In the last two decades, we have seen a significant increase of interest in agentoriented technology. It is crucial that both academics and industrialists within Europe have access to a forum at which current research and application issues are presented and discussed. Following in the tradition of past EUMAS (Oxford 2003, Barcelona 2004, Brussels 2005, Lisbon 2006 and Hammamet 2007), the aim o...

With the recent rapid growth of interest in MultiAgent Systems, both in arti cial intelligence and software engineering, has come an associated di culty concerning basic terms and concepts. In particular, the terms agency and autonomy are used with increasing frequency to denote di erent notions with di erent connotations. In this paper we lay the foundations for a principled theory of agency a...

We present an approach to integrating voice-based natural language instruction and action in the three-tiered robot architecture. Voice inputs activate goals organized in a semantic network. Activated goals enable and disable behaviors. We describe how we implemented and tested our approach on two autonomous agents: a software agent and a mobile robot. Our implementation offers a proof by const...

There has been growing interest in autonomous agents that act on our behalf, or represent us, across various domains such as negotiation, transportation, health, finance, and defense. As these agent representatives become immersed in society, it is critical we understand whether and, if so, how they disrupt the traditional patterns of interaction with others. In this paper, we study how program...

Research in distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) is concerned with how automated agents can be designed to interact effectively. Negotiation is proposed as a means for agents to communicate and compromise to reach mutually beneficial agreements. The paper examines the problems of resource allocation and task distribution among autonomous agents which can benefit from sharing a common resou...

Negotiation is essential in settings where autonomous agents have conflicting interests and a desire to cooperate. For this reason, mechanisms in which agents exchange potential agreements according to various rules of interaction have become very popular in recent years as evident, for example, in the auction and mechanism design community. However, a growing body of research is now emerging w...

This paper presents an approach to formally link a simple dependencybased coordination model to its related conversation protocol. Hence, by observing conversation among coordinating entities, an external observer is able to recognise valid conversations that do not break the established norms on coordination. This may help in building reliable autonomous agent based systems in open and untrust...

Social behaviour arises as a result of individual agents cooperating with each other so as to exploit the resources available in a rich and dynamic multi-agent domain. If agents are to make use of others to help them in their tasks, such social behaviour is critical. Underlying this cooperation is the transfer or adoption of goals from one agent to another, a subtle and complex process that dep...

The title of this paper suggests two distinct aspects of the models that we propose and consider. The rst of these is the modelling of other agents by motivated agents. That is to say that the act of modelling is itself motivated and constrained by the agent doing that modelling. The second aspect is that all such models will also be of motivated agents. It is not su cient merely to know what o...

Optimizing the boarding process is one way for the airline industry to reduce the cost of the total air plane turn time i.e. the time between landing and take off. For this aim, boarding strategies that control when a passenger is allowed to board the plane are developed in order to reduce the overall boarding time. These strategies should be passenger friendly and robust to all kinds of distur...