Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies: First International Workshop, DALT 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 15, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers

Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli (auth.), João Leite, Andrea Omicini, Leon Sterling, Paolo Torroni (eds.)3540221247, 9783540221241, 9783540259329

The growing complexity of agent systems calls for models and technologies that allow for system predictability and enable feature discovery and verification. Formal methods and declarative technologies have recently attracted a growing interest as a means for dealing with such issues.

This book presents revised and extended versions of 11 papers selected for presentation at the First International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, DALT 2003, held in Melbourne, Australia in July 2003 during AAMAS; also included are 3 invited papers by leading researchers in the area to ensure competent coverage of all relevant topics.

The papers are organized in topical sections on
– software engineering and MAS prototyping
– agent reasoning, BDI logics, and extensions
– social aspects of multi-agent systems

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
MAS as Complex Systems: A View on the Role of Declarative Approaches….Pages 1-16
A Logic-Based Infrastructure for Reconfiguring Applications….Pages 17-36
Operational Semantics for Agents by Iterated Refinement….Pages 37-53
Go! for Multi-threaded Deliberative Agents….Pages 54-75
An Agent-Based Domain Specific Framework for Rapid Prototyping of Applications in Evolutionary Biology….Pages 76-96
A Logic for Ignorance….Pages 97-108
Coo-BDI: Extending the BDI Model with Cooperativity….Pages 109-134
Extending the Operational Semantics of a BDI Agent-Oriented Programming Language for Introducing Speech-Act Based Communication….Pages 135-154
A Combined Logic of Expectation and Observation….Pages 155-172
A Proposal for Reasoning in Agents: Restricted Entailment….Pages 173-190
A Social Approach to Communication in Multiagent Systems….Pages 191-220
Logic-Based Electronic Institutions….Pages 221-242
Modeling Interactions Using Social Integrity Constraints : A Resource Sharing Case Study….Pages 243-262
Linear Logic, Partial Deduction and Cooperative Problem Solving….Pages 263-279
Back Matter….Pages –