Languages, Methodologies, and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop, LADS 2010, Lyon, France, August 30 – September 1, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Languages, Methodologies, and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems, LADS 2010, held in Lyon, France, in August/September 2010, as part of MALLOW, a federation of workshops on Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organizations. The 8 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviews from 11 initial submissions. The papers address issues related to theories, methodologies, models and approaches that are needed to facilitate the development of multi-agent systems ensuring their predictablity and verification. Front Matter....Pages - OperettA: Organization-Oriented Development Environment....Pages 1-18 Towards Efficient Multi-agent Abduction Protocols....Pages 19-38 Validation of Agile Workflows Using Simulation....Pages 39-55 Augmenting Agent Platforms to Facilitate Conversation Reasoning....Pages 56-75 Exploiting Agent-Oriented Programming for Developing Future Internet Applications Based on the Web: The JaCa-Web Framework....Pages 76-94 JaCa-Android: An Agent-Based Platform for Building Smart Mobile Applications....Pages 95-114 An Alternative Approach for Reasoning about the Goal-Plan Tree Problem....Pages 115-135 Intention Change via Local Assignments....Pages 136-151 Back Matter....Pages -