This is MYWORLD: the logic of an agent-oriented DAI testbed
ECAI-94 Proceedings of the workshop on agent theories, architectures, and languages on Intelligent agents
Supporting Cooperation in the SPADE-1 Environment
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
IEEE Intelligent Systems
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One of the most driving forces behind multi-agent systems research and development is the Internet. Agents are populating the Internet at an increasingly rapid pace. Unfortunately, they are almost universally asocial. Accordingly, adequate agent concepts will be essential for agents in such open environment. To address this issue, we show in the first part of this paper that agents need to have communication concepts and organization concepts. We argue that instead of the usual approach of starting from a set of intentional states, the intentional structure should be deduced in terms of interaction. To this end, we come up with conceptualizations related to communication and organization. The second part of this paper deals with a study which compares the agent paradigm to the object paradigm. We also show the capabilities as well as the limits of the object paradigm to deal with the agent paradigm. We illustrate our work with the well known prey/predator game.