Environments for Multi-Agent Systems III: Third International Workshop, E4MAS 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006, Selected Revised and Invited Papers

Danny Weyns, Tom Holvoet (auth.), Danny Weyns, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Fabien Michel (eds.)3540711023, 9783540711025

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Environments for Multiagent Systems, E4MAS 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan in May 2006 as an associated event of AAMAS 2006, the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.

The 15 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from the lectures given at the workshop completed by a number of invited papers of prominent researchers active in the domain. The papers are organized in topical sections on models, architecture, and design, mediated interaction and stigmery, governing environment, and applications.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
A Reference Architecture for Situated Multiagent Systems….Pages 1-40
A Unified Model for Physical and Social Environments….Pages 41-50
Exploiting the Environment for Coordinating Agent Intentions….Pages 51-66
CArtA gO : A Framework for Prototyping Artifact-Based Environments in MAS….Pages 67-86
Environment as Active Support of Interaction….Pages 87-105
Environmental Support for Tag Interactions….Pages 106-123
Cognitive Stigmergy: Towards a Framework Based on Agents and Artifacts….Pages 124-140
Trace Signals: The Meanings of Stigmergy….Pages 141-156
Regulation Function of the Environment in Agent-Based Simulation….Pages 157-169
Establishing Global Properties of Multi-Agent Systems Via Local Laws….Pages 170-183
E4MAS Through Electronic Institutions….Pages 184-202
Spatially Distributed Normative Infrastructure….Pages 203-220
Enhancing the Environment with a Law-Governed Service for Monitoring and Enforcing Behavior in Open Multi-Agent Systems….Pages 221-238
Urban Traffic Control with Co-Fields….Pages 239-253
Designing Self-organising MAS Environments: The Collective Sort Case….Pages 254-271
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