Intelligent Agents III. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages: ECAI'96 Workshop (ATAL), Budapest, Hungary, August 12-13, 1996, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1193)

Intelligent agents are computer systems that are capable of flexible autonomous action in dynamic, typically multi-agent domains. Over the past few years, the computer science community has begun to recognise that the technology of intelligent agents provides the key to solving a range of complex software application problems, for which traditional software engineering tools and techniques offer no solution. This book, the third in a series, represents the state of the art in the science of agent systems. It is based on papers presented at the 3rd workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages (ATAL'96), held in conjunction with the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'96) in Budapest, Hungary, in August 1996. It is essential reading for anyone interested in this vital new technology. Modelling and design of multi-agent systems....Pages 1-20 Is It an agent, or just a program?: A taxonomy for autonomous agents....Pages 21-35 To be or not to be an “agent”....Pages 37-39 What Is an agent?....Pages 41-43 An agent is an individual that has consciousness....Pages 45-46 Agents as a Rorschach test: A response to Franklin and Graesser....Pages 47-48 From agent theory to agent construction: A case study....Pages 49-63 If Z is the answer, what could the question possibly be?....Pages 65-66 Practical theory and theory-based practice....Pages 67-69 QLB: A quantified logic for belief....Pages 71-85 Dynamic belief analysis....Pages 87-101 Belief revision through the belief-function formalism in a multi-agent environment....Pages 103-115 Formal specification of beliefs in multi-agent systems....Pages 117-130 Reasoning about collective goals....Pages 131-140 Formalisation of a cooperation model based on joint intentions....Pages 141-155 A reactive-deliberative model of dialogue agency....Pages 157-171 Towards layered dialogical agents....Pages 173-188 A rational agent as the kernel of a cooperative spoken dialogue system: Implementing a logical theory of interaction....Pages 189-203 Modelling social agents: Communication as action....Pages 205-218 The threshold of cooperation among adaptive agents: Pavlov and the Stag Hunt....Pages 219-231 How can an agent learn to negotiate?....Pages 233-244 A cooperation model for autonomous agents....Pages 245-260 Designing and implementing a multi-agent architecture for business process management....Pages 261-275 Emotion-based attention shift in autonomous agents....Pages 277-291 A deliberative and reactive diagnosis agent based on logic programming....Pages 293-307 Reactive and motivational agents: Towards a collective minder....Pages 309-323 A multi language environment to develop multi agent applications....Pages 325-339 The design of a coordination language for multi-agent systems....Pages 341-355 A knowledge-theoretic semantics for concurrent MetateM....Pages 357-374 Knowledge-based situated agents among us a preliminary report....Pages 375-389 This book is the sixth in the successful line of Intelligent Agents volumes published in LNAI. It is based on the sixth workshop on Agent Technologies, Architectures, and Languages, ATAL'99, held in Orlando, Florida, USA in July 1999. The 27 revised full papers included were selected from a total of 75 submissions during two rounds of reviewing. Also included are an introduction by the volume editors and a subject index. The book is divided into topical sections on agent theories, agent and system architectures, agent languages, agent oriented software engineering, and decision making in a social context. This state-of-the-art survey is essential reading for anyone interested in agent technology "This book is the sixth in the successful line of Intelligent Agents volumes published in LNAI. The book is divided into topical sections on agent theories, agent and system architectures, agent languages, agent-oriented software engineering, and decision making in a social context. This state-of-the-art survey is essential reading for anyone interested in agent technology."--Jacket Only three years ago, when the first workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL) was held at ECAI-94 in Amsterdam, most interest in intelligent agents came from academic researchers with a background in artificial intelligence. Jörg P. Müller, Michael J. Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings, Eds. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.