Engineering Self-Organising Systems : 4th International Workshop, ESOA 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers

by Brueckner, Sven A.; Hassas, Salima; Jelasity, Mark; Yamins, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9783540698678
• ISBN10: 3540698671
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-05
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications, ESOA 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan in May 2006 as an associated event of AAMAS 2006, the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. The 7 full papers presented together with 6 invited papers were carefully selected for inclusion in the book. The authors' revisions have been significantly improved by the reviewers' comments and the discussions following the presentation at the workshop. The papers are organized in topical sections on overall design and fundations, algorithms and techniques, applications, as well as self-organization and evolutionary computing.

Table of Contents

Overall Design and Fundations
Hybrid Multi-agent Systems: Integrating Swarming and BDI Agents	p. 1
An Analysis and Design Concept for Self-organization in Holonic Multi-agent Systems	p. 15
Design Patterns for Decentralised Coordination in Self-organising Emergent Systems	p. 28
Measuring Stigmergy: The Case of Foraging Ants	p. 50
Algorithms and Techniques
Dynamic Decentralized Any-Time Hierarchical Clustering	p. 66
Behaviosites: A Novel Paradigm for Affecting Distributed Behavior	p. 82
Applications
Programming Modular Robots with the TOTA Middleware	p. 99
ASOS: An Adaptive Self-organizing Protocol for Surveillance and Routing in Sensor Networks	p. 115
Towards the Control of Emergence by the Coordination of Decentralized Agent Activity for the Resource Sharing Problem	p. 132
Self-organization and Evolutionary Computing
Reinforcement Learning for Online Control of Evolutionary Algorithms	p. 151
Greedy Cheating Liars and the Fools Who Believe Them	p. 161
Evolution and Hypercomputing in Global Distributed Evolvable Virtual Machines Environment	p. 176
A Decentralised Car Traffic Control System Simulation Using Local Message Propagation Optimised with a Genetic Algorithm	p. 192
Author Index	p. 211
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