Agent Technologies, Infrastructures, Tools, and Applications for E-Services: Node 2002 Agent-Related Workshops, Erfurt, Germany, October 2002 : Revised Papers

by Kowalczyk, Ryszard; Muller, Jorg P.; Muller, Jorg P.; Tianfield, Huaglory; Unland, Rainer

• ISBN13: 9783540007425
• ISBN10: 3540007423
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the three agent-related workshops held during the NetObjectDays international conference, NODe 2002, held in Erfurt, Germany, in October 2002.The 23 revised full papers presented with a keynote paper and 2 abstracts were carefully selected during 2 rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on agent-oriented requirements engineering and specification, agent-oriented software engineering, reuse, negotiation and communication, large complex systems, e-business, and applications.

Table of Contents

Keynotes
Software Agents: The Future of Web Services	1	(18)
Michael N. Huhns
Building Automated Negotiators	19	(1)
Nick Jennings
Emergence in Cyberspace: Towards the Evolutionary Self-Organizing Enterprise	20	(1)
Mihaela Ulieru
Regular Papers
Agent Oriented Requirements Engineering and Specification
Requirements Analysis in Tropos: A Self-Referencing Example	21	(15)
Paolo Bresciani
Fabrizio Sannicolo
A Mechanism for Dynamic Role Playing	36	(13)
V. Hilaire
A. Koukam
P. Gruer
Agent UML Class Diagrams Revisited	49	(12)
Marc-Philippe Huget
Agent Oriented Software Engineering
The Behavior-Oriented Design of Modular Agent Intelligence	61	(16)
Joanna J. Bryson
Engineering JADE Agents with the Gaia Methodology	77	(15)
Pavlos Moraitis
Eleftheria Petraki
Nikolaos I. Spanoudakis
Designing Peer-to-Peer Applications: An Agent-Oriented Approach	92	(15)
D. Bertolini
P. Busetta
A. Molani
M. Nori
A. Perini
Reuse
Introducing Pattern Reuse in the Design of Multi-agent Systems	107	(14)
Massimo Cossentino
Piermarco Burrafato
Saverio Lombardo
Luca Sabatucci
Specifying Reuse Concerns in Agent System Design Using a Role Algebra	121	(16)
Anthony Karageorgos
Simon Thompson
Nikolay Mehandjiev
Negotiation and Communication
Comparison of Some Negotiation Algorithms Using a Tournament-Based Approach	137	(14)
Peter Henderson
Stephen Crouch
Robert John Walters
Qinglai Ni
State-Based Modeling Method for Multiagent Conversation Protocols and Decision Activities	151	(16)
Ralf Konig
A Framework for Inter-society Communication in Agents	167	(12)
R. Abbasi
F. Mitchell
S. Greenwood
Action Recognition and Prediction for Driver Assistance Systems Using Dynamic Belief Networks	179	(16)
Ismail Dagli
Michael Brost
Gabi Breuel
Large Complex Systems
Collaborative Agent System Using Fuzzy Logic for Optimisation	195	(16)
Dayou Li
Jie Zhang
A Self-Organizational Management Network Based on Adaptive Resonance Theory	211	(15)
Ping Jiang
Quentin Mair
Mobile Software Agents for Location-Based Systems	226	(14)
Sebastian Fischmeister
E-business
Partner Detection and Selection in Emergent Holonic Enterprises	240	(23)
Mihaela Ulieru
Rainer Unland
A Multi-agent System for E-insurance Brokering	263	(20)
Luis Nogueira
Eugenio Oliveira
An XML Multi-agent System for E-learning and Skill Management	283	(12)
Alfredo Garro
Luigi Palopoli
Integrating Mobile and Intelligent Agents in Advanced E-commerce: A Survey	295	(19)
Ryszard Kowalczyk
Mihaela Ulieru
Rainer Unland
Applications
An Agent-Oriented Approach to Industrial Automation Systems	314	(15)
Thomas Wagner
Multi-agent Model to Control Production System: A Reactive and Emergent Approach by Cooperation and Competition between Agents	329	(14)
Mahmoud Tchikou
Eric Gouarderes
Integrating Agents in Software Applications	343	(12)
A.J.N. van Breemen
A Foundational Analysis of Software Robustness Using Redundant Agent Collaboration	355	(16)
Vance T. Holderfield
Michael N. Huhns
Author Index	371