The society of mind
Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Applications of intelligent agents
Agent technology
Pitfalls of agent-oriented development
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
A methodology for agent-oriented analysis and design
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
Agent system development method based on agent patterns
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits
Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits
A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A Survey of Agent-Oriented Methodologies
ATAL '98 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents V, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Development and Application of a Formal Agent Framework
ICFEM '97 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods
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Multiagent systems, also denoted as agencies, are a matter of growing importance in distributed artificial intelligence. Whereas several applications have been addressed by means of agencies, little effort has been devoted to identify and define general methodologies for developing agencies. The purpose of this paper is to propose and analyze an algorithm that, given a formalized initial exigency, recruits, from an inventory of agents, the components that form the better agency for addressing the exigency. This algorithm for composing an agency can be naturally applied in very flexible environments, such as Web applications, in which both the reconfiguration of systems and the reuse of agents for different applications play a fundamental role.