Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems

These are the proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Compu- tional Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA-X), held September 9 10, 2009 in Hamburg, co-located with MATES. The purpose of the CLIMA workshops is to provide a forum for discussing techniques, based on computational logic, for representing, in a formal way, programming and reasoning about agents and multi-agent systems. Multi-agentsystemsarecommunitiesofproblem-solvingentitiesthatcanp- ceive and act upon their environment in order to achieve both their individual goals and their joint goals. The work on such systems integrates many techno- giesandconceptsfromarti?cialintelligenceandotherareasofcomputingaswell as other disciplines. Over recent years, the agent paradigm gained popularity, due to its applicability to a full spectrum of domains, such as search engines, recommendation systems, educational support, e-procurement, simulation and routing,electroniccommerceandtrade,etc.Computationallogicprovidesawe- de?ned, general, and rigorousframeworkfor studying the syntax, semantics and procedures for the various tasks in individual agents, as well as the interaction between, and integration among, agents in multi-agent systems. It also provides tools, techniques and standards for implementations and environments, for li- ing speci?cations to implementations, and for the veri?cation of properties of individual agents, multi-agent systems and their implementations. These proceedings feature nine regularpapers (from a total of 18 papers s- mitted), as wellas one paper basedonthe invited talk givenby TranCao Son. IntheinvitedpaperbyTranCaoSon,EnricoPontelli,andNgoc-HieuNguyen, Planning for Multi-Agents Using ASP-Prolog, the action language B is - tended to the multi-agent case. The used technology is based on answer set programming. The contribution by Nils Bulling and Berndt Farwer on Expressing Prop-

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and revised post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Computational Logic for Multi-Agent Systems, CLIMA X, held in Hamburg, Germany, in September 2009 - co-located with MATES 2009, the 7th German conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies. The 9 full papers, presented together with one invited paper, were carefully selected and reviewed from 18 submissions. The topics covered are formal approaches and model checking, belief-desire-intention, answer set programming and (multi-)agent systems, and coordination and deliberation.

Inhalt
Planning for Multiagent Using ASP-Prolog.- Expressing Properties of Resource-Bounded Systems: The Logics RTL * and RTL.- Reasoning about Multi-agent Domains Using Action Language : A Preliminary Study.- Model Checking Normative Agent Organisations.- Operational Semantics for BDI Modules in Multi-agent Programming.- InstQL: A Query Language for Virtual Institutions Using Answer Set Programming.- Interacting Answer Sets.- Argumentation-Based Preference Modelling with Incomplete Information.- A Characterization of Mixed-Strategy Nash Equilibria in PCTL Augmented with a Cost Quantifier.- On the Implementation of Speculative Constraint Processing.