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Engineering Societies in the Agents World VIII

8th International Workshop, ESAW 2007, Athens, Greece, October 22-24, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

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  • © 2008

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  1. Alexander Artikis
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 4995)

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

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Table of contents (19 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Electronic Institutions

    1. Action and Agency in Norm-Governed Multi-agent Systems

      • Marek Sergot
      Pages 1-54

    2. Managing Conflict Resolution in Norm-Regulated Environments

      • Martin J. Kollingbaum, Wamberto W. Vasconcelos, Andres García-Camino, Tim J. Norman
      Pages 55-71

    3. Alternative Dispute Resolution in Virtual Organizations

      • Jeremy Pitt, Daniel Ramirez-Cano, Lloyd Kamara, Brendan Neville
      Pages 72-89

    4. Electronic Institutions Infrastructure for e-Chartering

      • Manolis Sardis, George Vouros
      Pages 90-107

  3. Models of Complex Distributed Systems with Agents and Societies

    1. Multi-agent Simulation to Implementation: A Practical Engineering Methodology for Designing Space Flight Operations

      • William J. Clancey, Maarten Sierhuis, Chin Seah, Chris Buckley, Fisher Reynolds, Tim Hall et al.
      Pages 108-123

    2. Progress Appraisal as a Challenging Element of Coordination in Human and Machine Joint Activity

      • Paul J. Feltovich, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, William J. Clancey, Matthew Johnson, Larry Bunch
      Pages 124-141

    3. Automated Web Services Composition with the Event Calculus

      • Onur Aydın, Nihan Kesim Cicekli, Ilyas Cicekli
      Pages 142-157

    4. OPERAS: A Framework for the Formal Modelling of Multi-Agent Systems and Its Application to Swarm-Based Systems

      • Ioanna Stamatopoulou, Petros Kefalas, Marian Gheorghe
      Pages 158-174

  4. Interaction in Agent Societies

    1. The Acquisition of Linguistic Competence for Communicating Propositional Logic Sentences

      • Josefina Sierra, Josefina Santibáñez
      Pages 175-192

    2. Contextualizing Behavioural Substitutability and Refinement of Role Components in MAS

      • Nabil Hameurlain
      Pages 193-207

    3. Amongst First-Class Protocols

      • Tim Miller, Jarred McGinnis
      Pages 208-223

  5. Engineering Social Intelligence in Multi-agent Systems

    1. Simulation of Negotiation Policies in Distributed Multiagent Resource Allocation

      • Hylke Buisman, Gijs Kruitbosch, Nadya Peek, Ulle Endriss
      Pages 224-239

    2. Collective-Based Multiagent Coordination: A Case Study

      • Matteo Vasirani, Sascha Ossowski
      Pages 240-253

    3. Tag Mechanisms Evaluated for Coordination in Open Multi-Agent Systems

      • Isaac Chao, Oscar Ardaiz, Ramon Sanguesa
      Pages 254-269

  6. Trust and Reputation in Agent Societies

    1. Toward a Probabilistic Model of Trust in Agent Societies

      • Federico Bergenti
      Pages 270-283

    2. Arguing about Reputation: The LRep Language

      • Isaac Pinyol, Jordi Sabater-Mir
      Pages 284-299

  7. Analysis, Design and Development of Agent Societies

    1. From AO Methodologies to MAS Infrastructures: The SODA Case Study

      • Ambra Molesini, Enrico Denti, Andrea Omicini
      Pages 300-317

    2. Model Driven Engineering for Designing Adaptive Multi-Agents Systems

      • Sylvain Rougemaille, Frédéric Migeon, Christine Maurel, Marie-Pierre Gleizes
      Pages 318-332

    3. Trace-Based Specification of Law and Guidance Policies for Multi-Agent Systems

      • Scott J. Harmon, Scott A. DeLoach, Robby
      Pages 333-349
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2007, held in Athens, Greece, in October 2007. The 19 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. The papers are organized in topical sections on electronic institutions, models of complex distributed systems with agents and societies; interaction in agent societies; engineering social intelligence in multi-agent systems; trust and reputation in agent societies; analysis, design and development of agent societies.

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