Many safety critical real-time systems, employ fault tolerant strategies in order to provide
predictable performance in the presence of failures. One technique commonly employed is …

This chapter surveys the multi-agent programming research field by presenting and
discussing some typical multi-agent programming languages and frameworks. It provides an …

Research on Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has led to the development of several models,
languages, and technologies for programming not only agents, but also their interaction, the …

In MAS programming and engineering, the environment and the organisation can be
exploited as first-class design and programming abstractions besides the agent one. A main …

Hypermedia Multi-Agent System (MAS) Simulation is a novel approach to building agent-
based simulations in which the environment is modelled as a set of linked hypermedia …

It remains a challenge with current state of the art technology to use BDI agents to control
real-time, dynamic and complex environments. We report on our effort to connect the Goal …

This paper presents a vision for a new breed of Agent-Based Simulations that are based on
the principles of the current generation web technologies. We propose a novel approach to …

The action and perception models adopted by state-of-the-art agent programming
languages–in the context of Multi-Agent System (MAS) programming–have been conceived …

In this thesis, we explore the various aspects of the mutual and complementary contributions
that multi-agent systems (MASs) and component-based software architectures (CBSAs) can …

Organizational modeling languages are used to specify an agent organization in terms of its
roles, organizational structure, norms, etc. Agents take part in organizations by playing one …