Multi-Agent Systems Methodologies and Applications Second Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Cairns, QLD, Australia, August 27, 1996, Selected Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zhang, Chengqi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dickson, Lukose (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1997.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 1286
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence.

This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-workshop proceedings originating from the Second Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, held in Cairns, QLD, Australia, in August 1996, as a satellite meeting of PRICAI'96. The 13 revised full papers presented have been selec...

Table of Contents:

• The CoMoMAS methodology and environment for multi-agent system development
• Design patterns for the development of multiagent systems
• Modelling extendible mobile agents
• Making and breaking engagements: An operational analysis of agent relationships
• Cloning for intelligent adaptive information agents
• ACACIA: An agency based collaboration framework for heterogeneous multiagent systems
• A multi-agent cooperative reasoning system for amalgamated knowledge bases
• Detecting conflicts in multi-agent systems
• Peruasion as a form of inter-agent negotiation
• Methodologies of solution synthesis in distributed expert systems
• Implementing an automated reasoning system for multi-agent knowledge and time
• Application of MAS in implementing rational IP routers on the priced internet
• A sentinel approach to fault handling in multi-agent systems.