Software agents have been designed and implemented to function within limited context-aware capabilities. For an agent to function correctly and efficiently it should contain sufficient knowledge and reasoning resources enabling them to process large quantities of implicit information conveyed through an explicit description. Presented in this position paper is an introduction of the 6Ws agent-...

rovides an overview of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) on effort in the area of specifying standards for heterogeneous, interoperating systems. We describe the types of software agents which are of interest to FIPA, by which FIPA members collaborate and produce specifications and also of the specifications that FIPA has produced. Also, we list the available ons of FIPA spe...

The Trading Agent Competition (TAC) is an international forum which promotes high-quality research regarding the trading agent problem. One of the TAC competitive scenarios is Supply Chain Management (SCM) where six agents compete by buying components, assembling PCs from these components and selling the manufactured PCs to customers. The idea of TAC SCM is the development of agent-based archit...

In this paper we present a framework in which heterogeneous agents can argue over the viability of a human organ for transplantation. This collaborative decision making process among human and/or software agents is mediated by a software agent that uses argument schemes and critical questions to direct the deliberation, and determines a final evaluation of the given arguments. The proposed mode...

This paper presents an overview of the eld of Intelligent Products. As Intelligent Products have many facets, this paper is mainly focused on the concept behind Intelligent Products, the technical foundations, and the achievable practical goals of Intelligent Products. A novel classi cation of Intelligent Products is introduced, which distinguishes between three orthogonal dimensions. Furthermo...

The first “Agent-based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration” workshop at WETICE aimed at bringing together researcher in the field of collaboration supported by software agents. This paper briefly discusses the content of the papers as presented by the participating authors. Moreover, there is a summary of the main issues of the concluding panel d iscussions.

We present a global methodology for the design of agent societies that takes the organisational perspective as starting point and specifies the development steps for the design and development of an agent-based system for a particular domain. So far, most agent-oriented design methodologies haven’t considered the influence of the social organisation model on the functionality and objectives of ...

The main goal of intelligent surveillance consists in providing security systems with the skills required for correctly detecting and analyzing events in monitored environments. Since these environments are complex and the information is distributed through them, the use of agent-based approaches has becomemore andmore popularwhenmonitoringmoving objects.This paper describes how an existing age...

This paper presents a system capable of acquiring input from a video camera, processing information related to the expressivity of human movement and generating expressive copying behaviour of an Embodied Agent. We model a bi-directional communication between user and agent based on real-time analysis of movement expressivity and generation of expressive copying behaviour: while the user is mov...