Huib Aldewereld Bücher

This book addresses the question of how to achieve social coordination in Socio-Cognitive Technical Systems (SCTS). SCTS are a class of Socio-Technical Systems that are complex, open, systems where several humans and digital entities interact in order to achieve some collective endeavour. The book approaches the question from the conceptual background of regulated open multiagent systems, with the question being motivated by their design and construction requirements. The book captures the collective effort of eight groups from leading research centres and universities, each of which has developed a conceptual framework for the design of regulated multiagent systems and most have also developed technological artefacts that support the processes from specification to implementation of that type of systems. The first, introductory part of the book describes the challenge of developing frameworks for SCTS and articulates the premises and the main concepts involved in those frameworks. The second part discusses the eight frameworks and contrasts their main components. The final part maps the new field by discussing the types of activities in which SCTS are likely to be used, the features that such uses will exhibit, and the challenges that will drive the evolution of this field.

This book constitutes the thoroughly reviewed post-proceeding of International Workshops on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN@AAMAS 2012, held in Valencia, Spain in June 2012. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited talk went through several rounds of reviewing and revision and were carefully selected for presentations. The papers are organized in topical sections on compliance and enforcement, norm emergence and social strategies, refinement, contextualisation and adaptation.

The 10th international workshop “Engineering Societies in the Agents’ World” (ESAW 2009) took place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from November 18–20, 2009. Continuing the tradition of its predecessors, ESAW 2009 focused on multi-agent systems (MAS) as interconnected societies of agents, emphasizing social aspects, methodologies, and software infrastructures that address the complexities of MAS. The workshop series originated in 1999 among the “Communication, Coordination and Collaboration” working group of AgentLink, the first European Network of Excellence on Agent-Based Computing. The discussions highlighted the necessity for a systematic approach to MAS, integrating social, environmental, and technological perspectives. These concerns remain relevant today, as evidenced by the ongoing interest in the ESAW series, which has previously convened in various locations: Berlin (2000), Prague (2001), Madrid (2002), London (2003), Toulouse (2004), Kusadasi (2005), Dublin (2006), Athens (2007), and Saint-Etienne (2008). This 10th workshop centered on technologies, methodologies, and models for engineering complex applications based on MAS, attracting researchers from diverse fields, including software engineering, distributed systems, and social sciences.