Multiagent System Technologies: Second German Conference, MATES 2004, Erfurt, Germany, September 29-30, 2004. Proceedings

James Odell (auth.), Gabriela Lindemann, Jörg Denzinger, Ingo J. Timm, Rainer Unland (eds.)9783540232223, 9783540300823, 3540300821, 3540232222

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second German Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies, MATES 2004, held in Erfurt, Germany, in September 2004.

The 22 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning and social agents, analysis and security, negotiation and control, agents and software engineering, simulation and agents, and policies and testing.

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Table of contents :
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Agent UML 2.0: Too Radical or Not Radical Enough?….Pages 1-1
Emergence and Cognition: Towards a Synthetic Paradigm in AI and Cognitive Science….Pages 2-28
The Emergence of Social Order in a Robotic Society….Pages 29-46
Evolution of Agent Coordination in an Asynchronous Version of the Predator-Prey Pursuit Game….Pages 47-57
Towards Models of Incomplete and Uncertain Knowledge of Collaborators’ Internal Resources….Pages 58-72
Agent-Based Communication Security….Pages 73-84
Modelling and Analysis of Agent Protocols with Petri Nets….Pages 85-98
Paraconsistent Assertions….Pages 99-113
C-IPS: Specifying Decision Interdependencies in Negotiations….Pages 114-125
FuzzyMAN: An Agent-Based Electronic Marketplace with a Multilateral Negotiation Protocol….Pages 126-140
Cascaded Control of Multi-agent Systems….Pages 141-154
Towards a Natural Agent Paradigm Development Methodology….Pages 155-168
Developing Tools for Agent-Oriented Visual Modeling….Pages 169-182
Towards a Component-Based Development Framework for Agents….Pages 183-197
Visualizing a Multiagent-Based Medical Diagnosis System Using a Methodology Based on Use Case Maps….Pages 198-212
From Modeling to Simulation of Multi-agent Systems: An Integrated Approach and a Case Study….Pages 213-227
Coupling GIS and Multi-agent Simulation – Towards Infrastructure for Realistic Simulation….Pages 228-242
Spark – A Generic Simulator for Physical Multi-agent Simulations….Pages 243-257
Simulating Agents’ Mobility and Inaccessibility with $mathcal{A}$ – globe Multi-agent System….Pages 258-272
On the Definition of Meta-models for Analysis of Large-Scale MAS….Pages 273-286
ExPlanTech: Multi-agent Framework for Production Planning, Simulation and Supply Chain Management….Pages 287-300
Towards an Approach for Debugging MAS Through the Analysis of ACL Messages….Pages 301-312
Implementing Norms in Multiagent Systems….Pages 313-327
Policies for Cloned Teleo-reactive Robots….Pages 328-340
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