Engineering Societies in the Agents World IX : 9th International Workshop, ESAW 2008, Saint-Etienne, France, September 24-26, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

by Artikis, Alexander; Picard, Gauthier; Vercouter, Laurent

• ISBN13: 9783642025617
• ISBN10: 3642025617
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2008, held in Saint-Etienne, France, in September 2008.The 13 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited long paper were carefully selected from 29 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on organisations and norm-governed systems, privacy and security, agent-oriented software engineering, emergence and self-organisation, as well as simulation.

Table of Contents

Modeling Teletruck: A Case Study (Invited Paper)	p. 1
Organisations and Norm-Governed Systems
Specifying Open Agent Systems: A Survey	p. 29
From Multi-Agent to Multi-Organization Systems: Utilizing Middleware Approaches	p. 46
Privacy and Security
RBAC-MAS and SODA: Experimenting RBAC in AOSE	p. 69
Sensitive Data Transaction in Hippocratic Multi-Agent Systems	p. 85
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
ADELFE Design, AMAS-ML in Action: A Case Study	p. 105
Exception Handling in Goal-Oriented Multi-Agent Systems	p. 121
A Reverse Engineering Form for Multi Agent Systems	p. 137
Coping with Exceptions in Agent-Based Workflow Enactments	p. 154
Emergence and Self-organisation
Contribution to the Control of a MAS's Global Behaviour: Reinforcement Learning Tools	p. 173
Peer Pressure as a Driver of Adaptation in Agent Societies	p. 191
A Multi-Agent Resource Negotiation for the Utilitarian Welfare	p. 208
Simulation
Interaction Biases in Multi-Agent Simulations: An Experimental Study	p. 229
Engineering Self-Modeling Systems: Application to Biology	p. 248
From Individuals to Social and Vice-versa	p. 264
Author Index	p. 281
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