Requirements interaction management (RIM) is the set of activities directed toward the
discovery, management, and disposition of critical relationships among sets of requirements …

Conflict is an inevitable part of both knowledge elicitation and system design. People will
disagree over how to interpret features of the application domain, what the requirements for …

The study of multi-agent systems (MAS) focuses on systems in which many intelligent agents
interact with each other. These agents are considered to be autonomous entities such as …

The concept of an agent has become important in both artificial intelligence (AT) and
mainstream computer science. Our aim in this paper is to point the reader at what we …

A new computational framework is presented, called agent-oriented programming (AOP),
which can be viewed as a specialization of object-oriented programming. The state of an …

There has been increased research interest in systems composed of multiple autonomous
mobile robots exhibiting cooperative behavior. Groups of mobile robots are constructed, with …

ALLIANCE is a software architecture that facilitates the fault tolerant cooperative control of
teams of heterogeneous mobile robots performing missions composed of loosely coupled …

Agent-based systems technology has generated lots of excitement in recent years because
of its promise as a new paradigm for conceptualizing, designing, and implementing software …

The concept of an agent has become important in both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
mainstream computer science. In this article, we present a survey of what we perceive to be …

Provides a unified, coherent account of machine interaction at the level of the machine
designers (the society of designers) and the level of the machine interaction itself (the …