Software agents: An overview

HS Nwana - The knowledge engineering review, 1996 - cambridge.org
Agent software is a rapidly developing area of research. However, the overuse of the word “agent”
has tended to mask the fact that, in reality, there is a truly heterogeneous body of …

Intelligent tutoring systems: an overview

HS Nwana - Artificial Intelligence Review, 1990 - Springer
This is a non-expert overview of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs), a way in which Artificial
Intelligence (AI) techniques are being applied to education. It introduces ITSs and the …

ZEUS: a toolkit for building distributed multiagent systems

HS Nwana, DT Ndumu, LC Lee… - Applied Artificial …, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
<p>The multiagent systems approach of knowledge- level cooperation between autonomous
agents promises significant benefits to distributed systems engineering, such as enhanced …

[PDF][PDF] Coordination in software agent systems

HS Nwana, LC Lee, NR Jennings - British Telecom Technical …, 1996 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
The objective of this paper is to examine the crucial area of co-ordination in multi-agent
systems. It does not attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of the co-ordination literature; …

A perspective on software agents research

HS Nwana, DT Ndumu - The Knowledge Engineering Review, 1999 - cambridge.org
This paper sets out, ambitiously, to present a brief reappraisal of software agents research.
Evidently, software agent technology has promised much. However, some five years after the …

The stability, scalability and performance of multi-agent systems

LC Lee, HS Nwana, DT Ndumu, P De Wilde - BT Technology Journal, 1998 - Springer
Hyacinth S Nwana is a principal research scientist/engineer and technical group leader in
the Applied Research and Technology (ART) department at BT Laboratories. He holds a BSc …

A brief introduction to software agent technology

HS Nwana, DT Ndumu - Agent Technology: Foundations, Applications …, 1998 - Springer
Software agent technology is a rapidly developing area of research. Application domains in
which agent solutions are being applied or researched into include workflow management, …

[PDF][PDF] ZEUS: An Advanced Tool-Kit for Engineering Distributed Multi-Agent Systems.

HS Nwana, DT Ndumu, LC Lee - PAAM, 1998 - Citeseer
There is an emerging consensus on the need to develop methodologies and tool-kits for
building distributed multi-agent systems. This paper presents ZEUS, an advanced development …

The zeus agent building tool-kit

JC Collis, DT Ndumu, HS Nwana, LC Lee - BT Technology Journal, 1998 - Springer
Hyacinth S Nwana is a principal research scientist/engineer and technical group leader in
the Applied Research and Technology (ART) department at BT Laboratories. He holds a BSc …

An introduction to agent technology

HS Nwana, DT Ndumu - Software Agents and Soft Computing Towards …, 2005 - Springer
Intelligent agent technology is a rapidly developing area of research. However, in reality,
there is a truly heterogeneous body of work being carried out under the ‘agent’ banner. In this …