Engineering Societies in the Agents World V

1. Front Matter

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2. Roles, Organizations and Institutions for Agents

   1. Organizations as Socially Constructed Agents in the Agent Oriented Paradigm

      • Guido Boella, Leendert van der Torre

      Pages 1-13

   2. Virtual Enterprise Normative Framework Within Electronic Institutions

      • Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio Oliveira

      Pages 14-32

   3. Virtual Knowledge Communities for Corporate Knowledge Issues

      • Pierre Maret, Mark Hammond, Jacques Calmet

      Pages 33-44

   4. Achieving Competence by Argumentation on Rules for Roles

      • Ioan Alfred Letia, Monica Acalovschi

      Pages 45-59

   5. Participation Components for Holding Roles in Multiagent Systems Protocols

      • Christophe Sibertin-Blanc, Nabil Hameurlain

      Pages 60-73

   6. Semantically Federating Multi-agent Organizations

      • Riza Cenk Erdur, Oguz Dikenelli, Inanç Seylan, Önder Gürcan

      Pages 74-89

3. Social Issues in Multi-agent Systems

   1. T-Compound Interaction and Overhearing Agents

      • Eric Platon, Nicolas Sabouret, Shinichi Honiden

      Pages 90-105

   2. Managing Conflicts Between Individuals and Societies in Multi-agent Systems

      • Rubén Fuentes, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz, Juan Pavón

      Pages 106-118

   3. Motivation-Based Selection of Negotiation Opponents

      • Steve Munroe, Michael Luck

      Pages 119-138

   4. Modelling Flexible Social Commitments and Their Enforcement

      • Philippe Pasquier, Roberto A. Flores, Brahim Chaib-draa

      Pages 139-151

   5. DIAGAL: A Generic ACL for Open Systems

      • Philippe Pasquier, Mathieu Bergeron, Brahim Chaib-draa

      Pages 152-165

   6. Using Social Power to Enable Agents to Reason About Being Part of a Group

      • Cosmin Carabelea, Olivier Boissier, Cristiano Castelfranchi

      Pages 166-177

4. Cooperation and Collective Behaviours in Agent Societies

   1. Strategies for Distributing Goals in a Team of Cooperative Agents

      • Laurence Cholvy, Christophe Garion

      Pages 178-190

   2. Collectively Cognitive Agents in Cooperative Teams

      • Jacek Brzeziński, Piotr Dunin-K̨eplicz, Barbara Dunin-K̨eplicz

      Pages 191-208

   3. Cooperative Agent Model Instantiation to Collective Robotics

      • Gauthier Picard

      Pages 209-221

   4. From Self-Organized Systems to Collective Problem Solving

      • Chevrier Vincent

      Pages 222-230

5. Methodologies and Platforms for Agent-Oriented Engineering

   1. A Sample Application of ADELFE Focusing on Analysis and Design The Mechanical Synthesis Problem

      • Davy Capera, Gauthier Picard, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Pierre Glize

      Pages 231-244

   2. SONIA: A Methodology for Natural Agent Development

      • Fernando Alonso, Sonia Frutos, Loïc Martínez, César Montes

      Pages 245-260

   3. Deployment of Distributed Multi-agent Systems

      • Lars Braubach, Alexander Pokahr, Dirk Bade, Karl-Heinz Krempels, Winfried Lamersdorf

      Pages 261-276

The ?rst workshop “Engineering Societies in the Agents World” (ESAW) was held in August 2000, in conjunction with the 14th European Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (ECAI 2000) in Berlin. It was launched by a group of - searchers who thought that the design and development of MASs (multi-agent systems) not only needed adequate theoretical foundations but also a call for new techniques, methodologies and infrastructures to develop MASs as arti?cial societies. The second ESAW was co-located with the European Agent Summer School (ACAI 2001) in Prague, and mostly focused on logics and languages, middleware, infrastructures and applications. In Madrid, the third ESAW c- centrated on models and methodologies and took place with the “Cooperative Information Agents” workshop (CIA 2002). The fourth ESAW in London was the ?rst one that ran as a stand-alone event: apart from the usual works on methodologies and models, it also stressed the issues of applications and m- tidisciplinary models. Based on the success of previous ESAWs, and also given that the di?cult challenges in the construction of arti?cial societies are not yet fully addressed, the ?fth ESAW workshop was organized in the same spirit as its predecessors. Inparticular,ESAW2004tookplaceattheIRITlaboratoryoftheUniversit´ e “Paul Sabatier” (Toulouse, France), at the end of October 2004. It was not - located with any other scienti?c event, in the same way as ESAW 2003. ESAW 2004 remained committed to the use of the notion of MASs as the seeds for animated, constructive and highly interdisciplinary discussions about techno- gies,methodologiesandtoolsfortheengineeringofcomplexdistributedsystems.

• MAS
• Simulation
• agent cooperation
• agent coordination
• agent negotiation
• agent simulation
• agent societies
• agent systems
• agent-based modeling
• agent-based systems
• modeling
• multi-agent system
• multi-agent systems
• robot
• robotics

• IRIT – Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse Cedex 9, France

  Marie-Pierre Gleizes

• Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna a Cesena, Cesena, Italy

  Andrea Omicini

• Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, ITALY

  Franco Zambonelli

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