Mehdi Dastani: Publication

Books

Rafael Bordini, Mehdi Dastani, Jürgen Dix and Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni (Eds.), Multi-Agent Programming: Languages, Tools and Applications. Springer, 2009.

Mehdi Dastani, Amal El Fallah Segrouchni, Alessandro Ricci, Michael Winikoff (Eds.), Programming Multi-Agent-Systems ProMAS ’07, Post-WS Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 4908. Springer, 2008.

Mehdi Dastani, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, João Leite, Paolo Torroni (Eds.), Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems LADS '07, Post-WS Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 5118. Springer, 2008.

Mehdi Dastani, Edwin de Jong (Eds.), The Proceedings of the 19th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2007), Utrecht, 2007.

Rafael Bordini, Mehdi Dastani, Jürgen Dix, Amal El Fallah Segrouchni (Eds.), Programming Multi-Agent-Systems ProMAS ’06, Post-WS Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 4411. Springer, March 2007.

Rafael Bordini, Mehdi Dastani, Jürgen Dix and Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni (Eds.), Multi-Agent Programming: Languages, Platforms and Applications. International book series on Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations, edited by Gerhard Weiss. Springer. July, 2005.

Bordini, R.H.; Dastani, M.; Dix, J.; Seghrouchni, A.E.F. (Eds.), Programming Multi-Agent Systems, Third International Workshop ProMAS 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 26, 2005, Selected Revised and Invited Papers, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Subseries: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3862, 2006, 267 p. Softcover ISBN: 3-540-32616-2.

Bordini, R.H.; Dastani, M.; Dix, J.; Seghrouchni, A.E.F. (Eds.), Programming Multi-Agent Systems, Second International Workshop ProMAS 2004, New York, NY, July 20, 2004, Selected Revised and Invited Papers, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Subseries: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3346, 2005, 249 p. Softcover ISBN: 3-540-24559-6. Online Version

Dastani, Mehdi; Dix, Juergen; EL Fallah-Seghrouchni, Amal (Eds.), Programming Multi-Agent Systems, First International Workshop, PROMAS 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 15, 2003, Selected Revised and Invited Papers Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Subseries: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3067, 2004, 221 p., Softcover ISBN: 3-540-22180-8. Online version.

Journal Papers

L. Astefanoaei, M. Dastani, J.J. Meyer, and F. de Boer, On the Semantics and Verification of Normative Multi-Agent Systems, International Journal of Universal Computer Science, Vol. 15, No. 13, pp. 2629-2652, 2009.

Rafael H. Bordini and Mehdi Dastani, Guest editorial: Special issue on the European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS), International Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS), ISSN 1387-2532 (Print) 1573-7454 (Online), April 2009.

Birna van Riemsdijk, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Goals in Conflict: Semantic Foundations of Goals in Agent Programming. International Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS), 18(3):471-500, 2009.

Mehdi Dastani, 2APL: a practical agent programming language, International Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS), 16(3):214-248, Special Issue on Computational Logic-based Agents, (eds.) Francesca Toni and Jamal Bentahar, 2008.

R.H. Bordini, L. Braubach, M. Dastani, A. El F. Seghrouchni, J.J. Gomez-Sanz, J. Leite, G. O'Hare, A. Pokahr, A. Ricci, A Survey of Programming Languages and Platforms for Multi-Agent Systems. Informatica. vol. 30(1), pp. 33-44, 2006.

Dastani, M., Gomez-Sanz, J., Programming multi-agent systems. The Knowledge Engineering Review. vol. 20(2), pp. 151-164, 2006.

Dastani, M., Jacobs, N., Jonker, C.M., and Treur, J., Modelling User Preferences and Mediating Agents in Electronic Commerce. Knowledge-Based Systems Journal. vol. 18(7), pp. 335-352, 2005.

J. Broersen, M. Dastani and L. van der Torre, Beliefs, Obligations, Intentison and Desires as components in agent architectures. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, vol 20(9), pp. 893-919, 2005.

M. Dastani, J. Hulstijn and L. van der Torre, How to decide what to do? European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 160(3), pp. 762-784, 2005.

