Luis Antunes Knihy

This book contains a selection of higher quality and reviewed papers of the 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2011, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 2011. The 50 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 203 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on affective computing, ambient intelligence environments, artificial intelligence methodologies for games, artificial intelligence in transportation systems, artificial life evolutionary algorithms, computational logic with applications, general artificial intelligence, intelligent robotics, knowledge discovery and business intelligence, multi-agent systems: theory and applications, social simulation and modeling, text mining and applications, and doctoral symposium on artificial intelligence.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2007, held in Honolulu, HI, USA in May 2007 as an associated event of AAMAS 2007, the main international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on architectures; teams, learning, education; economy, trust and reputation.

InhaltsverzeichnisInvited Papers.Exploring the Vast Parameter Space of Multi-Agent Based Simulation.Applications of Agent Based Simulation.Empirical Cross Studies.Analyzing Dynamics of Peer-to-Peer Communication -From Questionnaire Surveys to Agent-Based Simulation.Modeling Human Education Data: From Equation-Based Modeling to Agent-Based Modeling.Experimental Ecology.Contrasting a System Dynamics Model and an Agent-Based Model of Food Web Evolution.Roost Size for Multilevel Selection of Altruism Among Vampire Bats.Experimental Economics.Tactical Exploration of Tax Compliance Decisions in Multi-agent Based Simulation.Learning to Use a Perishable Good as Money.Foundations and Methodologies.A Holonic Approach to Model and Deploy Large Scale Simulations.Concurrent Modeling of Alternative Worlds with Polyagents.Learning.Integrating Learning and Inference in Multi-agent Systems Using Cognitive Context.Can Agents Acquire Human-Like Behaviors in a Sequential Bargaining Game? – Comparison of Roth’s and Q-Learning Agents –.Social Dependence.Quantifying Degrees of Dependence in Social Dependence Relations.