Innovative Concepts for Autonomic and Agent-Based Systems

1. Front Matter

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2. Agent-Mediated Pro-active Web-Sites

   • Karin Breitman, Walt Truszkowski

   Pages 1-12

3. Learning to Use Referrals to Select Satisficing Service Providers

   • Teddy Candale, Sandip Sen

   Pages 13-22

4. Towards an Emotional Decision-Making

   • Mickaël Camus, Alain Cardon

   Pages 23-32

5. A Self-adapting System Generating Intentional Behavior and Emotions

   • Alain Cardon, Jean-Charles Campagne, Mickaël Camus

   Pages 33-52

6. A New Parameter for Maintaining Consistency in an Agent’s Knowledge Base Using Truth Maintenance Systems

   • Qutaibah Althebyan, Henry Hexmoor

   Pages 53-64

7. Mind Out of Programmable Matter: Exploring Unified Models of Emergent Autonomy

   • M. Randles, A. Taleb-Bendiab, P. Miseldine

   Pages 65-73

8. Characterizing Environmental Information for Monitoring Agents

   • Albert Esterline, Bhanu Gandluri, Mannur Sundaresan

   Pages 74-85

9. Towards a Model Level Debugger for the Cougaar Model Driven Architecture System

   • Boby George, Shawn A Bohner, Nannan He

   Pages 86-97

10. Can Agent Oriented Software Engineering Be Used to Build MASs Product Lines?

    • Joaquín Peña

    Pages 98-108

11. Towards Dynamic Electronic Institutions: From Agent Coalitions to Agent Institutions

    • Eduard Muntaner-Perich, Josep Lluís de la Rosa

    Pages 109-121

12. Institutionalization Through Reciprocal Habitualization and Typification

    • Eric Baumer, Bill Tomlinson

    Pages 122-134

13. On the Concept of Agent in Multi-robot Environment

    • Stanisław Ambroszkiewicz, Krzysztof Cetnarowicz

    Pages 135-146

14. An Approach for Autonomy: A Collaborative Communication Framework for Multi-agent Systems

    • Warren R. Dufrene Jr.

    Pages 147-159

15. Autonomy Without Independence: Animal Training as a Model for Robot Design

    • David C. Wyland

    Pages 160-171

16. Shaping the Future of Online Payment Processing: An Autonomic Approach Applied to Intelligent Payment Brokers

    • Marcelo Perazolo, Carlos Hoyos, Viswanath Srikanth

    Pages 172-183

17. Genetically Modified Software: Realizing Viable Autonomic Agency

    • A. G. Laws, A. Taleb-Bendiab, S. J. Wade

    Pages 184-196

18. Harnessing Self-modifying Code for Resilient Software

    • Christian Tschudin, Lidia Yamamoto

    Pages 197-204

19. Oracle: An Agent-Based, Reference Architecture

    • Henry Hexmoor, Jody Little

    Pages 205-209

20. Hierarchies, Holons, and Agent Coordination

    • Albert Esterline, Chafic BouSaba, Barbara Pioro, Abdollah Homaifar

    Pages 210-221

The second WRAC, NASA/IEEE Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts, was held at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, September 20–22, 2005. The workshop was sponsored by the Information Systems Division of NASA Goddard and IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Complexity in Computing and IEEE Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems. The workshop also received generous financial support from IBM, without which the workshop would not have been possible. Agent technology, along with autonomous and autonomic computing, has emerged as a major field in computing, and will greatly influence the future development of complex computer-based systems. The area of research is strongly influenced by the autonomic computing initiative as well as by developments in biologically inspired computing, and involves interdisciplinary interaction from those involved in research in social intelligence, psychology, arts, biology, computer science, computer communications and philosophy. This volume includes revised versions of papers presented at the workshop. The workshop was structured so as to allow adequate time for discussion and interaction, to exchange ideas and reflect on the motivations, scientific grounds and practical consequences of the concepts presented. Many of the ideas are truly “radical”, and so authors were given time to revise their papers to reflect further thoughts on the ideas presented and to reflect feedback received at the workshop. We are grateful to Jeff Kephart for a very interesting keynote speech describing IBM’s current and future work in this field, which fit very well with the aims and scope of the workshop.

• Evolution
• Processing
• Scala
• agent applications
• agent communication
• agent modeling
• agent reasoning
• agent-oriented software engineering
• autonomic communication
• computational agents
• knowledge
• learning
• modeling
• multi-ag
• robot

• Department of Computer Science, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, USA

  Michael G. Hinchey

• IBM Autonomic Computing, Raleigh, USA

  Patricia Rago

• Advanced Architectures and Automation Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA

  James L. Rash

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

  Christopher A. Rouff

• School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

  Roy Sterritt

• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 588, Greenbelt, USA

  Walt Truszkowski

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