Multi-Agent System Engineering: 9th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, MAAMAW'99 Valencia, Spain, June 30 - July 2, 1999 Proceedings

ISBN-13: 9783540662815 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 238 str.

Francisco J. Garijo;Magnus Boman

Opis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, MAAMAW'99, held in Valencia, Spain in June/July 1999.
The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in sections on engineering aspects of multi-agent systems, multi-agent systems frameworks, languages and protocols, negotiation and cooperation, and formal methods.

Spis treści

Engineering Aspects of Multi-agent Systems.- Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.- Specification of Bahavioural Requirements within Compositional Multi-agent System Design.- Agent-Oriented Design.- A Developer’s Perspective on Multi-agent System Design.- Multi-agent Systems Framework.- A Development Environment for the Realization of Open and Scalable Multi-agent Systems.- Modelling Agents in Hard Real-Time Environments.- Multi-agent Systems on the Internet: Extending the Scope of Coordination towards Security and Topology.- Languages and Protocols.- Protocol Engineering for Multi-agent Interaction.- Designing Agent Communication Languages for Multi-agent Systems.- A Temporal Agent Communication Language for Dynamic Multi-agent Systems.- Multi-paradigm Languages Supporting Multi-agent Development.- Negotiation and Cooperation.- An Efficient Argumentation Framework for Negotiating Autonomous Agents.- Negotiating Service Provisioning.- Cooperative Plan Selection Through Trust.- Extending Social Reasoning to Cope with Multiple Partner Coalitions.- Formal Models.- Basic Mental Attitudes of a Collaborating Agent: Cognitive Primitives for MAS.- Subjective Situations.- Formal Analysis of Models for the Dynamics of Trust Based on Experiences.