Table of Contents:
  • The CoMoMAS methodology and environment for multi-agent system development / Norbert Glaser
  • Design patterns for the development of multi-agent systems / Elizabeth A. Kendall and Margaret T. Malkoun
  • Modelling extendible mobile agents / Dickson Lukose
  • Making and breaking engagements : an operational analysis of agent relationships / Mark d'Inverno and Michael Luck
  • Cloning for intelligent adaptive information agents / Keith Decker, Katia Sycara, and Mike Williamson
  • ACACIA : an agency based collaboration framework for heterogeneous multi-agent systems / Wilfred C. Jamison
  • A multi-agent cooperative reasoning system for amalgamated knowledge bases / Lifeng He ... [et al.]
  • Detecting conflicts in multi-agent systems / Love Ekenberg
  • Persuasion as a form of inter-agent negotiation / Chris Reed ... [et al.]
  • Methodologies of solution synthesis in distributed expert systems / Minjie Zhang and Chengqi Zhang
  • Implementing an automated reasoning system for multi-agent knowledge and time / Lifeng He ... [et al.]
  • Application of MAS in implementing rational IP routers on the priced internet / Hongxia Yang and Chengqi Zhang
  • A sentinel approach to fault handling in multi-agent systems / Staffan Hägg.