Toward the holodeck: integrating graphics, sound, character and story
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Believability through context using "knowledge in the world" to create intelligent characters
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
breve: a 3D environment for the simulation of decentralized systems and artificial life
ICAL 2003 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Artificial life
Negotiation over tasks in hybrid human-agent teams for simulation-based training
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Managing interaction between users and agents in a multi-agent storytelling environment
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Towards practical reasoning agents for the semantic web
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A Formal Model for Situated Multi-Agent Systems
Fundamenta Informaticae - Multiagent Systems (FAMAS'03)
A knowledge-based scenario framework to support intelligent planning characters
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Using ontology to establish social context and support social reasoning
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Environments in multiagent systems
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Managing Agent Interactions with Context-Driven Dynamic Organizations
Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems
Engineering Contextual Information for Pervasive Multiagent Systems
Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems
Situational programming: agent behavior visual programming for MABS novices
MABS'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Multi-agent-based simulation
Environments for multiagent systems state-of-the-art and research challenges
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
ESAW'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Interfacing a cognitive agent platform with second life
AEGS'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Agents for Educational Games and Simulations
CIGA: a middleware for intelligent agents in virtual environments
AEGS'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Agents for Educational Games and Simulations
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The environment is an important but overlooked piece in the construction of multiagent-based scenarios. Richness, believability and variety of scenarios are inseparable from the environment because every action and interaction of agents is based around the environment they are situated in. The prerequisite, however, is that agents must be able to understand the environment and capture its dynamic nature. This paper proposes a cognitive middle layer between agent minds and the environment. Aspects of the reality are mapped to concepts in the middle layer, through which agents can feel and reason about the real environment. The middle layer is modelled with a structured specification based on Web Ontology Language (OWL) to be extensible and reusable. Environmental concepts are integrated into the goal processing of agents to trigger intentions. This paper also reports our initial investigation about the design of a simulation system for multiple environment-aware agents and multiple users.