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

Lindemann G. (ed.), Denzinger J. (ed.), Timm I.J. (ed.)3540300821

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 :
Table of Contents……Page 12
Agent UML 2.0: Too Radical or Not Radical Enough?……Page 16
Emergence and Cognition: Towards a Synthetic Paradigm in AI and Cognitive Science……Page 17
The Emergence of Social Order in a Robotic Society……Page 44
Evolution of Agent Coordination in an Asynchronous Version of the Predator-Prey Pursuit Game……Page 62
Towards Models of Incomplete and Uncertain Knowledge of Collaborators’ Internal Resources……Page 73
Agent-Based Communication Security……Page 88
Modelling and Analysis of Agent Protocols with Petri Nets……Page 100
Paraconsistent Assertions……Page 114
C-IPS: Specifying Decision Interdependencies in Negotiations……Page 129
FuzzyMAN: An Agent-Based Electronic Marketplace with a Multilateral Negotiation Protocol……Page 141
Cascaded Control of Multi-agent Systems……Page 156
Towards a Natural Agent Paradigm Development Methodology……Page 170
Developing Tools for Agent-Oriented Visual Modeling……Page 184
Towards a Component-Based Development Framework for Agents……Page 198
Visualizing a Multiagent-Based Medical Diagnosis System Using a Methodology Based on Use Case Maps……Page 213
From Modeling to Simulation of Multi-agent Systems: An Integrated Approach and a Case Study……Page 228
Coupling GIS and Multi-agent Simulation – Towards Infrastructure for Realistic Simulation……Page 243
Spark – A Generic Simulator for Physical Multi-agent Simulations……Page 258
Simulating Agents’ Mobility and Inaccessibility with A-GLOBE Multi-agent System……Page 273
On the Definition of Meta-models for Analysis of Large-Scale MAS……Page 288
ExPlanTech: Multi-agent Framework for Production Planning, Simulation and Supply Chain Management……Page 302
Towards an Approach for Debugging MAS Through the Analysis of ACL Messages……Page 316
Implementing Norms in Multiagent Systems……Page 328
Policies for Cloned Teleo-reactive Robots……Page 343
Author Index……Page 356