Coordination of Internet Agents

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXVII

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2. Coordination Models and Language: State of the Art

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-5

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   2. Coordination Models: A Guided Tour

      • Nadia Busi, Paolo Ciancarini, Roberto Gorrieri, Gianluigi Zavattaro

      Pages 6-24

   3. Models and Technologies for the Coordination of Internet Agents: A Survey

      • George A. Papadopoulos

      Pages 25-56

3. Basic Enabling Technologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-60

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   2. Run-Time Systems for Coordination

      • Antony Rowstron

      Pages 61-82

   3. Tuple-based Technologies for Coordination

      • Davide Rossi, Giacomo Cabri, Enrico Denti

      Pages 83-109

   4. Middleware Technologies: CORBA and Mobile Agents

      • Paolo Bellavista, Thomas Magedanz

      Pages 110-152

   5. Agent Coordination via Scripting Languages

      • Jean-Guy Schneider, Markus Lumpe, Oscar Nierstrasz

      Pages 153-182

4. High-Level Enabling Coordination Technologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-182

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   2. Coordinating Agents using Agent Communication Languages Conversations

      • R. Scott Cost, Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin

      Pages 183-196

   3. Brokering and Matchmaking for Coordination of Agent Societies: A Survey

      • Matthias Klusch, Katia Sycara

      Pages 197-224

   4. Agent Naming and Coordination: Actor Based Models and Infrastructures

      • Gul Agha, Nadeem Jamali, Carlos Varela

      Pages 225-252

5. Emerging Issues of Coordination

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-252

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   2. Coordination and Mobility

      • Gruia-Catalin Roman, Amy L. Murphy, Gian Pietro Picco

      Pages 253-273

   3. Coordination and Security on the Internet

      • Ciarán Bryce, Marco Cremonini

      Pages 274-298

   4. Scalability in Linda-like Coordination Systems

      • Ronaldo Menezes, Robert Tolksdorf, Alan M. Wood

      Pages 299-319

6. Applications of Coordination Technology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 321-325

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   2. Agent-Oriented Software Engineering for Internet Applications

      • Franco Zambonelli, Nicholas R. Jennings, Andrea Omicini, Michael J. Wooldridge

      Pages 326-346

   3. Reusable Patterns for Agent Coordination

      • Dwight Deugo, Michael Weiss, Elizabeth Kendall

      Pages 347-368

As today's most complex computing environment, the Internet confronts IT researchers, system designers, and application developers with completely new challenges and, as a fascinating new computing paradigm, agent technology has recently attracted broad interest and strong hopes for shaping the future information society. Relating both, the Internet and agents, opens up a whole new range of advanced applications in vibrant subfields of information technology such as middleware, mobile commerce, e-learning, collaborative working, and intelligent information services. Many modern advanced systems are likely to exploit Internet agents - and exploiting Internet agents mostly means dealing with coordination models and technologies of various sorts. This monograph-like anthology is the first systematic guide to models and enabling technologies for the coordination of intelligent agents on the Internet and respective applications.

• Internet
• agent cooperation
• agent coordination
• agent technology
• agents
• cobra
• coordination languages
• design
• distributed systems
• internet agents
• language
• middleware
• mobile agents
• software
• software agents

• Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  Andrea Omicini

• Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

  Franco Zambonelli

• German Research Center for AI, Multi-Agent Systems Group, DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany

  Matthias Klusch

• Fachbereich Informatik, FLP/KIT, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Robert Tolksdorf

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