. This article covers three basics of our virtual soccer team AT Humboldt: We describe our development process in the frame of a practical exercise for students. The resulting efficient agent-oriented realization is explained, and we give a theoretical embedding of our planning component based on BDI. 1 Introduction One of the recent fields of Artificial Intelligence is Agent-Oriented Programming (AOP, cf. e.g. [Wooldridge/Jennings, 1994], [Shoham, 1993]). AOP is proposed especially for the programming of autonomous components ("agents") in open heterogeneous systems. The agents (players) in Artificial Soccer [Kitano et al., 1997] must plan and execute actions individually and efficiently resulting in a successful cooperative team behavior. This article covers three basics of our virtual soccer team AT Humboldt: We present a description of our development process in the frame of a practical exercise for students at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. We show how this has lead to an ef...

B-DIce is a Belief-Desire-Intention control environment for Flexible Manufacturing Systems. It is a Multi Agent System and consists of agents of medium complexity. The target of this project is to create a system, which reliably and efficiently deals with dynamic job shop scheduling problems. At the same time, solutions presented by the system shall be comprehensible for the human planner. This article provides an overview on the progress of this project, including the formal problem specification, design of the agents and their interactions. 1 Introduction The development and maintenance of complex systems, like manufacturing control systems, is only practicable with the help of sophisticated software techniques. Until today, Object Oriented Techniques are the choice of industry. Recently it is discussed, whether the notion of autonomous "agents" could be helpful for structuring complex heterogeneous systems. Agents allow a level of data abstraction, which cannot be achieved by tradi...

We will work in this paper on the central role of “expectations ” in mental life and in purposive action. We will present a Cognitive Anatomy of expectations, their reduction in terms of more elementary ingredients: beliefs and goals. We will base several predictions on this analytical decomposition and we will present a theory of hope, worry, frustration, disappointment, relief, strictly derived from the previous decomposition. Eventually we will discuss how we can capture the global subjective character of such mental states that we have decomposed; how to account for their gestaltic nature.