Agent technology currently plays an important role in complex software development. The
underlying paradigm offers a large repertoire of original concepts, architectures, interaction …

Software agents offer a range of benefits to the development of complex software systems.
However, before these benefits can be realised by the computing industry there is a need for …

From the Foreword:" In this book Joscha Bach introduces Dietrich Dorner's PSI architecture
and Joscha's implementation of the MicroPSI architecture. These architectures and their …

BDI agents have been used with considerable success to model humans and create human-
like characters in simulated environments. A key reason for this success is that the BDI …

Although the content of sensor messages describing" events of interest" may be encrypted to
provide confidentiality, the context surrounding these events may also be sensitive and …

Today computers are part of the standard equipment of modern surgery rooms. They assist
surgeons in performing complex procedures that would not be possible otherwise. However …

This paper discusses the use of BDI agents for the development of human-like synthetic
characters. The folk psychological roots of the paradigm map closely to the way people …

Computer systems keep growing in complexity, processing power and inter-connectivity. To
leverage this rich environment and better assist users, a new type of intelligent assistant …

The notion of environment is receiving an increasing attention in the development of
multiagent applications. This is witnessed by the emergence of a number of infrastructures …

The BDI agent framework is a well-known agent framework, often discussed in the agents
literature. The work described here takes advantage of the folk psychological roots of the …