Engineering Societies in the Agents World III: Third International Workshop, Esaw 2002, Madrid, Spain, September 16-17, 2002, Revised Papers

ISBN-13: 9783540140092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 290 str.

Paolo Petta; Robert Tolksdorf; Franco Zambonelli

Opis

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2003, held in Madrid, Spain in September 2002.

The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 35 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on views, models, engineering, and modeling and design.

Spis treści

Views.- A Discussion of Two Major Benefits of Using Agents in Software Development.- Signs of a Revolution in Computer Science and Software Engineering.- Models.- Rationality, Autonomy and Coordination: The Sunk Costs Perspective.- A Normative and Intentional Agent Model for Organisation Modelling.- Simulating Computational Societies.- Co-Fields: Towards a Unifying Approach to the Engineering of Swarm Intelligent Systems.- A Schema for Specifying Computational Autonomy.- Activity Theory as a Framework for MAS Coordination.- An Operational Framework for the Semantics of Agent Communication Languages.- Access-as-you-need: A Computational Logic Framework for Accessing Resources in Artificial Societies.- Motivating Participation in Peer to Peer Communities.- Engineering.- ADELFE: A Methodology for Adaptive Multi-agent Systems Engineering.- Evaluating Multi-agent System Architectures: A Case Study Concerning Dynamic Resource Allocation.- Engineering Agent Systems for Decision Support.- Co-ordinating Heterogeneous Interactions in Systems Composed of Active Human and Agent Societies.- Modelling and Design.- SABPO: A Standards Based and Pattern Oriented Multi-agent Development Methodology.- Modelling a Multi-agent System Environment.- Towards a Methodology for Coordination Mechanism Selection in Open Systems.- Specification by Refinement and Agreement: Designing Agent Interaction Using Landmarks and Contracts.- An Agent and Goal-Oriented Approach for Virtual Enterprise Modelling: A Case Study.

O autorze

Franco Zambonelli is professor in Computer Science at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia since 2001. He obtained the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering in 1992, and the PhD in Computer Science in 1997, both from the University of Bologna. His current research interests include: distributed and pervasive computing, agent-oriented software engineering, self-organization in distributed systems engineering. In these areas, he has published over 120 papers in international fora, co-edited 7 books, received several best paper awards, and has been invited speaker and tutorialist in several international conferences and workshops. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, AIIA, and TABOO.