Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems: International Workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems Barcelona, Spain, June 3–7, 2000 Revised Papers

✍ Scribed by Les Gasser (auth.), Tom Wagner, Omer F. Rana (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 319
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1887 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Building research grade multi-agent systems usually involves a broad variety of software infrastructure ingredients like planning, scheduling, coordination, communication, transport, simulation, and module integration technologies and as such constitutes a great challenge to the individual researcher active in the area.
The book presents a collection of papers on approaches that will help make deployed and large scale multi-agent systems a reality. The first part focuses on available infrastructure and requirements for constructing research-grade agents and multi-agent systems. The second part deals with support in infrastructure and software development methods for multi-agent systems that can directly support coordination and management of large multi-agent communities; performance analysis and scalability techniques are needed to promote deployment of multi-agent systems to professionals in software engineering and information technology.

✦ Table of Contents

MAS Infrastructure Definitions, Needs, and Prospects....Pages 1-11
Tools for Developing and Monitoring Agents in Distributed Multi-agent Systems....Pages 12-27
Agora: An Infrastructure for Cooperative Work Support in Multi-Agent Systems....Pages 28-40
Sensible Agent Testbed Infrastructure for Experimentation....Pages 41-47
The M ad K it Agent Platform Architecture....Pages 48-55
An Architecture for Modeling Internet-based Collaborative Agent Systems....Pages 56-63
Frameworks for Reasoning about Agent Based System....Pages 64-71
Integrating High-Level and Detailed Agent Coordination into a Layered Architecture....Pages 72-79
Adaptive Infrastructures for Agent Integration....Pages 80-93
RoboCup Soccer Server and CMUnited: Implemented Infrastructure for MAS Research....Pages 94-101
An Agent Infrastructure to Build and Evaluate Multi-Agent Systems: The Java Agent Framework and Multi-Agent System Simulator....Pages 102-127
Design-to-Criteria Scheduling: Real-Time Agent Control....Pages 128-143
Integrating Conversational Interaction and Constraint Based Reasoning in an Agent Building Shell....Pages 144-156
An Enabling Environment for Engineering Cooperative Agents....Pages 157-165
Agent Mobility and Reification of Computational State: An Experiment in Migration....Pages 166-173
As Strong as Possible Agent Mobility....Pages 174-176
An Architecture for Adaptive Web Stores....Pages 177-179
A Performance Analysis Framework for Mobile Agent Systems....Pages 180-187
A Layered Agent Template for Enterprise Computing....Pages 188-191
A Community of Agents for User Support in a Problem-Solving Environment....Pages 192-198
Scalable Mobile Agents Supporting Dynamic Composition of Functionality....Pages 199-213
A Formal Development and Validation Methodology Applied to Agent-Based Systems....Pages 214-225
A Proposal for Meta-learning through a MAS (Multi-agent System)....Pages 226-233
Scalability Metrics and Analysis of Mobile Agent Systems....Pages 234-245
Improving the Scalability of Multi-agent Systems....Pages 246-262
Mobile Agents for Distributed Processing....Pages 263-265
Scalability of a Transactional Infrastructure for Multi-Agent Systems....Pages 266-278
Towards a Scalable Architecture for Knowledge Fusion....Pages 279-292
Towards Validation of Specifications by Simulation....Pages 293-295
Open Source, Standards and Scaleable Agencies....Pages 296-303
Infrastructure Issues and Themes for Scalable Multi-agent Systems....Pages 304-308

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Communication Networks; Software Engineering