Conflicting agents conflict management in multi-agent systems

✍ Scribed by Tessier, Catherine(Editor);Chaudron, Laurent(Editor);Müller, Heinz-Jürgen(Editor)

• Publisher: Springer; Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Year: 2000;2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 313
• Series: Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations Volume 1)
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Conflicts between agents acting in a multi-agent environment arise for different reasons, involve different concepts, and are dealt with in different ways, depending on the kind of agents and on the domain where they are considered. Agents may have conflicting beliefs, conflicting goals, or may have to share limited resources. Consequently, conflicts may be expressed as mere differences, or as contradictions, or even as social conflicts. They may be avoided, solved, kept, or even created deliberately. Conflicting Agents studies conflicts in the context of multi-agent systems, i.e. artificial societies modeled on the basis of autonomous, interacting agents. This book addresses questions about types of conflicts, conflict definitions and the use of conflicts as trigger functions for activities in multi-agent systems. The book is also dedicated to questions of conflict management, resolution and avoidance, i.e. the question of how agents cope with conflicts and conflicting situations.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 11
Contributing Authors......Page 14
Preface......Page 21
Foreword......Page 26
Chapter 1 JASON AND THE GOLDEN FLEECE OF AGENT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING......Page 32
Chapter 2 PROGRAMMING MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS IN3APL......Page 67
Chapter 3 IMPACT: A MULTI-AGENT FRAMEWORK WITH DECLARATIVE SEMANTICS......Page 96
Chapter 4 CLAIM AND SYMPA:A PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT FOR INTELLIGENT AND MOBILE AGENTS......Page 122
Chapter 5 JADE - A JAVA AGENT DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK......Page 151
Chapter 6 JADEX: A BDI REASONING ENGINE......Page 174
Chapter 7 JACRTM INTELLIGENT AGENTS: AN INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH PLATFORM......Page 200
Chapter 8 THE DEFACTO SYSTEM:COORDINATING HUMAN-AGENT TEAMS FOR THE FUTURE OF DISASTER RESPONSE*......Page 220
Chapter 9 ARTIMIS RATIONAL DIALOGUE AGENT TECHNOLOGY: AN OVERVIEW......Page 239
Appendix A: Comparison Criteria......Page 267
Appendix B: Jason Summary......Page 270
Appendix C: 3APL Summary......Page 273
Appendix D: IMPACT Summary......Page 275
Appendix E: CLAIM Summary......Page 277
Appendix F: JADE Summary......Page 280
Appendix G: Jadex Summary......Page 283
Appendix H: JACK Summary......Page 286
References......Page 288
Index......Page 311