When developing BDI agent-based systems, some design patterns such as incompatible intentions, multiple strategies, intention decomposition, etc. would be very useful for specifying some desired agent behaviours. As BDI agent programmers, our desire would be to have a framework that natively supports such common patterns. The PRACTIONIST framework provides a goal-oriented approach for developin...

This paper presents a software framework, called Collaborator, to provide a shared work-space supporting the activities of virtual teams. This system exploits seamless integration of standard Web technologies with agent technologies, enhancing the classic Web communication mechanisms to support synchronous sharing of applications, and its use through emerging technologies such as: third generat...

This paper focuses of the group judgments obtained from a committee of agents that use deliberation. The deliberative process is realized by an argumentation framework called AMAL. The AMAL framework is completely based on learning from examples: the argument preference relation, the argument generation policy, and the counterargument generation policy are case-based techniques. For join delibe...

Since the seminal work of Dung, Argumentation Frameworks have been shown to find solutions to n-person cooperative games. In multi-agent systems, decentralised methods for multi-agent system coalition structure generation have been proposed. This paper offers the first dialogue game that utilises argumentation frameworks to find a coalition structure and a payoff vector in a decentralised manne...

This paper proposes an application framework for mobile agents which provides rule-based generic services to support the three phases of a market transaction (information phase, contracting phase and settlement phase). It is described within the four views of an electronic market which describe organizational as well as technological aspects. The focus of this paper is on the technological aspe...

This paper describes HERMES, a system that enhances group decision making by providing an argumentation framework to the agents involved. The system organizes the existing knowledge in a discussion graph, which consists of issues, alternatives, positions and preference relations. Argumentation is performed through a set of discourse acts which trigger appropriate procedures for the propagation ...

Although reasoning about what is the case has been the historic focus of logic, reasoning about what should be done is an equally important capacity for an intelligent agent. Reasoning about what to do in a given situation termed practical reasoning in the philosophical literature has important differences from reasoning about what is the case. The acceptability of an argument for an action tur...

This paper presents a Java agent application framework and shows its example through the implementation of an agent application service. This framework comprised of agent, agent system, agent master and agent manager components. Each component is connected to others via an agent interface, and messages are passed through these interface points. By using this framework, it is possible to deploy ...

We introduce a special family of (assumption-based argumentation) frameworks for reasoning about the bene ts of decisions. These frameworks can be used for representing the knowledge of intelligent agents that can autonomously choose the \best" decisions, given subjective needs and preferences of decision-makers they \represent". We understand \best" decisions as dominant ones, giving more bene...