Engineering Societies in the Agents World X

In this paper, after a short review of the dichotomous view of norms usually seen as either regular behaviors or obligations issued by authorities, norms are proposed to be defined as recognized, represented and reasoned upon prescriptive commands. A normative agent architecture – EMIL-A – is presented and shown to account for a complex bidirectional dynamics of norms as social phenomena that emerge...

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Thinking Integral: How to Build Complex Systems That Live with People and Exhibit Collective Intelligence

Jacques Ferber

Lecture Notes in Computer Science > Engineering Societies in the Agents World X > Part 1: Invited Talks > 15-16

Multi-agent systems have been proposed for the development of complex software systems as a way to handle complexity (Jennings 2001). It has also been advocated that basic agent oriented systems do not have the power to cope with large software and that it is crucial to use organizations centered multi-agent systems (OCMAS) (Ferber et al. 2004 ; Dignum 2009).

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A Space-Based Generic Pattern for Self-Initiative Load Balancing Agents

Eva Kühn, Vesna Sesum-Cavic

Lecture Notes in Computer Science > Engineering Societies in the Agents World X > Part 2: Self-organisation > 17-32

Load-Balancing is a significant problem in heterogeneous distributed systems. There exist many load balancing algorithms, however, most approaches are very problem specific oriented and a comparison is therefore complex. This paper proposes a generic architectural pattern for a load balancing framework that allows for the plugging of different load balancing algorithms, reaching from unintelligent...

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A Goal-Oriented Approach for Modelling Self-organising MAS

Mirko Morandini, Frédéric Migeon, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Christine Maurel, more

Lecture Notes in Computer Science > Engineering Societies in the Agents World X > Part 2: Self-organisation > 33-48

Autonomous software agents provide a promising solution to the needs of decentralised networked systems, able to adapt their behaviour in a complex and dynamically changing environment. Current agent-oriented software engineering methodologies tend to focus on different levels to realise such a self-adapting behaviour, namely the agent individual level and the global system level. The first...

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Engineering Agent Organisations in a Business Environment

Dimitris Traskas, Julian Padget

Lecture Notes in Computer Science > Engineering Societies in the Agents World X > Part 2: Self-organisation > 49-64

Motivated by demands from the commercial world for software systems that can assist in the reorganisation of processes for the purpose of reducing business complexity, we discuss the benefits and challenges of the multi-agent approach. We concentrate on the engineering aspects of large scale multi-agent systems and begin our exploration by focusing on a real world example from the call centre industry...

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Peer-to-Peer Overlay Network Based on Swarm Intelligence

Vesna Sesum-Cavic, Eva Kühn

Lecture Notes in Computer Science > Engineering Societies in the Agents World X > Part 2: Self-organisation > 65-67

As the number of information in the Internet constantly increases and the complexity of systems rapidly grows, locating and manipulating complex data has become a difficult task. We propose a self-organizing approach that combines purely decentralized unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) with space based computing in order to effectively locate and retrieve information from a network. The approach is inspired...

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Agent Architectures for Compliance

Brigitte Burgemeestre, Joris Hulstijn, Yao-Hua Tan

Lecture Notes in Computer Science > Engineering Societies in the Agents World X > Part 3: Software-Engineering and Architectures > 68-83

A Normative Multi-Agent System consists of autonomous agents who must comply with social norms. Different kinds of norms make different assumptions about the cognitive architecture of the agents. For example, a principle-based norm assumes that agents can reflect upon the consequences of their actions; a rule-based formulation only assumes that agents can avoid violations. In this paper we present...

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Incorporating BDI Agents into Human-Agent Decision Making Research

Bart Kamphorst, Arlette Wissen, Virginia Dignum

Lecture Notes in Computer Science > Engineering Societies in the Agents World X > Part 3: Software-Engineering and Architectures > 84-97

Artificial agents, people, institutes and societies all have the ability to make decisions. Decision making as a research area therefore involves a broad spectrum of sciences, ranging from Artificial Intelligence to economics to psychology. The Colored Trails (CT) framework is designed to aid researchers in all fields in examining decision making processes. It is developed both to study interaction...

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Programming Organization-Aware Agents

M. Birna Riemsdijk, Koen Hindriks, Catholijn Jonker

Lecture Notes in Computer Science > Engineering Societies in the Agents World X > Part 3: Software-Engineering and Architectures > 98-112

Organizational notions such as roles, norms (e.g., obligations and permissions), and services are increasingly viewed as natural concepts to manage the complexity of software development. In particular in the context of multi-agent systems, agents are expected to be organization-aware, i.e., to understand and reason about the structure, work processes, and norms of the agent organization in which...

