Abstract In this paper I argue that many scholars involved in the contemporary free will debates have underappreciated philosophical appeal of agent causation because resources emergentism not been adequately introduced into discussion. Whereas agree causation’s main problem has to do with its intelligibility, particularly respect issue how substances can be causally relevant, notion substance ...

In this paper, a formal model for antivirus update agent system is presented based on mobile agent technology and predicate/transition Petri nets. The mobile agent system contains two mobile agents called DCA and UNA. It sends out agents to update antivirus on client computers in a network. Each agent takes on a specified responsibility. First, DCA roams through the network and check the last d...