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Multi-Agent System Engineering

9th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, MAAMAW'99 Valencia, Spain, June 30 - July 2, 1999 Proceedings

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  • © 1999

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  1. Francisco J. Garijo

    1. Telefónica Investigatión y Desarrollo, Madrid, Spain

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  2. Magnus Boman

    1. DSV, SU/KTH, Kista, Sweden

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1647)

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

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Table of contents (18 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Engineering Aspects of Multi-agent Systems

    1. Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

      • Nicholas R. Jennings
      Pages 1-7

    2. Specification of Bahavioural Requirements within Compositional Multi-agent System Design

      • Daniela E. Herlea, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur, Niek J. E. Wijngaards
      Pages 8-27

    3. Agent-Oriented Design

      • K. S. Barber, T. H. Liu, D. C. Han
      Pages 28-40

    4. A Developer’s Perspective on Multi-agent System Design

      • P. Charlton, E. Mamdani
      Pages 41-51

  3. Multi-agent Systems Framework

    1. A Development Environment for the Realization of Open and Scalable Multi-agent Systems

      • Federico Bergenti, Agostino Poggi
      Pages 52-62

    2. Modelling Agents in Hard Real-Time Environments

      • V. Botti, C. Carrascosa, V. Julian, J. Soler
      Pages 63-76

    3. Multi-agent Systems on the Internet: Extending the Scope of Coordination towards Security and Topology

      • Marco Cremonini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli
      Pages 77-88

  4. Languages and Protocols

    1. Protocol Engineering for Multi-agent Interaction

      • Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Serge Haddad, Hamza Mazouzi
      Pages 89-101

    2. Designing Agent Communication Languages for Multi-agent Systems

      • Jeremy Pitt, Abe Mamdani
      Pages 102-114

    3. A Temporal Agent Communication Language for Dynamic Multi-agent Systems

      • T. Carron, H. Proton, O. Boissier
      Pages 115-127

    4. Multi-paradigm Languages Supporting Multi-agent Development

      • Analía Amandi, Alejandro Zunino, Ramiro Iturregui
      Pages 128-139

  5. Negotiation and Cooperation

    1. An Efficient Argumentation Framework for Negotiating Autonomous Agents

      • Michael Schroeder
      Pages 140-149

    2. Negotiating Service Provisioning

      • Mihai Barbuceanu
      Pages 150-161

    3. Cooperative Plan Selection Through Trust

      • Nathan Griffiths, Michael Luck
      Pages 162-174

    4. Extending Social Reasoning to Cope with Multiple Partner Coalitions

      • Nuno David, Jaime Simão Sichman, Helder Coelho
      Pages 175-187

  6. Formal Models

    1. Basic Mental Attitudes of a Collaborating Agent: Cognitive Primitives for MAS

      • Cristiano Castelfranchi, Rino Falcone
      Pages 188-209

    2. Subjective Situations

      • Antonio Moreno, Ulises Cortés, Ton Sales
      Pages 210-220

    3. Formal Analysis of Models for the Dynamics of Trust Based on Experiences

      • Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur
      Pages 221-231

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 233-233
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About this book

In the ten years since the first MAAMAW was held in 1989, at King's College, Cambridge, the field of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has flourished. It has attracted an increasing amount of theoretical and applied research. During this decade, important efforts have been made to establish the scientific and technical foundations of MAS. MAAMAW publications are testimony to the progress achieved in key areas such as agent modelling and reasoning, multi-agent interaction and communication, and multi-agent organisation and social structure. Research results have covered a wide range of inter-related topics in each area including agent architectures, reasoning models, logics, conflict resolution, negotiation, resource allocation, load balancing, learning; social behaviour and interaction, languages and protocols, interagent and agent-human communication, social models, agent roles, norms and social laws, and static and dynamic organisational structures. The feasibility and the viability of the proposed models and techniques have been demonstrated through MAS applications in heterogeneous domains including electronic commerce, co-operative work, telecommunications, social and biological systems, robotics, office and business automation, public administration, social simulations and banking. As the applicability of the technology became understood, the multi-agent paradigm has been progressively accepted by product managers and system developers, giving rise to a considerable amount of business expectation from industry. These expectations do not rest on the concept or metaphor of agent, but on the development of MAS useful in an industrial setting, with real-time systems presenting the biggest challenge.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Telefónica Investigatión y Desarrollo, Madrid, Spain

    Francisco J. Garijo

  • DSV, SU/KTH, Kista, Sweden

    Magnus Boman

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