These days, management solutions are moving to decentralised, flexible approaches based on cooperative intelligent agents. This raises new needs for communication between management entities, as it implies not only exchange of pure management information -where protocols such as SNMP excelbut also exchange of co-operation messages or code. The purpose of this paper is firstly to identify the co...

An agent perceives its environment through sensors and acts on this environment using effectors percept-an agents perceptual input at any given instant percept sequence-complete history of what the agent has perceived An agent is anything that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon that environment through actuators • Human agent: eyes, ears, and other organ...

1.1 Introduction Computers are not very good at knowing what to do: every action a computer performs must be explicitly anticipated, planned for, and coded by a programmer. If a computer program ever encounters a situation that its designer did not anticipate, then the result is not usually pretty | a system crash at best, multiple loss of life at worst. This mundane fact is at the heart of our...

A search on Google for the keywords “intelligent agents’ will return more than 330,000 hits; “multi-agent” returns almost double that amount as well as over 5,000 citations on www.citeseer.com. What is agent technology and what has led to its enormous popularity in both the academic and commercial worlds? Agent-based system technology offers a new paradigm for designing and implementing softwar...

This paper examines the state-of-the-art enabling technologies for network management, including policy-based network management, distributed object computing, Web-based network management, Java-based network management, code mobility, intelligent agents, active networks, and economic theories. For each of them, we discuss the underlying concept, analyze the benefits and drawbacks, and discuss ...

Software Agents are the new revolution in software usability. Agents are described with anthropomorphic features such as intelligence, autonomy, and such. The school of researchers from the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Distributed AI (DAI), and other more pragmatic researchers are engaged in defining these “software entities” and creating this new field of study and development along...

Research in context-aware systems has been moving towards reusable and adaptable architectures for managing more advanced human-computer interfaces. Ambient. Intelligence (AmI) investigates computer-based services, which are ubiquitous and based on a variety of objects and devices. Their intelligent and intuitive interfaces act as mediators through which people can interact with the ambient env...

Devising intelligent robots or agents that interact with humans is a major challenge for artificial intelligence. In such contexts, agents must constantly adapt their decisions according to human activities and modify their goal. In this extended abstract, we present a novel continual planning approach, called Moving Goal Planning (MGP) to adapt plans to goal evolutions. This approach draws ins...