To solve complex problems, agents work cooperatively with other agents in heterogeneous environments. We are interested in coordinating the local behavior of individual agents to provide an appropriate system-level behavior. The use of intelligent agents provides an even greater amount of flexibility to the ability and configuration of the system itself. With these new intricacies, software dev...

Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) is a well-known cognitive theory, especially in the field of Software Agents. Modelling characters using software agents has been proven to be a suitable approach for obtaining emergent and autonomous behaviours in Interactive Storytelling. In this paper it is claimed that an effective extension of previous models to the BDI framework is useful for designing intell...

The difficulty of designing and developing intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) has caused a recent increase in the interest of the AI researchers in realisation some new approaches in that field. On the other hand, the educational communities have become also interested in taking an active role in designing educational software. However, the advancement of AI methods and techniques makes unders...

In this paper we argue that the agent paradigm offers promising techniques for dealing with the challenges of building intelligent mobile services. We present Agent Oriented Software Engineering as a solution for the problems in designing a new generation of mobile services. To illustrate our position, we present a brief agent-oriented analysis of a mobile commerce scenario.

Debugging is hard. Each program bug brings its own particular problems, but there are usually three basic steps that a programmer must perform. These common steps are: (1) understanding something about the failure and the program being debugged, (2) finding the error in the program, and (3) correcting the error. Tools to assist in this process vary from providing virtually no assistance to inte...

Human-computer interaction (HCI) specialists propose methodologies for building interfaces to software applications. HCI emphasizes developing a deep understanding of user characteristics and tasks. As important as HCI is for designing programs used by the general public, it is even more important if the target audience is disabled. We designed software to be used in the Traumatic Brain Injury ...