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Artificial Intelligence
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ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Routing in telecommunications networks with ant-like agents
IATA '98 Proceedings of the second international workshop on Intelligent agents for telecommunication applications
Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence
An Behavior-based Robotics
The tropos software development methodology: processes, models and diagrams
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
Coordination for Internet Application Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Electronic Institutions: Future Trends and Challenges
CIA '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents VI
Is it an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents
ECAI '96 Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Agents III, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Anthill: A Framework for the Development of Agent-Based Peer-to-Peer Systems
ICDCS '02 Proceedings of the 22 nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02)
Developing multiagent systems: The Gaia methodology
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Programming Pervasive and Mobile Computing Applications with the TOTA Middleware
PERCOM '04 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'04)
Coordination Artifacts: Environment-Based Coordination for Intelligent Agents
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Decentralized control of E'GV transportation systems
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Views: customizable abstractions for contextaware applications in MANETs
SELMAS '05 Proceedings of the fourth international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
Architectural design of a distributed application with autonomic quality requirements
DEAS '05 Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Design and evolution of autonomic application software
A Formal Model for Situated Multi-Agent Systems
Fundamenta Informaticae - Multiagent Systems (FAMAS'03)
The AARIA agent architecture: From manufacturing requirements to agent-based system design
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
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Artificial Life
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Prometheus: a methodology for developing intelligent agents
AOSE'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering III
Activity theory as a framework for MAS coordination
ESAW'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world III
ADELFE: a methodology for adaptive multi-agent systems engineering
ESAW'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world III
Objective coordination in multi-agent system engineering: design and implementation
Objective coordination in multi-agent system engineering: design and implementation
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E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
From reality to mind: a cognitive middle layer of environment concepts for believable agents
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
A spatially dependent communication model for ubiquitous systems
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
MANAGING RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENTS WITH SOFTWARE AGENTS
Applied Artificial Intelligence
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CEEMAS '07 Proceedings of the 5th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications V
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Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems
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EvoWorkshops '09 Proceedings of the EvoWorkshops 2009 on Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoCOMNET, EvoENVIRONMENT, EvoFIN, EvoGAMES, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoINTERACTION, EvoMUSART, EvoNUM, EvoSTOC, EvoTRANSLOG
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E4MAS'05 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
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There is a growing awareness in the multiagent systems research community that the environment plays a prominent role in multiagent systems. Originating from research on behavior-based agent systems and situated multiagent systems, the importance of the environment is now gradually being accepted in the multiagent system community in general. In this paper, we put forward the environment as a first-order abstraction in multiagent systems. This position is motivated by the fact that several aspects of multiagent systems that conceptually do not belong to agents themselves should not be assigned to, or hosted inside the agents. Examples are infrastructure for communication, the topology of a spatial domain or support for the action model. These and other aspects should be considered explicitly. The environment is the natural candidate to encapsulate these aspects. We elaborate on environment engineering, and we illustrate how the environment plays a central role in a real-world multiagent system application.