To gauge how " hot " a technology is, try pinning down a definition that covers all the players and products that claim to implement it. For a cutting-edge technology like intelligent agents, you'll come up with a grab bag: Beyond a germ (or two) of commonality among the definitions where all or most of the candidates agree, many products and research efforts take fundamental agent concepts and...

guiding vehicles to their destination under dynamic traffic conditions is an important topic in the field of intelligent transportation systems (its). nowadays, many complex systems can be controlled by using multi agent systems. adaptation with the current condition is an important feature of the agents. in this research, formulation of dynamic guidance for vehicles has been investigated based...

Agent-based computing is rapidly maturing from a relatively obscure existence in research labs towards an accepted and valued technology in industry. A sure sign of this transformation is the emergence of commercial tools for the development of agentbased software. In this issue we feature two articles that describe such tools. Although they both have a strong relationship to the Java programmi...