Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV: 4th International Workshops, ESAW 2003, London, UK, October 29-31, 2003. Revised Selected and Invited Papers

Jean-Pierre Müller (auth.), Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Jeremy Pitt (eds.)3540222316, 9783540222316, 9783540259466

The fourth internationalworkshop,“EngineeringSocietiesin the Agents World” (ESAW 2003) was a three-dayevent that took place at the end of October 2003. After previous events in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Spain, the workshop crossed the Channel, to be held at the premises of Imperial College, London. The steady increase in the variety of backgrounds of contributing sci- tists, fascinating new perspectives on the topics, and number of participants, bespeaks the success of the ESAW workshop series. Its idea was born in 1999 among members of the working group on “Communication, Coordination, and Collaboration” of the ?rst lease of life of the European Network of Excellence on Agent-Based Computing, AgentLink, out of a critical discussion about the general mindset of the agent community. At that time, we felt that proper c- siderationsofsystemicaspectsofagenttechnologydeployment,suchasackno- edgement of the importance of the social and environmental perspectives, were sorely missing: a de?ciency that we resolved should be addressed directly by a new forum.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Emergence of Collective Behaviour and Problem Solving….Pages 1-20
Social Order and Adaptability in Animal and Human Cultures as Analogues for Agent Communities: Toward a Policy-Based Approach….Pages 21-48
Using Swarm Intelligence in Linda Systems….Pages 49-65
Engineering Democracy in Open Agent Systems….Pages 66-80
A Liberal Approach to Openness in Societies of Agents…..Pages 81-92
Welfare Engineering in Multiagent Systems….Pages 93-106
Dynamics of Collective Attitudes during Teamwork….Pages 107-122
Privacy-Aware Mobile Agent: Protecting Privacy in Open Systems by Modelling Social Behaviour of Software Agents….Pages 123-135
Interaction Monitoring and Termination Detection for Agent Societies: Preliminary Results….Pages 136-154
Competition, Cooperation, and Authorization….Pages 155-167
Competent Agents and Customising Protocols….Pages 168-181
Coordination and Conversation Protocols in Open Multi-agent Systems….Pages 182-199
MAS Organization within a Coordination Infrastructure: Experiments in TuCSoN ….Pages 200-216
Adaptability Patterns of Multi-agent Organizations….Pages 217-227
Integrating and Orchestrating Services upon an Agent Coordination Infrastructure….Pages 228-245
Formalizing the Reusability of Software Agents….Pages 246-257
A Design Complexity Evaluation Framework for Agent-Based System Engineering Methodologies….Pages 258-274
Laying Down the Foundations of an Agent Modelling Methodology for Fault-Tolerant Multi-agent Systems….Pages 275-293
Patterns Reuse in the PASSI Methodology….Pages 294-310
Designing Agents’ Behaviors and Interactions within the Framework of ADELFE Methodology….Pages 311-327
Supporting Tropos Concepts in Agent OPEN….Pages 328-345
Dynamic Analysis of Agents’ Behaviour – Combining ALife, Visualization and AI….Pages 346-359
Advancing Profile Use in Agent Societies….Pages 360-375
A Computational Framework for Social Agents in Agent Mediated E-commerce….Pages 376-391
You’ve Got Mail From Your Agent: A Location and Context Sensitive Agent System….Pages 392-409
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