An agent programming manifesto

Conceptual-Model Programming: A Manifesto

In order to promote Conceptual-Model Programming (CMP), we set forth these CMP Articles. We hold these articles to be the defining principles for model-complete software development. In essence, this CMP manifesto asserts that programming activities are to be carried out via conceptual modeling. For applications amenable to conceptual-model designs, software developers should never need to writ...

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: a Manifesto

We argue that the recent work in AI on multi-agent reinforcement learning (that is, learning in stochastic games), while exciting, is flawed. The fundamental flaw is unclarity about the problem or problems being addressed. After discussing the recent literature, we identify four well-defined problems in multi-agent reinforcement learning, single out the problem that in our view is most suitable...

Towards an Agent Programming Language

This paper is an analysis of the characteristics of software agents and multi-agent systems aiming at deriving the basic concepts and capabilities that a “good” agent programming language should have. The paper deals with this topic from two different point of views: it analyzes agent’s properties in order to understand which language constructs and abstractions could be worth, and then refines...

Programming with an Intelligent Agent

An Overview of Agent-Oriented Programming

1 have been working in areas related to software agents for a number of years now, together with many students and other colleagues. Recently, terms such as "(intelligent) (software) agents," "knowbots," and "softbots" have become quite popular. The work taking place under this umbrella is di verse, varying in content, style, and quality sufficiently to render terms such as "software agent" mea...