8. ESAW 2007: Athens, Greece

Alexander Artikis, Gregory M. P. O'Hare, Kostas Stathis, George A. Vouros (Eds.): Engineering Societies in the Agents World VIII, 8th International Workshop, ESAW 2007, Athens, Greece, October 22-24, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4995 Springer 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-87653-3

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Marek J. Sergot:
Action and Agency in Norm-Governed Multi-agent Systems. 1-54
Martin J. Kollingbaum, Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Andrés García-Camino, Timothy J. Norman:
Managing Conflict Resolution in Norm-Regulated Environments. 55-71
Jeremy Pitt, Daniel Ramirez-Cano, Lloyd Kamara, Brendan Neville:
Alternative Dispute Resolution in Virtual Organizations. 72-89
Manolis Sardis, George A. Vouros:
Electronic Institutions Infrastructure for e-Chartering. 90-107

William J. Clancey, Maarten Sierhuis, Chin Seah, Chris Buckley, Fisher Reynolds, Tim Hall, Mike Scott:
Multi-agent Simulation to Implementation: A Practical Engineering Methodology for Designing Space Flight Operations. 108-123
Paul J. Feltovich, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, William J. Clancey, Matthew Johnson, Larry Bunch:
Progress Appraisal as a Challenging Element of Coordination in Human and Machine Joint Activity. 124-141
Onur Aydin, Nihan Kesim Cicekli, Ilyas Cicekli:
Automated Web Services Composition with the Event Calculus. 142-157
Ioanna Stamatopoulou, Petros Kefalas, Marian Gheorghe:
OPERAS: A Framework for the Formal Modelling of Multi-Agent Systems and Its Application to Swarm-Based Systems. 158-174

Josefina Sierra, Josefina Santibáñez:
The Acquisition of Linguistic Competence for Communicating Propositional Logic Sentences. 175-192
Nabil Hameurlain:
Contextualizing Behavioural Substitutability and Refinement of Role Components in MAS. 193-207
Tim Miller, Jarred McGinnis:
Amongst First-Class Protocols. 208-223

Hylke Buisman, Gijs Kruitbosch, Nadya Peek, Ulle Endriss:
Simulation of Negotiation Policies in Distributed Multiagent Resource Allocation. 224-239
Matteo Vasirani, Sascha Ossowski:
Collective-Based Multiagent Coordination: A Case Study. 240-253
Isaac Chao, Oscar Ardaiz, Ramon Sangüesa:
Tag Mechanisms Evaluated for Coordination in Open Multi-Agent Systems. 254-269

Federico Bergenti:
Toward a Probabilistic Model of Trust in Agent Societies. 270-283
Isaac Pinyol, Jordi Sabater-Mir:
Arguing about Reputation: The LRep Language. 284-299

Ambra Molesini, Enrico Denti, Andrea Omicini:
From AO Methodologies to MAS Infrastructures: The SODACase Study. 300-317
Sylvain Rougemaille, Frédéric Migeon, Christine Maurel, Marie Pierre Gleizes:
Model Driven Engineering for Designing Adaptive Multi-Agents Systems. 318-332
Scott J. Harmon, Scott A. DeLoach, Robby:
Trace-Based Specification of Law and Guidance Policies for Multi-Agent Systems. 333-349