Multiagent System Technologies: 11th German Conference, MATES 2013, Koblenz, Germany, September 16-20, 2013. Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Catholijn Jonker (auth.), Matthias Klusch, Matthias Thimm, Marcin Paprzycki (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 436
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8076
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, MATES 2013, held in Koblenz, Germany, in September 2013. The 29 revised full papers and 3 keynote talks presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers cover a broad area of topics of interest ranging from issues of agent-based coordination to simulation to negotiation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Invited Keynote: The Headaches of a Negotiation Support Agent....Pages 1-1
Invited Keynote: Autonomous Systems Inspired by Biology....Pages 2-2
Invited Keynote: AI-Research and the Future of the Automobil....Pages 3-3
Similarity-Based Resource Retrieval in Multi-agent Systems by Using Locality-Sensitive Hash Functions....Pages 4-18
A Multi-agent Flooding Algorithm for Search and Rescue Operations in Unknown Terrain....Pages 19-28
A Practical Security Infrastructure for Distributed Agent Applications....Pages 29-43
Verifying MSMAS Model Using $\mathcal{S}$ CIFF....Pages 44-58
Decentralised Cooperative Agent-Based Clustering in Intelligent Traffic Clouds....Pages 59-72
Evolving Mechanisms in Boolean Games....Pages 73-86
Repeated Sequential Single-Cluster Auctions with Dynamic Tasks for Multi-Robot Task Allocation with Pickup and Delivery....Pages 87-100
AMASON: Abstract Meta-model for Agent-Based SimulatiON....Pages 101-114
Robust PI - The Simulation Robust Library Component for Pioneer 3DX....Pages 115-123
Secrecy Preserving BDI Agents Based on Answerset Programming....Pages 124-137
Bid-Price Control for the Formation of Multiagent Organisations....Pages 138-151
Peer-to-Peer Network for Flexible Service Sharing and Discovery....Pages 152-165
Agent-Negotiation of Lot-Sizing Contracts by Simulated Annealing with Part-Way Resets....Pages 166-179
AbstractSwarm – A Generic Graphical Modeling Language for Multi-Agent Systems....Pages 180-192
A Principled Approach for Smart Microgrids Simulation Using MAS....Pages 193-207
Estimating Shapley Values for Fair Profit Distribution in Power Planning Smart Grid Coalitions....Pages 208-221
A Trust-Based Approach for Detecting Compromised Nodes in SCADA Systems....Pages 222-235
Unified Energy Agents as a Base for the Systematic Development of Future Energy Grids....Pages 236-249
Efficient Mechanism for Aggregate Demand Prediction in the Smart Grid....Pages 250-263
Translating Statecharts-Based into BDI Agents: The DSC/PROFETA Case....Pages 264-277
Exploiting MAS-Based Simulation to Improve the Indian Railways’ Efficiency....Pages 278-291
Towards a Platform for Testing and Developing Privacy-Preserving Data Mining Applications for Smart Grids....Pages 292-305
Event-Driven Programming for Situated MAS with ReSpecT Tuple Centres....Pages 306-319
HySoN: A Distributed Agent-Based Protocol for Group Formation in Online Social Networks....Pages 320-333
Intelligent Jason Agents in Virtual Soccer Simulations....Pages 334-345
Multi-agent Systems Applied in the Modelling and Simulation of the Protein Folding Problem Using Distributed Constraints....Pages 346-360
Modeling AIDS Spread in Social Networks....Pages 361-371
Analysis of Configurations for Photovoltaic Solar Energy Production Using Agent-Based Simulation....Pages 372-385
Dynamic Allocation of a Domestic Heating Task to Gas-Based and Heatpump-Based Heating Agents....Pages 386-399
Improving Human-Aware Planning....Pages 400-403
Best First Search Planning of Service Composition Using Incrementally Refined Context-Dependent Heuristics....Pages 404-407
Sequential Single-Cluster Auctions....Pages 408-411
Decentralised Collision Avoidance in a Semi-collaborative Multi-agent System....Pages 412-415
Opponent Modeling in RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D....Pages 416-419
Policy-Based Approach for Non-Functional Requirements in Self-adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems....Pages 420-423
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computers and Society; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Computer Communication Networks; Simulation and Modeling