Object-oriented application frameworks
Communications of the ACM
Integrating tools and infrastructures for generic multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Patterns Generate Architectures
ECOOP '94 Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Intelligence by design: principles of modularity and coordination for engineering complex adaptive agents
Protocol Based Communication for Situated Multi-Agent Systems
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Decentralized control of E'GV transportation systems
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A Formal Model for Situated Multi-Agent Systems
Fundamenta Informaticae - Multiagent Systems (FAMAS'03)
Partial-order planning with concurrent interacting actions
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Regional synchronization for simultaneous actions in situated multi-agent systems
CEEMAS'03 Proceedings of the 3rd Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-agent systems
AGRE: integrating environments with organizations
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
A design process for adaptive behavior of situated agents
AOSE'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Integrating free-flow architectures with role models based on statecharts
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III
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In this paper, we present an object-oriented framework for situated multiagent systems. The framework integrates various mechanisms for adaptivity we have developed and applied in our research, including selective perception, protocol-based communication, behavior-based decision making with roles and situated commitments, and laws that mediate the activities of agents in the environment. The framework provides a reusable design asset that facilitates the development of new multiagent system applications that share the common base more reliable and cost efficiently. We give an overview of the framework, and we zoom in on two particular features: decision making with a free-flow tree and support for simultaneous actions. Finally, we show how the framework is applied to an experimental robot application.