Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV : 4th International Workshop, ESAW 2003, London, UK, October 29-31, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers / edited by Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Jeremy Pitt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Omicini, Andrea, 1965- editor.

Petta, Paolo, editor.

Pitt, Jeremy, editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Computer Science (Springer-11645)

Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence ; 3071.

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 3071

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

Computer networks.

Software engineering.

Computer programming.

Artificial Intelligence.

Computer Communication Networks.

Software Engineering.

Programming Techniques.

Local Subjects:

Artificial Intelligence.

Computer Communication Networks.

Software Engineering.

Programming Techniques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XII, 409 pages).

Edition:

First edition 2004.

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Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2004.

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Summary:

The fourth internationalworkshop,"EngineeringSocietiesin the Agents World" (ESAW 2003) was a three-dayevent that took place at the end of October 2003. After previous events in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Spain, the workshop crossed the Channel, to be held at the premises of Imperial College, London. The steady increase in the variety of backgrounds of contributing sci- tists, fascinating new perspectives on the topics, and number of participants, bespeaks the success of the ESAW workshop series. Its idea was born in 1999 among members of the working group on "Communication, Coordination, and Collaboration" of the ?rst lease of life of the European Network of Excellence on Agent-Based Computing, AgentLink, out of a critical discussion about the general mindset of the agent community. At that time, we felt that proper c- siderationsofsystemicaspectsofagenttechnologydeployment,suchasackno- edgement of the importance of the social and environmental perspectives, were sorely missing: a de?ciency that we resolved should be addressed directly by a new forum.

Contents:

Multi-disciplinary Models for Agent Societies

Emergence of Collective Behaviour and Problem Solving

Social Order and Adaptability in Animal and Human Cultures as Analogues for Agent Communities: Toward a Policy-Based Approach

Using Swarm Intelligence in Linda Systems

Engineering Democracy in Open Agent Systems

A Liberal Approach to Openness in Societies of Agents.

Welfare Engineering in Multiagent Systems

Dynamics of Collective Attitudes during Teamwork

Coordination, Organization and Security of Agent Societies

Privacy-Aware Mobile Agent: Protecting Privacy in Open Systems by Modelling Social Behaviour of Software Agents

Interaction Monitoring and Termination Detection for Agent Societies: Preliminary Results

Competition, Cooperation, and Authorization

Competent Agents and Customising Protocols

Coordination and Conversation Protocols in Open Multi-agent Systems

MAS Organization within a Coordination Infrastructure: Experiments in TuCSoN

Adaptability Patterns of Multi-agent Organizations

Integrating and Orchestrating Services upon an Agent Coordination Infrastructure

Abstractions, Methodologies and Tools for Engineering Agent Societies

Formalizing the Reusability of Software Agents

A Design Complexity Evaluation Framework for Agent-Based System Engineering Methodologies

Laying Down the Foundations of an Agent Modelling Methodology for Fault-Tolerant Multi-agent Systems

Patterns Reuse in the PASSI Methodology

Designing Agents' Behaviors and Interactions within the Framework of ADELFE Methodology

Supporting Tropos Concepts in Agent OPEN

Dynamic Analysis of Agents' Behaviour - Combining ALife, Visualization and AI

Applications of Agent Societies

Advancing Profile Use in Agent Societies

A Computational Framework for Social Agents in Agent Mediated E-commerce

You've Got Mail From Your Agent: A Location and Context Sensitive Agent System.

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978-3-540-25946-6

9783540259466

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