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Energy Trade-Offs in Resource-Constrained Multi-Agent Systems

Hugo Carr, Jeremy Pitt, Anthony Kleerekoper, David Blancke

Lecture Notes in Computer Science > Engineering Societies in the Agents World X > Part 3: Software-Engineering and Architectures > 113-115

Sensor networks and mobile ad hoc networks are two types of open system with resource constraints, in which functionality may be compromised by a lack of resources. In this work, we investigate adaptive algorithms for power-challenged computing networks. Using simulations, we have studied how self-organization can be used to trade off energy for (acceptable) accuracy to improve longevity in a sensor...

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Engineering Social Reality with Inheritance Relations

Huib Aldewereld, Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Frank Dignum, Javier Vázquez-Salceda

Lecture Notes in Computer Science > Engineering Societies in the Agents World X > Part 4: Social Aspects of Agent Societies > 116-131

In systems based on organisational specifications a reoccurring problem remains to be solved in the disparity between the level of abstractness of the organisational concepts and the concepts used in the implementation. Organisational specifications (deliberately) abstract from general practice, which creates a need to relate the abstract concepts used in the specification to concrete ones used in...

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Determining the Trustworthiness of New Electronic Contracts

Paul Groth, Simon Miles, Sanjay Modgil, Nir Oren, more

Lecture Notes in Computer Science > Engineering Societies in the Agents World X > Part 4: Social Aspects of Agent Societies > 132-147

Expressing contractual agreements electronically potentially allows agents to automatically perform functions surrounding contract use: establishment, fulfilment, renegotiation etc. For such automation to be used for real business concerns, there needs to be a high level of trust in the agent-based system. While there has been much research on simulating trust between agents, there are areas where...

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Trust Based Evaluation of Wikipedia’s Contributors

Yann Krupa, Laurent Vercouter, Jomi Fred Hübner, Andreas Herzig

Lecture Notes in Computer Science > Engineering Societies in the Agents World X > Part 4: Social Aspects of Agent Societies > 148-161

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia on which anybody can change its content. Some users, self-proclaimed “patrollers”, regularly check recent changes in order to delete or correct those which are ruining articles integrity. The huge quantity of updates leads some articles to remain polluted a certain time before being corrected. In this work, we show how a multiagent trust model can help patrollers in their...

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Evolutionary Role Model for Multi-Agent Systems

Erdem Eser Ekinci, Oğuz Dikenelli

Lecture Notes in Computer Science > Engineering Societies in the Agents World X > Part 4: Social Aspects of Agent Societies > 162-164

In sociology, the role concept is deeply researched to predict activities of human organizations and theorized with many sub-theories. In the same direction, multi-agent system researchers use the role concept to model and program the agents behaviours, cooperations. But there is an important point missed out by the MAS researchers: evolution of the organization. In this paper, by inspiring from the...

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Engineering Societies in the Agents World X
10th International Workshop, ESAW 2009, Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 18-20, 2009. Proceedings

Part 2: Self-organisation

Part 1: Invited Talks

Part 6: Demonstrations

Part 4: Social Aspects of Agent Societies

Part 3: Software-Engineering and Architectures

Part 5: Organisation and Autonomy

The Immergence of Norms in Agent Worlds

Thinking Integral: How to Build Complex Systems That Live with People and Exhibit Collective Intelligence

A Space-Based Generic Pattern for Self-Initiative Load Balancing Agents

A Goal-Oriented Approach for Modelling Self-organising MAS

Engineering Agent Organisations in a Business Environment

Peer-to-Peer Overlay Network Based on Swarm Intelligence

Agent Architectures for Compliance

Incorporating BDI Agents into Human-Agent Decision Making Research

Programming Organization-Aware Agents

Energy Trade-Offs in Resource-Constrained Multi-Agent Systems

Engineering Social Reality with Inheritance Relations

Determining the Trustworthiness of New Electronic Contracts

Trust Based Evaluation of Wikipedia’s Contributors

Evolutionary Role Model for Multi-Agent Systems

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Engineering Societies in the Agents World X
10th International Workshop, ESAW 2009, Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 18-20, 2009. Proceedings