Engineering Societies in the Agents World VII, 2007
7th International Workshop, ESAW 2006 Dublin, Ireland, September 6-8, 2006 Revised Selected and Invited Papers
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series

Coordinators: O’Hare Gregory, Ricci Alessandro, O’Grady Michael, Dikenelli Oguz

Language: English

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401 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Soft-cover

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2006, held in Dublin, Ireland. The 22 revised full papers are organized in topical sections on agent oriented system development, methodologies for agent societies, deliberative agents and social aspect, agent oriented simulation, adaptive systems, coordination, negotiation, protocols, and agents, networks and ambient intelligence.

Engineering of Multi-agent Systems.- “It’s Not Just Goals All the Way Down” – “It’s Activities All the Way Down”.- The Construction of Multi-agent Systems as an Engineering Discipline.- Current Issues in Multi-Agent Systems Development.- Architecture-Centric Software Development of Situated Multiagent Systems.- Organization Oriented Programming: From Closed to Open Organizations.- Analysis, Design, Development and Verification of Agent Societies.- Modelling and Executing Complex and Dynamic Business Processes by Reification of Agent Interactions.- Model Driven Development of Multi-Agent Systems with Repositories of Social Patterns.- A Norm-Governed Systems Perspective of Ad Hoc Networks.- Interaction and Coordination in Agent Societies.- A Definition of Exceptions in Agent-Oriented Computing.- Toward an Ontology of Regulation: Socially-Based Support for Coordination in Human and Machine Joint Activity.- An Algorithm for Conflict Resolution in Regulated Compound Activities.- Modeling the Interaction Between Semantic Agents and Semantic Web Services Using MDA Approach.- Formal Modelling of a Coordination System: From Practice to Theory, and Back Again.- Autonomic Agent Societies.- Using Constraints and Process Algebra for Specification of First-Class Agent Interaction Protocols.- Dynamic Specifications in Norm-Governed Open Computational Societies.- Enhancing Self-organising Emergent Systems Design with Simulation.- Adaptation of Autonomic Electronic Institutions Through Norms and Institutional Agents.- Managing Resources in Constrained Environments with Autonomous Agents.- Trust in Agent Societies.- Towards a Computational Model of Creative Societies Using Curious Design Agents.- Privacy Management in User-Centred Multi-agent Systems.- Effective Use of Organisational Abstractions for Confidence Models.- Competence Checking for the Global E-Service Society Using Games.