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Logical Foundations of Agent-Based Computing

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Logics for agents are useful when specifying, implementing and verifying agent programs.W e show that modal logic provides a nice tool to define informational, motivational and dynamic aspects of agents. We conclude by showing how an agent programming language can also benefit from this modal approach.

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  1. Institute of Information and Computing Sciences Department of Philosophy, Utrecht University, 80.089 3508, TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Wiebe van der Hoek

  2. Department of Computer Science, The University of Liverpool, UK

    Wiebe van der Hoek

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  1. Department of Electronics and Computer Science Highfield, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

    Michael Luck

  2. Facultiy of Electr. Engineering, Dept. of Cybernetics Technicka 2, Czech Technical University, 166 27, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Mařík  & Olga Štěpánková  & 

  3. Dept.of Med. Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, University of Vienna, Freyung 6, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Robert Trappl

  4. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Schottengasse 3, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Robert Trappl

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van der Hoek, W. (2001). Logical Foundations of Agent-Based Computing. In: Luck, M., Mařík, V., Štěpánková, O., Trappl, R. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Applications. ACAI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2086. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47745-4_3

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