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9783540719557

Programming Multi-Agent Systems : 4th International Workshop, ProMAS 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers

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    9783540719557

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    3540719555

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-06-01
  • Publisher: Textstream

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems, ProMAS 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan, in May 2006 as an associated event of AAMAS 2006, the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The 12 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited articles are organized in topical sections on uncertainty of agents, lightweight devices for business and e-commerce applications, component-based agents for MAS simulation, dynamic logic programming in MAS, rule-based agents, affective agents and reinforcement agents, BDI agent frameworks, creation, execution, mobility and communication of agents, agent-like communication, validation, debugging and testing, multi-agent techniques and issues, multi-agent programming, as well as multi-agent platforms and organization.

Table of Contents

A self-healing approach to designing and deploying complex, distributed and concurrent software systemsp. 3
Using peer-to-peer protocols to enable implicit communication in a BDI agent architecturep. 15
Asimovian multiagents : applying laws of robotics to teams of humans and agentsp. 41
Persistent architecture for context aware lightweight multi-agent systemp. 57
Architectural design of component-based agents : a behavior-based approachp. 71
Comparing apples with oranges : evaluating twelve paradigms of agencyp. 93
Augmenting BDI agents with deliberative planning techniquesp. 113
ALBA : a generic library for programming mobile agents with prologp. 129
Bridging agent theory and object orientation : agent-like communication among objectsp. 149
Adding knowledge updates to 3APLp. 165
Validation of BDI agentsp. 185
A tool architecture to verify properties of multiagent system at runtimep. 201
On the application of clustering techniques to support debugging large-scale multi-agent systemsp. 217
Debugging agents in agent factoryp. 229
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