Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Chapter 1 Keynote Speech: A Review of the Ontological Status, Computational Foundations and Methodological Processes of Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation Approaches: Open Challenges and Research Perspectives

Chapter 2 Keynote Speech: Computational Collective Intelligence and Knowledge Inconsistency in Multi-agent Environments

Chapter 3 Keynote Speech: Agent Oriented Software Engineering: Why and How

Chapter 4 Coordinating Agents Plans in Multi-Agent Systems Using Colored Petri Nets

Chapter 5 Design of an Internet-Based Advisory System: A Multi-agent Approach

Chapter 6 Towards Virtual Epidemiology: An Agent-Based Approach to the Modeling of H5N1 Propagation and Persistence in North-Vietnam

Chapter 7 Measurement of Underlying Cooperation in Multiagent Reinforcement Learning

Chapter 8 Reo Connectors as Coordination Artifacts in 2APL Systems

Chapter 9 A Verification Framework for Normative Multi-Agent Systems

Chapter 10 Social Viewpoints for Arguing about Coalitions

Chapter 11 Changing Institutional Goals and Beliefs of Autonomous Agents

Chapter 12 Reasoning about Constitutive Norms, Counts-As Conditionals, Institutions, Deadlines and Violations

Chapter 13 Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Chapter 14 Multiagent Incremental Learning in Networks

Chapter 15 UML-F in the Design of an Agent-Oriented Software Framework

Chapter 16 Interactive Learning of Expert Criteria for Rescue Simulations

Chapter 17 Modularity in Agent Programming Languages

Chapter 18 On the Pheromone Update Rules of Ant Colony Optimization Approaches for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem

Chapter 19 Preliminary Result on Secure Protocols for Multiple Issue Negotiation Problems

Chapter 20 Performance Analysis about Parallel Greedy Approximation on Combinatorial Auctions

Chapter 21 Online Market Coordination

Chapter 22 Towards an Evaluation Framework for MAS Software Engineering

Chapter 23 From Obligations to Organizational Structures in Multi-Agent Systems

Chapter 24 Addressing the Brittleness of Agent Interaction

Chapter 25 Dividing Agents on the Grid for Large Scale Simulation

Chapter 26 An Interest Rate Adjusting Method with Bayesian Estimation in Social Lending

Chapter 27 A Temporal Logic for Stochastic Multi-Agent Systems

Chapter 28 Applying the Logic of Multiple-Valued Argumentation to Social Web: SNS and Wikipedia

Chapter 29 Simulation of Halal Food Supply Chain with Certification System: A Multi-Agent System Approach

Chapter 30 A Novel Approach for Conflict Resolution in Context-Awareness Using Semantic Unification of Multi-Cognition

Chapter 31 Improving Trade-Offs in Bilateral Negotiations under Complete and Incomplete Information Settings

Chapter 32 PAMS – A New Collaborative Framework for Agent-Based Simulation of Complex Systems

Chapter 33 Methodological Steps and Issues When Deriving Individual Based-Models from Equation-Based Models: A Case Study in Population Dynamics

Chapter 34 Abstraction of Agent Cooperation in Agent Oriented Programming Language

Chapter 35 Knowledge Assessment: A Modal Logic Approach

Chapter 36 The Design of a Self-locating Automatic-Driving Robot

Chapter 37 Settling on the Group’s Goals: An n-Person Argumentation Game Approach

Chapter 38 Revenue Maximising Adaptive Auctioneer Agent

Chapter 39 Managing Collaboration Using Agent Based Simulation

Chapter 40 Using Agent-Based Simulation of Human Behavior to Reduce Evacuation Time

Chapter 41 Participatory Simulation Platform Using Network Games

Chapter 42 A Multiagent-System Framework for Hierarchical Control and Monitoring of Complex Process Control Systems

Chapter 43 Agent Reasoning with Semantic Web in Web Blogs

Chapter 44 Design of a Multiagent System over Mobile Devices for the Planning of Touristic Travels