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Multi-Agent Systems - 9th European Workshop, EUMAS 2011, Maastricht, The Netherlands, November 14-15, 2011. Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Massimo Cossentino, Michael Kaisers, Karl Tuyls, Gerhard Weiss
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This book constitutes the thoroughly reviewed post-proceedings of
the 9th International Workshop, EUMAS 2011, held in Maastricht, The
Netherlands, in November 2011. The 16 revised full papers included
in the book were carefully revised and selected from 45
submissions. This workshop is primarily intended as a European
forum at which researchers and those interested in activities
relating to research in the area of autonomous agents and
multi-agent systems could meet, present (potentially preliminary)
research results, problems, and issues in an open and informal but
academic environment. The aim of this workshop was to encourage and
support activity in the research and development of multi-agent
systems, in academic and industrial efforts.
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Agents and Data Mining Interaction - 7th International Workshop, ADMI 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2-6, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2012)
Longbing Cao, Ana L.C. Bazzan, Andreas L Symeonidis, Vladimir Gorodetsky, Gerhard Weiss, …
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop
proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Agents and Data
Mining Interaction, ADMI 2011, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in May 2011
in conjunction with AAMAS 2011, the 10th International Joint
Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.
The 11 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and
selected from 24 submissions. The papers are organized in topical
sections on agents for data mining; data mining for agents; and
agent mining applications.
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Agents and Data Mining Interaction - 4th International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction, ADMI 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 10-15,2009, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
Longbing Cao, A.E. Gorodetsky, Jiming Liu, Gerhard Weiss, Philip S. Yu
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The2009InternationalWorkshoponAgentsandDataMiningInteraction(ADMI
2009) was a joint event with AAMAS2009. In recentyears,agents and
data mining interaction (ADMI), or agent mining
forshort,hasemergedasaverypromisingresearch?eld.
Followingthesuccessof ADMI 2006 in Hong Kong, ADMI 2007 in San
Jose, and ADMI 2008 in Sydney, the ADMI 2009 workshop in Budapest
provided a premier forum for sharing research and engineering
results, as well as potential challenges and prospects encountered
in the synergy between agents and data mining. As usual, the ADMI
workshop encouraged and promoted theoretical and applied research
and development, which aims at: -
Exploitingagent-drivendatamininganddemonstratinghowintelligentagent
technology can contribute to critical data mining problems in
theory and practice - Improving data mining-driven agents and
showing how data mining can strengthen agent intelligence in
research and practical applications - Exploring the integration of
agents and data mining toward a super-intelligent information
processing and systems - Identifying challenges and directions for
future research on the synergy between agents and data mining ADMI
2009 featured two invited talks and twelve selected papers. The
?rst invited talk was on "Agents and Data Mining in
Bioinformatics," with the s- ond focusing on "Knowledge-Based
Reinforcement Learning. " The ten accepted papers are from seven
countries. A majority of submissions came from Eu- pean countries,
indicating the boom of ADMI research in Europe. In addition the two
invited papers, addressed fundamental issues related to
agent-driven data mining, data mining-driven agents, and agent
mining applications. The proceedings of the ADMI workshops will be
published as part of the LNAIseriesbySpringer.
WeappreciatethesupportofSpringer,andinparticular Alfred Hofmann.
This volume contains the postproceedings of the 1st International
Workshop on Computational Autonomy - Potential, Risks, Solutions
(AUTONOMY 2003), held at the 2nd International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and
Multi-agentSystems(AAMAS2003),July14,2003,Melbourne,Australia.Apart
from revised versions of the accepted workshop papers, we have
included invited contributions from leading experts in the ?eld.
With this, the present volume represents the ?rst comprehensive
survey of the state-of-the-art of research on autonomy, capturing
di?erent theories of autonomy, perspectives on autonomy in di?erent
kinds of agent-based systems, and practical approaches to dealing
with agent autonomy. Agent orientation refers to a software
development perspective that has evolved in the past 25 years in
the ?elds of computational agents and multiagent systems. The basic
notion underlying this perspective is that of a computational
agent, that is, an entity whose behavior deserves to be called
?exible, social, and autonomous. As an autonomous entity, an agent
possesses action choice and is at least to some extent capable of
deciding and acting under self-control. Through its emphasis on
autonomy, agent orientation signi?cantly di?ers from traditional
engineering perspectives such as structure orientation or object o-
entation. These perspectives are targeted on the development of
systems whose behavior is fully determined and controlled by
external units (e.g., by a p- grammer at design time and/or a user
at run time), and thus inherently fail to capture the notion of
autonomy.
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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering III - Third International Workshop, AOSE 2002, Bologna, Italy, July 15, 2002, Revised Papers and Invited Contributions (Paperback, 2003 ed.)
