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Agent-Oriented Programming: Where Do We Stand?

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Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology (AMAST 2004)

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In the last decade or so the subject of agent technology has been getting an ever increasing interest in both the fields of software engineering and artificial intelligence [17]. (Intelligent) agents are software (or hardware) entities that display a certain degree of autonomy while operating in an environment (possibly inhabited by other agents) that is not completely known by the agent and typically is changing constantly. Agents possess properties like reactiveness, proactiveness and social behavior, often thought of as being brought about by mental or cognitive attitudes involving knowledge, beliefs, desires, goals, intentions,..., in the literature often referred to as ‘BDI attitudes’ (for beliefs, desires, intentions).

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  1. Institute of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

    John-Jules Charles Meyer

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    Charles Rattray

  2. University of Stirling, FK9 4LA, Stirling

    Savitri Maharaj

  3. Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA, Stirling, UK

    Carron Shankland

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Meyer, JJ.C. (2004). Agent-Oriented Programming: Where Do We Stand?. In: Rattray, C., Maharaj, S., Shankland, C. (eds) Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology. AMAST 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3116. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27815-3_6

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