Engineering Societies in the Agents World III

1. Front Matter

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2. Views

   1. A Discussion of Two Major Benefits of Using Agents in Software Development

      • Federico Bergenti

      Pages 1-12

   2. Signs of a Revolution in Computer Science and Software Engineering

      • Franco Zambonelli, H. Van Dyke Parunak

      Pages 13-28

3. Models

   1. Rationality, Autonomy and Coordination: The Sunk Costs Perspective

      • Matteo Bonifacio, Paolo Bouquet, Roberta Ferrario, Diego Ponte

      Pages 29-38

   2. A Normative and Intentional Agent Model for Organisation Modelling

      • Joaquim Filipe

      Pages 39-52

   3. Simulating Computational Societies

      • Lloyd Kamara, Alexander Artikis, Brendan Neville, Jeremy Pitt

      Pages 53-67

   4. Co-Fields: Towards a Unifying Approach to the Engineering of Swarm Intelligent Systems

      • Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli, Letizia Leonardi

      Pages 68-81

   5. A Schema for Specifying Computational Autonomy

      • Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatsos, Gerhard Weiß

      Pages 82-95

   6. Activity Theory as a Framework for MAS Coordination

      • Alessandro Ricci, Andrea Omicini, Enrico Denti

      Pages 96-110

   7. An Operational Framework for the Semantics of Agent Communication Languages

      • Giovanni Rimassa, Mirko Viroli

      Pages 111-125

   8. Access-as-you-need: A Computational Logic Framework for Accessing Resources in Artificial Societies

      • Francesca Toni, Kostas Stathis

      Pages 126-140

   9. Motivating Participation in Peer to Peer Communities

      • Julita Vassileva

      Pages 141-155

4. Engineering

   1. ADELFE: A Methodology for Adaptive Multi-agent Systems Engineering

      • Carole Bernon, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Sylvain Peyruqueou, Gauthier Picard

      Pages 156-169

   2. Evaluating Multi-agent System Architectures: A Case Study Concerning Dynamic Resource Allocation

      • Paul Davidsson, Stefan Johansson

      Pages 170-183

   3. Engineering Agent Systems for Decision Support

      • Sascha Ossowski, Josefa Z. Hernández, Carlos A. Iglesias, Alberto Fernández

      Pages 184-198

   4. Co-ordinating Heterogeneous Interactions in Systems Composed of Active Human and Agent Societies

      • Konstantinos Prouskas, Jeremy Pitt

      Pages 199-212

5. Modelling and Design

   1. SABPO: A Standards Based and Pattern Oriented Multi-agent Development Methodology

      • Oğuz Dikenelli, Riza Cenk Erdur

      Pages 213-226

   2. Modelling a Multi-agent System Environment

      • Sehl Mellouli, Guy W. Mineau, Daniel Pascot

      Pages 227-240

   3. Towards a Methodology for Coordination Mechanism Selection in Open Systems

      • Simon Miles, Mike Joy, Michael Luck

      Pages 241-256

   4. Specification by Refinement and Agreement: Designing Agent Interaction Using Landmarks and Contracts

      • Hans Weigand, Virginia Dignum, John-Jules Meyer, Frank Dignum

      Pages 257-269

The characteristics of software systems are undergoing dramatic changes. We are moving rapidly into the age of ubiquitous information services. Persistent computing systems are being embedded in everyday objects. They interact in an autonomouswaywith eachother to provideus with increasinglycomplexservices and functionalities that we can access at any time from anywhere. As a con- quence, not only do the numbers of components of software systems increase; there is also a strong qualitative impact. Software systems are increasingly made up of autonomous, proactive, networked components. These interact with each other in patterns and via mechanisms that can hardly be modeled in terms of classical models of interaction or service-oriented coordination. To some extent, future software systems will exhibit characteristics making them more res- blant of natural systems and societies than of mechanical systems and software architectures. This situation poses exciting challenges to computer scientists and software engineers. Already, software agents and multi-agent systems are recognized as both useful abstractions and e?ective technologies for the modeling and building of complex distributed applications. However, little is done with regard to e?- tive and methodic development of complex software systems in terms of mul- agent societies. An urgent need exists for novel approaches to software modeling and software engineering that enable the successful deployment of software s- tems made up ofa massive number ofautonomous components, and that allowus to control and predict their behaviour.

• Evolution
• MAS
• agent communication
• agent cooperation
• agent societies
• agent-based systems
• agent-oriented software engineering
• agents
• distributed applications
• distributed systems
• intelligent systems
• logic
• modeling
• multi-agent system
• peer-to-peer computing

• Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Agents and New Media Group, Vienna, Austria

  Paolo Petta

• AG Netzbasierte Informationssysteme, Freie Universität Berlin Institut für Informatik, Berlin, Germany

  Robert Tolksdorf

• Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy

  Franco Zambonelli

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