Agent Technologies, Infrastructures, Tools, and Applications for E-Services

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the three agent-related workshops held during the NetObjectDays international conference, NODe 2002, held in Erfurt, Germany, in October 2002.

The 23 revised full papers presented with a keynote paper and 2 abstracts were carefully selected during 2 rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on agent-oriented requirements engineering and specification, agent-oriented software engineering, reuse, negotiation and communication, large complex systems, e-business, and applications.

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Keynotes.- Software Agents: The Future of Web Services.- Building Automated Negotiators.- Emergence in Cyberspace: Towards the Evolutionary Self-Organizing Enterprise.- Regular Papers.- Requirements Analysis in Tropos: A Self-Referencing Example.- A Mechanism for Dynamic Role Playing.- Agent UML Class Diagrams Revisited.- The Behavior-Oriented Design of Modular Agent Intelligence.- Engineering JADE Agents with the Gaia Methodology.- Designing Peer-to-Peer Applications: An Agent-Oriented Approach.- Introducing Pattern Reuse in the Design of Multi-agent Systems.- Specifying Reuse Concerns in Agent System Design Using a Role Algebra.- Comparison of Some Negotiation Algorithms Using a Tournament-Based Approach.- State-Based Modeling Method for Multiagent Conversation Protocols and Decision Activities.- A Framework for Inter-society Communication in Agents.- Action Recognition and Prediction for Driver Assistance Systems Using Dynamic Belief Networks.- Collaborative Agent System Using Fuzzy Logic for Optimisation.- A Self-Organizational Management Network Based on Adaptive Resonance Theory.- Mobile Software Agents for Location-Based Systems.- Partner Detection and Selection in Emergent Holonic Enterprises.- A Multi-agent System for E-insurance Brokering.- An XML Multi-agent System for E-learning and Skill Management.- Integrating Mobile and Intelligent Agents in Advanced E-commerce: A Survey.- An Agent-Oriented Approach to Industrial Automation Systems.- Multi-agent Model to Control Production System: A Reactive and Emergent Approach by Cooperation and Competition between Agents.- Integrating Agents in Software Applications.- A Foundational Analysis of Software Robustness Using Redundant Agent Collaboration.