Agents are distinguished for their autonomous and goal oriented characters. To model the complex goals of agents, this paper proposes an agent goal model, namely, composite state goal model, based on Petri Net theory and Object-Oriented methodology. The proposed model not only enables the agent to manage the composite goals, sub goals but also provides the quantitative measurement of partial go...

We are investigating techniques for developing distributed and adaptive collections of agents that coordinate to retrieve, lter and fuse information relevant to the user, task and situation, as well as anticipate a user's information needs. In our system of agents, information gathering is seamlessly integrated with decision support. The task for which particular information is requested of the...

This paper is focused on description of an ongoing project of a multi-agent system application to medical domain. Great interest in multi-agent paradigm is quite natural because a number of software systems have reached such a degree of complexity that it is impossible to control and operate them as monolithic systems. Therefore the effort of decomposition of such systems is a natural procedure...

Emotions and personality have received quite a lot of attention the last few years in research on embodied conversational agents. Attention is also increasingly being paid to matters of social psychology and interpersonal aspects (see [3], for example, and [11], for work of our group). Given the nature of an embodied conversational agent’s main activity: “conversation”, we feel that interperson...

An intelligent communicating agent has both the properties of intelligent agents and communicating agents, which are autonomy, reactivity, proactiveness and sociability. In this paper, we propose a modelbased approach to designing and implementing intelligent communicating agents for multi-agent systems (MAS). As background knowledge for our approach, we first briefly introduce the agent-orient...

In this paper, we present an implementation of a Java-based framework for building mobile agents : MiLog (Mobile intelligent agents using Logic programming). MiLog provides logic programming and Java programming for developing intelligent agents since it helps users to effectively construct intelligent mechanisms. We address how to realize an anytime migration mechanism, a HTTP(Hyper Text Trans...

Improvement in supply chain performance is one of the major issues in the current world. Lack of coordination in the supply chain is the main drawback of supply chain that many researchers have proposed different methodologies to overcome it. VMI (Vendor-managed inventory) is one of these methodologies that implementing it has some obstacles. This paper proposes new model that is agent-managed ...