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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
Preface
No full textPreface 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
Nucleocytoplasmic Transport of RNAs and RNA-Protein Complexes
No full textRNAs and ribonucleoprotein complexes (RNPs) play key roles in mediating and regulating gene expression. In eukaryotes, most RNAs are transcribed, processed and assembled with proteins in the nucleus and then either function in the cytoplasm or also undergo a cytoplasmic phase in their biogenesis. This compartmentalization ensures that sequential steps in gene expression and RNP production are performed in the correct order and it allows important quality control mechanisms that prevent the involvement of aberrant RNAs/RNPs in these cellular pathways. The selective exchange of RNAs/RNPs between the nucleus and cytoplasm is enabled by nuclear pore complexes, which function as gateways between these compartments. RNA/RNP transport is facilitated by a range of nuclear transport receptors and adaptors, which are specifically recruited to their cargos and mediate interactions with nucleoporins to allow directional translocation through nuclear pore complexes. While some transport factors are only responsible for the export/import of a certain class of RNA/RNP, others are multifunctional and, in the case of large RNPs, several export factors appear to work together to bring about export. Recent structural studies have revealed aspects of the mechanisms employed by transport receptors to enable specific cargo recognition, and genome-wide approaches have provided the first insights into the diverse composition of pre-mRNPs during export. Furthermore, the regulation of RNA/RNP export is emerging as an important means to modulate gene expression under stress conditions and in disease. (c) 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd
Processes Engineering and AOSE
No full textAgent-oriented methodologies like ADELFE, ASPECS, INGENIAS, MaSE, PASSI, Prometheus, SODA, or Tropos propose development formulae with their own specificities. Analyzing them is the responsibility of the Process Engineering discipline, which is currently one hot research line in software engineering. The analysis makes it possible to construct a catalogue of current processes, assessing their utility and enabling their reuse. Additionally, the study may lead to the modification or improvement of existing development processes, perhaps combining fragments from solutions coming from the different methodologies.
In this paper, we first provide a general view over the area of Software Process Engineering (SPE), then focus on the most recent developments of SPE in the Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) field
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)
No full textL’Œil de Victor Hugo
No full textInternational audiencePrésentation de Guy Rosa et Nicole Savy, textes de Jean-Marc Hovasse, David Charles, Dominique Poulot, Bruno Chenique, Stéphane Guégan, Ségolène Le Men, Valérie Sueur-Hermel, Marie-Laure Prévost, Pierre-Marc de Biasi, Georges Didi-Huberman, Anne Ubersfeld, Stéphane Desvignes, Chantal Brière, Delphine Gleizes, Ludmila Charles-Wurtz, Myriam Roman, Paule Petitier, Claude Millet, Nicole Savy, Jacques Neefs, Bernard Vouilloux, François Vanoosthuyse, Pierre Laforgue, Guy Rosa, Jean-Claude Fizaine, Max Milner
L’Œil de Victor Hugo
No full textInternational audiencePrésentation de Guy Rosa et Nicole Savy, textes de Jean-Marc Hovasse, David Charles, Dominique Poulot, Bruno Chenique, Stéphane Guégan, Ségolène Le Men, Valérie Sueur-Hermel, Marie-Laure Prévost, Pierre-Marc de Biasi, Georges Didi-Huberman, Anne Ubersfeld, Stéphane Desvignes, Chantal Brière, Delphine Gleizes, Ludmila Charles-Wurtz, Myriam Roman, Paule Petitier, Claude Millet, Nicole Savy, Jacques Neefs, Bernard Vouilloux, François Vanoosthuyse, Pierre Laforgue, Guy Rosa, Jean-Claude Fizaine, Max Milner
L’Œil de Victor Hugo
No full textInternational audiencePrésentation de Guy Rosa et Nicole Savy, textes de Jean-Marc Hovasse, David Charles, Dominique Poulot, Bruno Chenique, Stéphane Guégan, Ségolène Le Men, Valérie Sueur-Hermel, Marie-Laure Prévost, Pierre-Marc de Biasi, Georges Didi-Huberman, Anne Ubersfeld, Stéphane Desvignes, Chantal Brière, Delphine Gleizes, Ludmila Charles-Wurtz, Myriam Roman, Paule Petitier, Claude Millet, Nicole Savy, Jacques Neefs, Bernard Vouilloux, François Vanoosthuyse, Pierre Laforgue, Guy Rosa, Jean-Claude Fizaine, Max Milner
L’Œil de Victor Hugo
No full textInternational audiencePrésentation de Guy Rosa et Nicole Savy, textes de Jean-Marc Hovasse, David Charles, Dominique Poulot, Bruno Chenique, Stéphane Guégan, Ségolène Le Men, Valérie Sueur-Hermel, Marie-Laure Prévost, Pierre-Marc de Biasi, Georges Didi-Huberman, Anne Ubersfeld, Stéphane Desvignes, Chantal Brière, Delphine Gleizes, Ludmila Charles-Wurtz, Myriam Roman, Paule Petitier, Claude Millet, Nicole Savy, Jacques Neefs, Bernard Vouilloux, François Vanoosthuyse, Pierre Laforgue, Guy Rosa, Jean-Claude Fizaine, Max Milner
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