Agent-Oriented Information Systems

1. Front Matter

   PDF

2. Information Systems and Applications

   1. Design of a MAS into a Human Organization: Application to an Information Multi-agent System

      • Emmanuel Adam, René Mandiau

      Pages 1-15

   2. I-MINDS: An Agent-Oriented Information System for Applications in Education

      • Leen-Kiat Soh, XuLi Liu, XueSong Zhang, Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Hong Jiang, Phanivas Vemuri

      Pages 16-31

   3. Trustworthy Service Caching: Cooperative Search in P2P Information Systems

      • Yathiraj B. Udupi, Pınar Yolum, Munindar P. Singh

      Pages 32-44

   4. Agent-Based Support for Mobile Users Using AgentSpeak(L)

      • Talal Rahwan, Tarek Rahwan, Iyad Rahwan, Ronald Ashri

      Pages 45-60

   5. Market-Based Recommendations: Design, Simulation and Evaluation

      • Yan Zheng Wei, Luc Moreau, Nicholas R. Jennings

      Pages 61-77

3. Methodologies

   1. Comparing Agent-Oriented Methodologies

      • Khanh Hoa Dam, Michael Winikoff

      Pages 78-93

   2. A Framework for Evaluating Agent-Oriented Methodologies

      • Arnon Sturm, Onn Shehory

      Pages 94-109

   3. Towards Reuse in Agent Oriented Information Systems: The Importance of Being Purposive

      • Simon Goss, Clint Heinze, Michael Papasimeon, Adrian Pearce, Leon Sterling

      Pages 110-125

   4. Towards a More Expressive and Refinable Multiagent System Engineering Methodology

      • Shiva Vafadar, Ahmad Abdollahzadeh Barfouroush, Mohammad Reza Ayatollahzadeh Shirazi

      Pages 126-141

4. Modelling, Analysis and Simulation

   1. A Pattern Language for Motivating the Use of Agents

      • Michael Weiss

      Pages 142-157

   2. A Practical Agent-Based Approach to Requirements Engineering for Socio-technical Systems

      • Paolo Bresciani, Paolo Donzelli

      Pages 158-173

   3. AOR Modelling and Simulation: Towards a General Architecture for Agent-Based Discrete Event Simulation

      • Gerd Wagner

      Pages 174-188

   4. Modelling Institutional, Communicative and Physical Domains in Agent Oriented Information Systems

      • Maria Bergholtz, Prasad Jayaweera, Paul Johannesson, Petia Wohed

      Pages 189-205

5. Back Matter

   PDF

Thisproceedingsvolumeofthe5thAOISWorkshopisanopportunityforlooking back at ?ve years of organizing AOIS workshops. What did we achieve with the AOIS workshop series? Where were we ?ve years ago, where are we now? Did ourthemeimpactontheinformationsystems?eldinthewaythatwehadhoped for? AOIS workshops have taken place in Seattle, Heidelberg, Stockholm, Austin, Montr´ eal, Interlaken, Toronto, Bologna, Melbourne, and Chicago, always in c- junction with a major conference on either multiagent systems in arti?cial - telligence (AI/MAS) or information systems (IS). We have tried to innovate in holding these workshops as biconference events (each year AOIS held two wo- shop events, one at an AI/MAS conference and one at an IS conference), as well as using the AOIS web site as a medium for communication among researchers. So, certainly, we have reached a wide audience of researchers around the world from both the AI/MAS and IS communities. But did we also manage to build up a dedicated AOIS community? Five years ago, we wrote: “Agent concepts could fundamentally alter the nature of information systems of the future, and how we build them, much like structured analysis, ER modeling, and Object-Orientation has precipitated fundamental changes in IS practice. ” Of course, a period of ?ve years is too short for evaluating the success or failure of a new scienti?c paradigm. But still we may observe that while most IS conferences meanwhile list agents as one of their many preferred topics, agent-orientation is generally not considered to be a fundamental IS paradigm.

• DOM
• MAS
• P2P information systems
• Requirements Engineering
• Simulation
• agent-oriented information systems
• architecture
• cooperative information systems
• information agents
• information system
• modeling
• multi-agent system
• multi-agent systems
• organization
• recommender systems

• University of Trento - DISI, Povo, Trento, Italy

  Paolo Giorgini

• Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Broadway, Australia

  Brian Henderson-Sellers

• Higher Education Development Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

  Michael Winikoff

Policies and ethics