Environments for Multi-Agent Systems II

Second International Workshop, E4MAS 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005, Selected Revised and Invited Papers

  • Danny Weyns
  • H. Van Dyke Parunak
  • Fabien Michel
Conference proceedings E4MAS 2005

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3830)

Also part of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence book sub series (LNAI, volume 3830)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
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  2. Models, Architecture, and Design

    1. Environments for Situated Multi-agent Systems: Beyond Infrastructure
      Danny Weyns, Giuseppe Vizzari, Tom Holvoet
      Pages 1-17
    2. Holonic Modeling of Environments for Situated Multi-agent Systems
      Sebastian Rodriguez, Vincent Hilaire, Abder Koukam
      Pages 18-31
    3. An Environment-Based Methodology to Design Reactive Multi-agent Systems for Problem Solving
      Olivier Simonin, Franck Gechter
      Pages 32-49
    4. An Architecture for MAS Simulation Environments
      Renee Steiner, Gary Leask, Rym Z. Mili
      Pages 50-67

  3. Mediated Coordination

    1. Indirect Interaction in Environments for Multi-agent Systems
      David Keil, Dina Goldin
      Pages 68-87
    2. The Governing Environment
      Michael Schumacher, Sascha Ossowski
      Pages 88-104
    3. Enriching a MAS Environment with Institutional Services
      Andreia Malucelli, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio Oliveira
      Pages 105-120
    4. Overhearing and Direct Interactions: Point of View of an Active Environment
      Eric Platon, Nicolas Sabouret, Shinichi Honiden
      Pages 121-138
    5. Grounding Social Interactions in the Environment
      Florian Klein, Holger Giese
      Pages 139-162
    6. A Survey of Environments and Mechanisms for Human-Human Stigmergy
      H. Van Dyke Parunak
      Pages 163-186
    7. Augmenting the Physical Environment Through Embedded Wireless Technologies
      Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
      Pages 187-204
    8. The Environment: An Essential Abstraction for Managing Complexity in MAS-Based Manufacturing Control
      Paul Valckenaers, Tom Holvoet
      Pages 205-217

  4. Applications

    1. Exploiting a Virtual Environment in a Real-World Application
      Danny Weyns, Kurt Schelfthout, Tom Holvoet
      Pages 218-234
    2. Web Sites as Agents’ Environments: General Framework and Applications
      Stefania Bandini, Sara Manzoni, Giuseppe Vizzari
      Pages 235-250
    3. Environment Organization of Roles Using Polymorphism
      Derek Messie, Jae C. Oh
      Pages 251-269
    4. Testing AGVs in Dynamic Warehouse Environments
      Alexander Helleboogh, Tom Holvoet, Yolande Berbers
      Pages 270-290
  5. Back Matter
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About these proceedings

Keywords

AI agents ALife ALife agents adaptive agents agent communication agent environments complexity distributed artificial intelligence environment-based coordination holonic multi-agent systems intelligent agents multi-agent simulation multi-agent system multi-agent systems stigmergy

Editors and affiliations

  • Danny Weyns
    • 1
  • H. Van Dyke Parunak
    • 2
  • Fabien Michel
    • 3
  1. 1.DistriNet LabsK.U. LeuvenBelgium
  2. 2.NewVectorsAnn ArborUSA
  3. 3.MODECO-CReSTICUniversité de ReimsReimsFrance

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/11678809
  • Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • eBook Packages Computer Science
  • Print ISBN 978-3-540-32614-4
  • Online ISBN 978-3-540-32615-1
  • Series Print ISSN 0302-9743
  • Series Online ISSN 1611-3349
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