Engineering Societies in the Agents World

by O'hare, Gregory; Ricci, Alessandro; O'grady, Michael; Dikenelli, Oguz

• ISBN13: 9783540755227
• ISBN10: 3540755225
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-30
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2006, held in Dublin, Ireland, September 6-8, 2006.The 22 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on agent oriented system development, methodologies for agent societies, deliberative agents and social aspect, agent oriented simulation, adaptive systems, cordination, negotiation, protocols, and agents, networks and ambient intelligence.

Table of Contents

Engineering of Multi-agent Systems
"It's Not Just Goals All the Way Down" - "It's Activities All the Way Down"	p. 1
The Construction of Multi-agent Systems as an Engineering Discipline	p. 25
Current Issues in Multi-Agent Systems Development	p. 38
Architecture-Centric Software Development of Situated Multiagent Systems	p. 62
Organization Oriented Programming: From Closed to Open Organizations	p. 86
Analysis, Design, Development and Verification of Agent Societies
Modelling and Executing Complex and Dynamic Business Processes by Reification of Agent Interactions	p. 106
Model Driven Development of Multi-Agent Systems with Repositories of Social Patterns	p. 126
A Norm-Governed Systems Perspective of Ad Hoc Networks	p. 143
Interaction and Coordination in Agent Societies
A Definition of Exceptions in Agent-Oriented Computing	p. 161
Toward an Ontology of Regulation: Socially-Based Support for Coordination in Human and Machine Joint Activity	p. 175
An Algorithm for Conflict Resolution in Regulated Compound Activities	p. 193
Modeling the Interaction Between Semantic Agents and Semantic Web Services Using MDA Approach	p. 209
Formal Modelling of a Coordination System: From Practice to Theory, and Back Again	p. 229
Autonomic Agent Societies
Using Constraints and Process Algebra for Specification of First-Class Agent Interaction Protocols	p. 245
Dynamic Specifications in Norm-Governed Open Computational Societies	p. 265
Enhancing Self-organising Emergent Systems Design with Simulation	p. 284
Adaptation of Autonomic Electronic Institutions Through Norms and Institutional Agents	p. 300
Managing Resources in Constrained Environments with Autonomous Agents	p. 320
Trust in Agent Societies
Towards a Computational Model of Creative Societies Using Curious Design Agents	p. 340
Privacy Management in User-Centred Multi-agent Systems	p. 354
Effective Use of Organisational Abstractions for Confidence Models	p. 368
Competence Checking for the Global E-Service Society Using Games	p. 384
Author Index	p. 401
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