Dastani, M., Jonker, C.M., and Treur, J., A Requirement Specification Language for Configuration Dynamics of Multi-Agent Systems. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, vol 19(3), pp. 277-300, 2004.

M. Dastani, B. Indurkhya, R. Scha, Analogical Projection in Pattern Perception, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 15(4), pp. 489-511, 2003.

M. Dastani, R. Scha, Languages for Gestalts of Line Patterns. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, vol. 47(4), pp. 429-449, 2003.

J. Broersen, M. Dastani, J. Hulstijn and L. van der Torre, Goal Generation in the BOID Architecture, Cognitive Science Quarterly Journal, Special issue on "Desires, Goals,  Intentions, and Values: Computational Architectures", vol. 2(3-4), pp. 428-447, 2002.

M. Dastani, The Role of Visual Perception in Data Visualization, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, vol. 13(6), pp. 601-622, 2002.

J. Broersen, M. Dastani and L. van der Torre, Realistic Desires. Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics, vol. 12(2), pp. 287-308, 2002.

Book Chapters

Mehdi Dastani. Modular Rule-Based Programming in 2APL, In A. Giurca, D. Gasevic, and K.Taveter (eds.), Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies: Open Solutions and Approaches, Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA, USA, 2009.

Mehdi Dastani, Nick Tinnemeier, John-Jules CH. Meyer. A Programming Language for Normative Multi-Agent Systems, In V. Dignum (ed.), Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models, Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA, USA, 2009.

Martijn van Otterlo and Marco Wiering and Mehdi Dastani and John-Jules Meyer. A Characterization of Sapient Agents. In Mayorga, Rene V. and Perlovsky, Leonid (eds.), Toward Artificial Sapience: Principles and Methods for Wise Systems, Springer, 2007.

M. Dastani, M. B. van Riemsdijk, and J.-J. Ch. Meyer. Programming multi-agent systems in 3APL, In R. H. Bordini, M. Dastani, J. Dix, and A. El Fallah Seghrouchni, editors, Multi-Agent Programming: Languages, Platforms and Applications. Springer, Berlin, 2005.

M. Dastani and L. van der Torre, Decisions, deliberation, and agent types: CDT, QDT, BDI, 3APL, BOID. Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Nova Science, ISBN: 1-59454-411-5, 2005.

M. Dastani, F. Dignum, J.J. Meyer, 3APL: A Programming Language for Cognitive Agents. ERCIM News, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, Special issue on Cognitive Systems, No. 53, 2003.

M. Dastani, Z. Huang and L. van der Torre, Dynamic desires. In Simon Parsons, Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, and Michael Wooldridge (eds) Game Theory and Decision Theory in Agent-Based Computing, Kluwer, 2001.

Conference and workshop papers

Mehdi Dastani, Normative Multi-Agent Organizations. The proceedings of Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW 2009), LNAI 5881, Springer, 247-249, 2009.

Bas Steunebrink, Mehdi Dastani, and John-Jules Meyer. A Formal Model of Emotion-based Action Tendency for Intelligent Agents. in the proceedings of the 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA'09, LNAI 5816, Springer, 2009.

M.P. Sindlar, M.M. Dastani, and J.-J.Ch. Meyer. BDI-Based Development of Virtual Characters with a Theory of Mind. in the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2009.

Nick Tinnemeier, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Meyer, and Leon van der Torre. Programming Normative Artifacts with Declarative Obligations and Prohibitions. In the proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'09), 2009.

Mehdi Dastani, Bas Steunebrink. Modularity in BDI-based Agent Programming Language. In the proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'09), 2009.

Lacramioara Astefanoaei, Frank S. de Boer, Mehdi Dastani. Rewriting Agent Societies Strategically. In the proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'09), 2009.

Nick Tinnemeier, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Ch. Meyer. Roles and norms for programming agent organizations. In Proceedings of the Eight International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'09), pages 121-128, 2009.

Lacramioara Astefanoaei, Frank S. de Boer, Mehdi Dastani. On coordination, autonomy and time. In Proceedings of the Eight International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'09), pages 1357-1358, 2009.

