Frank Dignum Knihy

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Cognitive Agents for Virtual Environments, CAVE 2012, held at AAMAS 2012, in Valencia, Spain, in June 2012. The 10 full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. In addition one invited high quality contribution has been included. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: coupling agents and game engines; using games with agents for education; visualization and simulation; and evaluating games with agents.

This collection presents a series of papers focused on Agent Communication, a key research area within multi-agent systems. It builds on previous workshops, with proceedings published in earlier volumes. The foundation of this collection stems from the accepted submissions of the workshop on Agent Communication Languages, held alongside the AAMAS conference in July 2003 in Melbourne. Out of 15 submissions, 12 were selected for publication, reflecting a high standard of quality despite the lower-than-expected number of submissions for such an important topic. The high acceptance rate demonstrates the caliber of the selected papers rather than a need to meet a quota. Additionally, many papers on Agent Communication were presented at the main conference, prompting invitations for authors to revise and extend their work for inclusion here. This collection offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of research in Agent Communication, highlighting key topics of interest within the community.

This book documents the efforts undertaken by the EG AgentLink Special Interest Group on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce, SIG AMEC. First and foremost, the book presents a roadmap of research and current technological development in the area of agent mediated electronic commerce. A particularly interesting part of this roadmap is the joint perspective on future developments. The book also contains a number of papers that fill in parts of this roadmap in a European context. Some of the papers present significant current R&D results while other papers indicate some clear directions for future research. The book is structured in topical sections on negotiation, markets, user preferences, and security.

A first attempt to develop a standardized agent communication language (ACL) resulted in KQML, probably the most widely used such language. However, a lot of technical work remains to be done. Even worse, so far, there seems to be little consensus on the basics of agent communication and there is no clear understanding of the semantics of individual speech acts or even of the basic concepts that should be used to define the semantics. This book documents two workshops on communication in MAS held in 1999, one on Specifying and Implementing Conversation Policies (SICP) and the other in Agent Communication Languages and presents the current state of the art of research in the field. A detailed introductory overview by the volume editors highlights a number of issues that play an important role in agent communication.

The language/action perspective was introduced into the field of information systems in the early 1980s, and provided a new basic paradigm for Information Systems Design. This workshop examined the foundations of the language/action perspective, and sought some convergence on the formal and logical underpinnings of communication models. It brought together researchers from business administration, linguistics and computer science, and industrial users interested in the theory of communicative action and the modelling of business processes. The full papers from Communication Modeling - The Language/Action Perspective are available on-line at: http://www.springer.co.uk/eWiC/Workshops/CM96.html This booklet provides the passwords needed to access the web site. Purchasing the booklet provides the user with unlimited access to the site for four years (subject, of course, to entry of the correct passwords each time).