Engineering Societies in the Agents World VII

1. Front Matter

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2. Engineering of Multi-agent Systems

   1. “It’s Not Just Goals All the Way Down” – “It’s Activities All the Way Down”

      • Maarten Sierhuis

      Pages 1-24

   2. The Construction of Multi-agent Systems as an Engineering Discipline

      • Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz

      Pages 25-37

   3. Current Issues in Multi-Agent Systems Development

      • Rafael H. Bordini, Mehdi Dastani, Michael Winikoff

      Pages 38-61

   4. Architecture-Centric Software Development of Situated Multiagent Systems

      • Danny Weyns, Tom Holvoet

      Pages 62-85

   5. Organization Oriented Programming: From Closed to Open Organizations

      • Olivier Boissier, Jomi Fred Hübner, Jaime Simão Sichman

      Pages 86-105

3. Analysis, Design, Development and Verification of Agent Societies

   1. Modelling and Executing Complex and Dynamic Business Processes by Reification of Agent Interactions

      • Marco Stuit, Nick B. Szirbik

      Pages 106-125

   2. Model Driven Development of Multi-Agent Systems with Repositories of Social Patterns

      • Rubén Fuentes-Fernández, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz, Juan Pavón

      Pages 126-142

   3. A Norm-Governed Systems Perspective of Ad Hoc Networks

      • Alexander Artikis, Lloyd Kamara, Jeremy Pitt

      Pages 143-160

4. Interaction and Coordination in Agent Societies

   1. A Definition of Exceptions in Agent-Oriented Computing

      • Eric Platon, Nicolas Sabouret, Shinichi Honiden

      Pages 161-174

   2. Toward an Ontology of Regulation: Socially-Based Support for Coordination in Human and Machine Joint Activity

      • Paul J. Feltovich, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, William J. Clancey, Matthew Johnson

      Pages 175-192

   3. An Algorithm for Conflict Resolution in Regulated Compound Activities

      • Andrés García-Camino, Pablo Noriega, Juan-Antonio Rodríguez-Aguilar

      Pages 193-208

   4. Modeling the Interaction Between Semantic Agents and Semantic Web Services Using MDA Approach

      • Geylani Kardas, Arda Goknil, Oguz Dikenelli, N. Yasemin Topaloglu

      Pages 209-228

   5. Formal Modelling of a Coordination System: From Practice to Theory, and Back Again

      • Eloy J. Mata, Pedro Álvarez, José A. Bañares, Julio Rubio

      Pages 229-244

5. Autonomic Agent Societies

   1. Using Constraints and Process Algebra for Specification of First-Class Agent Interaction Protocols

      • Tim Miller, Peter McBurney

      Pages 245-264

   2. Dynamic Specifications in Norm-Governed Open Computational Societies

      • Dimosthenis Kaponis, Jeremy Pitt

      Pages 265-283

   3. Enhancing Self-organising Emergent Systems Design with Simulation

      • Carole Bernon, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Gauthier Picard

      Pages 284-299

   4. Adaptation of Autonomic Electronic Institutions Through Norms and Institutional Agents

      • Eva Bou, Maite López-Sánchez, J. A. Rodríguez-Aguilar

      Pages 300-319

   5. Managing Resources in Constrained Environments with Autonomous Agents

      • C. Muldoon, G. M. P. O’Hare, M. J. O’Grady

      Pages 320-339

6. Trust in Agent Societies

   1. Towards a Computational Model of Creative Societies Using Curious Design Agents

      • Rob Saunders

      Pages 340-353

The seventh international workshop ESAW 2006 – Engineering Societies in the Agents World VII—was hosted in the School of Computer Science and Inf- matics, University College Dublin, Ireland in September 2006. This workshop was organized as a stand-alone event, running over three days, and continued andenhancedthe high-qualityconferencetheme thatnowuniquelycharacterizes the ESAW workshop series. ESAW VII built upon the success of prior ESAW workshops – Ku¸ sadasi (2005), London (2004) and Toulouse (2004), going back to the inauguralworkshopheld in Berlin(2000). This workshopwasattended by 50 participants from 13 di?erent countries. Over 25 researchers presented their work and substantial time was allocated each day for ad-hoc interactive disc- sions on those presented topics. Indeed, these opportunities for the exchange of views and open discussion with fellow experts are one of the hallmarks of the ESAW series. Discussions coalesced around ESAW’s main themes: – Engineering multi-agent systems – Methodologies for analysis, design, development and veri?cation of agent societies – Interaction and coordination in agent societies – Autonomic agent societies – Trust in agent societies For moreinformationabouttheworkshop,theinterestedreaderisreferredto 1 the ESAW 2006 WWW site . The original contributions have been published as a Technical Report (UCD-CSI-2006-5) and this may be obtained freely from the Technical Report section on the WWW page of the School of Computer Science 2 and Informatics at University College Dublin . These post-proceedings continue the series published by Springer (ESAW 2000: LNAI 1972; ESAW 2001: LNAI 2203; ESAW 2002: LNAI 2577; ESAW 2003: LNAI 3071; ESAW 2004: LNAI 3451; ESAW 2005: LNAI 3963).

• agent communication
• agent cooperation
• agent coordination
• agent simulation
• agent societies
• agent-based modeling
• agents
• business process
• computational societies
• context sensitive age
• modeling
• organization
• programming
• semantic web
• verification

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