| Tuesday, 16
September |
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| 14:00-14:45 |
Short
Introduction / Welcome Michael Köhler, Marcel Martens, Heiko Rölke (University Hamburg, Germany): Modelling Social Behaviour with Petri net based Multi-Agent Systems |
| 14:45-15:30 | Diemo Urbig, Dagmar Monett Diaz, Kay Schröter (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany): Introducing the IPS- framework to model altruistic relation-building agents in negotiations |
| 15:30-16:00 | Alexander Osherenko (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany): Modeling the negotiation object in social systems |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:30-17:15 |
Christian Hahn, Bettina Fley, Michael Schillo (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Technical University Hamburg, Germany): Strategic Adaption in Self-organizing MAS |
| 17:15-17:45 |
Qi Yan, Xin Yun Mao, Zhi Chang Qi (National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China): Modelling Distributed Agent Systems with RoMAS |
| 17:45-18:15 |
Leonidas Arcila (Political Scientist,
Munich, Germany): Featuring
Agent’s Role Balance in Open Agent Societies |
Starting at the ECAI 2000 and continuing at the German AI conferences in the years 2001 to 2003 we have now established a little series with our international MASHO workshops. This year we want to set a new focus to Semantic Web and Web Intelligence beyond our “traditional” themes inside MASHO.
In developing agents and multi-agent systems, computer scientists typically bring their work to bear on theories and methods from social sciences. Examples include computational and agent-based approaches to the study of negotiation, social interaction, contracts, agreement, organisation, cohesion, social order, and collaboration. This has played an infuential role in the development of an interdisciplinary area called "Socionics". In the last few years researchers in such areas as Artificial Intelligence, Sociology, Organisation Theory, Social Networks, Evolution Theory and Self-Organizing Principles have increasingly shown interest in research problems connected to artificial and hybrid societies.
There have been a number of attempts at designing distributed systems by drawing on agent-oriented concepts. However, the impact on human behaviour exerted by interactions with artificial agents within hybrid societies still remains to be addressed. Considering the web as one basis for artificial and hybrid communities one step in this direction is to develop semantics understandable by humans and artificial agents as well.
So the Semantic Web provides an infrastructure that allows information accessible by the existing web to be defined in ways that give it meaning to both humans and computer applications. With the Semantic Web, all Web services have semantic information in the form of RDF or other XML-based ontologies that allow any agent (with the proper authority) to use the service without needing prior knowledge. All that the agent needs is generic knowledge on how to read XML-based ontologies. Web services include a set of industry standards and tools which provide an infrastructure that allows Web-based applications to be located and accessed by users, applications with web access, and other Web-based applications.
The workshop aims at exchanging and intergrating ideas from different aspects of agent-oriented approaches in connection with such topics as organisational knowledge, structure and behaviour.
Of particular interest is recent work in any of the following areas:
Dr. Gabriela
Lindemann
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Institut für Informatik
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin