Multiagent System Technologies: First German Conference, MATES 2003 Erfurt, Germany, September 22-25, 2003 Proceedings

Richard Krutisch, Philipp Meier, Martin Wirsing (auth.), Michael Schillo, Matthias Klusch, Jörg Müller, Huaglory Tianfield (eds.)3540201246

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, MATES 2003, held in Erfurt, Germany, in September 2003.

The 18 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on engineering agent-based systems, systems and applications, models and architectures, the semantic Web and interoperability, and collaboration and negotiation.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
The AgentComponent Approach, Combining Agents, and Components….Pages 1-12
From Simulated to Real Environments: How to Use SeSAm for Software Development….Pages 13-24
Indicators for Self-Diagnosis: Communication-Based Performance Measures….Pages 25-37
The AEP Toolkit for Agent Design and Simulation….Pages 38-49
On Programming Information Agent Systems – An Integrated Hotel Reservation Service as Case Study….Pages 50-61
Applying Agents for Engineering of Industrial Automation Systems….Pages 62-73
SimMarket: Multiagent-Based Customer Simulation and Decision Support for Category Management….Pages 74-84
A Multi-agent Approach to the Design of an E-medicine System….Pages 85-94
Implementing Heterogeneous Agents in Dynamic Environments, a Case Study in RoboCupRescue….Pages 95-104
Model for Simultaneous Actions in Situated Multi-agent Systems….Pages 105-118
Handling Sequences of Belief Change in a Multi-agent Context….Pages 119-130
From the Specification of Multiagent Systems by Statecharts to Their Formal Analysis by Model Checking: Towards Safety-Critical Applications….Pages 131-143
The SWAP Data and Metadata Model for Semantics-Based Peer-to-Peer Systems….Pages 144-155
An Ontology for Production Control of Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes….Pages 156-167
Ontology-Based Capability Management for Distributed Problem Solving in the Manufacturing Domain….Pages 168-179
Using the Publish-Subscribe Communication Genre for Mobile Agents….Pages 180-191
Multiagent Matching Algorithms with and without Coach….Pages 192-204
Improving Evolutionary Learning of Cooperative Behavior by Including Accountability of Strategy Components….Pages 205-216
The C-IPS Agent Architecture for Modeling Negotiating Social Agents….Pages 217-228
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