As the deployment of expert systems has spread into more complex and sophisticated
environments, so inherent technological limitations have been observed. As a technique for …

Agents in multiagent systems interact to a large extent by communicating. Such
communication may be fruitfully studied from the point of view of speech act theory. In order …

The paper describes the work that has taken place in the ARCHON Project, ESPRIT project
P-2256. The consortium has developed a general-purpose architecture, which can be used …

This paper describes the state of the ARCHON project at its halfway stage. It outlines why a
Distributed AI approach is appropriate for large industrial applications, the benefits which …

Annotation. A key requirement of decision support systems is the ability to reason about
uncertainty. This is a complex problem, especially when multiple decision makers are …

The success of large software engineering projects depends critically on the specification,
which must represent the requirements of a large number of people with widely differing …

A decision support system DSS for dynamic task allocation in a distributed structure for
flexible manufacturing systems FMS has been developed in the LAMIH laboratory. An entity …

Business process and workflows represent diagrams as Business Process Model Language
(BPML), Unified Model Language (UML), which may contain errors made by a designer. In …

Social agents, both human and computational, inhabiting a world containing multiple active
agents, need to coordinate their activities. This is because agents share resources, and …

The paper discusses the applicability of cooperating knowledge-based system (CKBS)
techniques in environmental decision support. The reasons for using CKBSs are given first …