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Intelligent Agents VII. Agent Theories Architectures and Languages

7th International Workshop, ATAL 2000, Boston, MA, USA, July 7-9, 2000. Proceedings

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Cristiano Castelfranchi

    1. Department of Communication Sciences, “Cognitive Science”, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

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  2. Yves Lespérance

    1. Department of Computer Science, York University, Toronto, Canada

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1986)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (29 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Agent Theories I

    1. Optimistic and Disjunctive Agent Design Problems

      • Michael Wooldridge, Paul E. Dunne
      Pages 1-14

    2. Updating Mental States from Communication

      • A.F. Dragoni, P. Giorgini, L. Serafini
      Pages 15-30

    3. Sensing Actions, Time, and Concurrency in the Situation Calculus

      • Stephen Zimmerbaum, Richard Scherl
      Pages 31-45

  3. Agent Development Tools and Platforms

    1. Developing Multiagent Systems with agentTool

      • Scott A. De Loach, Mark Wood
      Pages 46-60

    2. Layered Disclosure: Revealing Agents’ Internals

      • Patrick Riley, Peter Stone, Manuela Veloso
      Pages 61-72

    3. Architectures and Idioms: Making Progress in Agent Design

      • Joanna Bryson, Lynn Andrea Stein
      Pages 73-88

    4. Developing Multi-agent Systems with JADE

      • Fabio Bellifemine, Agostino Poggi, Giovanni Rimassa
      Pages 89-103

  4. Agent Theories II

    1. High-Level Robot Control through Logic

      • Murray Shanahan, Mark Witkowski
      Pages 104-121

    2. Determining the Envelope of Emergent Agent Behaviour via Architectural Transformation

      • Oswaldo Terán, Bruce Edmonds, Steve Wallis
      Pages 122-135

  5. Models of Agent Communication and Coordination

    1. Delegation and Responsibility

      • Timothy J. Norman, Chris Reed
      Pages 136-149

    2. Agent Theory for Team Formation by Dialogue

      • Frank Dignum, Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Rineke Verbrugge
      Pages 150-166

    3. Task Coordination Paradigms for Information Agents

      • Marian Nodine, Damith Chandrasekara, Amy Unruh
      Pages 167-181

  6. Autonomy and Models of Agent Coordination

    1. Plan Analysis for Autonomous Sociological Agents

      • Michael Luck, Mark d’Inverno
      Pages 182-197

    2. Multiagent Bidding Mechanisms for Robot Qualitative Navigation

      • Carles Sierra, Ramon de López Màntaras, Dídac Busquets
      Pages 198-212

    3. Performance of Coordinating Concurrent Hierarchical Planning Agents Using Summary Information

      • Bradley J. Clement, Edmund H. Durfee
      Pages 213-227

  7. Agent Languages

    1. Agent Programming with Declarative Goals

      • Koen V. Hindriks, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van der Hoek, John-Jules Ch. Meyer
      Pages 228-243

    2. Modeling Multiagent Systems with CASL - A Feature Interaction Resolution Application

      • Steven Shapiro, Yves Lespérance
      Pages 244-259

    3. Generalised Object-Oriented Concepts for Inter-agent Communication

      • Rogier M. van Eijk, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van der Hoek, John-Jules Meyer
      Pages 260-274

    4. Specification of Heterogeneous Agent Architectures

      • Simone Marini, Maurizio Martelli, Viviana Mascardi, Floriano Zini
      Pages 275-289
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Intelligent agents are one of the most important developments in computer science of the past decade. Agents are of interest in many important application areas, ranging from human-computer interaction to industrial process control. The ATAL workshop series aims to bring together researchers interested in the core/micro aspects of agent technology. Speci?cally, ATAL addresses issues such as theories of agency, software architectures for intelligent agents, methodologies and programming languages for r- lizing agents, and software tools for applying and evaluating agent systems. One of the strengthsoftheATALworkshopseriesisitsemphasisonthesynergiesbetweentheories, languages, architectures, infrastructures, methodologies, and formal methods. This year s workshop continued the ATAL trend of attracting a large number of high quality submissions. In more detail, 71 papers were submitted to the ATAL 2000 workshop, from 21 countries. After stringent reviewing, 22 papers were accepted for publication and appear in these proceedings. As with previous workshops in the series, we chose to emphasize what we perceive asimportantnewthemesinagentresearch. Thisyear sthemeswerebothassociatedwith the fact that the technology of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems is beginning to migrate from research labs to software engineering centers. As agents are deployed in applications such as electronic commerce, and start to take over responsibilities for their human users, techniques for controlling their autonomy become crucial. As well, the availability of tools that facilitate the design and implementation of agent systems becomes an important factor in how rapidly the technology will achieve widespread use.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Communication Sciences, “Cognitive Science”, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

    Cristiano Castelfranchi

  • Department of Computer Science, York University, Toronto, Canada

    Yves Lespérance

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