This article considers the type of evidence that an overseer (e.g., a court) should require before allowing a government agent to take some proposed action. The court can increase agency research incentives by prohibiting actions unless the agent produces supporting evidence, and/or by permitting action even when the agent uncovers adverse evidence. The court thus faces a trade-off between an e...

We suggest that, as an extension to traditional historical analysis, it is potentially insightful and useful to model guerrilla wars in agent-based terms. Accordingly, the Iruba agent-based model of a guerrilla war has been designed and implemented. Some experimental results obtained with the model and conclusions that may be drawn from them are reported, particularly in relation to Guevara and...

In this paper, we present a formalism to de ne agents' behaviours (as exhibited in agent to agent interactions), by an extension of Petri Nets, and show how behaviours of di erent agents can be aligned using speci c alignment policies. We explain why these agents are anticipatory, and the link between Business Information Systems and anticipatory systems is elaborated. A mechanism is proposed f...

As the second generation of electronic commerce, the framework of agent based commerce is proposed. Since the communication messages and solution methods of agents are significantly influenced by the contract type, we have defined the grammar of contracts first. By using this generalized contract grammar, we can express new creative contract types as well as the traditional ones like bids and a...

This paper describes an agent-based architecture designed to support the interoperation of distributed and disparate information processing tools and resources. This work is based on the premise that many computer users have a tool kit of familiar software tools and information resources that must be used in conjunction to perform the user’s information processing tasks. The architecture extend...

This paper proposes an agent programming language called AgentSpeak(I). This new language allows agent programs (1) to effectively perform while having incomplete knowledge of the environment, (2) to detect no-longer possible goals and re-plan these goals correspondingly, and (3) to behave reactively to changes of environment. Specifically, AgentSpeak(I) uses default theory as agent belief theo...

The agent paradigm can be seen as an extension of the notion of (active) objects by concepts like autonomy and cooperation. Mainstream object-oriented modeling techniques do not account for these agent-speci4c aspects. Therefore, dedicated techniques for agent-oriented modeling are required which are based on the concepts and notations of object-oriented modeling and extend these in order to su...

A broad area of research, known as "Agent-Based Computing", focuses on developing "agent-based" intelligent software using agent-based techniques. However, there is a scarcity research focusing providing enough evidence the superiority techniques in creating complex systems. This article has attempted to provide for why are superior traditional methods systems, such control case distinct system...

Summarizing all the specific features of the simulation systems needed for agent-based systems, the paper documents that the simulation tools of this kind do represent rather complex development environment for agent-based systems than one-purpose simulation software obvious in the case of “classical” centralized systems. The agent-oriented simulation tools explore and combine methods of real-t...