Collaborative Agents - research and development : international workshops : CARE@AI09 2009 ; CARE@IAT10 2010 Melbourne, Australia, December 1, 2009 and Toronto, Canada, August 31, 2010 : revised selected papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the first two international workshops on computational models of collaboration in distributed systems: CARE 2009, held as satellite event of the 22nd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence AI09 in Melbourne, Australia, in December 2009 and CARE 2010, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) in Toronto, Canada, in August 2010. The 12 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited lectures were carefully selected from a total of 45 submissions to both events. The workshops' thematic focus is on collaborative and autonomous agents that plan, negotiate, coordinate, and act under conditions of incomplete information, uncertainty, and bounded rationality. Front Matter....Pages - Multi-agent Coalition Formation for Distributed Area Coverage....Pages 1-13 Modeling Warehouse Logistics Using Agent Organizations....Pages 14-30 Agent-Based Crisis Management....Pages 31-43 Male Optimal and Unique Stable Marriages with Partially Ordered Preferences....Pages 44-55 Agent-Based Simulation of Joint Fire Support Teams – Collaboration in Network-Centric Warfare Scenarios....Pages 56-67 Intelligent Collaborative Care Management (ICCM): Achieving and Managing Contractual Relationships and Service Delivery....Pages 68-84 A Centralized Framework to Multi-robots Formation Control: Theory and Application....Pages 85-98 Flexible Behaviour Regulation in Agent Based Systems....Pages 99-113 Effect of Network Topology in Opinion Formation Models....Pages 114-124 Behavior Learning in Minority Games....Pages 125-136 Two Decades of Multiagent Teamwork Research: Past, Present, and Future....Pages 137-151 Designing Intelligent Healthcare Operations....Pages 152-162 Collaborative Learning in Uncertain Environments....Pages 163-174 Improving Task-Based Plan Coordination....Pages 175-186 Back Matter....Pages - Edited By Christian Guttmann, Frank Dignum, Michael Georgeff.