Agent-Oriented Information Systems III: 7th International Bi-Conference Workshop, AOIS 2005, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 26, 2005, and Klagenfurt, Austria, October 27, 2005, Revised Selected Papers

D. N. Lam, K. S. Barber (auth.), Manuel Kolp, Paolo Bresciani, Brian Henderson-Sellers, Michael Winikoff (eds.)3540482911, 9783540482918

Information systems underpin today’s business and entertainment. The means by which these information systems have been developed has changed over the years. Although the current paradigm is to use object-oriented concepts, a new set of concepts, focussed on agent technology, is starting to be evaluated. Agents offer higher level abstractions (than objects) for the conceptualization, design and implementation of information systems. Agents have autonomy, can reason and can coordinate within societies of agents. The AOIS series of workshops explores the potential for facilitating the increased usage of agent technology in the creation of information systems in the widest sense. In 2005, two AOIS workshops were held internationally. The first was affiliated with the AAMAS 2005 meeting in July in Utrecht in The Netherlands and chaired by Henderson-Sellers and Winikoff and the second with ER 2005 in November in Klagenfurt in Austria and chaired by Kolp and Bresciani. The best papers from these meetings were identified and authors invited to revise and possibly extend their papers in the light of reviewers’ comments and feedback at the workshop. We have grouped these papers loosely under four headings: Agent behavior, communications and reasoning; Methodologies and ontologies; Agent-oriented software engineering; and Applications. These categories fairly represent the breadth of current AOIS research as well as encompassing the papers presented at the two AOIS workshops. We trust you will find the content of these selected and revised papers to be of interest and utility.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Automated Interpretation of Agent Behaviour….Pages 1-15
A Semantic and Pragmatic Framework for the Specification of Agent Communication Languages: Motivational Attitudes and Norms….Pages 16-31
Broadening the Semantic Coverage of Agent Communicative Acts….Pages 32-47
Requirements Analysis of an Agent’s Reasoning Capability….Pages 48-63
On the Cost of Agent-Awareness for Negotiation Services….Pages 64-78
OWL-P: A Methodology for Business Process Development….Pages 79-94
Identification of Reusable Method Fragments from the PASSI Agent-Oriented Methodology….Pages 95-110
Foundations of Ontology-Based MAS Methodologies….Pages 111-123
An Ontology-Driven Technique for the Architectural and Detailed Design of Multi-agent Frameworks….Pages 124-139
An Ontology Support for Semantic Aware Agents….Pages 140-153
AOSE and Organic Computing – How Can They Benefit from Each Other?….Pages 154-167
An Agent-Oriented Model of a Dynamic Engineering Design Process….Pages 168-183
Formalizing Agent-Oriented Enterprise Models….Pages 184-199
Fragmented Workflows Supported by an Agent Based Architecture….Pages 200-215
An Agent-Based Meta-level Architecture for Strategic Reasoning in Naval Planning….Pages 216-230
Coordination Efficiency in Rational Choice Theory, Norm and Rights Based Multi-agent Systems….Pages 231-242
Adapted Information Retrieval in Web Information Systems Using PUMAS….Pages 243-258
Design Options for Subscription Managers….Pages 259-274
Supporting Program Indexing and Querying in Source Code Digital Libraries….Pages 275-290
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