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5th International Workshop "Engineering Societies in the Agents World " (ESAW 2004)
No full textFifth International Workshop Engineering Societies in the Agents World
20-22 October 2004
Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
http://www.irit.fr/ ESAW04
Organisers
Marie-Pierre Gleizes (Local Chair), Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli
Aims & Scope
Software systems are undergoing dramatic changes in scale and complexity. Whether at a planetary scale with Web-based systems or at a microscopic scale with nanotechnologies, there is a huge amount of components interacting dynamically. Whatever the component granularity is, their interactions provide us with increasingly complex, context-aware, and content-adaptive services and functionalities. There is therefore a strong qualitative impact on the nature, substance and style of interactions between components. At the macro-level the system is viewed as the result of the interactions between micro-level components. These interactions will occur in patterns and via mechanisms that can hardly be grasped in terms of classical models of interaction. To some extent, inspiration should be taken from natural systems and societies for future software systems will exhibit characteristics closer to these than to mechanical systems and traditional software architectures. For example, future systems may need to have self-assembling capabilities in order to enable the emergence of the right collective behaviour. This situation poses exciting challenges to computer scientists and software engineers. Already, software agents and multi-agent systems are recognised as both useful abstractions and effective technologies for the modelling and building of complex distributed applications. However, little is done with regard to effective and methodical development of complex software systems in terms of multi-agent societies. An urgent need exists for novel approaches to software modelling and software engineering that can support the successful deployment of software systems made up of a massive number of autonomous components. We need to enable designers to control and predict the behaviour of their systems, but alternatively to enable emergent global system properties and discovered functionality to be commonplace. It is very likely that such innovations will exploit lessons from a variety of different scientific disciplines, such as sociology, economics, organisation science, modern thermodynamics, and biology. Furthermore, since these systems will be ubiquitous, persistent, and pervasive, i.e. embedded in the real world, we need to know what frameworks of law will facilitate their regulation. The sequel to successful editions since 2000, ESAW'04 remains committed to the use of the notion of multi-agent systems as seed for animated, constructive, and highly inter-disciplinary discussions about technologies, methodologies, and tools for the engineering of complex distributed applications. While the workshop places an emphasis on practical engineering issues, it also welcomes theoretical, philosophical, and empirical contributions, provided that they clearly document their connection to the core applied issues. Prospective papers about new paradigms, theories, models are also appreciated
Engineering Societies in the Agents World V
No full textThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2004, held in Toulouse, France, in October 2004.
The 23 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper went through two rounds of reviewing and improvement and were carefully selected from 48 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on roles, organizations, and institutions for agents; social issues in multi-agent systems; cooperation and collective behavior in agent societies; methodologies and platforms for agent-oriented engineering; agent-oriented simulation; and models for multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop "Engineering Societies in the Agents World" (ESAW 2004)
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Get PDFPreface to the Post-proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW 2004), held in Toulouse, France, 20-22 October 2004. The volume contains revised selected from the workshop, as well as new invited papers
Ingénierie des systèmes multi-agents : Actes des 7ème journées francophones d'intélligence artificielle et systèmes Multi-agents / JFIADSMA'99
No full textInternational audienceLa puissance considérable des ordinateurs actuels, le développement d'applications réseaux, les collecticiels ou la réutilisabilité sont quelques exemples qui justifient concrètement qu'aujourd'hui, la conception de systèmes artificiels comme des tout insécables et parfaitement contrôlables est inadaptée dans certaines situations. C'est une raison du succès grandissant des systèmes à agents et plus encore des systèmes multi-agents. Sommaire :Chapitre 1: Conférences invitéesChapitre 2: Ingénierie des SMAChapitre 3: ModélisationChapitre 4: Les interactions dans les systèmes multi-agentsChapitre 5: Apprentissage et représentation de connaissancesChapitre 6: Modèles biologiques et SMAChapitre 7: La robotiqque et les systèmes multi-agentsChapitre 8: ApplicationsChapitre 9: Poster
Ingénierie des systèmes multi-agents : Actes des 7ème journées francophones d'intélligence artificielle et systèmes Multi-agents / JFIADSMA'99
No full textInternational audienceLa puissance considérable des ordinateurs actuels, le développement d'applications réseaux, les collecticiels ou la réutilisabilité sont quelques exemples qui justifient concrètement qu'aujourd'hui, la conception de systèmes artificiels comme des tout insécables et parfaitement contrôlables est inadaptée dans certaines situations. C'est une raison du succès grandissant des systèmes à agents et plus encore des systèmes multi-agents. Sommaire :Chapitre 1: Conférences invitéesChapitre 2: Ingénierie des SMAChapitre 3: ModélisationChapitre 4: Les interactions dans les systèmes multi-agentsChapitre 5: Apprentissage et représentation de connaissancesChapitre 6: Modèles biologiques et SMAChapitre 7: La robotiqque et les systèmes multi-agentsChapitre 8: ApplicationsChapitre 9: Poster
Ingénierie des systèmes multi-agents : Actes des 7ème journées francophones d'intélligence artificielle et systèmes Multi-agents / JFIADSMA'99
No full textInternational audienceLa puissance considérable des ordinateurs actuels, le développement d'applications réseaux, les collecticiels ou la réutilisabilité sont quelques exemples qui justifient concrètement qu'aujourd'hui, la conception de systèmes artificiels comme des tout insécables et parfaitement contrôlables est inadaptée dans certaines situations. C'est une raison du succès grandissant des systèmes à agents et plus encore des systèmes multi-agents. Sommaire :Chapitre 1: Conférences invitéesChapitre 2: Ingénierie des SMAChapitre 3: ModélisationChapitre 4: Les interactions dans les systèmes multi-agentsChapitre 5: Apprentissage et représentation de connaissancesChapitre 6: Modèles biologiques et SMAChapitre 7: La robotiqque et les systèmes multi-agentsChapitre 8: ApplicationsChapitre 9: Poster
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering XI: 11th International Workshop, AOSE XI, Toronto, Canada, May 10-11, 2010, Revised Selected Papers
No full textInternational audienceSince the mid 1980s, software agents and multi-agent systems have grown into a very active area of research and also commercial development activity. One of the limiting factors in industry take-up of agent-technology, however, is the lack of adequate software engineering support. The Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Workshop, AOSE, focuses on the synergies and cross fertilization between software engineering and agent research. This volume presents both thoroughly revised selected papers from the AOSE 2010 workshop held at AAMAS 2010 in Toronto, Canada in May 2010 as well as invited articles by leading researchers in the field. The papers cover a broad range of topics related to software engineering and agent-based systems, with particular attention to the integration of concepts and techniques from multi-agent systems with conventional engineering approaches on the one hand, and to the integration of agent-oriented software engineering and methodologies with conventional engineering processes on the other hand
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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