Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of research on multi-agent systems : semantics and dynamics of organizational models / Virginia Dignum [editor].

Publication

Hershey : Information Science Reference, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors

Dignum, Virginia.

Description

xxvi, 602 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

"This book provide a comprehensive view of current developments in agent organizations as a paradigm for both the modeling of human organizations, and for designing effective artificial organizations"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

• Intelligent agents (Computer software)
• Self-organizing systems

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. I. The Role of Organization in Agent Systems / Virginia Dignum -- Sect. I. Methodologies and Frameworks for Agent Organizations -- Ch. II. Modelling Dimensions for Agent Organizations / Luciano R. Coutinho, Jaime S. Sichman and Olivier Boissier -- Ch. III. Towards an Integral Approach of Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems / Jacques Ferber Tiberiu Stratulat and John Tranier -- Ch. IV. OMACS: A Framework for Adaptive, Complex Systems / Scott A. DeLoach -- Ch. V. Hermes: Designing Flexible and Robust Agent Interactions / Christopher Cheong and Michael Winikoff -- Sect. II. Formal Approaches for Agent Organizations -- Ch. VI. A Formal Framework for Organization Modeling and Analysis / Viara Popova and Alexei Sharpanskykh -- Ch. VII. Describing Agent Societies: A Declarative Semantics / Maksim Tsvetovat -- Ch. VIII. Structural Aspects of Organizations / David Grossi and Frank Dignum -- Ch. IX. A Logic for Agent Organizations / Virginia Dignum and Frank Dignum -- Sect. III. Interactions in Organizations -- Ch. X. Grounding Organizations in the Minds of the Agents / Cristiano Castelfranchi -- Ch. XI. Modelling Interactions via Commitments and Expectations / Paolo Torroni, P.?nar Yolum, Munindar P. Singh, Marco Alberti, Federico Chesani, Marco Gavanelli, Evelina Lamma and Paola Mello -- Ch. XII. Communications for Agent-Based Human Team Support / Gita Sukthankar, Katia Sycara, Joseph A. Giampapa and Christopher Burnett -- Ch. XIII. Autonomous Agents Adopting Organizational Rules / Bob van der Vecht, Frank Dignum and John-Jules Ch. Meyer -- Sect. IV. Norms and Institutions -- Ch. XIV. Specifying Artificial Institutions in the Event Calculus / Nicoletta Fornara and Marco Colombetti -- Ch. XV. Verifying Organizations Regulated by Institutions / Francesco Vigano and Marco Colombetti -- Ch. XVI. A Programming Language for Normative Multi-Agent Systems / Mehdi Dastani, Nick A. M. Tinnemeier and John-Jules Ch. Meyer -- Sect. V. Organizational Dynamics -- Ch. XVII. A Minimal Dynamical MAS Organization Model / Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa and Gracaliz Pereira Dimuro -- Ch. XVIII. A Framework for Dynamic Agent Organizations / Shaheen Fatima and Michael Wooldridge -- Ch. XIX. Dynamic Specifications for Norm-Governed Systems / Alexander Artikis, Dimosthenis Kaponis and Jeremy Pitt -- Ch. XX. Interactions Between Formal and Informal Organizational Networks / Marco Lamieri and Diana Mangalagiu -- Sect. VI. Applications -- Ch. XXI. Personal Assistants for Human Organizations / Steven Okamoto, Katia Sycara and Paul Scerri -- Ch. XXII. Organizational Self-Design in Worth-Oriented Domains / Sachin Kamboj and Keith S. Decker -- Ch. XXIII. A Formal Petri Net Based Model for Team Monitoring / Olivier Bonnet-Torres and Catherine Tessier.

ISBN

• 9781605662565 (hardcover)
• 1605662569 (hardcover)
• 9781605662572 (ebook)
• 1605662577 (ebook)

LCCN

• 2008033935
• 40016513640

OCLC

• ocn237402683
• 237402683
• SCSB-5462324

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries