Agent-Oriented Information Systems IV

1. Front Matter

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2. Modelling

   1. Modeling MAS Properties with MAS-ML Dynamic Diagrams

      • Viviane Torres da Silva, Ricardo Choren, Carlos J. P. de Lucena

      Pages 1-18

   2. Providing Contextual Norm Information in Open Multi-Agent Systems

      • Carolina Felicíssimo, Ricardo Choren, Jean-Pierre Briot, Carlos J. P. de Lucena, Caroline Chopinaud, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni

      Pages 19-36

   3. A Reputation Model Based on Testimonies

      • José de S.P. Guedes, Viviane Torres da Silva, Carlos J. P. de Lucena

      Pages 37-52

3. Methodologies

   1. Towards Agent-Based Scenario Development for Strategic Decision Support

      • Maarten Mensonides, Bob Huisman, Virginia Dignum

      Pages 53-72

   2. Preliminary Validation of MOBMAS (Ontology-Centric Agent Oriented Methodology): Design of a Peer-to-Peer Information Sharing MAS

      • Quynh-Nhu Numi Tran, Ghassan Beydoun, Graham Low, Cesar Gonzalez-Perez

      Pages 73-89

   3. A Methodology to Bring MAS to Information Systems

      • Emmanuelle Grislin-Le Strugeon, Abdouroihamane Anli, Emmanuel Adam

      Pages 90-104

   4. On the Evaluation of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Methodologies: A Statistical Approach

      • Abdel-Halim Hafez Elamy, Behrouz Far

      Pages 105-122

4. Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

   1. From Early to Late Requirements: A Goal-Based Approach

      • Alicia Martínez, Oscar Pastor, John Mylopoulos, Paolo Giorgini

      Pages 123-142

   2. A Formal Description Language for Multi-Agent Architectures

      • Stéphane Faulkner, Manuel Kolp, Yves Wautelet, Youssef Achbany

      Pages 143-163

   3. Comparing Three Formal Analysis Approaches of the Tropos Family

      • Dominik Schmitz, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Matthias Jarke

      Pages 164-182

   4. Integration of Aspects with i* Models

      • Fernanda Alencar, Jaelson Castro, Ana Moreira, João Araújo, Carla Silva, Ricardo Ramos et al.

      Pages 183-201

5. Applications

   1. Enhancing Information Sharing Through Agents

      • Marco Mari, Agostino Poggi, Michele Tomaiuolo, Paola Turci

      Pages 202-211

   2. ToothAgent: A Multi-agent System for Virtual Communities Support

      • Volha Bryl, Paolo Giorgini, Stefano Fante

      Pages 212-230

6. Back Matter

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This is the eighth year that the Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS) workshops have been held. Papers submitted to AOIS show an increase in quality and maturity as agent technology is being increasingly seen as a viable alternative for software and systems development. In AOIS, we focus on the application of agent technology in information systems development and explore the potential for facilitating the increased usage of agent technology in the creation of information systems in the widest sense. This year’s workshops were held in conjunction with two major, international computing research conferences: the first, in May 2006, was affiliated with the AAMAS conference in Hakadote, Japan and chaired by Garcia, Ghose and Kolp. The second was held in conjunction with the international CAiSE conference held in Luxembourg (June 2006) and chaired by Bresciani, Henderson-Sellers and Mouratidis. (Details of all preceding workshops are to be found at http:// www. aois. org. ) The best papers from both these meetings were identified and authors invited to revise and extend their papers in light of the reviewers’ comments and feedback at the workshop. Following submission to this compendium volume, another round of reviews was undertaken resulting in what you can read here. These re-reviews were undertaken by three members of the Programme Committee – we wish to thank both the authors for undertaking the necessary revisions and the reviewers for this extra call on their precious time.

• agent communication
• agent cooperation
• agent-based information systems
• agent-based modeling
• agent-oriented information systems
• agent-oriented software engineering
• cooperative information systems
• information agents
• information system
• mobile computing
• multi-agent syst
• multi-agent system
• ontology
• recommender systems
• semantic aware agents

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