Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV

Chapter 1 Emergence of Collective Behaviour and Problem Solving

Chapter 2 Social Order and Adaptability in Animal and Human Cultures as Analogues for Agent Communities: Toward a Policy-Based Approach

Chapter 3 Using Swarm Intelligence in Linda Systems

Chapter 4 Engineering Democracy in Open Agent Systems

Chapter 5 A Liberal Approach to Openness in Societies of Agents.

Chapter 6 Welfare Engineering in Multiagent Systems

Chapter 7 Dynamics of Collective Attitudes during Teamwork

Chapter 8 Privacy-Aware Mobile Agent: Protecting Privacy in Open Systems by Modelling Social Behaviour of Software Agents

Chapter 9 Interaction Monitoring and Termination Detection for Agent Societies: Preliminary Results

Chapter 10 Competition, Cooperation, and Authorization

Chapter 11 Competent Agents and Customising Protocols

Chapter 12 Coordination and Conversation Protocols in Open Multi-agent Systems

Chapter 13 MAS Organization within a Coordination Infrastructure: Experiments in TuCSoN

Chapter 14 Adaptability Patterns of Multi-agent Organizations

Chapter 15 Integrating and Orchestrating Services upon an Agent Coordination Infrastructure

Chapter 16 Formalizing the Reusability of Software Agents

Chapter 17 A Design Complexity Evaluation Framework for Agent-Based System Engineering Methodologies

Chapter 18 Laying Down the Foundations of an Agent Modelling Methodology for Fault-Tolerant Multi-agent Systems

Chapter 19 Patterns Reuse in the PASSI Methodology

Chapter 20 Designing Agents’ Behaviors and Interactions within the Framework of ADELFE Methodology

Chapter 21 Supporting Tropos Concepts in Agent OPEN

Chapter 22 Dynamic Analysis of Agents’ Behaviour – Combining ALife, Visualization and AI

Chapter 23 Advancing Profile Use in Agent Societies

Chapter 24 A Computational Framework for Social Agents in Agent Mediated E-commerce

Chapter 25 You’ve Got Mail From Your Agent: A Location and Context Sensitive Agent System