Environments for Multi-Agent Systems II: Second International Workshop, E4MAS 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005, Selected Revised and Invited Papers

✍ Scribed by Danny Weyns, Giuseppe Vizzari, Tom Holvoet (auth.), Danny Weyns, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Fabien Michel (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 299
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3830 Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Environments for Multiagent Systems, E4MAS 2005, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in July 2005, as an associated event of AAMAS 2005.

The 16 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from the lectures given at the workshop completed by a number of invited papers of prominent researchers active in the domain. The papers are organized in topical sections on models, architecture, and design, mediated coordination, as well as applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Environments for Situated Multi-agent Systems: Beyond Infrastructure....Pages 1-17
Holonic Modeling of Environments for Situated Multi-agent Systems....Pages 18-31
An Environment-Based Methodology to Design Reactive Multi-agent Systems for Problem Solving....Pages 32-49
An Architecture for MAS Simulation Environments....Pages 50-67
Indirect Interaction in Environments for Multi-agent Systems....Pages 68-87
The Governing Environment....Pages 88-104
Enriching a MAS Environment with Institutional Services....Pages 105-120
Overhearing and Direct Interactions: Point of View of an Active Environment....Pages 121-138
Grounding Social Interactions in the Environment....Pages 139-162
A Survey of Environments and Mechanisms for Human-Human Stigmergy....Pages 163-186
Augmenting the Physical Environment Through Embedded Wireless Technologies....Pages 187-204
The Environment: An Essential Abstraction for Managing Complexity in MAS-Based Manufacturing Control....Pages 205-217
Exploiting a Virtual Environment in a Real-World Application....Pages 218-234
Web Sites as Agents’ Environments: General Framework and Applications....Pages 235-250
Environment Organization of Roles Using Polymorphism....Pages 251-269
Testing AGVs in Dynamic Warehouse Environments....Pages 270-290
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Communication Networks