Agents and Computational Autonomy Potential, Risks, and Solutions
This volume contains the postproceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Autonomy – Potential, Risks, Solutions (AUTONOMY 2003), held at the 2nd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agentSystems(AAMAS2003),July1
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Matthias Nickles Michael Rovatsos Gerhard Weiss (Eds.)
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editors Matthias Nickles Michael Rovatsos Gerhard Weiss Technical University of Munich Department of Informatics Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748 Garching bei M¨unchen, Germany E-mail: {nickles, rovatsos, weissg}@cs.tum.edu
Library of Congress Control Number: 2004109920
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, C.2.4, I.2, D.2 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-22477-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 11301097 06/3142 543210
Preface
This volume contains the postproceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Autonomy – Potential, Risks, Solutions (AUTONOMY 2003), held at the 2nd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS 2003), July 14, 2003, Melbourne, Australia. Apart from revised versions of the accepted workshop papers, we have included invited contributions from leading experts in the field. With this, the present volume represents the first comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art of research on autonomy, capturing different theories of autonomy, perspectives on autonomy in different kinds of agent-based systems, and practical approaches to dealing with agent autonomy. Agent orientation refers to a software development perspective that has evolved in the past 25 years in the fields of computational agents and multiagent systems. The basic notion underlying this perspective is that of a computational agent, that is, an entity whose behavior deserves to be called flexible, social, and autonomous. As an autonomous entity, an agent possesses action choice and is at least to some extent capable of deciding and acting under self-control. Through its emphasis on autonomy, agent orientation significantly differs from traditional engineering perspectives such as structure orientation or object orientation. These perspectives are targeted on the development of systems whose behavior is fully determined and control
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