Intelligent Agents IV: Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages: 4th International Workshop, Atal'97, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, July 24-26, 1 (Paperback, 1998)

Panel: Methodologies for multi-agent systems.- Designing embedded agents to optimize end-user objectives.- Agent architecture as object oriented design.- Implementation of a cooperative agent architecture based on the language-action perspective.- Toward the specification and design of industrial synthetic ecosystems.- Bidding mechanisms for data allocation in multi-agent environments.- Distributed storage of replicated beliefs to facilitate recovery of distributed intelligent agents.- A customizable coordination service for autonomous agents.- A behavior-based approach to reactivity and coordination: A preliminary report.- On explicit plan languages for coordinating multiagent plan execution.- Social comparison for failure detection and recovery.- Multi-agent coordination through coalition formation.- A formal specification of dMARS.- A framework for argumentation-based negotiation.- Agent modelling in MetateM and DESIRE.- Semantics for an agent communication language.- Formal semantics for an abstract agent programming language.- Intentional agents and goal formation.- A layered agent calculus with concurrent, continuous processes.- Approximate reasoning about combined knowledge.- On the epistemic foundations of agent theories.- Facilitating open communication in agent systems: The InfoSleuth infrastructure.- Competition for attention.- Analysis and design of multiagent systems using MAS-CommonKADS.- Multi agent systems as open societies - a design framework.- TKQML: A scripting tool for building agents.