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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2699)
Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)
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Conference proceedings info: FAABS 2002.
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The idea of a FAABS workshop was first conceived in 1998 at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, while the Agent Technology Development Group in the Advanced Architectures and Automation Branch (Code 588) was developing a prototype agent community to automate satellite ground operations. While developing this system, several race conditions arose within and between agents. Due to the complexity of the agents and the communications between them, it was decided that a formal approach was needed to specify the agents and the communications between them, so that the system could be checked for additional errors. A formal model of the inter-agent communications was developed, with the expectation that this would enable us to find more errors. Success in this convinced us of the importance of using formal methods to model agent-based systems. To share our own experiences and to learn how others were approaching these issues, we decided to hold a workshop on formal methods and agent-based systems. The response was overwhelming. The result was the first FAABS workshop, which was held at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Posters, paper presentations, panels, and an invited talk by J Moore stimulated much discussion and subsequent collaboration.
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Table of contents (32 papers)
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Front Matter
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“What Is an Agent and Why Should I Care?”
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Panel Session on “Applications”
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Front Matter
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Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems
Book Subtitle: Second International Workshop, FAABS 2002, Greenbelt, MD, USA, October 29-31, 2002, Revised Papers
Editors: Michael G. Hinchey, James L. Rash, Walter F. Truszkowski, Christopher Rouff, Diana Gordon-Spears
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b11729
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-40665-5Published: 29 July 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-45133-4Published: 24 October 2003
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 295
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Computer Communication Networks, Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems, Software Engineering, Logics and Meanings of Programs