Fausto Giunchiglia, James Odell, Gerhard Weiss
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This state-of-the-art survey examines the credentials of agent-based approaches as a software engineering paradigm. The 15 revised full papers presented together with two invited articles were carefully selected from 49 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement for the Third International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE 2002, held in Bologna, Italy, during AAMAS 2002. The papers address all current issues in the field of software agents and multi-agent systems relevant for software engineering; they are organized in topical sections on - modeling, specification, and validation - patterns, architectures, and reuse - UML and agent systems - methodologies and tools - positions and perspectives
Since the 1980s, software agents and multi-agent systems have grown into what is now one of the most active areas of research and development activity in computing generally. One of the most important reasons for the current intensity of interest in the agent-based computing paradigm certainly is that the concept of an agent as an autonomous system, capable of interacting with other agents in order to satisfy its design objectives, is a natural one for software designers. This recognition has led to the growth of interest in agents as a new paradigm for software engineering.This book reflects the state of the art in the field by presenting 14 revised full papers accepted for the second workshop on this topic, AOSE 2001, together with five invited survey articles. The book offers topical sections on societies and organizations, protocols and interaction frameworks, UML and agent systems, agent-oriented requirements capture and specification, and analysis and design.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third
International Workshop on Cooperative Information Systems, CIA'99,
held in Uppsala, Sweden in July/August 1999.
The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and
selected from a total of 46 submissions. Also included are ten
invited contributions by leading experts. The volume is divided in
sections on information discovery and management on the Internet;
information agents on the Internet-prototypes systems and
applications; communication and collaboration, mobile information
agents; rational information agents for electronic business;
service mediation and negotiation; and adaptive personal
assistance.
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Cooperative Information Agents II. Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet - Second International Workshop, CIA'98, Paris, France, July 4-7, 1998, Proceedings (Paperback, 1998 ed.)
Matthias Klusch, Gerhard Weiss
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second
International Workshop on Cooperative Information Systems, CIA'98,
held in cognition with Agents World in July 1998 in Paris.
The book presents nine invited contributions together with 14
revised full papers selected from a total of 54 submissions. The
book is divided in parts on systems and applications; issues of
design, querying, and communication; rational cooperation and
electronic commerce; adaptive and collaborative information
gathering; and mobile information agents in the internet.
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Distributed Artificial Intelligence Meets Machine Learning Learning in Multi-Agent Environments - ECAI'96 Workshop LDAIS, Budapest, Hungary, August 13, 1996, ICMAS'96 Workshop LIOME, Kyoto, Japan, December 10, 1996 Selected Papers (Paperback, 1997 ed.)
Gerhard Weiss
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The complexity of systems studied in distributed artificial
intelligence (DAI), such as multi-agent systems, often makes it
extremely difficult or even impossible to correctly and completely
specify their behavioral repertoires and dynamics. There is broad
agreement that such systems should be equipped with the ability to
learn in order to improve their future performance autonomously.
The interdisciplinary cooperation of researchers from DAI and
machine learning (ML) has established a new and very active area of
research and development enjoying steadily increasing attention
from both communities. This state-of-the-art report documents
current and ongoing developments in the area of learning in DAI
systems. It is indispensable reading for anybody active in the area
and will serve as a valuable source of information.
This book is based on the workshop on Adaptation and Learning in
Multi-Agent Systems, held in conjunction with the International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI'95, in Montreal,
Canada in August 1995.
The 14 thoroughly reviewed revised papers reflect the whole scope
of current aspects in the field: they describe and analyze, both
experimentally and theoretically, new learning and adaption
approaches for situations in which several agents have to cooperate
or compete. Also included, and aimed at the novice reader, are a
comprehensive introductory survey on the area with 154 references
listed and a subject index. As the first book solely devoted to
this area, this volume documents the state of the art and is thus
indispensable for anyone active or interested in the field.
Essays examining the circulation and adaptation of German culture
in the United States during the long 19th century. Building on
recent trends in the humanities and especially on scholarship done
under the rubric of cultural transfer, this volume emphasizes the
processes by which Americans took up, responded to, and transformed
German cultural material for their own purposes. The fourteen
essays by scholars from the US and Germany treat such topics as
translation, the reading of German literature in America, the
adaptation of German ideas and educational ideals, the reception
and transformation of European genres of writing, and the status of
the "German" and the "European" in celebrations of American culture
and criticisms of American racism. The volume contributes to the
ongoing re-conception of American culture as significantly informed
by non-English-speaking European cultures. It also participates in
the efforts of historians and literary scholars to re-theorize the
construction of national cultures. Questions regarding hybridity,
cultural agency, and strategies of acculturation have long been at
the center of postcolonial studies, but as this volume
demonstrates, these phenomena are not merely operative in
encounters between colonizers and colonized: they are also
fundamental to the early American reception and appropriation of
German cultural materials. Contributors: Hinrich C. Seeba, Eric
Ames, Claudia Liebrand, Paul Michael Lutzeler, Kirsten Belgum,
Robert C. Holub, Jeffrey Grossman, Jeffrey L. Sammons, Linda Rugg,
Gerhild Scholz Williams, Gerhard Weiss, Lorie Vanchena. Lynne
Tatlock is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the
Humanities and Matt Erlin is Assistant Professor in the Department
of Germanic Languages and Literatures, both at Washington
University in St. Louis.
