ISBN: 3540414770
TITLE: Engineering Societies in the Agents World
AUTHOR: Omicini, Andrea; Tolksdorf, Robert; Zambonelli, Franco (Eds.)
TOC:

Emerging Issues in Multiagent Systems Engineering
Engineering Social Order 1
Cristiano Castelfranchi
Distinguishing Environmental and Agent Dynamics: A Case Study in Abstraction and Alternate Modeling Technologies 19
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, John Sauter and Robert S. Matthews
On Observing and Constraining Active Systems 34
Gianluca Moro and Mirko Viroli
Coordination Models and Technologies for Multiagent Systems
Context-Dependency in Internet-Agent Coordination 51
Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi and Franco Zambonelli
Coordination Issues in Multi-agent Event Data Processing 64
Christoph Koch and Paolo Petta
Models of Coordination 78
Robert Tolksdorf
Methodologies and Tools
From Analysis to Deployment: A Multi-agent Platform Survey 93
Pierre-Michel Ricordel and Yves Demazeau
Exploiting UML in the Design of Multi-agent Systems 106
Federico Bergenti and Agostino Poggi
Formal Specification and Prototyping of Multi-agent Systems 114
Vincent Hilaire, Abder Koukam, Pablo Gruer and Jean-Pierre Mller
Combining Software Components and Mobile Agents 128
Mercedes Amor, Mnica Pinto, Lidia Fuentes and Jos Mara Troya
Author Index 143
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