Agent-Oriented Information Systems : 5th International Bi-Conference Workshop, Aois 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003 and Chicago, Il, USA, October 13th, 2003, Revised Selected Papers

by Giorgini, Paolo

• ISBN13: 9783540221272
• ISBN10: 3540221271
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-12
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems, held in Melbourne, Australia in July 2003 at AAMAS 2003 and in Chicago, IL, USA in October 2003 at ER 2003. The revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from a total of 36 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information systems and applications; methodologies; and modeling, analysis, and simulation.

Table of Contents

Design of a MAS into a human organization : application to an information multi-agent system	p. 1
I-MINDS : an agent-oriented information system for applications in education	p. 16
Trustworthy service caching : cooperative search in P2P information systems	p. 32
Agent-based support for mobile users using AgentSpeak(L)	p. 45
Market-based recommendations : design, simulation and evaluation	p. 61
Comparing agent-oriented methodologies	p. 78
A framework for evaluating agent-oriented methodologies	p. 94
Towards reuse in agent oriented information systems : the importance of being purposive	p. 110
Towards a more expressive and refinable multiagent system engineering methodology	p. 126
A pattern language for motivating the use of agents	p. 142
A practical agent-based approach to requirements engineering for socio-technical systems	p. 158
AOR modelling and simulation : towards a general architecture for agent-based discrete event simulation	p. 174
Modelling institutional, communicative and physical domains in agent oriented information systems	p. 189
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