Languages, Methodologies, and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems: Second International Workshop, LADS 2009, Torino, Italy, September 7-9, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

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This book contains the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-agent Systems (LADS 2009), which took place during September 7–9, 2009 in Turin, Italy. As in its 2007 edition, this workshop was a part of MALLOW, a federation of workshops on Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organizations. The LADS 2009 workshop addressed both theoretical and practical issues related to developing and deploying multi-agent systems. It constituted a rich forum where leading researchers from both academia and industry could share their experiencesonformalapproaches,programminglanguages,methodologies, tools andtechniques supporting the developmentanddeploymentof multi-agent systems.Fromatheoreticalpointofview,LADS2009aimedataddressingissues related to theories, methodologies, models and approaches that are needed to facilitate the development of multi-agent systems ensuring their predictability andveri?cation.Formaldeclarativemodelsandapproacheshavethe potentialof o?ering solutions for the speci?cation and design of multi-agent systems. From a practical point of view, LADS 2009 aimed at stimulating research and d- cussion on how multi-agent system speci?cations and designs can be e?ectively implemented and tested. This book is the result of a strict selection and review process. From 14 papers originally submitted to LADS 2009, and after 2 rounds of reviews, we selected 10 high-quality papers covering important topics related to multi-agent programming technology, such as: agent architectures, programming languages andmethodologies,socialinteractionmodels,developmenttoolsandapplications of multi-agent systems. Front Matter....Pages - The ARTS Real-Time Agent Architecture....Pages 1-15 Reducing Agent Plans to Workflows....Pages 16-34 Externalisation and Internalization: A New Perspective on Agent Modularisation in Multi-Agent System Programming....Pages 35-54 Temporal Planning in Dynamic Environments for P-CLAIM Agents....Pages 55-71 Data Driven Language for Agents Secure Interaction....Pages 72-91 Programming Social Middleware through Social Interaction Types....Pages 92-111 Detecting Exceptions in Commitment Protocols: Discovering Hidden States....Pages 112-127 Verifiable Semantic Model for Agent Interactions Using Social Commitments....Pages 128-152 Call Graph Profiling for Multi Agent Systems....Pages 153-167 A Methodology for Developing Self-explaining Agents for Virtual Training....Pages 168-182 Back Matter....Pages -