Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies III: Third International Workshop, DALT 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005, Selected and Revised Papers / Edition 1

by Matteo Baldoni, Ulle Endriss, Andrea Omicini, Paolo Torroni

Overview

The workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies is a we- established venue for researchers interested in sharing their experiences in the areas of declarative and formal aspects of agents and multi-agent systems, and in engineering and technology. Today it is still a challenge to develop techno- gies that can satisfy the requirements of complex agent systems. The design and development of multi-agent systems still calls for models and technologies that ensure predictability, enable feature discovery, allow for the verification of properties, and guarantee—exibility. Declarative approaches are potentially a valuable means for satisfying the needs of multi-agent system developers and for specifying multi-agent systems. DALT 2005, the third edition of the workshop, was held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in July 2005, in conjunction with AAMAS 2005, the Fourth Int- national Joint Conference on Agents and Multiagent Systems. Over 30 persons attended the workshop confirming the success of the previous editions in M- bourne 2003 (LNAI 2990) and New York 2004 (LNAI 3476). The workshop series is a forum of discussion aimed both at supporting the transfer of decla- tive paradigms and techniques into the broader community of agent researchers andpractitioners, and atbringing theissuesofdesigningreal-world andcomplex agent systems to the attention of researchers working on declarative progr- ming and technologies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540331063
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	05/05/2006
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #3904
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Agent Programming and Beliefs.- Beliefs in Agent Implementation.- Modelling Uncertainty in Agent Programming.- Complete Axiomatizations of Finite Syntactic Epistemic States.- Architectures and Logic Programming.- An Architecture for Rational Agents.- LAIMA: A Multi-agent Platform Using Ordered Choice Logic Programming.- A Distributed Architecture for Norm-Aware Agent Societies.- About Declarative Semantics of Logic-Based Agent Languages.- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.- Goal Decomposition Tree: An Agent Model to Generate a Validated Agent Behaviour.- Resource-Bounded Belief Revision and Contraction.- Agent-Oriented Programming with Underlying Ontological Reasoning.- Dynagent: An Incremental Forward-Chaining HTN Planning Agent in Dynamic Domains.- A Combination of Explicit and Deductive Knowledge with Branching Time: Completeness and Decidability Results.- Coordination and Model Checking.- An Intensional Programming Approach to Multi-agent Coordination in a Distributed Network of Agents.- A Tableau Method for Verifying Dialogue Game Prools for Agent Communication.