Engineering Societies in the Agents World VII

Engineering of Multi-agent Systems.- “It’s Not Just Goals All the Way Down” – “It’s Activities All the Way Down”.- The Construction of Multi-agent Systems as an Engineering Discipline.- Current Issues in Multi-Agent Systems Development.- Architecture-Centric Software Development of Situated Multiagent Systems.- Organization Oriented Programming: From Closed to Open Organizations.- Analysis, Design, Development and Verification of Agent Societies.- Modelling and Executing Complex and Dynamic Business Processes by Reification of Agent Interactions.- Model Driven Development of Multi-Agent Systems with Repositories of Social Patterns.- A Norm-Governed Systems Perspective of Ad Hoc Networks.- Interaction and Coordination in Agent Societies.- A Definition of Exceptions in Agent-Oriented Computing.- Toward an Ontology of Regulation: Socially-Based Support for Coordination in Human and Machine Joint Activity.- An Algorithm for Conflict Resolution in Regulated Compound Activities.- Modeling the Interaction Between Semantic Agents and Semantic Web Services Using MDA Approach.- Formal Modelling of a Coordination System: From Practice to Theory, and Back Again.- Autonomic Agent Societies.- Using Constraints and Process Algebra for Specification of First-Class Agent Interaction Protocols.- Dynamic Specifications in Norm-Governed Open Computational Societies.- Enhancing Self-organising Emergent Systems Design with Simulation.- Adaptation of Autonomic Electronic Institutions Through Norms and Institutional Agents.- Managing Resources in Constrained Environments with Autonomous Agents.- Trust in Agent Societies.- Towards a Computational Model of Creative Societies Using Curious Design Agents.- Privacy Management in User-Centred Multi-agent Systems.- Effective Use of Organisational Abstractions for Confidence Models.- Competence Checking for the Global E-Service Society Using Games.