Coordination of Internet Agents: Models, Technologies, and Applications

✍ Scribed by Nadia Busi, Paolo Ciancarini, Roberto Gorrieri, Gianluigi Zavattaro (auth.), Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli, Matthias Klusch, Robert Tolksdorf (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 537
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As today's most complex computing environment, the Internet confronts IT researchers, system designers, and application developers with completely new challenges and, as a fascinating new computing paradigm, agent technology has recently attracted broad interest and strong hopes for shaping the future information society. Relating both, the Internet and agents, opens up a whole new range of advanced applications in vibrant subfields of information technology such as middleware, mobile commerce, e-learning, collaborative working, and intelligent information services. Many modern advanced systems are likely to exploit Internet agents - and exploiting Internet agents mostly means dealing with coordination models and technologies of various sorts. This monograph-like anthology is the first systematic guide to models and enabling technologies for the coordination of intelligent agents on the Internet and respective applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXVII
Front Matter....Pages 1-5
Coordination Models: A Guided Tour....Pages 6-24
Models and Technologies for the Coordination of Internet Agents: A Survey....Pages 25-56
Front Matter....Pages 57-60
Run-Time Systems for Coordination....Pages 61-82
Tuple-based Technologies for Coordination....Pages 83-109
Middleware Technologies: CORBA and Mobile Agents....Pages 110-152
Agent Coordination via Scripting Languages....Pages 153-182
Front Matter....Pages 177-182
Coordinating Agents using Agent Communication Languages Conversations....Pages 183-196
Brokering and Matchmaking for Coordination of Agent Societies: A Survey....Pages 197-224
Agent Naming and Coordination: Actor Based Models and Infrastructures....Pages 225-252
Front Matter....Pages 247-252
Coordination and Mobility....Pages 253-273
Coordination and Security on the Internet....Pages 274-298
Scalability in Linda-like Coordination Systems....Pages 299-319
Front Matter....Pages 321-325
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering for Internet Applications....Pages 326-346
Reusable Patterns for Agent Coordination....Pages 347-368
Inter—Organizational Workflows for Enterprise Coordination....Pages 369-398
Constraints Solving as the Coordination of Inference Engines....Pages 399-419
Front Matter....Pages 421-425
A Market-Based Model for Resource Allocation in Agent Systems....Pages 426-442
Coordination and Control in Computational Ecosystems: A Vision of the Future....Pages 443-469
Back Matter....Pages 471-523

✦ Subjects

Computer Communication Networks; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Software Engineering; Programming Techniques; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters