention recently, both in research and industrial practice. However, adoption of this software paradigm remains elusive in software engineering practice. We claim that part of the adoption problem lies with the fact that mentalistic and social concepts underlying agents are subjective and complex for the average practitioner. Specifically, although there are many efforts related to the topic coming from philosophy, cognitive sciences and computer science, a uniform and well-founded semantic view on these concepts is currently lacking. This work extends an existing upper-level ontology and offers it as a foundation for evaluating and designing agent-oriented modeling languages. In particular, the paper focuses on the concept of goal, aiming at disambiguating its definition, discussing its different manifestations, and clarifying its relation to other important agent-related concepts. For that, we examine how goals are conceived and used according to some relevant literature on agent-orientation. In addition, related work on akin fields, especially philosophy and AI are used as a basis for the proposed ontological extensions.