Programming Multi-Agent Systems: 4th International Workshop, ProMAS 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers

Onn Shehory (auth.), Rafael H. Bordini, Mehdi Dastani, Jürgen Dix, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni (eds.)3540719555, 9783540719557

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems, ProMAS 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 12 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited articles are organized in topical sections on uncertainty of agents, lightweight devices for business and e-commerce applications, component-based agents for MAS simulation, dynamic logic programming in MAS, rule-based agents, affective agents and reinforcement agents, BDI agent frameworks, creation, execution, mobility and communication of agents, agent-like communication, validation, debugging and testing, multi-agent techniques and issues, multi-agent programming, as well as multi-agent platforms and organization.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Front Matter….Pages 1-1
A Self-healing Approach to Designing and Deploying Complex, Distributed and Concurrent Software Systems….Pages 3-13
Using Peer-to-Peer Protocols to Enable Implicit Communication in a BDI Agent Architecture….Pages 15-37
Front Matter….Pages 38-38
Asimovian Multiagents: Applying Laws of Robotics to Teams of Humans and Agents….Pages 41-55
Persistent Architecture for Context Aware Lightweight Multi-agent System….Pages 57-69
Architectural Design of Component-Based Agents: A Behavior-Based Approach….Pages 71-90
Front Matter….Pages 91-91
Comparing Apples with Oranges: Evaluating Twelve Paradigms of Agency….Pages 93-112
Augmenting BDI Agents with Deliberative Planning Techniques….Pages 113-127
ALBA: A Generic Library for Programming Mobile Agents with Prolog….Pages 129-148
Bridging Agent Theory and Object Orientation: Agent-Like Communication Among Objects….Pages 149-164
Adding Knowledge Updates to 3APL….Pages 165-181
Front Matter….Pages 182-182
Validation of BDI Agents….Pages 185-200
A Tool Architecture to Verify Properties of Multiagent System at Runtime….Pages 201-216
On the Application of Clustering Techniques to Support Debugging Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems….Pages 217-227
Debugging Agents in Agent Factory….Pages 229-248
Back Matter….Pages –