Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems: 9th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems

✍ Scribed by Francisco Grimaldo, Miguel Lozano, Fernando Barber, Alejandro Guerra-Hernández (auth.), Yves Demazeau, Michal Pěchoucěk, Juan M. Corchado, Javier Bajo Pérez (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 334
• Series: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing 88
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

PAAMS, the International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems is the international yearly tribune to present, to discuss, and to disseminate the latest developments and the most important outcomes related to real-world applications. It provides a unique opportunity to bring multi-disciplinary experts, academics and practitioners together to exchange their experience in the development of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.

This volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the 2011 edition. These articles capture the most innovative results and this year’s trends: Finance and Trading, Information Systems and Organisations, Leisure Culture and Interactions, Medicine and Cloud Computing, Platforms and Adaptation, Robotics and Manufacturing, Security and Privacy, Transports and Optimisation paper.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
A J-MADeM Agent-Based Social Simulation to Model Urban Mobility....Pages 1-11
Diversity of the Knowledge Base in Organizations: Results of an Agent-Based Simulation....Pages 13-20
Weighing Communication Overhead against Travel Time Reduction in Advanced Traffic Information Systems....Pages 21-31
Information Extraction System Using Indoor Location and Activity Plan....Pages 33-38
Using Multi-Agent Systems to Visualize Text Descriptions....Pages 39-45
Empowering Adaptive Manufacturing with Interactive Diagnostics: A Multi-Agent Approach....Pages 47-56
Multi-Agent Cooperation for Advanced Teleoperation of an Industrial Forklift in Real-Time Environment....Pages 57-62
Map Partitioning to Approximate an Exploration Strategy in Mobile Robotics....Pages 63-72
ROAR: Resource Oriented Agent Architecture for the Autonomy of Robots....Pages 73-78
Engineering Agent Frameworks: An Application in Multi-Robot Systems....Pages 79-85
Lightweight Trusted Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 87-96
Privacy-Preserving Strategy for Negotiating Stable, Equitable and Optimal Matchings....Pages 97-102
Searching Flocks in Peer-to-Peer Networks....Pages 103-108
Securing Mobile Agents via Combining Encrypted Functions....Pages 109-112
A Multi-Agent System with Distributed Bayesian Reasoning for Network Fault Diagnosis....Pages 113-118
Using TraSMAPI for Developing Multi-Agent Intelligent Traffic Management Solutions....Pages 119-128
EPIS: A Grid Platform to Ease and Optimize Multi-agent Simulators Running....Pages 129-134
Formal Specification of Holonic Multi-Agent Systems: Application to Distributed Maintenance Company....Pages 135-140
Controlling Bioprocesses Using Cooperative Self-organizing Agents....Pages 141-150
Towards Context-Based Inquiry Dialogues for Personalized Interaction....Pages 151-161
Modelling Driver Interdependent Behaviour in Agent-Based Traffic Simulations for Disaster Management....Pages 163-172
Agent-Based Integrated Decision Making for Autonomous Vehicles in Urban Traffic....Pages 173-178
Towards Urban Traffic Regulation Using a Multi-Agent System....Pages 179-188
Application of Holonic Approach for Transportation Modelling and Optimising....Pages 189-194
A Multiagent System Approach to Grocery Shopping....Pages 195-200
Artificial Snow Optimization in Winter Sport Destinations Using a Multi-agent Simulation....Pages 201-210
Middle Age Social Networks: A Dynamic Organizational Study....Pages 211-216
From an Individual Perspective to a Team Perspective in Agent-Based Negotiation....Pages 217-223
An Exploratory Analysis for Designing Robust Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems....Pages 225-230
Comparison of DCSP Algorithms: A Case Study for Multi-agent Exploration....Pages 231-236
Heterogeneous Multiagent Architecture for Dynamic Triage of Victims in Emergency Scenarios....Pages 237-246
A Decision Support System for Hospital Emergency Departments Built Using Agent-Based Techniques....Pages 247-253
An Agent-Based Dialog Simulation Technique to Develop and Evaluate Conversational Agents....Pages 255-264
Cloud Computing Service for Managing Large Medical Image Data-Sets Using Balanced Collaborative Agents....Pages 265-270
Software Agents as Cloud Computing Services....Pages 271-276
Efficient Monitoring of Financial Orders with Agent-Based Technologies....Pages 277-286
An Agent Task Force for Stock Trading....Pages 287-297
Contracts Negotiation in Market Environments Taking into Consideration the Strength of Each Economic Player....Pages 299-308
Bid Definition Method for Electricity Markets Based on an Adaptive Multiagent System....Pages 309-316
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✦ Subjects

Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)