Intelligent Agents VII. Agent Theories Architectures and Languages: 7th International Workshop, ATAL 2000, Boston, MA, USA, July 7-9, 2000. Proceedings

ISBN-13: 9783540424222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 362 str.

Cristiano Castelfranchi;Yves Lesperance

Opis

This work is based on the seventh Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, ATAL '99, held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA in July 1999. It includes sections on: agent theories; agent development tools and platforms; and models of agent communication and co-ordination.

Spis treści

Agent Theories I.- Optimistic and Disjunctive Agent Design Problems.- Updating Mental States from Communication.- Sensing Actions, Time, and Concurrency in the Situation Calculus.- Agent Development Tools and Platforms.- Developing Multiagent Systems with agentTool.- Layered Disclosure: Revealing Agents’ Internals.- Architectures and Idioms: Making Progress in Agent Design.- Developing Multi-agent Systems with JADE.- Agent Theories II.- High-Level Robot Control through Logic.- Determining the Envelope of Emergent Agent Behaviour via Architectural Transformation.- Models of Agent Communication and Coordination.- Delegation and Responsibility.- Agent Theory for Team Formation by Dialogue.- Task Coordination Paradigms for Information Agents.- Autonomy and Models of Agent Coordination.- Plan Analysis for Autonomous Sociological Agents.- Multiagent Bidding Mechanisms for Robot Qualitative Navigation.- Performance of Coordinating Concurrent Hierarchical Planning Agents Using Summary Information.- Agent Languages.- Agent Programming with Declarative Goals.- Modeling Multiagent Systems with CASL - A Feature Interaction Resolution Application.- Generalised Object-Oriented Concepts for Inter-agent Communication.- Specification of Heterogeneous Agent Architectures.- Planning, Decision Making, and Learning.- Improving Choice Mechanisms within the BVG Architecture.- Planning-Task Transformations for Soft Deadlines.- An Architectural Framework for Integrated Multiagent Planning, Reacting, and Learning.- Panel Summary: Agent Development Tools.- Panel Summary: Agent Development Tools.- Panel Summary: Autonomy —Theory, Dimensions, and Regulation.- Again on Agents’ Autonomy: A Homage to AlanTuring — Panel Chair’s Statement.- Autonomy as Decision-Making Control.- Autonomy: Theory, Dimensions, and Regulation.- Situated Autonomy.- Autonomy: A Nice Idea in Theory.- Adjustable Autonomy: A Response.