Engineering Societies in the Agents World X

1. Front Matter

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2. Part 1: Invited Talks

   1. The Immergence of Norms in Agent Worlds

      • Rosaria Conte, Giulia Andrighetto, Marco Campennì

      Pages 1-14

   2. Thinking Integral: How to Build Complex Systems That Live with People and Exhibit Collective Intelligence

      • Jacques Ferber

      Pages 15-16

3. Part 2: Self-organisation

   1. A Space-Based Generic Pattern for Self-Initiative Load Balancing Agents

      • Eva Kühn, Vesna Sesum-Cavic

      Pages 17-32

   2. A Goal-Oriented Approach for Modelling Self-organising MAS

      • Mirko Morandini, Frédéric Migeon, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Christine Maurel, Loris Penserini, Anna Perini

      Pages 33-48

   3. Engineering Agent Organisations in a Business Environment

      • Dimitris Traskas, Julian Padget

      Pages 49-64

   4. Peer-to-Peer Overlay Network Based on Swarm Intelligence

      • Vesna Sesum-Cavic, Eva Kühn

      Pages 65-67

4. Part 3: Software-Engineering and Architectures

   1. Agent Architectures for Compliance

      • Brigitte Burgemeestre, Joris Hulstijn, Yao-Hua Tan

      Pages 68-83

   2. Incorporating BDI Agents into Human-Agent Decision Making Research

      • Bart Kamphorst, Arlette van Wissen, Virginia Dignum

      Pages 84-97

   3. Programming Organization-Aware Agents

      • M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Koen Hindriks, Catholijn Jonker

      Pages 98-112

   4. Energy Trade-Offs in Resource-Constrained Multi-Agent Systems

      • Hugo Carr, Jeremy Pitt, Anthony Kleerekoper, David Blancke

      Pages 113-115

5. Part 4: Social Aspects of Agent Societies

   1. Engineering Social Reality with Inheritance Relations

      • Huib Aldewereld, Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Frank Dignum, Javier Vázquez-Salceda

      Pages 116-131

   2. Determining the Trustworthiness of New Electronic Contracts

      • Paul Groth, Simon Miles, Sanjay Modgil, Nir Oren, Michael Luck, Yolanda Gil

      Pages 132-147

   3. Trust Based Evaluation of Wikipedia’s Contributors

      • Yann Krupa, Laurent Vercouter, Jomi Fred Hübner, Andreas Herzig

      Pages 148-161

   4. Evolutionary Role Model for Multi-Agent Systems

      • Erdem Eser Ekinci, Oğuz Dikenelli

      Pages 162-164

6. Part 5: Organisation and Autonomy

   1. Replication Based on Role Concept for Multi-Agent Systems

      • Sebnem Bora, Oguz Dikenelli

      Pages 165-180

   2. Knowledge Management in Role Based Agents

      • Hüseyin Kır, Erdem Eser Ekinci, Oguz Dikenelli

      Pages 181-196

   3. Balancing Organizational Regulation and Agent Autonomy: An MDE-Based Approach

      • Loris Penserini, Virginia Dignum, Athanasios Staikopoulos, Huib Aldewereld, Frank Dignum

      Pages 197-212

   4. Cooperative Sign Language Tutoring: A Multiagent Approach

      • İlker Yıldırım, Oya Aran, Pınar Yolum, Lale Akarun

      Pages 213-228

   5. Assistance Layer in a P2P Scenario

      • Jordi Campos, Maite López-Sánchez, Marc Esteva

      Pages 229-232

The 10th international workshop “Engineering Societies in the Agents’ World” (ESAW 2009), was held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, during November 18–20, 2009. In the tradition of its predecessors, ESAW 2009 was committed to the idea of multi-agent systems (MAS) as highly interconnected societies of agents, paying particular attention to the social aspects, methodologies and software infrastructures that tackle the emergent complexities of MAS. The idea for the ESAW workshop series was born 10 years ago, in 1999, among the members of the working group on “Communication, Coordination and Collaboration” of AgentLink, the 1st European Network of Excellence on Agent-Based Computing, out of a critical discussion about the general mi- set of the agents community. Central to this discussion is the need for proper consideration of systematic aspects of MAS, acknowledging the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach, that takes into account the social, environmental and technological perspectives. These issues that are as actual today as they were in 1999, which is con?rmed by the steady interest in the ESAW workshop series that previous editions took place in: – Berlin, Germany, 2000 (LNAI 1972) – Prague, Czech Republic, 2001 (LNAI 2203) – Madrid, Spain, 2002 (LNAI 2577) – London, UK, 2003 (LNAI 3071) – Toulouse, France, 2004 (LNAI 3451) – Kusadasi, Turkey, 2005 (LNAI 3963) – Dublin, Ireland, 2006 (LNAI 4457) – Athens, Greece, 2007 (LNAI 4995) – Saint-Etienne, France, 2008 (LNAI 5485) This10thworkshopwasdevotedtothediscussionoftechnologies,methodologies and models for the engineering of complex applications based on MAS, and broughttogetherresearchersandcontributionsfrombothwithinandoutsidetheagents’?eld–fromsoftwareengineering,distributedsystems,socialsciences,and

• agent communication
• agent cooperation
• agent coordination
• agent simulation
• agent societies
• agent systems
• agent-based modeling
• agent-based systems
• agents
• autonomous agents
• cognitive modeling
• complex distributed systems
• confidentiality
• coordination
• structured analysis

• Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Huib Aldewereld, Virginia Dignum

• Industrial Engineering and Computer Sciences, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, SAINT-ÉTIENNE cedex 2, France

  Gauthier Picard

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