Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems: 8th International Workshop, CLIMA VIII, Porto, Portugal, September 10-11, 2007. Revised Selected and Invited Papers / Edition 1

by Fariba Sadri, Ken Satoh

Overview

Multi-agent systems are communities of problem-solving entities that can exhibit varying degrees of intelligence. They can perceive and react to their environment, they can have individual or joint goals, for which they can plan and execute actions. Work on such systems integrates many technologies and concepts in - artificial intelligence and other areas of computing as well as other disciplines. The agent paradigm has become widely popular and widely used in recent years, due to its applicability to a large range of domains, from search engines to edu- tional aids to electronic commerce and trade, e-procurement, recommendation systems, simulation and routing, and ambient intelligence, to cite only some. Computational logic provides a well-defined, general, and rigorous framework for studying syntax, semantics, and procedures for various capabilities and fu- tionalities of individual agents, as well as interaction amongst agents in multi-agent systems. It also provides a well-defined and rigorous framework for implemen- tions, environments, tools, and standards, and for linking together specification and verification of properties of individual agents and multi-agent systems. The CLIMA workshop series was founded to provide a forum for discussing, presenting, and promoting computational logic-based approaches in the design, development, analysis, and application of multi-agent systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540888321
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	11/21/2008
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #5056
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	299
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Invited Paper.- Plan-Coordination Mechanisms and the Price of Autonomy.- Regular Papers.- Actions with Failures in Interval Temporal Logic.- A Logic for Reasoning about Rational Agents.- Formal Modelling of Emotions in BDI Agents.- ‘What I Fail to Do Today, I Have to Do Tomorrow’: A Logical Study of the Propagation of Obligations.- Proof Theory for Distributed Knowledge.- EVOLP: Tranformation-Based Semantics.- Language Constructs for Multi-agent Programming.- -Tropos.- A Heuristic Approach to P2P Negotiation.- Towards Context Sensitive Defeasible Rules.- Fuzzy Argumentation for Trust.- Assumption-Based Argumentation for Selection and Composition of Services.- A Complete Quantified Epistemic Logic for Reasoning about Message Passing Systems.- Analytic Cut-Free Tableaux for Regular Modal Logics of Agent Beliefs.- System Description Paper.- EVOLP: An Implementation.