A real book on ethics, as Wittgenstein had it, if one could
conceive it in the first place, would be the book to destroy all
other books. Yet there is an increasing number of real-world
discourses in which ethical values are mobilized as justifications
for socio-political action while, in turn, moral problems are
becoming a topic of political negotiation. Although it will be
difficult to find systematic accounts of an absolute good or of
absolute values in these debates, it is equally difficult to
imagine them not being deeply informed by such considerations.
Rather than merely adding to the corpus of applied ethics on the
one hand or remaining in seemingly Wittgensteinian silence about
ethics on the other, many contributions to this volume explore the
reach of what can be said in ethical terms, while others provide
critical discussions of what is being said in various fields of
applied ethics and political philosophy under real-world power
relations. This volume collects invited contributions from the 35th
International Wittgenstein Symposium 2012 in Kirchberg am Wechsel,
Austria. Authors include: Alice Crary, Peter Dabrock, Rom Harre,
Agnes Heller, Jaakko Hintikka, Peter Koller, Anton Leist, Chantal
Mouffe, Julian Nida-Rumelin, Hans Sluga, David Stern, Gianni
Vattimo.
Innovation is increasingly recognized as a key factor in
environmental protection and balanced sustainable development
within the forestry sector.This volume provides a comprehensive
theoretical foundation for the analysis of innovation processes and
policies in a traditional, rural sector as well as presenting
empirical analyses of innovation processes from major innovation
areas. Territorial services of the forest sector are examined,
including various types of forest ecosystem services such as carbon
sequestration or recreation and wood value chains, including timber
frame construction and bioenergy.
Die Autoren geben eine Einfuhrung in Methoden und Tools fur die
agentenorientierte Softwareentwicklung. Zunachst wird das Konzept
der Agentenorientierung erlautert und das junge Gebiet der
agentenorientierten Softwareentwicklung im Uberblick vorgestellt.
Im Anschluss daran werden mehrere bekannte Methoden (Gaia, MASSIVE,
Zeus, Aalaadin, MaSE) und Tools (FIPA-OS, JADE, Zeus-Toolkit,
MadKit, agentTool) ausfuhrlich behandelt. Die Methoden und Tools
werden allgemein beschrieben, an einem einheitlichen Fallbeispiel
illustriert, und unter Verwendung verschiedener anwendungsnaher und
agentenspezifischer Kriterien bewertet."
The new edition of an introduction to multiagent systems that
captures the state of the art in both theory and practice, suitable
as textbook or reference. Multiagent systems are made up of
multiple interacting intelligent agents-computational entities to
some degree autonomous and able to cooperate, compete, communicate,
act flexibly, and exercise control over their behavior within the
frame of their objectives. They are the enabling technology for a
wide range of advanced applications relying on distributed and
parallel processing of data, information, and knowledge relevant in
domains ranging from industrial manufacturing to e-commerce to
health care. This book offers a state-of-the-art introduction to
multiagent systems, covering the field in both breadth and depth,
and treating both theory and practice. It is suitable for classroom
use or independent study. This second edition has been completely
revised, capturing the tremendous developments in multiagent
systems since the first edition appeared in 1999. Sixteen of the
book's seventeen chapters were written for this edition; all
chapters are by leaders in the field, with each author contributing
to the broad base of knowledge and experience on which the book
rests. The book covers basic concepts of computational agency from
the perspective of both individual agents and agent organizations;
communication among agents; coordination among agents; distributed
cognition; development and engineering of multiagent systems; and
background knowledge in logics and game theory. Each chapter
includes references, many illustrations and examples, and exercises
of varying degrees of difficulty. The chapters and the overall book
are designed to be self-contained and understandable without
additional material. Supplemental resources are available on the
book's Web site. Contributors Rafael Bordini, Felix Brandt, Amit
Chopra, Vincent Conitzer, Virginia Dignum, Jurgen Dix, Ed Durfee,
Edith Elkind, Ulle Endriss, Alessandro Farinelli, Shaheen Fatima,
Michael Fisher, Nicholas R. Jennings, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Evangelos
Markakis, Lin Padgham, Julian Padget, Iyad Rahwan, Talal Rahwan,
Alex Rogers, Jordi Sabater-Mir, Yoav Shoham, Munindar P. Singh,
Kagan Tumer, Karl Tuyls, Wiebe van der Hoek, Laurent Vercouter,
Meritxell Vinyals, Michael Winikoff, Michael Wooldridge, Shlomo
Zilberstein
Um Erkenntnisse uber Verlauf und Richtung der
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Beteiligten einzuleiten, der zu gemeinsamen Initiativen fur soziale
Innovationen fuhrt.
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