1Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università del Molise, Pesche, Italy; [email protected] 2Laboratorio di Xilogenesi, Istituto per la Valorizzazione Legno e delle Specie Arboree (IVALSA), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy 3Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università del Molise; The EFI Project Centre on Mountain Forests (MOUNTFOR), Edmund Mach F...

This research explores two elements of the information behavior of homecare nurses, their commonly identified information drivers and frequently used information leads and conduits. Additionally, information behavior is examined in the context of the nurses’ help-

Improving the development of agent intelligence requires improving the mechanisms of that development. This paper explores the application of an established software methodology, object-oriented design, to agent development in two ways. We present a distributed agent architecture, Edmund, and describe first its own object-oriented structure. Then we relate the methodology for developing agent b...