Agent Environments for Multi-Agent Systems IV: 4th International Workshop, E4MAS 2014 - 10 Years Later, Paris, France, May 6, 2014, Revised Selected and Invited Papers PDF
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Danny Weyns Fabien Michel (Eds.) 8 6 0 Agent Environments 9 I A for Multi-Agent Systems IV N L 4th International Workshop, E4MAS 2014 – 10 Years Later Paris, France, May 6, 2014 Revised Selected and Invited Papers 123 fi Lecture Notes in Arti cial Intelligence 9068 Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNAI Series Editors Randy Goebel University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Yuzuru Tanaka Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Wolfgang Wahlster DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany LNAI Founding Series Editor Joerg Siekmann DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/1244 Danny Weyns Fabien Michel (Eds.) (cid:129) Agent Environments for Multi-Agent Systems IV 4th International Workshop, E4MAS 2014 - 10 Years Later Paris, France, May 6, 2014 Revised Selected and Invited Papers 123 Editors Danny Weyns FabienMichel Department ofComputer Science LIRMM UMR 5506 Linnaeus University UniversitéMontpellier Växjö Montpellier Sweden France ISSN 0302-9743 ISSN 1611-3349 (electronic) Lecture Notesin Artificial Intelligence ISBN 978-3-319-23849-4 ISBN978-3-319-23850-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-23850-0 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2015948703 LNCSSublibrary:SL7–ArtificialIntelligence SpringerChamHeidelbergNewYorkDordrechtLondon ©SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland2015 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartofthe material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodologynow knownorhereafterdeveloped. Theuseofgeneraldescriptivenames,registerednames,trademarks,servicemarks,etc.inthispublication doesnotimply,evenintheabsenceofaspecificstatement,thatsuchnamesareexemptfromtherelevant protectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreeforgeneraluse. Thepublisher,theauthorsandtheeditorsaresafetoassumethattheadviceandinformationinthisbookare believedtobetrueandaccurateatthedateofpublication.Neitherthepublishernortheauthorsortheeditors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissionsthatmayhavebeenmade. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerInternationalPublishingAGSwitzerlandispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia (www.springer.com) Preface Ten years ago, researchers in multi-agent systems became more and more aware that agent systems consist of more than only agents. The series of workshops on Envi- ronmentsforMulti-AgentSystems(E4MAS2004-2006)emergedfromthisawareness. One oftheprimaryoutcomes ofthisendeavor wasaprincipledunderstandingthatthe agent environment should be considered as a primary design abstraction, equally important as the agents. AtAAMAS2014inParis,researchersintheE4MASdomainorganizedaworkshop onE4MAS–10YearsLaterwiththefollowingaims:(1)toreflectonthepast10years of research and engineering on agent environments for multi-agent systems; (2) to investigatetowhatextentthechallengesidentifiedadecadeagohavebeentackled;(3) to outline challenges for future research on a short and longer term. Thisbookreportstheresultsoftheworkshopandsubsequentefforts.Westartwitha roadmappaperthatconsolidatesknowledgefrompastresearchandfromtheseinsights defines a path for future research in the field. The roadmap focusses on three partic- ularly relevant topics of modern software intensive systems from the viewpoint of agentenvironmentsformulti-agentsystems:thelargescaleofsystems,theopennessof systemstodealwithpartsthatenterandleavethesystemdynamically,andhumansin the loop that interact with the system. Aftertheroadmapfollow13contributionsthatspanawidevarietyoftopicsgrouped in four parts. The first part presents three papers on the connection between agents, environments, and humans. The second part contains a set of interesting papers on environments for complexand stigmergic systems.The thirdpart presents four papers on virtual and simulated environments. Finally, the fourth part concludes with two papers on open agent environments and interoperability. All papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed. We are grateful to all those who contributed to the successful organization of E4MAS2014,inparticular,theProgramCommittee,theAAMASCommittee,andthe localorganizers.Wehopethatthepapersofthisvolumewillstimulatefurtherresearch inagentenvironmentsformulti-agentsystemsandcontributetoenhancingengineering practice. July 2015 Danny Weyns Fabien Michel Organization Agent Environments for Multi-Agent Systems - 10 Years Later was organized in conjunction with AAMAS on May 6, 2014 in Paris, France. Program Co-chairs Danny Weyns Linnaeus University, Sweden Fabien Michel Université de Montpellier, France