ISBN: 3540314067
TITLE: Multiagent Engineering
AUTHOR: Kirn et al.
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Management Summary 1
Peter C. Lockemann, Stefan Kirn, Otthein Herzog
Part 1 What Agents Are and What They Are Good For 15
1 Agents 17
Peter C. Lockemann
2 From Agents to Multiagent Systems 35
Ingo J. Timm, Thorsten Scholz, Otthein Herzog, Karl-Heinz Krempels, Otto Spaniol
3 Flexibility of Multiagent Systems 53
Stefan Kirn
Part 11 Application Examples 1: Agent.Enterprise 71
1 Agent.Enterprise in a Nutshell 73
Peer-Oliver Woelk, Holger Rudzio, Roland Zimmermann, Jens Nimis
2 Integrated Process Planning and Production Control 91
Leif-Erik Lorenzen, Peer-Oliver Woelk Berend Denkena, Thorsten Scholz, Ingo J. Timm, Otthein Herzog
3 Benchmarking of Multiagent Systems in a Production Planning and Control Environment 115
Jan Wrner, Heinz Wrn
4 Distributed Hierarchical Production Control for Wafer Fabs Using an Agent-Based System Prototype 135
Lars Mnch, Marcel Stehli, Jens Zimmermann
5 Supply Chain Event Management With Software Agents 157
Roland Zimmermann, Stefan Winkler, Freimut Bodendorf
6 Trust-Based Distributed Supply-Web Negotiations 177
Tim Stockheim, Oliver Wendt, Wolfgang Knig
Part 111 Application Examples 11: Agent.Hospital 197
1 Agent.Hospital - Health Care Applications of Intelligent Agents 199
Stefan Kirn, Christian Anhalt, Helmut Krcmar, Andreas Schweiger
2 Artificial Software Agents as Representatives of Their Human Principals in Operating-Room-Team-Forming 221
Marc Becker, Hans Czap
3 Agent-Based Information Logistics 239
Thomas Rose, Martin Sedlmayr, Holger Knublauch, Wolfgang Friesdorf
4 Agent-Based Patient Scheduling in Hospitals 255
Torsten O. Paulussen, Anja Zller, Franz Rothlauf, Armin Heinzl, Lars Braubach, Alexander Pokahr, Winfried Lamersdorf
5 Adaptivity and Scheduling 277
Rainer Herrler, Frank Puppe
6 Active, Medical Documents in Health Care 301
Andreas Schweiger, Helmut Krcmar
7 Self-Organized Scheduling in Hospitals by Connecting Agents and Mobile Devices 319
Torsten Eymann, Gnter Mller, Moritz Strasser
Part IV Agent Engineering 339
1 The Engineering Process 341
Ingo J. Timm, Thorsten Scholz, Holger Knublauch
2 Requirements Engineering 359
Thomas Bieser, Hendrik Frstenau, Stephan Otto, Daniel Wei
3 Interaction Design 383
Karl-Heinz Krempels, Otto Spaniol, Thorsten Scholz, Ingo J. Timm, Otthein Herzog
4 Architectural Design 405
Peter C Lockemann, Jens Nimis, Lars Braubach, Alexander Pokahr, Winfried Lamersdorf
5 Semantics for Agents 431
Thorsten Scholz, Ingo J. Timm, Otthein Herzog, Gnter Grz, Bernhard Schiemann
6 Towards Dependable Agent Systems 465
Jens Nimis, Peter C Lockemann, Karl-Heinz Krempels, Erik Buchmann, Klemens Bhm
7 Tools and Standards 503
Lars Braubach, Alexander Pokahr, Winfried Lamersdorf
8 From Testing to Theorem Proving 531
Ingo J. Timm, Thorsten Scholz, Hendrik Frstenau
Part V Evaluation 555
1 Benchmarking of Multiagent Systems 557
Anja Zller, Franz Rothlauf, Torsten O. Paulussen, Armin Heinzl
2 Simulation 575
Rainer Herrler, Franziska Klgl
3 Legal Consequences of Agent Deployment 597
Tanja Nitschke
Index 619
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