Engineering Self-Organising Systems: 4th International Workshop, ESOA 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers / Edition 1

by Sven Brueckner, Salima Hassas, Mark Jelasity, Daniel Yamins

Overview

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications, ESOA 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan in May 2006. This was an associated event of AAMAS 2006, the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. The seven full papers presented together with six invited papers were carefully selected for inclusion in the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540698678
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	03/05/2007
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #4335
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Overall Design and Fundations.- Hybrid Multi-agent Systems: Integrating Swarming and BDI Agents.- An Analysis and Design Concept for Self-organization in Holonic Multi-agent Systems.- Design Patterns for Decentralised Coordination in Self-organising Emergent Systems.- Measuring Stigmergy: The Case of Foraging Ants.- Algorithms and Techniques.- Dynamic Decentralized Any-Time Hierarchical Clustering.- Behaviosites: A Novel Paradigm for Affecting Distributed Behavior.- Applications.- Programming Modular Robots with the TOTA Middleware.- ASOS: An Adaptive Self-organizing Prool for Surveillance and Routing in Sensor Networks.- Towards the Control of Emergence by the Coordination of Decentralized Agent Activity for the Resource Sharing Problem.- Self-organization and Evolutionary Computing.- Reinforcement Learning for Online Control of Evolutionary Algorithms.- Greedy Cheating Liars and the Fools Who Believe Them.- Evolution and Hypercomputing in Global Distributed Evolvable Virtual Machines Environment.- A Decentralised Car Traffic Control System Simulation Using Local Message Propagation Optimised with a Genetic Algorithm.