Multi-Agent Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. Agent-Based Models, Trust and Reputation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Ants in the OCEAN: Modulating Agents with Personality for Planning with Humans

      • Sebastian Ahrndt, Armin Aria, Johannes Fähndrich, Sahin Albayrak

      Pages 3-18

   3. A Trust-Based Situation Awareness Model

      • Reyhan Aydoğan, Alexei Sharpanskykh, Julia Lo

      Pages 19-34

   4. Angerona - A Flexible Multiagent Framework for Knowledge-Based Agents

      • Patrick Krümpelmann, Tim Janus, Gabriele Kern-Isberner

      Pages 35-50

   5. Affordance-Based Interaction Design for Agent-Based Simulation Models

      • Franziska Klügl

      Pages 51-66

   6. MORE: Merged Opinions Reputation Model

      • Nardine Osman, Alessandro Provetti, Valerio Riggi, Carles Sierra

      Pages 67-81

3. Coordination, Coalitions and Teamwork

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Computing Coalitions in Multiagent Systems: A Contextual Reasoning Approach

      • Antonis Bikakis, Patrice Caire

      Pages 85-100

   3. Comparison of Task-Allocation Algorithms in Frontier-Based Multi-robot Exploration

      • Jan Faigl, Olivier Simonin, Francois Charpillet

      Pages 101-110

   4. Homecoming: A Multi-robot Exploration Method for Conjunct Environments with a Systematic Return Procedure

      • Shervin Ghasemlou, Ali Mohades, Taher Abbas Shangari, Mohammadreza Tavassoli

      Pages 111-127

   5. Distributed Deliberation on Direct Help in Agent Teamwork

      • Mojtaba Malek Akhlagh, Jernej Polajnar

      Pages 128-143

   6. Forming Coalitions in Self-interested Multi-agent Environments Through the Promotion of Fair and Cooperative Behaviour

      • Ted Scully, Michael G. Madden

      Pages 144-158

   7. Auction-Based Dynamic Task Allocation for Foraging with a Cooperative Robot Team

      • Changyun Wei, Koen V. Hindriks, Catholijn M. Jonker

      Pages 159-174

4. Logic and Formal Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Tableaux and Complexity Bounds for a Multiagent Justification Logic with Interacting Justifications

      • Antonis Achilleos

      Pages 177-192

   3. A Framework for Epistemic Gossip Protocols

      • Maduka Attamah, Hans van Ditmarsch, Davide Grossi, Wiebe van der Hoek

      Pages 193-209

   4. Compliance Games

      • Piotr Kaźmierczak

      Pages 210-218

   5. Synthesis with Rational Environments

      • Orna Kupferman, Giuseppe Perelli, Moshe Y. Vardi

      Pages 219-235

   6. STIT Based Deontic Logics for the Miners Puzzle

      • Xin Sun, Zohreh Baniasadi

      Pages 236-251

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, EUMAS 2014, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in December 2014. The 21 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: agent-based models, trust and reputation; coordination, coalitions and teamwork; logic and formal approaches; theories in practice and real-world problems; decision making, conflicts and agreements.

• MAS
• agent teamwork
• applied computing
• argumentation
• artificial intelligence
• cognitive models
• cooperation and coordination
• distributed artificial intelligence
• economic models
• formal models
• knowledge management
• knowledge representation and reasoning
• logics for multi-agent systems
• modeling
• multi-agent planning
• multi-robot exploration
• multiagent systems
• negotiation
• simulation
• task allocation

• Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  Nils Bulling

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