Mehdi Dastani, Jaap Brandsema, Amco Dubel and John-Jules Meyer. Debugging BDI-based Multi-Agent Programs. In the proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS 2009), 2009.

Michal P. Sindlar, Medhi M. Dastani, Frank Dignum, and John-Jules Ch. Meyer. Explaining and Predicting the Behavior of BDI-Based Agents in Games. In the proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT 2009), 2009.

Natasha Alechina, Mehdi Dastani, Brian Logan, John-Jules Ch. Meyer. Reasoning About Agent Deliberation, In the proceedings of eleventh international conference on principles of knowledge representation and Reasoning (KR'08), 2008.

Mehdi Dastani, Davide Grossi, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, and Nick Tinnemeier. Normative Multi-Agent Programs and Their Logics, In the proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (KRAMAS'08), 2008.

Mehdi Dastani, Christian P. Mol, and Bas R. Steunebrink. Modularity in Agent Programming Languages: An Illustration in Extended 2APL, In the proceedings of The 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents (PRIMA 2008), LNCS 5357, Spriinger, 2009.

Lacramioara Astefanoaei, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Meyer, Frank S. de Boer. A Verification Framework for Normative Multi-Agent Systems, In the proceedings of The 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents (PRIMA 2008), LNCS 5357, Spriinger, 2009.

Farhad Arbab, Lacramioara Astefanoaei, Frank S. de Boer, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Meyer, Nick Tinnermeier. Reo Connectors as Coordination Artifacts in 2APL Systems, In the proceedings of The 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents (PRIMA 2008), LNCS 5357, Spriinger, 2009.

Bas Steunebrink, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Meyer. A Formal Model of Emotions: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects, In the proceedings of eighteenth European conference on artificial intelligence (ECAI'08), 2008.

Birna van Riemsdijk, Mehdi Dastani, Michael Winikoff. Goals in Agent Systems: A Unifying Framework, In Proceedings of the seventh international joint conference on autonomous agents and multiagent systems (AAMAS'08), 2008.

Alessandro Ricci, Michele Piunti, Daghan Acay, Rafael Bordini, Jomi Hubner, and Mehdi Dastani. Integrating Artifact-Based Environments with Heterogeneous Agent-Programming Platforms, In the proceedings of the seventh international joint conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems (AAMAS-08), 2008.

Natasha Alechina, Mehdi Dastani, Brian Logan, John-Jules Ch. Meyer. Reasoning about agent execution strategies (Short paper), In the proceedings of the seventh international joint conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems (AAMAS-08), 2008.

Nick A.M. Tinnemeier, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Meyer. Orwell's Nightmare for Agents? Programming Multi-Agent Organisations, Proceedings of the workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS'08), 2008.

Mehdi Dastani, Koen V. Hindriks, Peter Novak, Nick A.M. Tinnemeier. Combining Multiple Knowledge Representation Technologies into Agent Programming Languages, Proceedings of the workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT'08), 2008.

Michal Sindlar, Mehdi Dastani, Frank Dignum & John-Jules Ch. Meyer. Mental State Abduction of BDI-Based Agents, Proceedings of the workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT'08), 2008.

Bas Steunebrink, Nieske Vergunst, Christian Mol,Frank Dignum, Mehdi Dastani, and John-Jules Ch. Meyer. A Generic Architecture for a Companion Robot, In the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO'08), 2008.

Bas Steunebrink, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Meyer. A Logic of Emotions for Intelligent Agents. In the Proceedings of the twenty-second conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), 2007, AAAI press.

Natasha Alechina, Mehdi Dastani, Brian Logan, John-Jules Meyer. A Logic of Agent Programs. In the Proceedings of the twenty-second conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), 2007, AAAI press.

Mehdi Dastani, M. Birna van Riemsdijk, John-Jules Ch. Meyer. A Grounded Specification Language for Agent Programs. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'07), 2007. ACM Press.

Mehdi Dastani and John-Jules Meyer. A Practical Agent Programming Language. In the Proceedings of the fifth International Workshop on Programming Multi-agent Systems (ProMAS'07), 2007.

