Multi-Agent Systems and Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. Foundations of Multi-agent Systems

   1. Perspectives on Organizations in Multi-agent Systems

      • Les Gasser

      Pages 1-16

   2. Multi-agent Infrastructure, Agent Discovery, Middle Agents for Web Services and Interoperation

      • Katia Sycara

      Pages 17-49

   3. Logical Foundations of Agent-Based Computing

      • Wiebe van der Hoek

      Pages 50-73

   4. Standardizing Agent Communication

      • Yannis Labrou

      Pages 74-97

   5. Standardizing Agent Interoperability: The FIPA Approach

      • Stefan Poslad, Patricia Charlton

      Pages 98-117

   6. Distributed Problem Solving and Planning

      • Edmund H. Durfee

      Pages 118-149

   7. Automated Negotiation and Decision Making in Multiagent Environments

      • Sarit Kraus

      Pages 150-172

   8. Agents′ Advanced Features for Negotiation and Coordination

      • Eugénio Oliveira

      Pages 173-186

3. Social Behaviour, Meta-reasoning, and Learning

   1. Towards Heterogeneous Agent Teams

      • Milind Tambe, David V. Pynadath

      Pages 187-210

   2. Social Knowledge in Multi-agent Systems

      • Vladimír Marík, Michal Pechoucek, Olga Štepánková

      Pages 211-245

   3. Machine Learning and Inductive Logic Programming for Multi-agent Systems

      • Dimitar Kazakov, Daniel Kudenko⋆

      Pages 246-270

   4. Relational Reinforcement Learning

      • Kurt Driessens

      Pages 271-280

   5. From Statistics to Emergence: Exercises in Systems Modularity

      • Jozef Kelemen

      Pages 281-300

   6. Emotions and Agents

      • Paolo Petta, Robert Trappl

      Pages 301-316

4. Applications

   1. Multi-agent Coordination and Control Using Stigmergy Applied to Manufacturing Control

      • Paul Valckenaers, Hendrik Van Brussel, Martin Kollingbaum, Olaf Bochmann

      Pages 317-334

   2. Virtual Enterprise Modeling and Support Infrastructures: Applying Multi-agent System Approaches

      • Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afsarmanesh

      Pages 335-364

   3. Specialised Agent Applications

      • Klaus Fischer, Petra Funk, Christian Ruß

      Pages 365-382

   4. Agent-Based Modelling of Ecosystems for Sustainable Resource Management

      • Jim Doran

      Pages 383-403

   5. Cooperating Physical Robots: A Lesson in Playing Robotic Soccer

      • Bernhard Nebel

      Pages 404-414

The Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence ACAI 2001 with the subtitle M ulti- Agent Systems and Their Applications , held in Prague, Czech Republic, was a joint event of ECCAI (the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence) and AgentLink, the European Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing. Whereas ECCAI organizes two-week ACAI courses on different topics every second year, AgentLink s European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS) has been an annual event since 1999. This year, both of these important events were merged together, giving weight to the fact that multi-agent systems currently represent one of the hottest topics in AI research. The name, ACAI 2001 Summer School, is intended to emphasize that this event continues the tradition of regular ECCAI activities (ACAI), as well as the EASSS summer schools of AgentLink. The Prague ACAI Summer School was proposed and initiated by both the Gerstner Laboratory, Czech Technical University, Prague (GL-CTU) and the Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics (CSKI), with the support of the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Vienna (OFAI). Part of our motivation was catalyzed by experience gained in 1992 during the International Summer School Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence (see Springer s LNAI vol. 617) which was organized by the same Czech and Austrian bodies. One of the most important stimulating factors behind the organization of ACAI 2001 was the support provided by the European Commission to the Gerstner Laboratory within the frame of the MIRACLE Center of Excellence project (IST No.

• Agent Communication
• Agent Coordination
• Agent Technology
• Agent-Based Systems
• Algorithmic Learning
• Autonomous Agents
• Distributed Systems
• Electronic Commerce
• Intelligent Agents
• Mobile Agents
• Multi-Agent Systems
• Social Behaviour
• artificial intelligence
• multi-agent system

• Department of Electronics and Computer Science Highfield, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

  Michael Luck

• Facultiy of Electr. Engineering, Dept. of Cybernetics Technicka 2, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic

  Vladimír Mařík, Olga Štěpánková

• Dept.of Med. Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  Robert Trappl

• Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria

  Robert Trappl

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