Engineering Self-Organising Systems: 4th International Workshop, ESOA 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006, Revised and Invited PapersSven Brueckner This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications, ESOA 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan in May 2006. This was an associated event of AAMAS 2006, the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. The seven full papers presented together with six invited papers were carefully selected for inclusion in the book. |
Contents
Integrating Swarming and BDI Agents | 1 |
An Analysis and Design Concept for Selforganization in Holonic Multiagent Systems | 15 |
Design Patterns for Decentralised Coordination in Selforganising Emergent Systems | 28 |
The Case of Foraging Ants | 50 |
Dynamic Decentralized AnyTime Hierarchical Clustering | 66 |
A Novel Paradigm for Affecting Distributed Behavior | 82 |
Programming Modular Robots with the TOTA Middleware | 99 |
An Adaptive Selforganizing Protocol for Surveillance and Routing in Sensor Networks | 115 |
Towards the Control of Emergence by the Coordination of Decentralized Agent Activity for the Resource Sharing Problem | 132 |
Reinforcement Learning for Online Control of Evolutionary Algorithms | 151 |
Greedy Cheating Liars and the Fools Who Believe Them | 161 |
Evolution and Hypercomputing in Global Distributed Evolvable Virtual Machines Environment | 176 |
A Decentralised Car Traffic Control System Simulation Using Local Message Propagation Optimised with a Genetic Algorithm | 192 |
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