N. Tinnemeier and M. Dastani and J.J. Meyer, Goal Selection Strategies for Rational Agents. In the Proceedings of the workshop LAnguages, methodologies and Development tools for multi-agent systemS (LADS'07), M. Dastani, Joao Leite, A. El Fallah Seghrouchni, and P. Torroni (eds.), 2007.

Mehdi Dastani, Guido Governatori, Antonino Rotolo, Insu Song, Leendert van der Torre. Contextual Deliberation of Cognitive Agents in Defeasible Logic. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'07), 2007. ACM Press.

Mehdi Dastani, Dirk Hobo, John-Jules Meyer. Practical Extensions in Agent Programming Languages. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'07), 2007. ACM Press.

Rafel H. Bordini, Mehdi Dastani, Michael Winikoff. Current Issues in Multi-Agent Systems Development. In O'Hare, G., O'Grady, M., Dikenelli, O., and Ricci, A., eds., Post-proceedings of the Seventh Annual International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, Springer LNAI 4457, 38-61, 2007.

Mehdi Dastani, Jurgen Dix and Peter Novak, The Second Contest on Multi-Agent Systems based on Computational Logic. Proceedings of the seventh International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA VII, Hakodate, Japan, May 2006), Katsumi Inoue, Ken Satoh and Francesca Toni (Eds.). Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 4371, Springer, 2007.

N.L. Vergunst and B.R. Steunebrink and M.M. Dastani and F.P.M. Dignum and J.J.Ch. Meyer, Towards Programming Multimodal Dialogues. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Communication between Human and Artificial Agents (CHAA'07), IEEE Computer Society Press, 2007.

Bas R. Steunebrink, Mehdi Dastani, and John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Towards a Quantitative Model of Emotions for Intelligent Agents. Proceedings of the second Workshop Emotion and Computing - Current Research and Future Impact (Co-located with KI 2007), Dirk Reichardt and Paul Levi (eds.), 2007.

Mehdi Dastani and John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Programming Agent with Emotions, In Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'06). 2006.

Mehdi Dastani, M. Birna van Riemsdijk, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Goal Types in Agent Programming, In Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'06). 2006.

D. Grossi, F. Dignum, V. Dignum, M. Dastani, L. Royakkers. Structural Aspects of the Evaluation of Agent Organizations. Pre-proceedings of COIN@ECAI'06. Trento, Italy, August, 2006.

P. Harrenstein and M. Dastani, Effectivity and Noncooperative Solution Concepts, Seventh Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT06), Liverpool, 2006.

M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Frank S. de Boer, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Prototyping 3APL in the Maude Term Rewriting Language, Proceedings of the seventh International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA VII, Hakodate, Japan, May 2006), Katsumi Inoue, Ken Satoh and Francesca Toni (Eds.). Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 4371, Springer, 2007.

Mehdi Dastani, M. Birna van Riemsdijk, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Goal Types in Agent Programming: Extended Abstract. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'06), 2006. ACM Press.

M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Frank S. de Boer, Goal-Oriented Modularity in Agent Programming. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'06), 2006. ACM Press.

M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Frank S. de Boer, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Prototyping 3APL in the Maude Term Rewriting Language: Extended Abstract. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'06). 2006. ACM Press.

Davide Grossi, Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, Mehdi Dastani, Lamber Royakkers. Structural Evaluation of Agent Organizations (Short Paper). In Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'06), 2006. ACM Press.

Mehdi Dastani, Jurgen Dix and Peter Novak, The First Contest on Multi-Agent Systems based on Computational Logic. Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop, CLIMA VI, City University London, UK, June 27-29, 2005. Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Vol. 3900 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Francesca Toni and Paolo Torroni, editors, 2006.

M. Birna van Riemsdijk and Mehdi Dastani, Plan Generation and Plan Execution in Agent Programming, In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT 2006), Matteo Baldoni and Ulle Endriss (eds.), LNAI 4327, pp. 225-238, 2006.

M. Dastani, De Opmars van Cognitieve Agenten (Dutch), In De Connectie: Het AI-blad voor studenten en andere geinteresseerden, Nummer 3, Juli 2005.

M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Subgoal Semantics in Agent Programming. Proceedings of 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, LNCS 3808, pp. 548 - 559, 2005.