Van Parunak ABC Research, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Olivier Boissier ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France Michael I. Schumacher University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland Alessandro Ricci Università di Bologna, Italy Program Committee Julien Saunier LITIS, INSA-Rouen, France Eugenio Oliveira University of Porto, Portugal Franziska Kluegl Orebro University, Sweden Flavien Balbo ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France Pablo Noriega IIIA-CSIC, Spain Tom Holvoet KU Leuven, Belgium Ana De-Melo University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Kostas Stathis University of London, UK Gildas Morvan Université d’Artois, France Vincent Hilaire UTBM/IRTES-SET, France Juan A. Rodriguez IIIA-CSIC, Spain Eric Platon Cirius Technologies, Inc. Japan Mirko Viroli Università di Bologna, Italy Jacques Ferber Université de Montpellier, France Karl Tuyls Liverpool University, UK Luca Tummolini ISTC-CNR, Italy Olivier Simonin INSA de Lyon, France Franco Zambonelli Università of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Lars Braubach University of Hamburg, Germany Rafael H. Bordini FACIN-PUCRS, Brazil Marco Mamei Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Alexis Drogoul IRD, Vietnam Stefano Bromuri University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland Giuseppe Vizzari University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy Andrea Omicini Università di Bologna, Italy Federico Bergenti Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy Sven Brueckner Jacobs Technology Inc., USA VIII Organization Jean-Pierre Muller CIRAD, France Shinichi Honiden National Institute of Informatics, Japan Ambra Molesini Università di Bologna, Italy Website http://homepage.lnu.se/staff/daweaa/events/E4MAS/2014.htm Contents Roadmap Agent Environments for Multi-agent Systems – A Research Roadmap. . . . . . 3 Danny Weyns, Fabien Michel, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Olivier Boissier, Michael Schumacher, Alessandro Ricci, Anarosa Brandao, Carlos Carrascosa, Oğuz Dikenelli, Stépane Galland, Ander Pijoan, Patrick Simo Kanmeugne, Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, Julien Saunier, Visara Urovi, and Franco Zambonelli Connecting Agents, Environments, and Humans Agent Bodies: An Interface Between Agent and Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Julien Saunier, Carlos Carrascosa, Stéphane Galland, and Patrick Simo Kanmeugne Where Are All the Semantic Web Agents: Establishing Links Between Agent and Linked Data Web Through Environment Abstraction. . . . . . . . . . 41 Oğuz Dikenelli, Oylum Alatlı, and Rıza Cenk Erdur Mixed Environments for MAS: Bringing Humans in the Loop . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Alessandro Ricci, Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, Ander Pijoan, and Franco Zambonelli Environments for Complex and Stigmergic Systems EngineeringEnvironment-MediatedCoordinationviaNature-InspiredLaws .... 63 Franco Zambonelli Introduction and Challenges of Environment Architectures for Collective Intelligence Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Juergen Musil, Angelika Musil, and Stefan Biffl Specification and Analysis of Open-Ended Systems with CARMA . . . . . . . . 95 Jane Hillston and Michele Loreti Reconciling Event- and Agent-Based Paradigms in the Engineering of Complex Systems: The Role of Environment Abstractions. . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Andrea Omicini and Stefano Mariani X Contents Virtual and Simulated Environments From Physical to Virtual: Widening the Perspective on Multi-Agent Environments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Carlos Carrascosa, Franziska Klügl, Alessandro Ricci, and Olivier Boissier Organizational and Holonic Modelling of a Simulated and Synthetic Spatial Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Stéphane Galland and Nicolas Gaud Towards a ‘Smart’ Collaborative Virtual Environment and Multi-agent Approach to Designing an Intelligent Virtual Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Nader Hanna and Deborah Richards Environment Modelling for Spatial Load Forecasting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Ander Pijoan, Oihane Kamara-Esteban, and Cruz E. Borges Open Agent Environments and Interoperability Towards Organizational Interoperability Through the Environment . . . . . . . . 209 Fabio Tsuyoshi Muramatsu, Tomas Monteiro Vitorello, and Anarosa Alves Franco Brandão Infrastructures to Engineer Open Agent Environments by Means of Electronic Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Dave de Jonge, Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, Bruno Rosell i Gui, and Carles Sierra Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
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