Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III: 3rd International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, CEEMAS 2003, Prague, Czech [Paperback]

 

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Central and European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, CEEMAS 2003, held in Prague, Czech Republic in June 2003.

The 58 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on formal methods, social knowledge and meta-reasoning, negotiation, and policies, ontologies and languages, planning, coalitions, evolution and emergent behaviour, platforms, protocols, security, real-time and synchronization, industrial applications, e-business and virtual enterprises, and Web and mobile agents.

Invited Talks.- Making Agents Acceptable to People.- Coalition Formation: Towards Feasible Solutions Abstract of a Key-Note Speech.- Coalition Task Support Using I-X and ?I-N-C-A?.- Formal Methods.- Towards Motivation-Based Decisions for Worth Goals.- Modal Structure for Agents Interaction Based on Concurrent Actions.- A Multi-agent Modal Language for Concurrency with Non-communicating Agents.- Self-Synchronization of Cooperative Agents in a Distributed Environment.- MIP-Nets: A Compositional Model of Multiagent Interaction.- Social Knowledge & Meta-Reasoning.- Calibrating Collective Commitments.- Abstract Architecture for Meta-reasoning in Multi-agent Systems.- Balancing Individual Capabilities and Social Peer Pressure for Role Adoption.- From Social Agents to Multi-agent Systems: Preliminary Report.- Negotiation & Policies.- DAML-Based Policy Enforcement for Semantic Data Transformation and Filtering in Multi-agent Systems.- Architectures for Negotiating Agents.- RIO : Roles, Interactions and Organizations.- Conversation Mining in Multi-agent Systems.- Ontologies & Languages.- The Knowledge Market: Agent-Mediated Knowledge Sharing.- Ontology of Cooperating Agents by Means of Knowledge Components.- MappinglS=