Monitoring, Security, and Rescue Techniques in Multiagent Systems [Paperback]

In todays society the issue of security has become a crucial one. This volume brings together contributions on the use of knowledge-based technology in security applications by the worlds leading researchers in the field.

In todays society the issue of security has become a crucial one. The use of knowledge-based technology in security applications emerges with important applications in monitoring, control, crisis, and rescue management. This volume contains extended and improved versions of selected contributions presented at the International Workshop Monitoring, Security and Rescue Techniques in Multiagent Systems (MSRAS 2004) held in Plock, Poland, June 7-9, 2004, bringing together the worlds leading researchers in the field.

Foundations and Methods.- Flow Graphs, their Fusion and Data Analysis.- Approximation Spaces for Hierarchical Intelligent Behavioral System Models.- Distributed Adaptive Control: Beyond Single-Instant, Discrete Control Variables.- Multi-agent Planning for Autonomous Agents Coordination.- Creating Common Beliefs in Rescue Situations.- Coevolutionary Processes for Strategic Decisions.- Automatic Proofs of Protocols via Program Transformation.- Mereological Foundations to Approximate Reasoning.- Data Security and Null Value Imputation in Distributed Information Systems.- Basic Principles and Foundations of Information Monitoring Systems.- Modelling Unreliable and Untrustworthy Agent Behaviour.- Nearest Neighbours without k.- Classifiers Based on Approximate Reasoning Schemes.- Towards Rough Applicability of Rules.- On the Computer-Assisted Reasoning about Rough Sets.- Similarity-Based Data Reduction and Classification.- Decision Trees and Reducts for Distributed Decision Tables.- Learning Concept Approximation from Uncertain Decision Tables.- In Search for Action Rules of the Lowest Cost.- Circularity in Rule Knowledge Bases Detection using Decision Unit Approach.- Feedforward Concept Networks.- Exteló`