M. Dastani, G. Governatori, A. Rotolo, L. van der Torre, Programming Cognitive Agents in Defeasible Logic. Proceedings of Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning (LPAR'05), LNAI 3835, pp. 621-637, 2005.

M. Dastani, G. Governatori, A. Rotolo, L. van der Torre, Preferences of Agents in Defeasible Logic. Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'05), Shichao Zhang and Ray Jarvis (eds.), LNCS 3809, pp. 695-704, 2005.

M. Dastani, F. Arbab, F. de Boer, Coordination and Composition in Multi-Agnet Systems, In Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'05). Utrecht, July, 2005.

M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Semantics of Declarative Goals in Agent Programming. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'05). Utrecht, July, 2005.

D. Grossi, F. Dignum, M. Dastani, L. Royakkers, Foundations of Organizational Structures in Multi-Agent Systems. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'05). Utrecht, July, 2005.

J. Kwisthout, M. Dastani, Modelling Uncertainty in Agent Programming, In Proceedings of the third International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3904, Springer, 2006.

L. Winkelhagen, M. Dastani, J. Broersen, Beliefs in Agent Implementation, In Proceedings of the third International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3904, Springer, 2006.

M. Dastani, A. Herzig, J. Hulstijn, L. van der Torre, Inferring trust. Proceedings of Fifth Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-agent Systems (clima v), LNCS, Springer, 2004.

M. Dastani and L. van der Torre, Games for Cognitive Agents. J.J. Alferes, J. Leite (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA'04), Spinger LNAI 3229, p. 5-17, 2004.

M. Dastani and L. van der Torre, Programming BOID Agents: a deliberation language for conflicts between mental attitudes and plans. N. R. Jennings, C. Sierra, L. Sonenberg, M. Tambe (eds.) Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS'04), ACM, p. 706-713, 2004.

Dastani, M., Hulstijn, J., Dignum, F. Meyer, J-J. Ch., Issues in Multiagent System Development. N. R. Jennings, C. Sierra, L. Sonenberg, M. Tambe (eds.) Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS'04), ACM, p. 922-929, 2004.

van Riemsdijk, B., Dastani, M., Dignum, F. Meyer, J.-J. Ch., Dynamics of Declarative Goals in Agent Programming, Proceedings of Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT), New York, 2004.

Dastani, M. , van Riemsdijk, B., Hulstijn, J., Dignum, F., Meyer, J-J. Ch., Enacting and Deacting Roles in Agent Programming, Proceedings of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE), New York, 2004.

Hulstijn, J., Dignum, F. Dastani, M., Coherence in Multi-agent Interaction. Proceedings of the Agent Communication Languages (AC), New York, 2004.

L. van der Torre, J. Hulstijn, M. Dastani, and J. Broersen, Specifying Multiagent Organizations. Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Deontic Logic in Computer Science (Deon'2004), Madeira, Sprnger, LNAI 3065, 243-257, 2004.

M. Dastani, B. van Riemsdijk, F. Dignum, J.J. Meyer, A Programming Language for Cognitive Agents: Goal Directed 3APL. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Programming Multiagent Systems: Languages, frameworks, techniques, and tools (ProMAS03), Mehdi Dastani, Jurgen Dix, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni (eds.), LNAI 3067, Springer, Berlin, 2004.

M. Dastani and L. van der Torre, What is a normative goal? Towards Goal-based Normative Agent Architectures. Regulated Agent-Based Systems, Postproceedings RASTA02, LNAI 2934, 210-227, Springer, 2004.

M. van Otterlo, M. Wiering, M. Dastani, J.J. Meyer, A Characterization of Sapient Agents. Proceedings of the International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS'03): Modeling, Exploration, and Engineering, H. Hexmoor (ed.), 172-177, Boston, Massachusetts, 2003.

M. Dastani, J. van der Ham, and F. Dignum, Communication for Goal Directed Agents, In Communication in Multiagent Systems - Agent Communication Languages and Conversation Policies, Marc-Philippe Huget (ed.), 239-252, LNCS, 2003.

