Engineering Societies in the Agents World VIII : 8th International Workshop, ESAW 2007, Athens, Greece, October 22-24, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

by Goebel, R.; Siekmann, J.; Wahlster, W.

• ISBN13: 9783540876533
• ISBN10: 3540876537
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

"This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2007, held in Athens, Greece, in October 2007." "The 19 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. The papers are organized in topical sections on electronic institutions, models of complex distributed systems with agents and societies; interaction in agent societies; engineering social intelligence in multi-agent systems; trust and reputation in agent societies; analysis, design and development of agent societies."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Electronic Institutions
Action and Agency in Norm-Governed Multi-agent Systems	p. 1
Managing Conflict Resolution in Norm-Regulated Environments	p. 55
Alternative Dispute Resolution in Virtual Organizations	p. 72
Electronic Institutions Infrastructure for e-Chartering	p. 90
Models of Complex Distributed Systems with Agents and Societies
Multi-agent Simulation to Implementation: A Practical Engineering Methodology for Designing Space Flight Operations	p. 108
Progress Appraisal as a Challenging Element of Coordination in Human and Machine Joint Activity	p. 124
Automated Web Services Composition with the Event Calculus	p. 142
OPERAS: A Framework for the Formal Modelling of Multi-Agent Systems and Its Application to Swarm-Based Systems	p. 158
Interaction in Agent Societies
The Acquisition of Linguistic Competence for Communicating Propositional Logic Sentences	p. 175
Contextualizing Behavioural Substitutability and Refinement of Role Components in MAS	p. 193
Amongst First-Class Protocols	p. 208
Engineering Social Intelligence in Multi-agent Systems
Simulation of Negotiation Policies in Distributed Multiagent Resource Allocation	p. 224
Collective-Based Multiagent Coordination: A Case Study	p. 240
Tag Mechanisms Evaluated for Coordination in Open Multi-Agent Systems	p. 254
Trust and Reputation in Agent Societies
Toward a Probabilistic Model of Trust in Agent Societies	p. 270
Arguing about Reputation: The LRep Language	p. 284
Analysis, Design and Development of Agent Societies
From AO Methodologies to MAS Infrastructures: The SODA Case Study	p. 300
Model Driven Engineering for Designing Adaptive Multi-Agents Systems	p. 318
Trace-Based Specification of Law and Guidance Policies for Multi-Agent Systems	p. 333
Author Index	p. 351
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