Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems

1. Front Matter

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2. Ecology Based Decentralized Agent Management System

   1. Ecology Based Decentralized Agent Management System

      • Maxim D. Peysakhov, Vincent A. Cicirello, William C. Regli

      Pages 1-11

   2. From Abstract to Concrete Norms in Agent Institutions

      • Davide Grossi, Frank Dignum

      Pages 12-29

   3. Meeting the Deadline: Why, When and How

      • Frank Dignum, Jan Broersen, Virginia Dignum, John-Jules Meyer

      Pages 30-40

   4. Multi-agent Systems Reliability, Fuzziness, and Deterrence

      • Michel Rudnianski, Hélène Bestougeff

      Pages 41-56

   5. Formalism Challenges of the Cougaar Model Driven Architecture

      • Shawn A. Bohner, Boby George, Denis Gračanin, Michael G. Hinchey

      Pages 57-71

   6. Facilitating the Specification Capture and Transformation Process in the Development of Multi-agent Systems

      • Aluízio Haendchen Filho, Nuno Caminada, Edward Hermann Haeusler, Arndt von Staa

      Pages 72-91

   7. Using Ontologies to Formalize Services Specifications in Multi-agent Systems

      • Karin Koogan Breitman, Aluízio Haendchen Filho, Edward Hermann Haeusler, Arndt von Staa

      Pages 92-110

   8. Two Formal Gas Models for Multi-agent Sweeping and Obstacle Avoidance

      • Wesley Kerr, Diana Spears, William Spears, David Thayer

      Pages 111-130

   9. A Formal Analysis of Potential Energy in a Multi-agent System

      • William M. Spears, Diana F. Spears, Rodney Heil

      Pages 131-145

   10. Agent-Based Chemical Plume Tracing Using Fluid Dynamics

       • Dimitri Zarzhitsky, Diana Spears, David Thayer, William Spears

       Pages 146-160

   11. Towards Timed Automata and Multi-agent Systems

       • G. Hutzler, H. Klaudel, D. Y. Wang

       Pages 161-172

   12. An Approach to V&V of Embedded Adaptive Systems

       • Sampath Yerramalla, Yan Liu, Edgar Fuller, Bojan Cukic, Srikanth Gururajan

       Pages 173-188

   13. Verifying Multi-agent Systems via Unbounded Model Checking

       • M. Kacprzak, A. Lomuscio, T. Łasica, W. Penczek, M. Szreter

       Pages 189-212

   14. Towards Symbolic Model Checking for Multi-agent Systems via obdd’s

       • Franco Raimondi, Alessio Lomuscio

       Pages 213-221

   15. Formal Consistency Verification of Deliberative Agents with Respect to Communication Protocols

       • Jaime Ramírez, Angélica de Antonio

       Pages 222-237

   16. F-OWL: An Inference Engine for Semantic Web

       • Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, Harry Chen

       Pages 238-248

   17. Model-Driven Architecture for Agent-Based Systems

       • Denis Gračanin, H. Lally Singh, Shawn A. Bohner, Michael G. Hinchey

       Pages 249-261

   18. Apoptosis and Self-Destruct: A Contribution to Autonomic Agents?

       • Roy Sterritt, Mike Hinchey

       Pages 262-270

3. Poster Presentations

   1. Petri Nets as Modeling Tool for Emergent Agents

      • Margo Bergman

      Pages 271-274

The 3rd Workshop on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems (FAABS-III) was held at the Greenbelt Marriott Hotel (near NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) in April 2004 in conjunction with the IEEE Computer Society. The first FAABS workshop was help in April 2000 and the second in October 2002. Interest in agent-based systems continues to grow and this is seen in the wide range of conferences and journals that are addressing the research in this area as well as the prototype and developmental systems that are coming into use. Our third workshop, FAABS-III, was held in April, 2004. This volume contains the revised papers and posters presented at that workshop. The Organizing Committee was fortunate in having significant support in the planning and organization of these events, and were privileged to have wor- renowned keynote speakers Prof. J Moore (FAABS-I), Prof. Sir Roger Penrose (FAABS-II), and Prof. John McCarthy (FAABS-III), who spoke on the topic of se- aware computing systems, auguring perhaps a greater interest in autonomic computing as part of future FAABS events. We are grateful to all who attended the workshop, presented papers or posters, and participated in panel sessions and both formal and informal discussions to make the workshop a great success. Our thanks go to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Codes 588 and 581 (Software Engineering Laboratory) for their financial support and to the IEEE Computer Society (Technical Committee on Complexity in Computing) for their sponsorship and organizational assistance.

• Automat
• agent societies
• agent technology
• agent-based control
• agent-based systems
• automata
• embedded adaptive systems
• model checking
• model driven agent architectures
• multi-agent system
• multi-agent systems
• multi-agent systems specification
• multi-agent systems verification
• petri net
• verification

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

  Michael G. Hinchey

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

  James L. Rash

• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA

  Walter F. Truszkowski

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

  Christopher A. Rouff

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