M. Dastani, F. Dignum, J.J. Meyer, Autonomy and Agent Deliberation. Proceedings of The First International Workshop on Computatinal Autonomy - Potential, Risks, Solutions (Autonomous 2003), Michael Rovatsos and Matthias Nickles (eds.), 23-35, Melbourne, July 2003.

M. Dastani, B. van Riemsdijk, F. Dignum, J.J. Meyer, A Programming Language for Cognitive Agents: Goal Directed 3APL. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Programming Multiagent Systems: Languages, frameworks, techniques, and tools (ProMAS03), Mehdi Dastani, Jurgen Dix, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, David Kinny (eds.), 9-15, Melbourne, July 2003.

M. Dastani, V. Dignum, F. Dignum, Role-Assignment in Open Agent Societies. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'03), Melbourne, July 2003, ACM Press, 2003.

M. Dastani, F. de Boer, F. Dignum, J.J. Meyer, Programming Agent Deliberation: An Approach Illustrated Using the 3APL Language. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'03), Melbourne, July 2003, ACM Press, 2003.

J. Broersen, M. Dastani, and L. van der Torre, BDIO_CTL: Properties of Obligation in Agent Specification Languages. Proceedings of Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'03), 2003.

M. Dastani and L. van der Torre, An Extension of BDICTL with Functions and Components. Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR'02), LNCS, 2002.

M. Dastani, V. Dignum, F. Dignum, Organizations and Normative Agents. In Proceedings of The First Eurasian Conference on Advances in Information and Communication Technology (EurAsia ICT 2002). LNCS, Springer, 2002.

M. Dastani and L. van der Torre, Specifying the Merging of Desires into Goals in the Context of Beliefs. In Proceedings of The First Eurasian Conference on Advances in Information and Communication Technology (EurAsia ICT 2002). LNCS, Springer, 2002.

J. Broersen, M. Dastani, Z. Huang and L. van der Torre, Trust and Commitment in Dynamic Logic. In Proceedings of The First Eurasian Conference on Advances in Information and Communication Technology (EurAsia ICT 2002). LNCS, Springer, 2002.

M. Dastani and L. van der Torre, What is a Normative Goal?. Proceedings of International Workshop on Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems: Theories and Applications (RASTA'02), AAMAS'02 Workshop, Bologna Italy, 2002.

M. Dastani, J. van der Ham, and F. Dignum, Communication for Goal Directed Agents, Proceedings of the Agent Communication Languages and Conversation Policies AAMAS'02 Workshop, Bologna Italy, 2002.

M. Dastani and L. van der Torre, A Classification of Cognitive Agents. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci'02), Washington DC, 2002.

M. Dastani, F. Boer, F. Dignum, W. van der Hoek, M. Kroese, J.J. Meyer, Programming the Deliberation Cycle of Cognitive Robots, Proceedings of the The Third International Cognitive Robotics Workshop, Held in conjunction with AAAI-2002, Edmonton, Canada 2002.

M. Dastani and L. van der Torre, Decisions and Games for BD Agents. Proceedings of The Workshop on Game Theoretic and Decision Theoretic Agents, GTDT'02, Held in Association with AAAI-2002, Edmonton, Canada 2002.

M. Dastani and L. van der Torre, What is a Joint Goal? Games with Beliefs and Defeasible Desires. Proceedings of NMR02, Toulouse, 2002.

J. Broersen, M. Dastani and L. van der Torre, Resolving conflicts between beliefs, obligations, intentions and desires. In Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty. Proceedings of the ECSQARU'01, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, 2001.

 Dastani, M., Jonker, C.M, and Treur, J. A Requirement Specification Language for Configuration Dynamics of Multi-Agent System. In: Wooldridge, M., Ciancarini, P., and Weiss, G. (eds.), Proc. of the 2nd International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE'01. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, 2001.

M. Dastani and B. Indurkhya, Modeling context effect in perceptual domains. In the Proceedings of the CONTEXT'01: Third International Conference on Modeling and Using Context. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Springer Verlag, 2001.

Jan Broersen, Mehdi Dastani, Zhisheng Huang, Joris Hulstijn, Leendert van der Torre, An Alternative Classification of Agent Types based on BOID Conflict Resolution, In Proceedings of the Belgium/Dutch AI Conference (BNAIC'2001), Amsterdam, 2001.

