Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies

Excerpts from the Study of Coalitions: from Social Behavior to Computer Science.- Probationary Contracts: Reducing Risk in Norm-Based Systems.- From Public Plans To Global Solutions in Multiagent Planning.- Intelligent People Flow Guidance in Smart Spaces.- Customized document research by a stigmergic approach using agents and artifacts.- Collaborative Framework for Monitoring Reliability of Distributed Components of Composed Services.- Graph Patterns, Reinforcement Learning and Models of Reputation for Improving Coalition Formation in Collaborative Multi-Agent Systems.- Multiagent Model for Agile Context Inference based on Artificial Immune Systems and Sparse Distributed Representations.- Factored MDPs for Optimal Prosumer Decision-Making in Continuous State Spaces.- Composing Swarm Robot Formations Based on Their Distributions Using Mobile Agents.- Group-based Pricing to Shape Demand in Real-time Electricity Markets.- Human Rating Methods on Multi-Agent Systems.- Learning in MultiAgent Social Environments with Opponent Models.- A Particle Swarm Optimization Metaheuristic for the Blocking Flow Shop Scheduling Problem: Total Tardiness Minimization.- Towards an Agent-based Negotiation Scheme for Scheduling Electric Vehicles Charging.- Agreement Technologies In Smart Cities: Transmission Towers Maintenance With Virtual Organizations.- TugaTAC Broker: A Fuzzy Logic Adaptive Reasoning Agent for Energy Trading.- A Dialectical Approach to Enable Decision Making in Online Trading.- What should an agent know not to fail in persuasion.- Argumentation-based Hybrid Recommender System for Recommending Learning Objects.- How to share knowledge by gossiping.- Identifying Malicious Behavior in Multi-party Bipolar Argumentation Debates.- Probabilistic Argumentation, a Small Step for Uncertainty, a Giant Step for Complexity.- Modeling Social Deviance in Artificial Agent Societies.- Modeling and Enforcing Semantic Obligations for Access Control.- Coupling Regulative and Constitutive