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Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems

First International Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts, WRAC 2002, McLean, VA, USA, January 16-18, 2002. Revised Papers

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2564)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): WRAC: Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts

Conference proceedings info: WRAC 2002.

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Table of contents (41 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Invited Presentation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. A Personalizable Agent for Semantic Taxonomy-Based Web Search

      • Larry Kerschberg, Wooju Kim, Anthony Scime
      Pages 3-31
  3. Adaptation and Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
    2. Developing Agents Populations with Ethogenetics

      • Samuel Landau, Sébastien Picault
      Pages 61-70
    3. Distributed Coordination of Resources via Wasp-Like Agents

      • Vincent A. Cicirello, Stephen F. Smith
      Pages 71-80
    4. Homo Egualis Reinforcement Learning Agents for Load Balancing

      • Katja Verbeeck, Johan Parent, Ann Nowé
      Pages 81-91
    5. Experimental Swarm Design

      • Alfred D. M. Wan
      Pages 92-105
    6. Learning in the Broker Agent

      • Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Timothy Finin
      Pages 106-121
  4. Agent-Based Software Engineering

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
    2. The CoABS Grid

      • Martha L. Kahn, Cynthia Della Torre Cicalese
      Pages 125-134
    3. Agent Based Approach to Service Description and Composition

      • Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz
      Pages 135-149
    4. Intelligent Software Agents Technology at the Air Force Research Laboratory

      • James Lawton, Daniel Daskiewich, Mark Gorniak, Dale Richards
      Pages 150-154
    5. Testing and Monitoring Intelligent Agents

      • Christopher Rouff
      Pages 155-164
    6. Wireless Agents in Ad Hoc Networks

      • Stephen Quirolgico, L. Jay Wantz, Michael Miller, Naveen Srinivasan, Vlad Korolev, Michael Fay
      Pages 165-174
    7. Towards Complex Team Behavior in Multi-agent Systems Using a Commercial Agent Platform

      • J. Vaughan, R. Connell, A. Lucas, R. Rönnquist
      Pages 175-185
    8. Creating Context-Aware Software Agents

      • Harry Chen, Sovrin Tolia, Craig Sayers, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
      Pages 186-197
  5. Agent Architectures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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About this book

This collection represents the proceedings of the 1st GSFC/JPL Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts (WRAC), which was held on 16–18 January, 2002 at the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Conference Center in McLean, VA, USA. Over the past few years, agent technologyhas emerged as a powerful force in computing. Agent technology may well form the foundation for the next gen- ation of computing systems. New and innovative agent concepts and techniques may bring further developments to this exploding area of research. Such work is often strongly inspired by theoretical or empirical studies of human behavior, social intelligence, psychology, arts, biology, computer science and philosophy. Thisworkshopaimedatbringingtogether,inaninterdisciplinaryevent,or- inal thinkers, practitioners and academics with an interest in radical (very - novative) concepts for agent-based systems. The workshop provided a forum to present the latest research?ndings in many aspects of agent technology. The - ganizers welcomed participation by those working in agent architectures, agent communities, agent communications, agent modeling, agent applications and other agent-related areas. We were particularly seeking papers on novel and - novative ideas, pushing the envelope of current agent technology. Contributions without a prototype or working system, i.e., purely conceptual contributions, were welcomed, and ”out-of-the-box” thinkers were especially encouraged to participate. The workshop was structured so as to allow the participants adequate time for discussion and interaction, to exchange ideas and re?ect on the motivations, scienti?c grounds and practical consequences of the concepts presented.

Editors and Affiliations

  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA

    Walt Truszkowski

  • Lero–the Irish Software Engineering Research Center, University of Limerick, Ireland

    Mike Hinchey

  • Advanced Technology Laboratories, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Arlington, USA

    Chris Rouff

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