Engineering Societies in the Agents World II: Second International Workshop, ESAW 2001, Prague, Czech Republic, July 7, 2001, Revised Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2203)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2001, held in Prague, Czech Republic in July 2001. The 12 revised full papers presented together with a survey by the volume editors were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on foundations of engineering with agents, logics and languages for MAS engineering, and agent middleware and applications. The Idea To Initiate A Series Of Workshops To Be Entitled “engineering Societies In The Agent’s World” (esaw) Originated In Late 1999, Among Members Of The Working Group On Communication, Coordination, And Collaboration Of The Intelligent Informa Tion Agents Special Interest Group Of Agentlink, The European Network Of Excellence For Agent Based Computing. By That Time, The Convergenceof Scienti?c And Technolog Ical Progress In Numerous Areas, Including Software Engineering, Distributed Problem Solving, Knowledge Based Systems, And Dynamic Pervasive Networking Had Gained Sig Ni?cant Momentum. As A Result, The Reality Of Multiagent Systems Was Now A Given. In The Eyes Of The Proposers And Supporters Of Esaw, These Developments Led To A New And Manifest Need, That Was Being Left All But Uncovered By The Existing Range Of Conferences And Meetings. A Platform That Would Overcome The Disparate Roots Of The Multiagent Systems ?eld By Placing A Clear Focus On An Integrative Level Of Anal Ysis, Namely: Arti?cial Societies Populating A World Encompassing The Natural And The Arti?cial, Comprising Autonomousentities And Their Environment. Categories Of Artificial Societies / Paul Davidsson -- A Methodological Perspective On Engineering Of Agent Societies / Martin Fredriksson And Rune Gustavsson -- A Distribute Approach To Design Open Multi-agent Systems / Laurent Vercouter -- Engineering Infrastructures For Mobile Organizations / Giacomo Cabri [and Others] -- Preferring And Updating In Abductive Multi-agent Systems / Pierangelo Dell'acqua And Luís Moniz Pereira -- Reasoning About Failure / László Aszalós And Andreas Herzig -- Agent-oriented Language Engineering For Robust Nlp / Vincenzo Pallotta And Afzal Ballim -- Extending A Logic Based One-to-one Negotiation Framework To One-to-many Negotiation / Paolo Torroni And Francesca Toni. The Tragedy Of The Commons -- Arms Race Within Peer-to-peer Tools / Bengt Carlson -- Agentspace As A Middleware For Service Integration / Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz And Tomasz Nowak -- Toward A Multi-agent Modelling Approach For Urban Public Transportation Systems / Flavien Balbo And Suzanne Pinson -- Ittalks: An Application Of Agents In The Semantic Web / Filip Perich [and Others]. Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Robert Tolksdorf (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Also Available Via The World Wide Web. Categories of Artificial Societies....Pages 1-9 A Methodological Perspective on Engineering of Agent Societies....Pages 10-24 A distributed approach to design open multi-agent systems....Pages 25-38 Engineering infrastructures for mobile organizations....Pages 39-56 Preferring and updating in abductive multi-agent systems....Pages 57-73 Reasoning about failure....Pages 74-85 Agent-Oriented Language Engineering for Robust NLP....Pages 86-104 Extending a logic based one-to-one negotiation framework to one-to-many negotiation....Pages 105-118 The tragedy of the Commons — Arms Race within Peer-to-Peer Tools....Pages 119-133 Agentspace as a Middleware for Service Integration....Pages 134-159 Toward a Multi-agent Modelling Approach for Urban Public Transportation systems....Pages 160-174 ITTALKS: An application of agents in the Semantic Web....Pages 175-193 A collection of software entities interacting with each other for some purpose, possibly in accordance with common norms and rules, may be regarded as an artificial society.