This course presents the conceptual foundations of the A&A (Agents & Artifacts) meta-model, and elaborates on its impact on the way in which MAS are conceived, designed and developed. After a short introduction on the "From Objects to Agents" revolution, MAS fundamental notions are first re-defined in terms of the A&A meta-model, then exploited to re-cast fundamental issues like agent intelligence, interaction, MAS infrastructures, agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE), agent-based simulation (ABS), self-* MAS.
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