Engineering societies in the agents world III : third international workshop, ESAW 2002 Madrid, Spain, September 16-17, 2002 : revised papers / Paolo Petta, Robert Tolksdorf, Franco Zambonelli (eds.)
Imprint
Berlin : Springer, c2003
Descript
x, 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
A discussion of two major benefits of using agents in software development -- Signs of a revolution in computer science and software engineering -- Rationality, autonomy and coordination: the sunk costs perspective -- A normaltive and intentional agent model for organisation modelling -- Simulating computational societies -- Co-fields: towards a unifying approach to the engineering of swarm intelligent systems -- A schema for specifying computational autonomy -- Activities theory as a framework for MAS coordination -- An operational framework for the semantics of agent communication languages -- Access-as-you-need: a computational logic framework for accessing resources in artificial societies -- Motivating participation in peer to peer communities -- ADELFE: a methodology for adaptive multi-agent systems engineering -- Evaluating multi-agent system architectures: a case study concerning dynamic resource allocation -- Engineering agent systems for decision support -- Co-ordinating heterogeneous interactions in systems composed of active human and agent societies -- SABPO: a standards based and pattern oriented multi-agent development methodology -- Modelling a multi-agent system environment -- Towards a methodology for coordination mechanism selection in open systems -- Specification by refinement and agreement: designing agent interaction using landmarks and contracts -- An agent and goal-oriented approach for virtual enterprise modelling: a case study