Multi-Agent Systems and Applications IV

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Paper

   1. Palpable Computing and the Role of Agent Technology

      • Giovanni Rimassa, Dominic Greenwood, Monique Calisti

      Pages 1-10

3. Research Papers

   1. Agent Communication, Interaction Protocols and Mechanisms

      1. A Dynamic Joint Protocols Selection Method to Perform Collaborative Tasks

         • José Ghislain Quenum, Samir Aknine

         Pages 11-20

      2. A Formal Framework for Interaction Protocol Engineering

         • Fernando Alonso, Sonia Frutos, Genoveva López, Javier Soriano

         Pages 21-30

      3. Towards a Conversational Language for Artificial Agents in Mixed Community

         • Alexandra Berger, Sylvie Pesty

         Pages 31-40

      4. Adaptive Mobile Multi-agent Systems

         • Alexandru Suna, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni

         Pages 41-50

   2. Agent Models and Architectures

      1. Agent Encapsulation in a Cognitive Vision MAS

         • Bernhard Jung, Paolo Petta

         Pages 51-61

      2. A Model of Multi-agent System Based on Policies and Contracts

         • Beishui Liao, Ji Gao

         Pages 62-71

      3. Case-Based Student Modeling in Multi-agent Learning Environment

         • Carolina González, Juan C. Burguillo, Martin Llamas

         Pages 72-81

      4. Intelligent Virtual Environments for Training: An Agent-Based Approach

         • Angélica de Antonio, Jaime Ramírez, Ricardo Imbert, Gonzalo Méndez

         Pages 82-91

      5. Patient Driven Mobile Platform to Enhance Conventional Wheelchair, with Multiagent System Supervisory Control

         • A. B. Martínez, J. Escoda, T. Benedico, U. Cortés, R. Annicchiarico, C. Barrué et al.

         Pages 92-101

      6. SECMAP: A Secure Mobile Agent Platform

         • Suat Ugurlu, Nadia Erdogan

         Pages 102-111

      7. What Is Context and How Can an Agent Learn to Find and Use it When Making Decisions?

         • Oana Bucur, Philippe Beaune, Olivier Boissier

         Pages 112-121

   3. Agent Oriented Software Engineering, Modelling and Methodologies

      1. A Formal Modelling Framework for Developing Multi-agent Systems with Dynamic Structure and Behaviour

         • Petros Kefalas, Ioanna Stamatopoulou, Marian Gheorghe

         Pages 122-131

      2. Discovery of Crises via Agent-Based Simulation of a Transportation System

         • Edward Nawarecki, Jarosław Koźlak, Grzegorz Dobrowolski, Marek Kisiel-Dorohinicki

         Pages 132-141

      3. Evaluating the Feasibility of Method Engineering for the Creation of Agent-Oriented Methodologies

         • Brian Henderson-Sellers

         Pages 142-152

      4. Formalizing Compatibility and Substitutability of Rolebased Interactions Components in Multi-agent Systems

         • Nabil Hameurlain

         Pages 153-162

      5. MAS Meta-models on Test: UML vs. OPM in the SODA Case Study

         • Ambra Molesini, Enrico Denti, Andrea Omicini

         Pages 163-172

      6. Programming an Agent as Abstract State Machine

         • Grzegorz Dobrowolski

         Pages 173-182

      7. The PASSI and Agile PASSI MAS Meta-models Compared with a Unifying Proposal

         • Massimo Cossentino, Salvatore Gaglio, Luca Sabatucci, Valeria Seidita

         Pages 183-192

The aim of the CEEMAS conference series is to provide a biennial forum for the presentation of multi-agent research and development results. With its p- ticular geographicalorientation towards Central and Eastern Europe, CEEMAS has become an internationally recognised event with participants from all over the world. After the successful CEEMAS conferences in St. Petersburg (1999), Cracow (2001) and Prague (2003), the 2005 CEEMAS conference takes place in Budapest. The programme committee of the conference series consists of est- lished researchers from the region and renowned international colleagues, sh- ing the prominent rank of CEEMAS among the leading events in multi-agent systems. In the very competitive ?eld of agent oriented conferences and workshops nowadays(suchasAAMAS,WI/IAT,EUMAS,CIA,MATES)thespecialpro?le of CEEMAS is that it is trying to bridge the gap between applied research achievements and theoretical research activities. Our ambition is to provide a forum for presenting theoretical research with an evident application potential, implemented application prototypes and their properties, as well as industrial case studies of successful (but also unsuccessful) agent technology deployments. This is why the CEEMAS proceedings volume provides a collection of research and application papers. The technical research paper section of the proceedings (see pages 11–499) contains pure research papers as well as research results in application settings while the application papers section (see pages 500–530) contains papers focused on application aspects. The goal is to demonstrate the real life value and commercial reality of multi-agent systems as well as to foster communication between academia and industry in this ?eld.

• Multi-agent system
• Scala
• agents
• communication
• evolution
• formal method
• knowledge
• learning
• modeling
• self-organizing system

• Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

  Michael Pěchouček

• Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria

  Paolo Petta

• Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

  László Zsolt Varga

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