Agent-Oriented Information Systems: 5th International BI-Conference Workshop, Aois 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003 and Chicago, IL, USA, October 13th, 2003, Revised Selected Papers

Giorgini P. (Ed), Henderson-Sellers B. (Ed), Winikoff M. (Ed)0137488071, 3540259430

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems, held in Melbourne, Australia in July 2003 at AAMAS 2003 and in Chicago, IL, USA in October 2003 at ER 2003.The revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from a total of 36 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information systems and applications; methodologies; and modeling, analysis, and simulation.

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Table of contents :
Table of Contents……Page 14
Design of a MAS into a Human Organization: Application to an Information Multi­agent System……Page 16
I­MINDS: An Agent­Oriented Information System for Applications in Education……Page 31
Trustworthy Service Caching: Cooperative Search in P2P Information Systems……Page 47
Agent­Based Support for Mobile Users Using AgentSpeak(L)……Page 60
Market­Based Recommendations: Design, Simulation and Evaluation……Page 76
Comparing Agent­Oriented Methodologies……Page 93
A Framework for Evaluating Agent­Oriented Methodologies……Page 109
Towards Reuse in Agent Oriented Information Systems: The Importance of Being Purposive……Page 125
Towards a More Expressive and Refinable Multiagent System Engineering Methodology……Page 141
A Pattern Language for Motivating the Use of Agents……Page 157
A Practical Agent­Based Approach to Requirements Engineering for Socio-technical Systems……Page 173
AOR Modelling and Simulation: Towards a General Architecture for Agent­Based Discrete Event Simulation……Page 189
Modelling Institutional, Communicative and Physical Domains in Agent Oriented Information Systems……Page 204
Author Index……Page 222