Multiagent System Technologies : Third German Conference, MATES 2005, Koblenz, Germany, September 11-13, 2005, Proceedings

by Eymann, Torsten; Klugl, Franziska; Lamersdorf, Winfried; Klusch, Matthias; Huhns, Michael N.

• ISBN13: 9783540287407
• ISBN10: 354028740X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-16
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third German Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies, MATES 2005, held in Koblenz, Germany, in September 2005 - co-located with the 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2005). The 14 revised full papers presented together with 5 revised short papers and 5 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on workflows and group interaction, reasoning about utility, the dynamics of knowledge, methodology and simulation, agent tools and agent education.

Table of Contents

On the convergence of structured search, information retrieval and trust management in distributed systems	p. 1
Semantic methods for P2P query routing	p. 15
Programming cognitive agents	p. 27
Enacting the distributed business workflows using BPEL4WS on the multi-agent platform	p. 35
BSCA-P : privacy preserving coalition formation	p. 47
Towards service coalitions : coordinating the commitments in a workflow	p. 59
Modeling minority games with BDI agents - a case study	p. 71
A goal deliberation strategy for BDI agent systems	p. 82
Estimating utility-functions for negotiating agents : using conjoint analysis as an alternative approach to expected utility measurement	p. 94
Reconciling agent ontologies for Web service applications	p. 106
An agent-based knowledge acquisition platform	p. 118
An agent architecture for ensuring quality of service by dynamic capability certification	p. 130
Engineering a multi agent platform with dynamic semantic service discovery and invocation capability	p. 141
Towards a formal methodology for designing multi-agent applications	p. 153
LEADSTO : a language and environment for analysis of dynamics by SimulaTiOn	p. 165
Towards a distributed tool platform based on mobile agents	p. 179
The distributed weighing problem : a lesson in cooperation without communication	p. 191
An adaptive reputation model for VOs	p. 204
Realising reusable agent behaviours with ALPHA	p. 210
Multi-agent system specification using TCOZ	p. 216
ABACO, coordination of autonomous entities	p. 222
Agent-based simulation for testing control software of high bay warehouses	p. 229
Collaborative agent-based knowledge support for empirical and knowledge-intense processes	p. 235
Experiments in neo-computation based on emergent programming	p. 237
A framework based on multi-agent systems for information retrieval through mobile devices	p. 240
CASCOM : context-aware service co-ordination in mobile P2P environments	p. 242
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