M. Dastani, Elena Marchiori, and Robert Voorn, Finding Perceived Pattern Structures using Genetic Programming. In the proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2001).

M. Dastani and B. Indurkhya, Discovering pattern structures: interaction between analogical reasoning and perception (Extended Abstract). In the proceedings of International Conference Model-Based Reasoning 2001 (MBR'01).

J. Broersen, M. Dastani and L. van der Torre, Wishful thinking. Proceedings of DGNMR01.

J. Broersen, M. Dastani, Z. Huang, J. Hulstijn, and L. van der Torre, The BOID architecture. In the proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents2001), Montreal, 2001.

M. Dastani, J. Hulstijn, and L. van der Torre, Dialague games and negotiation. In: Proceedings of the Agents2001.

M. Dastani, Z. Huang, J. Hulstijn and L. van der Torre, BDI and QDT. In Proceedings of GTDT2001, Stanford, 2001.

M. Dastani, bipin Indurkhya, Remko Scha, Modeling Analogical Projection based on Pattern Perception. In Proceedings of Evolutionary Language Engineering (CEvoLE 1 & 2) "Learning to Behave", Belgium, 2000.

M. Dastani, J. Hulstijn and L. van der Torre, Negotiation protocols and dialogue games. In Proceedings of the Belgium/Dutch AI Conference (BNAIC'2000), Kaatsheuvel, 2000.

M. Dastani, Z. Huang and L. van der Torre, Dynamic desires. In Proceedings of the ICMAS2000 Workshop on game-theoretic and decision-theoretic approaches to agency (GTDT'2000), Boston, 2000.

J. Broersen, M. Dastani and L. van der Torre, Leveled commitment and trust in negotiation. In Proceedings of the Autonomous Agents 2000 Workshop on Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies, Barcelona, 2000.

Dastani, M., Jacobs, N., Jonker, C.M, and Treur, J. Modeling User Preferences in Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, In: F. Dignum, C. Sierra (eds.), Agent-mediated Electronic Markets in Europe. Springer Verlag. 2000.

Ed S. Tan, Heimo Müller and Mehdi Dastani, An object oriented user data model for content description of video images, report VICAR-T1.4-VUA-002.02-250298, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL), April 1999.

M. Dastani, Languages of Perception. Ph.D. thesis, 9 December 1998.

M. Dastani & E. Tan. Representation Systems for Video Annotations. In Object Foundation Classes, ESPRIT report, VICAR, Sentient Machine Research, Amsterdam, 1998.

M. Dastani & B. Indurkhya & R. Scha, An Algebraic Method for Solving Proportional Analogy Problems. In MindII - Computational Models of Creative Cognition, Dublin City University, School of Computer Applications, Dublin, Ireland, 1997.

M. Dastani & B. Indurkhya, An algebraic Approach to Similarity and Categorization. In An Interdisciplinary Workshop On Similarity and Categorization, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1997.

B. Indurkhya & M. Dastani, An Algebraic Model of the Context Effect in Analogy. In the European Conference on Cognitive Science, Manchester, UK, 1997.

M. Dastani, An Algebraic Approach to Data Visualization. Accolade '96, Dutch Graduate School in Logic, 1996.

M. Dastani, Computing the perceptual structure of visual expressions. Artificial Intelligence in Design (AID'96), In the Workshop on Visual Representation, Reasoning, and Interaction in Design. Standford University, California, 1996.

M. Dastani & J. Oberlander & K. Stenning, 'X' marks the spot: Drawing Conclusions with Euler's Circles. In Sematical Issues in Graphical Representation, ESPRIT report, HCRC, Edinburgh University, 1993.

R. Bod & M. Dastani & R. Scha, Solving Proportional Analogies using Structural Information Theory. Preprints European Workshop on Cased-based Reasoning, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 1993.

R. Bod & M. Dastani & H. Prust & R. Scha & H. Zeevat (eds.), In HCI from a Discourse Perspective, ESPRIT (Basic Research Action P6296), 92 pp, 1993.