The ever fast changes of customers' needs and demands ask for reconfigurable and
adaptive production systems, which can provide companies with the proper level of agility …

To support the sharing and reuse of formally represented knowledge among AI systems, it is
useful to define the common vocabulary in which shared knowledge is represented. A …

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 …

Recent work in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is exploring the use of formal ontologies as a way of
specifying content-specific agreements for the sharing and reuse of knowledge among …

Jason is an Open Source interpreter for an extended version of AgentSpeak–a logic-based
agent-oriented programming language–written in JavaTM. It enables users to build complex …

In the last decades significant changes in the manufacturing environment have been
noticed: moving from a local economy towards a global economy, with markets asking for …

The construction of large-scale embedded software systems demands the use of design
methodologies and modelling techniques that support abstraction, inheritance, modularity …

The Palo Alto Collaborative Testbed (PACT), a concurrent engineering infrastructure that
encompasses multiple sites, subsystems, and disciplines, is discussed. The PACT systems …

We discuss what constitutes an integrated system in AI, and why AI researchers should be
interested in building and studying them. Taking integrated systems to be ones that integrate …

What kinds of social relationships can people have with computers? Are there activities that
computers can engage in that actively draw people into relationships with them? What are …