Agent-Oriented Information Systems III

1. Front Matter

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2. Agent Behavior, Communications and Reasoning

   1. Automated Interpretation of Agent Behaviour

      • D. N. Lam, K. S. Barber

      Pages 1-15

   2. A Semantic and Pragmatic Framework for the Specification of Agent Communication Languages: Motivational Attitudes and Norms

      • Rodrigo Agerri, Eduardo Alonso

      Pages 16-31

   3. Broadening the Semantic Coverage of Agent Communicative Acts

      • Hong Jiang, Michael N. Huhns

      Pages 32-47

   4. Requirements Analysis of an Agent’s Reasoning Capability

      • Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur

      Pages 48-63

   5. On the Cost of Agent-Awareness for Negotiation Services

      • Andrea Giovannucci, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar

      Pages 64-78

   6. OWL-P: A Methodology for Business Process Development

      • Nirmit Desai, Ashok U. Mallya, Amit K. Chopra, Munindar P. Singh

      Pages 79-94

3. Methodologies and Ontologies

   1. Identification of Reusable Method Fragments from the PASSI Agent-Oriented Methodology

      • B. Henderson-Sellers, J. Debenham, Q. -N. N. Tran, M. Cossentino, G. Low

      Pages 95-110

   2. Foundations of Ontology-Based MAS Methodologies

      • G. Beydoun, N. Tran, G. Low, B. Henderson-Sellers

      Pages 111-123

   3. An Ontology-Driven Technique for the Architectural and Detailed Design of Multi-agent Frameworks

      • Rosario Girardi, Alisson Neres Lindoso

      Pages 124-139

   4. An Ontology Support for Semantic Aware Agents

      • Michele Tomaiuolo, Paola Turci, Federico Bergenti, Agostino Poggi

      Pages 140-153

4. Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

   1. AOSE and Organic Computing – How Can They Benefit from Each Other?

      • Bernhard Bauer, Holger Kasinger

      Pages 154-167

   2. An Agent-Oriented Model of a Dynamic Engineering Design Process

      • Vadim Ermolayev, Eyck Jentzsch, Oleg Karsayev, Natalya Keberle, Wolf-Ekkehard Matzke, Vladimir Samoylov et al.

      Pages 168-183

   3. Formalizing Agent-Oriented Enterprise Models

      • Ivan Jureta, Stéphane Faulkner, Manuel Kolp

      Pages 184-199

   4. Fragmented Workflows Supported by an Agent Based Architecture

      • C. Reese, J. Ortmann, S. Offermann, D. Moldt, K. Markwardt, T. Carl

      Pages 200-215

5. Applications

   1. An Agent-Based Meta-level Architecture for Strategic Reasoning in Naval Planning

      • Mark Hoogendoorn, Catholijn M. Jonker, Peter-Paul van Maanen, Jan Treur

      Pages 216-230

   2. Coordination Efficiency in Rational Choice Theory, Norm and Rights Based Multi-agent Systems

      • Peter Kristoffersson, Eduardo Alonso

      Pages 231-242

   3. Adapted Information Retrieval in Web Information Systems Using PUMAS

      • Angela Carrillo-Ramos, Jérôme Gensel, Marlène Villanova-Oliver, Hervé Martin

      Pages 243-258

   4. Design Options for Subscription Managers

      • Aloys Mbala, Lin Padgham, Michael Winikoff

      Pages 259-274

   5. Supporting Program Indexing and Querying in Source Code Digital Libraries

      • Yuhanis Yusof, Omer F. Rana

      Pages 275-290

Information systems underpin today’s business and entertainment. The means by which these information systems have been developed has changed over the years. Although the current paradigm is to use object-oriented concepts, a new set of concepts, focussed on agent technology, is starting to be evaluated. Agents offer higher level abstractions (than objects) for the conceptualization, design and implementation of information systems. Agents have autonomy, can reason and can coordinate within societies of agents. The AOIS series of workshops explores the potential for facilitating the increased usage of agent technology in the creation of information systems in the widest sense. In 2005, two AOIS workshops were held internationally. The first was affiliated with the AAMAS 2005 meeting in July in Utrecht in The Netherlands and chaired by Henderson-Sellers and Winikoff and the second with ER 2005 in November in Klagenfurt in Austria and chaired by Kolp and Bresciani. The best papers from these meetings were identified and authors invited to revise and possibly extend their papers in the light of reviewers’ comments and feedback at the workshop. We have grouped these papers loosely under four headings: Agent behavior, communications and reasoning; Methodologies and ontologies; Agent-oriented software engineering; and Applications. These categories fairly represent the breadth of current AOIS research as well as encompassing the papers presented at the two AOIS workshops. We trust you will find the content of these selected and revised papers to be of interest and utility.

• agent communication
• agent cooperation
• agent-based information systems
• agent-based modeling
• agent-oriented information systems
• agent-oriented software engineering
• architecture
• communication
• cooperative information systems
• information agents
• information system
• mobile computing
• multi-agent system
• mutli-agent syst
• ontology

• ISYS- Information Systems Research Unit, IAG-Louvain School of Management, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

  Manuel Kolp

• European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, Unit D3: Software Technologies, Brussels, Belgium

  Paolo Bresciani

• Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

  Brian Henderson-Sellers

• Higher Education Development Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

  Michael Winikoff

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