Multi-Agent Systems and Applications: 9th ECCAI Advanced Course ACAI 2001 and Agent Link's 3rd European Agent Systems Summer School, EASSS 2001, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2-13, 2001. Selected Tutor

ISBN-13: 9783540423126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 442 str.

Michael Luck;Vladimír Marík;Olga Štěpánková

Opis

This book presents selected tutorial lectures given at the summer school on Multi-Agent Systems and Their Applications held in Prague, Czech Republic, in July 2001 under the sponsorship of ECCAI and Agent Link.
The 20 lectures by leading researchers in the field presented in the book give a competent state-of-the-art account of research and development in the field of multi-agent systems and advanced applications. The book offers parts on foundations of MAS; social behaviour, meta-reasoning, and learning; and applications.

Spis treści

Foundations of Multi-agent Systems.- Perspectives on Organizations in Multi-agent Systems.- Multi-agent Infrastructure, Agent Discovery, Middle Agents for Web Services and Interoperation.- Logical Foundations of Agent-Based Computing.- Standardizing Agent Communication.- Standardizing Agent Interoperability: The FIPA Approach.- Distributed Problem Solving and Planning.- Automated Negotiation and Decision Making in Multiagent Environments.- Agents? Advanced Features for Negotiation and Coordination.- Social Behaviour, Meta-reasoning, and Learning.- Towards Heterogeneous Agent Teams.- Social Knowledge in Multi-agent Systems.- Machine Learning and Inductive Logic Programming for Multi-agent Systems.- Relational Reinforcement Learning.- From Statistics to Emergence: Exercises in Systems Modularity.- Emotions and Agents.- Applications.- Multi-agent Coordination and Control Using Stigmergy Applied to Manufacturing Control.- Virtual Enterprise Modeling and Support Infrastructures: Applying Multi-agent System Approaches.- Specialised Agent Applications.- Agent-Based Modelling of Ecosystems for Sustainable Resource Management.- Cooperating Physical Robots: A Lesson in Playing Robotic Soccer.- A Multi-agent Study of Interethnic Cooperation.