Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV

Multi-disciplinary Models for Agent Societies.- Emergence of Collective Behaviour and Problem Solving.- Social Order and Adaptability in Animal and Human Cultures as Analogues for Agent Communities: Toward a Policy-Based Approach.- Using Swarm Intelligence in Linda Systems.- Engineering Democracy in Open Agent Systems.- A Liberal Approach to Openness in Societies of Agents..- Welfare Engineering in Multiagent Systems.- Dynamics of Collective Attitudes during Teamwork.- Coordination, Organization and Security of Agent Societies.- Privacy-Aware Mobile Agent: Protecting Privacy in Open Systems by Modelling Social Behaviour of Software Agents.- Interaction Monitoring and Termination Detection for Agent Societies: Preliminary Results.- Competition, Cooperation, and Authorization.- Competent Agents and Customising Protocols.- Coordination and Conversation Protocols in Open Multi-agent Systems.- MAS Organization within a Coordination Infrastructure: Experiments in TuCSoN.- Adaptability Patterns of Multi-agent Organizations.- Integrating and Orchestrating Services upon an Agent Coordination Infrastructure.- Abstractions, Methodologies and Tools for Engineering Agent Societies.- Formalizing the Reusability of Software Agents.- A Design Complexity Evaluation Framework for Agent-Based System Engineering Methodologies.- Laying Down the Foundations of an Agent Modelling Methodology for Fault-Tolerant Multi-agent Systems.- Patterns Reuse in the PASSI Methodology.- Designing Agents' Behaviors and Interactions within the Framework of ADELFE Methodology.- Supporting Tropos Concepts in Agent OPEN.- Dynamic Analysis of Agents' Behaviour - Combining ALife, Visualization and AI.- Applications of Agent Societies.- Advancing Profile Use in Agent Societies.- A Computational Framework for Social Agents in Agent Mediated E-commerce.- You've Got Mail From Your Agent: A Location and Context Sensitive Agent System.