Engineering Self-Organising Systems: 4th International Workshop, ESOA 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers

H. Van Dyke Parunak, Paul Nielsen, Sven Brueckner, Rafael Alonso (auth.), Sven A. Brueckner, Salima Hassas, Márk Jelasity, Daniel Yamins (eds.)3540698671, 9783540698678, 9783540698685

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications, ESOA 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan in May 2006 as an associated event of AAMAS 2006, the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.

The 7 full papers presented together with 6 invited papers were carefully selected for inclusion in the book. The authors’ revisions have been significantly improved by the reviewers’ comments and the discussions following the presentation at the workshop. The papers are organized in topical sections on overall design and fundations, algorithms and techniques, applications, as well as self-organization and evolutionary computing.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Hybrid Multi-agent Systems: Integrating Swarming and BDI Agents….Pages 1-14
An Analysis and Design Concept for Self-organization in Holonic Multi-agent Systems….Pages 15-27
Design Patterns for Decentralised Coordination in Self-organising Emergent Systems….Pages 28-49
Measuring Stigmergy: The Case of Foraging Ants….Pages 50-65
Dynamic Decentralized Any-Time Hierarchical Clustering….Pages 66-81
Behaviosites: A Novel Paradigm for Affecting Distributed Behavior….Pages 82-98
Programming Modular Robots with the TOTA Middleware….Pages 99-114
ASOS: An Adaptive Self-organizing Protocol for Surveillance and Routing in Sensor Networks….Pages 115-131
Towards the Control of Emergence by the Coordination of Decentralized Agent Activity for the Resource Sharing Problem….Pages 132-150
Reinforcement Learning for Online Control of Evolutionary Algorithms….Pages 151-160
Greedy Cheating Liars and the Fools Who Believe Them….Pages 161-175
Evolution and Hypercomputing in Global Distributed Evolvable Virtual Machines Environment….Pages 176-191
A Decentralised Car Traffic Control System Simulation Using Local Message Propagation Optimised with a Genetic Algorithm….Pages 192-210
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