Environments for Multi-Agent Systems II: Second International Workshop, E4MAS 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005, Selected Revised and Invited Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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. Environments For Situated Multi-agent Systems : Beyond Infrastructure / Danny Weyns, Giuseppe Vizzari And Tom Holvoet -- Holonic Modeling Of Environments For Situated Multi-agent Systems / Sebastian Rodriguez, Vincent Hilaire And Abder Koukam -- An Environment-based Methodology To Design Reactive Multi-agent Systems For Problem Solving / Olivier Simonin And Franck Gechter -- An Architecture For Mas Simulation Environments / Renee Steiner, Gary Leask And Rym Z. Mili -- Indirect Interaction In Environments For Multi-agent Systems / David Keil And Dina Goldin -- The Governing Environment / Michael Schumacher And Sascha Ossowski -- Enriching A Mas Environment With Institutional Services / Andreia Malucelli, Henrique Lopes Cardoso And Eugenio Oliveira -- Overhearing And Direct Interactions : Point Of View Of An Active Environment / Eric Platon, Nicolas Sabouret And Shinichi Honiden -- Grounding Social Interactions In The Environment / Florian Klein And Holger Giese -- A Survey Of Environments And Mechanisms For Human-human Stigmergy / H. Van Dyke Parunak -- Augmenting The Physical Environment Through Embedded Wireless Technologies / Marco Mamei And Franco Zambonelli -- The Environment : An Essential Abstraction For Managing Complexity In Mas-based Manufacturing Control / Paul Valckenaers And Tom Holvoet -- Exploiting A Virtual Environment In A Real-world Application / Danny Weyns, Kurt Schelfthout And Tom Holvoet -- Web Sites As Agents' Environments : General Framework And Applications / Stefania Bandini, Sara Manzoni And Giuseppe Vizzari -- Environment Organization Of Roles Using Polymorphism / Derek Messie And Jae C. Oh -- Testing Agvs In Dynamic Warehouse Environments / Alexander Helleboogh, Tom Holvoet And Yolande Berbers. Danny Weyns, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Fabien Michel (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Also Issued Online. 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 -