Titlebook: Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV; 4th International Wo Andrea Omicini,Paolo Petta,Jeremy Pitt Conference proceedings 2004 Sprin

STING

Michael G. Webb,Martin J. Ricketts of software. The leading edge of such a research is component-based software engineering. This paper reviews agents and multiagent systems from the point of view of reusability and it provides a formalization of reusability that exploits some very basic agent-oriented concepts. In particular, we mo

傲慢人

不透明

William J. Baumol,Wallace E. Oatesrone to failure, which may cause a system failure. As a result, agents may become unavailable and some roles may be left unfilled (thereafter called missing roles). Unfortunately, there are not always backup agents ready to replace unavailable ones. In this case, the MAS must reorganize itself in or

延期

The Birth of the Common Agricultural Policyto play a similar role in the MAS (multi-agent system) context. In this work we describe our experiences in the identification, production and application of patterns for agents. Some patterns are described together with the classification criteria and documentation approach we adopt. Upon them, we

套索

Emergence of Collective Behaviour and Problem Solvinglearned for both understanding and designing complex software systems. Complex systems are described as sets of non-linearly interacting components making multi-agent systems particularly suitable for modelling and designing such systems. The notion of emergence is explicited and used to derive ways

Aerophagia

托人看管

Using Swarm Intelligence in Linda Systemsheir success comes from the fact that agents are simple and the interaction with the environment and neighboring agents is local in nature. We describe how swarm intelligence can be used in the implementation of a Linda-based system called .. We argue that SwarmLinda achieves many desired characteri

Insatiable

侵害

A Liberal Approach to Openness in Societies of Agents. agent technology through its relationship with the modeling of micro economy and the concept of expected utility. Then, some of the features of an agent society are enhanced by imposing security and validation requirements. We show that a societal concept from Sociology can be implemented through m

挖掘

Welfare Engineering in Multiagent Systemsbution of resources amongst the members of a society affects the well-being of that society as a whole. In multiagent systems research, the concept of social welfare is usually given a utilitarian interpretation, i.e. whatever increases the average welfare of the agents inhabiting a society is taken