Multi-Agent Systems. Theories, Languages and Applications

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 4th Australian Workshop on distributed Artificial Intelligence held in Brisbane, QLD, Australia in July 1998.The 13 revised full selected and invited papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The book is devoted to theoretical aspects, languages, and applications of various types of multi-agent systems. Among the topics covered are self-interested mobile agents, formal specification of MAS, coordination, reinforcement learning, self organization, agent negotiation, agent-based intelligent systems, Internet-based DAI applications, agent-based scheduling, Internet agent trading.

Inhalt

Team Formation by Self-Interested Mobile Agents.- Conception, Behavioural Semantics and Formal Specification of Multi-agent Systems.- Learning Message-Related Coordination Control in Multiagent Systems.- Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning System Integrating Exploitation- and Exploration-Oriented Learning.- Motivated Behaviour for Goal Adoption.- Physically Based, Self-Organized Cellular Automata.- Service Contract Negotiation - Agent-Based Support for Open Service Environments.- An Awareness-Based Model for Agents Involved in Reporting Activities.- : A Language for Modelling and Designing Agent-Based Intelligent Systems.- Programming Internet Based DAI Applications in Qu-Prolog.- Design of an Agent-Based, Multi-user Scheduling Implementation.- A Team of Agents Cooperating for Intelligent Tutoring.- Secure Information Gathering Agent for Internet Trading.