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Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems: Second International Workshop, FAABS 2002, Greenbelt, MD, USA, October 29-31, 2002. Revised Papers

By Christopher Rouff , Adrian Pearce , Michael G. Hinchey , James L. Rash , Walter F. Truszkowski , Tim Menzies , Clinton Heinze , Simon Goss (auth.) , Diana Gordon-Spears (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2003
ISBN
3540406654, 9783540406655
DOI
10.1007/b11729
Open Library ID
OL9372696M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4176110 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2699 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition
1
Pages
295\293
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2011-01-23 12:00:00
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer

Description

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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