Engineering Societies in the Agents World

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2000, held in Berlin, Germany in August 2000. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book; they are organized in topical sections on emerging issues in multi-agent systems engineering, coordination models and technologies for multi-agent systems, and methodologies and tools.

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Franco Zambonelli is professor in Computer Science at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia since 2001. He obtained the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering in 1992, and the PhD in Computer Science in 1997, both from the University of Bologna. His current research interests include: distributed and pervasive computing, agent-oriented software engineering, self-organization in distributed systems engineering. In these areas, he has published over 120 papers in international fora, co-edited 7 books, received several best paper awards, and has been invited speaker and tutorialist in several international conferences and workshops. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, AIIA, and TABOO.

Inhalt
Emerging Issues in Multiagent Systems Engineering.- Engineering Social Order.- Distinguishing Environmental and Agent Dynamics: A Case Study in Abstraction and Alternate Modeling Technologies.- On Observing and Constraining Active Systems.- Coordination Models and Technologies for Multiagent Systems.- Context-Dependency in Internet-Agent Coordination.- Coordination Issues in Multi-agent Event Data Processing.- Models of Coordination.- Methodologies and Tools.- From Analysis to Deployment: A Multi-agent Platform Survey.- Exploiting UML in the Design of Multi-agent Systems.- Formal Specification and Prototyping of Multi-agent Systems.- Combining Software Components and Mobile Agents.