Engineering Societies in the Agents World X : 10th International Workshop, ESAW 2009, Utrecht, the Netherlands, November 18-20, 2009, Proceedings

by Aldewereld, Huib; Dignum, Virginia; Picard, Gauthier

• ISBN13: 9783642102028
• ISBN10: 3642102026
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-15
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2009, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in November 2009.The 13 revised full papers and 5 short contributions presented together with two invited talks were carefully selected from 31 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on self-organization, software-engineering and architectures, social aspects of agent societies, organization and autonomy. This proceedings concludes wit the extended abstracts of 6 contributions to a demonstration session on agent-based technologies and works.

Table of Contents

Invited Talks
The Immergence of Norms in Agent Worlds	p. 1
Thinking Integral: How to Build Complex Systems That Live with People and Exhibit Collective Intelligence	p. 15
Self-organisation
A Space-Based Generic Pattern for Self-Initiative Load Balancing Agents	p. 17
A Goal-Oriented Approach for Modelling Self-organising MAS	p. 33
Engineering Agent Organisations in a Business Environment	p. 49
Peer-to-Peer Overlay, Network Based on Swarm Intelligence	p. 65
Software-Engineering and Architectures
Agent Architectures for Compliance	p. 68
Incorporating BDI Agents into Human-Agent Decision Making Research	p. 84
Programming Organization-Aware Agents: A Research Agenda	p. 98
Energy Trade-Offs in Resource-Constrained Multi-Agent Systems	p. 113
Social Aspects of Agent Societies
Engineering Social Reality with Inheritance Relations	p. 116
Determining the Trustworthiness of New Electronic Contracts	p. 132
Trust Based Evaluation of Wikipedia's Contributors	p. 148
Evolutionary Role Model for Multi-Agent Systems	p. 162
Organisation and Autonomy
Replication Based on Role Concept for Multi-Agent Systems	p. 165
Knowledge Management in Role Based Agents	p. 181
Balancing Organizational Regulation and Agent Autonomy: An MDE-Based Approach	p. 197
Cooperative Sign Language Tutoring: A Multiagent Approach	p. 213
Assistance Layer in a P2P Scenario	p. 229
Navigational Web-Interfaces from Formal Tropos Specification	p. 233
Demonstrations
ALIVE: A Framework for Flexible and Adaptive Service Coordination	p. 236
An Organisational Adaptation Simulator for P2P Networks
PreSage-MS: Metric Spaces in PreSage	p. 243
Normative Multi-Agent Organizations: A Programming Language and Its Interpreter	p. 247
Hybrid Teams in Virtual Environments: Samurai Joins the Training Team	p. 250
Joint Activity Testbed: Blocks World for Teams (BW4T)	p. 254
Author Index	p. 257
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