“…Over the past decade there has been a considerable move from the traditional view of autonomy as being embodied within a physical robot that possesses some degree of intelligence, to a much wider perception of applications such as those demonstrated within distributed sensor networks, training decision support aids, intelligent buildings and also unmanned vehicles (see Grivault et al, 2016). Such complex agent-based systems tend to be situated within environments from which sensory inputs may be collected, whilst requiring little human direction in order to achieve the allocated goals (Jennings, Sycara & Wooldridge, 1998).…”