Artificial Social Systems: 4th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, Maamaw '92, S. Martino Al Cimino, Italy, July (Paperback, 1994)

Multi-agent simulation as a tool for modeling societies: Application to social differentiation in ant colonies.- Experiments in multi-agent system dynamics.- Social aggregations in evolving neural networks.- An architecture for action, emotion, and social behavior.- Game theory vs. multiple agents: The iterated prisoner's dilemma.- Trust in distributed artificial intelligence.- Negotiation with incomplete information about worth: Strict versus tolerant mechanisms.- Equilibratory approach to distributed resource allocation: Toward coordinated balancing.- Strategic interaction in oligopolistic markets - experimenting with real and artificial agents.- Multi agent coordinated decision-making using epistemic utility theory.- The search for coordination: Knowledge-guided abstraction and search in a hierarchical behavior space.- Multi-agent planning as search for a consensus that maximizes social welfare.- Planned team activity.- Some requirements for mobile distributed telecomputing architecture.- Multi-agent research in the knobotics group.- A conflict resolution-based decentralized multi-agent problem solving model.- Decision coordination in production management.- MAKILA: A tool for the development of cooperative societies.- User role in problem solving with distributed artificial intelligent systems.