Architectural Design of Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Techniques

Section I: Fundamentals of Multi-Agent System Modeling Chapter I: Towards Agent-Oriented Conceptualization and Implementation / Pratik K. Biswas Chapter II: Concurrent Programming with Multi-Agents and the Chemical Abstract Machine / Wanli Ma, Dat Tran, Dharmendra Sharma, Hong Lin and Mary Anderson Chapter III: Coalition Formation Among Agents in Complex Problems Based on a Combinatorial Auction Perspective / Hiromitsu Hattori, Tadachika Ozono and Toramatsu Shintani Chapter IV: A Gentle Introduction to Fuzzy Logic and Its Applications to Intelligent Agents Design / Andre de Korvin, Plamen Simeonov and Hong Lin Section II: Agent-Oriented System Design Chapter V: Component Agent Systems: Building a Mobile Agent Architecture That You Can Reuse / Paulo Marques and Luís Silva Chapter VI: Designing a Foundation for Mobile Agents in Peer-to-Peer Networks / Daniel Lübke and Jorge Marx Gómez Chapter VII: Dynamic Scheduling of Multi-Agent in Agent-Based Distributed Network Management / Luo Junzhou, Liu Bo, and Li Wei Chapter VIII: Scalable Fault Tolerant Agent Grooming Environment (SAGE) / Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, Arshad Ali, Amna Basharat and Amina Tariq Chapter IX: Toward Agent-Based Grid Computing / Lizhe Wang Chapter X: MAITS: A Multi-Agent-Based IT Security Approach / Dharmendra Sharma, Wanli Ma, Dat Tran, Shuangzhe Liu and Mary Anderson Section III: Agent-Based Intelligent Systems Chapter XI: A Methodology for Modeling Expert Knowledge for Development of Agent-Based Systems Chapter XII: Three Perspectives on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning / Yang Gao, Hao Wang, and Ruili Wang Chapter XIII: Modeling Knowledge and Reasoning in Conversational Recommendation Agents / Maria Salamó, Barry Smyth, Kevin McCarthy, James Reilly, and Lorraine McGinty Chapter XIV: Task Allocation in Case-Based Recommender Systems: A Swarm Intelligence Approach / Fabiana Lorenzi, Daniela Scherer dos Santos, Denise de Oliveira and Ana L. C. Bazzan Section IV: Applications of Multi-Agent Systems Chapter XV: A Multi-Agent System for Optimal Supply Chain Management Chapter XVI: Macroscopic Modeling of Information Flow in an Agent-Based Electronic Health Record System / Ben Tse and Raman Paranjape Chapter XVII: Robust Intelligent Control of Mobile Robots / Gordon Fraser, Gerald Steinbauer, Jörg Weber and Franz Wotawa Chapter XVIII: RiskMan: A Multi-Agent System for Risk Management / Manolya Kavakli, Nicolas Szilas, John Porte and Iwan Kartiko