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Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV

4th International Workshop, ESAW 2003, London, UK, October 29-31, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3071)

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

Conference series link(s): ESAW: International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World

Conference proceedings info: ESAW 2003.

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Table of contents (25 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Multi-disciplinary Models for Agent Societies

    1. Social Order and Adaptability in Animal and Human Cultures as Analogues for Agent Communities: Toward a Policy-Based Approach

      • Paul J. Feltovich, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Renia Jeffers, Niranjan Suri, Andrzej Uszok
      Pages 21-48
    2. Using Swarm Intelligence in Linda Systems

      • Robert Tolksdorf, Ronaldo Menezes
      Pages 49-65
    3. Engineering Democracy in Open Agent Systems

      • Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons
      Pages 66-80
    4. A Liberal Approach to Openness in Societies of Agents.

      • Jacques Calmet, Anusch Daemi, Regine Endsuleit, Thilo Mie
      Pages 81-92
    5. Welfare Engineering in Multiagent Systems

      • Ulle Endriss, Nicolas Maudet
      Pages 93-106
    6. Dynamics of Collective Attitudes during Teamwork

      • Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Rineke Verbrugge
      Pages 107-122
  3. Coordination, Organization and Security of Agent Societies

    1. Competition, Cooperation, and Authorization

      • Antoni Mazurkiewicz
      Pages 155-167
    2. Competent Agents and Customising Protocols

      • Ulle Endriss, Wenjin Lu, Nicolas Maudet, Kostas Stathis
      Pages 168-181
    3. Adaptability Patterns of Multi-agent Organizations

      • Oguz Dikenelli, Riza Cenk Erdur
      Pages 217-227
    4. Integrating and Orchestrating Services upon an Agent Coordination Infrastructure

      • Enrico Denti, Alessandro Ricci, Rossella Rubino
      Pages 228-245
  4. Abstractions, Methodologies and Tools for Engineering Agent Societies

    1. Formalizing the Reusability of Software Agents

      • Federico Bergenti
      Pages 246-257
    2. Patterns Reuse in the PASSI Methodology

      • Massimo Cossentino, Luca Sabatucci, Antonio Chella
      Pages 294-310

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About this book

The fourth internationalworkshop,“EngineeringSocietiesin the Agents World” (ESAW 2003) was a three-dayevent that took place at the end of October 2003. After previous events in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Spain, the workshop crossed the Channel, to be held at the premises of Imperial College, London. The steady increase in the variety of backgrounds of contributing sci- tists, fascinating new perspectives on the topics, and number of participants, bespeaks the success of the ESAW workshop series. Its idea was born in 1999 among members of the working group on “Communication, Coordination, and Collaboration” of the ?rst lease of life of the European Network of Excellence on Agent-Based Computing, AgentLink, out of a critical discussion about the general mindset of the agent community. At that time, we felt that proper c- siderationsofsystemicaspectsofagenttechnologydeployment,suchasackno- edgement of the importance of the social and environmental perspectives, were sorely missing: a de?ciency that we resolved should be addressed directly by a new forum.

Keywords

  • MAS
  • Monitor
  • agent communication
  • agent cooperation
  • agent coordination
  • agent societies
  • agents
  • complexity
  • intelligence
  • modeling
  • multi-agent system
  • multi-agent systems
  • multiagent systems
  • problem solving
  • swarm intelligence

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Andrea Omicini

  • Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,, Vienna, Austria

    Paolo Petta

  • Intelligent Systems & Networks Group, Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK

    Jeremy Pitt

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV

  • Book Subtitle: 4th International Workshop, ESAW 2003, London, UK, October 29-31, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers

  • Editors: Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Jeremy Pitt

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b98212

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-22231-6Published: 22 June 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-25946-6Published: 30 June 2004

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 409

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

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