4. SELMAS 2005: St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Alessandro F. Garcia, Ricardo Choren, Carlos José Pereira de Lucena, Paolo Giorgini, Tom Holvoet, Alexander B. Romanovsky (Eds.): Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV, Research Issues and Practical Applications [the book is a result of SELMAS 2005]. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3914 Springer 2006, ISBN 3-540-33580-3

Context-Awareness and Coordination

Anand R. Tripathi, Devdatta Kulkarni, Tanvir Ahmed:
Policy-Driven Configuration and Management of Agent Based Distributed Systems. 1-16
Kurt Schelfthout, Tom Holvoet, Yolande Berbers:
Views: Middleware Abstractions for Context-Aware Applications in MANETs. 17-34
Koenraad Mertens, Tom Holvoet, Yolande Berbers:
An Adaptive Distributed Layout for Multi-agent Applications. 35-52
Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli:
Self-organizing Approaches for Large-Scale Spray Multiagent Systems. 53-70
Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli:
Coordination Artifacts as First-Class Abstractions for MAS Engineering: State of the Research. 71-90

Florian Klein, Holger Giese:
Analysis and Design of Physical and Social Contexts in Multi-agent Systems. 91-108
Scott A. DeLoach:
Engineering Organization-Based Multiagent Systems. 109-125
Ghassan Beydoun, Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, Brian Henderson-Sellers, Graham Low:
Developing and Evaluating a Generic Metamodel for MAS Work Products. 126-142
Giancarlo Guizzardi:
Agent Roles, Qua Individuals and the Counting Problem. 143-160

Josh Dehlinger, Robyn R. Lutz:
A Product-Line Approach to Promote Asset Reuse in Multi-agent Systems. 161-178
Paul Davidsson, Stefan J. Johansson, Mikael Svahnberg:
Characterization and Evaluation of Multi-agent System Architectural Styles. 179-188
Christopher Cheong, Michael Winikoff:
Improving Flexibility and Robustness in Agent Interactions: Extending Prometheus with Hermes. 189-206
Haralambos Mouratidis, Michael Weiss:
Patterns for Modelling Agent Systems with Tropos. 207-223

Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo:
On the Use of Formal Specifications as Part of Running Programs. 224-237
Zahia Guessoum, Nora Faci, Jean-Pierre Briot:
Adaptive Replication of Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems - Towards a Fault-Tolerant Multi-agent Platform. 238-253