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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

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  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. Andrea Omicini

    1. Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna a Cesena, Cesena, Italy

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  2. Paolo Petta

    1. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,, Vienna, Austria

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  3. Jeremy Pitt

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

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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)

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Table of contents (25 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Multi-disciplinary Models for Agent Societies

    1. Emergence of Collective Behaviour and Problem Solving

      • Jean-Pierre Müller
      Pages 1-20

    2. 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

    3. Using Swarm Intelligence in Linda Systems

      • Robert Tolksdorf, Ronaldo Menezes
      Pages 49-65

    4. Engineering Democracy in Open Agent Systems

      • Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons
      Pages 66-80

    5. A Liberal Approach to Openness in Societies of Agents.

      • Jacques Calmet, Anusch Daemi, Regine Endsuleit, Thilo Mie
      Pages 81-92

    6. Welfare Engineering in Multiagent Systems

      • Ulle Endriss, Nicolas Maudet
      Pages 93-106

    7. Dynamics of Collective Attitudes during Teamwork

      • Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Rineke Verbrugge
      Pages 107-122

  3. Coordination, Organization and Security of Agent Societies

    1. Privacy-Aware Mobile Agent: Protecting Privacy in Open Systems by Modelling Social Behaviour of Software Agents

      • André P. Meyer
      Pages 123-135

    2. Interaction Monitoring and Termination Detection for Agent Societies: Preliminary Results

      • Tshiamo Motshegwa, Michael Schroeder
      Pages 136-154

    3. Competition, Cooperation, and Authorization

      • Antoni Mazurkiewicz
      Pages 155-167

    4. Competent Agents and Customising Protocols

      • Ulle Endriss, Wenjin Lu, Nicolas Maudet, Kostas Stathis
      Pages 168-181

    5. Coordination and Conversation Protocols in Open Multi-agent Systems

      • Abdelkader Gouaich
      Pages 182-199

    6. MAS Organization within a Coordination Infrastructure: Experiments in TuCSoN

      • Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci
      Pages 200-216

    7. Adaptability Patterns of Multi-agent Organizations

      • Oguz Dikenelli, Riza Cenk Erdur
      Pages 217-227

    8. 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. A Design Complexity Evaluation Framework for Agent-Based System Engineering Methodologies

      • Anthony Karageorgos, Nikolay Mehandjiev
      Pages 258-274

    3. Laying Down the Foundations of an Agent Modelling Methodology for Fault-Tolerant Multi-agent Systems

      • Sehl Mellouli, Bernard Moulin, Guy Mineau
      Pages 275-293

    4. Patterns Reuse in the PASSI Methodology

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

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

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