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Engineering Societies in the Agents World

First International Workshop, ESAW 2000, Berlin, Germany, August 21, 2000. Revised Papers

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1972)

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

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Table of contents (10 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
  2. Emerging Issues in Multiagent Systems Engineering

    1. Engineering Social Order

      • Cristiano Castelfranchi
      Pages 1-18
    2. Distinguishing Environmental and Agent Dynamics: A Case Study in Abstraction and Alternate Modeling Technologies

      • H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, John Sauter, Robert S. Matthews
      Pages 19-33
    3. On Observing and Constraining Active Systems

      • Gianluca Moro, Mirko Viroli
      Pages 34-51
  3. Coordination Models and Technologies for Multiagent Systems

    1. Context-Dependency in Internet-Agent Coordination

      • Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, Franco Zambonelli
      Pages 51-63
    2. Coordination Issues in Multi-agent Event Data Processing

      • Christoph Koch, Paolo Petta
      Pages 64-77
    3. Models of Coordination

      • Robert Tolksdorf
      Pages 78-92
  4. Methodologies and Tools

    1. From Analysis to Deployment: A Multi-agent Platform Survey

      • Pierre-Michel Ricordel, Yves Demazeau
      Pages 93-105
    2. Exploiting UML in the Design of Multi-agent Systems

      • Federico Bergenti, Agostino Poggi
      Pages 106-113
    3. Formal Specification and Prototyping of Multi-agent Systems

      • Vincent Hilaire, Abder Koukam, Pablo Gruer, Jean-Pierre Müller
      Pages 114-127
    4. Combining Software Components and Mobile Agents

      • Mercedes Amor, Mónica Pinto, Lidia Fuentes, José María Troya
      Pages 128-142
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 143-143

About this book

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2000, held in Berlin, Germany in August 2000. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book; they are organized in topical sections on emerging issues in multi-agent systems engineering, coordination models and technologies for multi-agent systems, and methodologies and tools.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Andrea Omicini

  • Fachbereich 13 - Informatik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Robert Tolksdorf

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

    Franco Zambonelli

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