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Multiagent Engineering

Theory and Applications in Enterprises

Editors:

  1. Stefan Kirn

    1. Wirtschaftsinformatik II (510 O), Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

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  2. Otthein Herzog

    1. Technologie-Zentrum Informatik, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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  3. Peter Lockemann

    1. Institut für Programmstrukturen und Datenorganisation (IPD), Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany

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  4. Otto Spaniol

    1. Lehrstuhl für Informatik 4, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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  • Gives an overview of the field and contains descriptions of concrete applications
  • Describes how to identify and address the relevant technical problems
  • Explains how to engineer, integrate and test multi-agent systems for real world applications
  • Detailed descriptions of the development of two large-scale multi-agent systems: Agent.Hospital and Agent.Enterprise
  • Demonstrates clearly that multi-agent technology has a great potential for innovative information systems, if a high degree of flexibility of the overall systems is required, e.g. because human actions and technical systems exhibit a great degree of local autonomy, or if the work environment is highly dynamic
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: International Handbooks on Information Systems (INFOSYS)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Management Summary

    1. Management Summary

      • Peter C. Lockemann, Stefan Kirn, Otthein Herzog
      Pages 1-13

  3. What Agents Are and What They Are Good For

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Agents

      • Peter C. Lockemann
      Pages 17-33

    3. From Agents to Multiagent Systems

      • Ingo J. Timm, Thorsten Scholz, Otthein Herzog, Karl-Heinz Krempels, Otto Spaniol
      Pages 35-51

    4. Flexibility of Multiagent Systems

      • Stefan Kirn
      Pages 53-69

  4. Application Examples I: Agent.Enterprise

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. Agent.Enterprise in a Nutshell

      • Peer-Oliver Woelk, Holger Rudzio, Roland Zimmermann, Jens Nimis
      Pages 73-90

    3. Integrated Process Planning and Production Control

      • Leif-Erik Lorenzen, Peer-Oliver Woelk, Berend Denkena, Thorsten Scholz, Ingo J. Timm, Otthein Herzog
      Pages 91-113

    6. Supply Chain Event Management With Software Agents

      • Roland Zimmermann, Stefan Winkler, Freimut Bodendorf
      Pages 157-175

    7. Trust-Based Distributed Supply-Web Negotiations

      • Tim Stockheim, Oliver Wendt, Wolfgang König
      Pages 177-195

  5. Application Examples II: Agent.Hospital

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
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    2. Agent.Hospital — Health Care Applications of Intelligent Agents

      • Stefan Kirn, Christian Anhalt, Helmut Krcmar, Andreas Schweiger
      Pages 199-220

    4. Agent-Based Information Logistics

      • Thomas Rose, Martin Sedlmayr, Holger Knublauch, Wolfgang Friesdorf
      Pages 239-254

    5. Agent-Based Patient Scheduling in Hospitals

      • Torsten O. Paulussen, Anja Zöller, Franz Rothlauf, Armin Heinzl, Lars Braubach, Alexander Pokahr et al.
      Pages 255-275

    6. Adaptivity and Scheduling

      • Rainer Herrler, Frank Puppe
      Pages 277-299

    7. Active, Medical Documents in Health Care

      • Andreas Schweiger, Helmut Krcmar
      Pages 301-318
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About this book

1 Multiagent Engineering: A New Software Construction Paradigm Multiagent systems have a long academic tradition. They have their roots in distributed problem solving in Artificial Intelligence (AI) from where they emerged in the mid-eighties as a distinctive discipline. Research in multiagent systems owes much to the work of Rosenschein on rationality and autonomy of intelligent agents, the European MAAMAW workshop series, and last but not least the famous readings of Bond & Gasser (1988) and Jacques Ferber´s book on multiagent systems (1991). It gained further by a public discussion via the Distributed AI mailing list in summer 1991, when the pioneers of the field compared in much detail the concepts of distributed problem solvers to multiagent systems. Within only five years, a new exciting field of research had been established. Now, 15 years later, the field has matured to a degree that allows the - sults of academic research to be passed on to practical use and commercial exploitation. This potential coincides with a need for much larger flexib- ity of our IT infrastructure in light of its highly distributed character and extreme complexity, but also the global character of the business processes and the large number of business partners due to outsourcing and specia- zation. Many experts claim that multiagent systems are the right software technology for the needed IT infrastructure at the right time. The appeal has much to do with the broad perspectives of multiagent systems research.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Wirtschaftsinformatik II (510 O), Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

    Stefan Kirn

  • Technologie-Zentrum Informatik, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Otthein Herzog

  • Institut für Programmstrukturen und Datenorganisation (IPD), Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany

    Peter Lockemann

  • Lehrstuhl für Informatik 4, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Otto Spaniol

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