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Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems

International Workshop, EEMMAS 2007, Dresden, Germany, October 5, 2007, Selected Revised and Invited Papers

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5049)

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

Conference series link(s): EEMMAS: International Workshop on Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems

Conference proceedings info: EEMMAS 2007.

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Table of contents (18 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Invited Talks

    1. Swarms of Self-assembling Robots

      • Marco Dorigo
      Pages 1-2
    2. Complex Systems and Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

      • Juan Pavón, Francisco Garijo, Jorge Gómez-Sanz
      Pages 3-16
  3. Engineering Self-organizing Applications

    1. A Characterization of Key Properties of Environment-Mediated Multiagent Systems

      • Hartmut Schmeck, Christian Müller-Schloer
      Pages 17-38
    2. Engineering Systems Which Generate Emergent Functionalities

      • Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Valérie Camps, Jean-Pierre Georgé, Davy Capera
      Pages 58-75
    3. Engineering Autonomic Electronic Institutions

      • Josep Lluís Arcos, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Bruno Rosell
      Pages 76-87
  4. Stigmergic Interaction

    1. Prediction Horizons in Agent Models

      • H. Van Dyke Parunak, Theodore C. Belding, Sven A. Brueckner
      Pages 88-102
    2. Combining Interface Agents and Situated Agents for Deploying Adaptive Web Applications

      • Andrea Bonomi, Marcello Sarini, Giuseppe Vizzari
      Pages 103-114
  5. Modeling and Structuring Mediating Environments

    1. Situating Cognitive Agents in GOLEM

      • Stefano Bromuri, Kostas Stathis
      Pages 115-134
    2. Modeling Agent-Environment Interactions in Adaptive MAS

      • R. Zalila Mili, Renee Steiner
      Pages 135-147
  6. Environment-Based Support for Context and Organizations

    1. Managing Agent Interactions with Context-Driven Dynamic Organizations

      • Robrecht Haesevoets, Bart Van Eylen, Danny Weyns, Alexander Helleboogh, Tom Holvoet, Wouter Joosen
      Pages 166-186
    2. Modeling and Design of an Agent-Based Micro-simulation of the Swiss Highway Network

      • Michael Schumacher, Laurent Grangier, Radu Jurca
      Pages 187-203
    3. Environment Support to the Management of Context Awareness Information

      • Marco P. Locatelli, Giuseppe Vizzari
      Pages 204-222
    4. Engineering Contextual Information for Pervasive Multiagent Systems

      • Gabriella Castelli, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
      Pages 223-239
    5. Engineering Business Ecosystems Using Environment-Mediated Interactions

      • César A. Marín, Iain Stalker, Nikolay Mehandjiev
      Pages 240-258
    6. Experimenting with Language Support for Proximity in Ambient-Oriented Programming

      • Victor Ramiro, Jessie Dedecker, Éric Tanter, Peter Barron
      Pages 259-283
  7. Back Matter

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About this book

Software intensive systems are increasingly expected to deal with changing user needs and dynamic operating conditions at run time. Examples are the need for life recon?gurations, management of resource variability, and dealing with p- ticular failure modes. Endowing systems with these kinds of capabilities poses severe challenges to software engineers and necessitates the development of new techniques, practices, and tools that build upon sound engineering principles. The ?eld of multi-agent systems focuses on the foundations and engineering of systems that consists of a network of autonomous entities (agents) that int- act to achieve the system goals. One line of research in multi-agent systems, inspired by biological, physical and other naturally occurring systems, concerns multi-agent systems in which agents share information and coordinate their - havior througha shared medium called an agentenvironment. Typical examples are gradient ?elds and digital pheromones that guide agents in their local c- text and as such facilitate the coordination of a community of agents. Since environment-mediation in multi-agent systems has shown to result in mana- able solutions with very adaptable qualities, it is a promising paradigm to deal with the increasing complexity and dynamism of distributed applications. Control in environment-mediated multi-agent systems is decentralized, i. e. , noneofthecomponentshasfullaccessorcontroloverthesystem. Self-organization isanapproachtoengineerdecentralized,distributedandresource-limitedsystems thatarecapableofdynamicallyadaptingtochangingconditionsandrequirements without external intervention. This useful system property is often re?ected in functionssuchasself-con?guration,self-optimization,andself-healing. Engine- ing approaches to self-organizing systems often rely on global functionality to emerge from localand autonomous decisions of individual agents that commu- catethroughasharedagentenvironment.

Keywords

  • AI agents
  • ALife agents
  • EMMA
  • MAS
  • complex system
  • environment modeling
  • environment-based coordination
  • intelligent agents
  • modeling
  • multi-agent simulation
  • multi-agent system
  • multi-agent systems
  • self-organizing systems
  • simulation
  • stigmergy

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems

  • Book Subtitle: International Workshop, EEMMAS 2007, Dresden, Germany, October 5, 2007, Selected Revised and Invited Papers

  • Editors: Danny Weyns, Sven A. Brueckner, Yves Demazeau

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85029-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-85028-1Published: 16 July 2008

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-85029-8Published: 31 July 2008

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 297

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Communication Networks, Software Engineering

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