Engineering Societies in the Agents World II: Second International Workshop, ESAW 2001, Prague, Czech Republic, July 7, 2001, Revised Papers / Edition 1

by Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Robert Tolksdorf

Overview

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2001, held in Prague, Czech Republic in July 2001. The 12 revised full papers presented together with a survey by the volume editors were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on foundations of engineering with agents, logics and languages for MAS engineering, and agent middleware and applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540430919
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	03/05/2002
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #2203
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Categories of Artificial Societies.- A Methodological Perspective on Engineering of Agent Societies.- A distributed approach to design open multi-agent systems.- Engineering infrastructures for mobile organizations.- Preferring and updating in abductive multi-agent systems.- Reasoning about failure.- Agent-Oriented Language Engineering for Robust NLP.- Extending a logic based one-to-one negotiation framework to one-to-many negotiation.- The tragedy of the Commons — Arms Race within Peer-to-Peer Tools.- Agentspace as a Middleware for Service Integration.- Toward a Multi-agent Modelling Approach for Urban Public Transportation systems.- ITTALKS: An application of agents in the Semantic Web.