Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote Lectures

   1. Competitive Simulations: Lessons Learned from the Trading Agent Competition

      • Wolfgang Ketter

      Pages 1-1

   2. Behaviour Regulation and Normative Systems

      • Michael Luck

      Pages 2-2

   3. Challenges in Unmanned Systems Swarms: A Wireless, Multi-agent Distributed System Perspective

      • Kimon Valavanis

      Pages 3-3

3. Virtual Organizations

   1. On Mobile Target Allocation with Incomplete Information in Defensive Environments

      • Marin Lujak, Holger Billhardt, Sascha Ossowski

      Pages 4-13

   2. Bayesian Proprioceptor for Forest Fire Observer Network

      • Ljiljana Šerić, Maja Štula, Darko Stipaničev, Maja Braović

      Pages 14-23

   3. Supervision of Agents Modelling Evacuation at Crisis Situations

      • František Čapkovič

      Pages 24-33

   4. Web Service Compositions Which Emerge from Virtual Organizations with Fair Agreements

      • Romina Torres, Denise Rivera, Hernan Astudillo

      Pages 34-43

4. Knowledge and Learning Agents

   1. Evaluation of an Intelligent Tutoring System Incorporating Learning Profile to Determine Learning Scenario

      • Adrianna Kozierkiewicz-Hetmanska

      Pages 44-53

   2. Strategy-Based Learning through Communication with Humans

      • Nguyen-Thinh Le, Niels Pinkwart

      Pages 54-64

   3. Ontology Based Knowledge Management and Learning in Multi-Agent System

      • Dariusz Choinski, Michal Senik

      Pages 65-74

   4. Data Analysis Systems and Cognitive Modelling Processes

      • Lidia Ogiela, Marek R. Ogiela

      Pages 75-83

5. Knowledge Agents

   1. Path-Oriented Integration Method for Complex Trees

      • Marcin Maleszka, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

      Pages 84-93

   2. Integrating Quantitative Attributes in Hierarchical Clustering of Transactional Data

      • Mihaela Vranić, Damir Pintar, Zoran Skočir

      Pages 94-103

   3. The MARS – A Multi-Agent Recommendation System for Games on Mobile Phones

      • Pavle Skocir, Luka Marusic, Marinko Marusic, Ana Petric

      Pages 104-113

   4. Informativeness of Inflective Noun Bigrams in Croatian

      • Damir Jurić, Marko Banek, Šandor Dembitz

      Pages 114-123

6. Intelligent Workflow, Cloud Computing and Intelligent Systems

   1. Multi-agent Negotiation of Virtual Machine Migration Using the Lightweight Coordination Calculus

      • Paul Anderson, Shahriar Bijani, Alexandros Vichos

      Pages 124-133

   2. On-Line Communities Making Scense: A Hybrid Micro-Blogging Platform Community Analysis Framework

      • Cheng-Lin Yang, Yun-Heh Chen-Burger

      Pages 134-143

   3. Measuring the Effectiveness of Throttled Data Transfers on Data-Intensive Workflows

      • Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Omer F. Rana

      Pages 144-153

   4. Goal, Video Description and Capability Ontologies for Fish4Knowledge Domain

      • Gayathri Nadarajan, Yun-Heh Chen-Burger

      Pages 154-163

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th KES International Conference on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems, KES-AMSTA 2012, held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in June 2012.
The conference attracted a substantial number of researchers and practitioners from all over the world who submitted their papers for ten main tracks covering the methodology and applications of agent and multi-agent systems, one workshop (TRUMAS 2012) and five special sessions on specific topics within the field. The 66 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on virtual organizations, knowledge and learning agents, intelligent workflow, cloud computing and intelligent systems, self-organization, ICT-based alternative and augmentative communication, multi-agent systems, mental and holonic models, assessment methodologies in multi-agent and other paradigms, business processing agents, Trumas 2012 (first international workshop), conversational agents and agent teams, digital economy, and multi-agent systems in distributed environments.

• artificial intelligence
• distributed systems
• e-commerce
• knowledge management
• trust and reputation

• Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

  Gordan Jezic, Mario Kusek

• Institute of Informatics (I-32), Division of Knowledge Management Systems, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

  Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen

• KES International, UK

  Robert J. Howlett

• School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

  Lakhmi C. Jain

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