Agent-Oriented Information Systems III: 7th International Bi-conference Workshop, Aois 2005, Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 26, 2005, and Klagenfurt, Austria, October 27, 2005, Revised Selec

by Kolp, Manuel; Bresciani, Paolo; Henderson-Sellers, Brian; Winikoff, Michael

• ISBN13: 9783540482918
• ISBN10: 3540482911
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-03
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems, AOIS 2005, held in Utrecht, Netherlands, in July 2005 and in Klagenfurt, Austria, in October 2005. The 19 revised full papers presented have gone through two rounds of reviewing and improvement and were carefully selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on agent behaviour, communications and reasoning, methodologies and ontologies, agent-oriented software engineering, as well as applications.

Table of Contents

Automated interpretation of agent behaviour	p. 1
A semantic and pragmatic framework for the specification of agent communication languages : motivational attitudes and norms	p. 16
Broadening the semantic coverage of agent communicative acts	p. 32
Requirements analysis of an agent's reasoning capability	p. 48
On the cost of agent-awareness for negotiation services	p. 64
OWL-P : a methodology for business process development	p. 79
Identification of reusable method fragments from the PASSI agent-oriented methodology	p. 95
Foundations of ontology-based MAS methodologies	p. 111
An ontology-driven technique for the architectural and detailed design of multi-agent frameworks	p. 124
An ontology support for semantic aware agents	p. 140
AOSE and organic computing - how can they benefit from each other?	p. 154
An agent-oriented model of a dynamic engineering design process	p. 168
Formalizing agent-oriented enterprise models	p. 184
Fragmented workflows supported by an agent based architecture	p. 200
An agent-based meta-level architecture for strategic reasoning in naval planning	p. 216
Coordination efficiency in rational choice theory, norm and rights based multi-agent systems	p. 231
Adapted information retrieval in Web information systems using PUMAS	p. 243
Design options for subscription managers	p. 259
Supporting program indexing and querying in source code digital libraries	p. 275
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