Title: Engineering societies in the agents world II : Second International Workshop, ESAW 2001, Prague, Czech Republic, July 7, 2001 : revised papers /
Authors: Omicini, Andrea, 1965-; Petta, Paolo, 1963-; Tolksdorf, Robert, 1965-
Publisher: Springer,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Intelligent agents (Computer software) Congresses.; Engineering Societies, etc. Congresses.; Computer science.; Computer networks; Software engineering; Artificial intelligence.
Abstract: The idea to initiate a series of workshops to be entitled “Engineering Societies in the Agent’s World” (ESAW) originated in late 1999, among members of the working group on Communication, Coordination, and Collaboration of the Intelligent Informa tion Agents special interest group of AgentLink, the European Network of Excellence for Agent Based Computing. By that time, the convergenceof scienti?c and technolog ical progress in numerous areas, including software engineering, distributed problem solving, knowledge based systems, and dynamic pervasive networking had gained sig ni?cant momentum. As a result, the reality of multiagent systems was now a given. In the eyes of the proposers and supporters of ESAW, these developments led to a new and manifest need, that was being left all but uncovered by the existing range of conferences and meetings. A platform that would overcome the disparate roots of the multiagent systems ?eld by placing a clear focus on an integrative level of anal ysis, namely: arti?cial societies populating a world encompassing the natural and the arti?cial, comprising autonomousentities and their environment.
Contents: Categories of artificial societies / Paul Davidsson -- A methodological perspective on engineering of agent societies / Martin Fredriksson and Rune Gustavsson -- A distribute approach to design open multi-agent systems / Laurent Vercouter -- Engineering infrastructures for mobile organizations / Giacomo Cabri [and others] -- Preferring and updating in abductive multi-agent systems / Pierangelo Dell'Acqua and Luís Moniz Pereira -- Reasoning about failure / László Aszalós and Andreas Herzig -- Agent-oriented language engineering for robust NLP / Vincenzo Pallotta and Afzal Ballim -- Extending a logic based one-to-one negotiation framework to one-to-many negotiation / Paolo Torroni and Francesca Toni.