Intelligent Agents VI. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages: 6th International Workshop, ATAL'99 Orlando, Florida, USA, July 15-17, 1999 Proceedings

by Nicholas R. Jennings (Editor)

Section Agent Theories.- Reasoning about Visibility, Perception, and Knowledge.- A Spectrum of Modes of Knowledge Sharing between Agents.- Observability-based Nested Belief Computation for Multiagent Systems and Its Formalization.- On the Correctness of PRS Agent Programs.- Incorporating Uncertainty in Agent Commitments.- Section Agent and System Architectures.- Rational Cognition in OSCAR.- Agents for Information Broadcasting.- On the Evaluation of Agent Architectures.- Toward a Methodology for AI Architecture Comparing Soar and CLIPS.- Reactive-System Approaches to Agent Architectures.- A Planning Component for RETSINA Agents.- A Scalable Agent Location Mechanism.- Section Agent Languages.- Reactivity in a Logic-Based Robot Programming Framework.- Extending ConGolog to Allow Partial Ordering.- Operational Semantics of Multi-Agent Organizations.- Open Multi-Agent Agent Communication and Integration.- Toward Team-Oriented Programming.- Section Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.- Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.- Multiagent System The Coordination Viewpoint.- Using Multi-context Systems to Engineer Executable Agents.- Structuring BDI Agents in Functional Clusters.- Towards a Distributed, Environment-Centered Agent Framework.- Section Decision Making in a Social Context.- Variable Sociability in Agent-Based Decision Making.- Cooperation and Group Utility.- Relating Quantified Motivations for Organizationally Situated Agents.- The Role and the Impact of Preferences on Multiagent Interaction.- Deliberative Normative Principles and Architecture.

396 pages, Paperback

First published March 30, 2000