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Organized Adaption in Multi-Agent Systems

First International Workshop, OAMAS 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 13, 2008. Revised and Invited Papers

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5368)

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

Conference series link(s): OAMAS: International Workshop on Organized Adaption in Multi-Agent Systems

Conference proceedings info: OAMAS 2008.

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Table of contents (8 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Adapting Autonomic Electronic Institutions to Heterogeneous Agent Societies

    • Eva Bou, Maite López-Sánchez, J. A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Jaime Simão Sichman
    Pages 18-35
  3. Adaptation of Voting Rules in Agent Societies

    • Hugo Carr, Jeremy Pitt
    Pages 36-53
  4. Decentralised Structural Adaptation in Agent Organisations

    • Ramachandra Kota, Nicholas Gibbins, Nicholas R. Jennings
    Pages 54-71
  5. An Incremental Adaptive Organization for a Satellite Constellation

    • Grégory Bonnet, Catherine Tessier
    Pages 108-125
  6. Modelling Actor Evolution in Agent-Based Simulations

    • Aristama Roesli, Dominik Schmitz, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Matthias Jarke
    Pages 126-144
  7. Back Matter

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About this book

Adaptation, for purposes of self-healing, self-protection, self-management, or self-regulation, is currently considered to be one of the most challenging pr- erties of distributed systems that operate in dynamic, unpredictable, and - tentially hostile environments. Engineering for adaptation is particularly c- plicated when the distributed system itself is composed of autonomous entities that, on one hand, may act collaboratively and with benevolence, and, on the other,maybehavesel?shlywhilepursuingtheirowninterests.Still,theseentities have to coordinate themselves in order to adapt appropriately to the prevailing environmental conditions, and furthermore, to deliberate upon their own and the system’s con?guration, and to be transparent to their users yet consistent with any human requirements. The question, therefore, of “how to organize the envisagedadaptationforsuchautonomousentitiesinasystematicway”becomes of paramount importance. The ?rst international workshop on “Organized Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems” (OAMAS) was a one-day event held as part of the workshop p- gram arranged by the international conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). It was hosted in Estoril during May, 2008, and was attended by more than 30 researchers. OAMAS was the steady convergence of a number of lines of research which suggested that such a workshop would be timely and opportune. This includes the areas of autonomic computing, swarm intelligence, agent societies, self-organizing complex systems, and ‘emergence’ in general.

Keywords

  • Multi-agent system
  • P2P systems
  • ad-hoc networking
  • adaptive systems
  • agent-based systems
  • distributed systems
  • evolutionary programming
  • multi-agent coordination
  • multi-agent systems
  • peer-to-peer networks
  • self-management
  • self-organization
  • self-organizing applications
  • simulation

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, Karlovassi, University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece

    George Vouros

  • Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, Software & Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece

    Alexander Artikis

  • Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

    Kostas Stathis

  • Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK

    Jeremy Pitt

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