Programming Multi-Agent Systems 4th International Workshop, ProMAS 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bordini, Rafael H. (Editor), Dastani, Mehdi (Editor), Dix, Jürgen (Editor), Seghrouchni, Amal El Fallah (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4411
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Software engineering.; Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Computer logic.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computer Communication Networks.; Software Engineering.; Logics and Meanings of Programs.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.

Table of Contents:

• Invited Papers
• A Self-healing Approach to Designing and Deploying Complex, Distributed and Concurrent Software Systems
• Using Peer-to-Peer Protocols to Enable Implicit Communication in a BDI Agent Architecture
• I
• Asimovian Multiagents: Applying Laws of Robotics to Teams of Humans and Agents
• Persistent Architecture for Context Aware Lightweight Multi-agent System
• Architectural Design of Component-Based Agents: A Behavior-Based Approach
• II
• Comparing Apples with Oranges: Evaluating Twelve Paradigms of Agency
• Augmenting BDI Agents with Deliberative Planning Techniques
• ALBA: A Generic Library for Programming Mobile Agents with Prolog
• Bridging Agent Theory and Object Orientation: Agent-Like Communication Among Objects
• Adding Knowledge Updates to 3APL
• III
• Validation of BDI Agents
• A Tool Architecture to Verify Properties of Multiagent System at Runtime
• On the Application of Clustering Techniques to Support Debugging Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems
• Debugging Agents in Agent Factory.