[agents] Book Announcement: "Handbook of Research on MAS: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizations Models"

[Virginia Dignum]

Just appeared:

Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of 
Organizational Models
Edited By: Virginia Dignum
Publisher: IGI-Global
ISBN: 978-1-60566-256-5
URL: http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?id=33141


Table of Contents
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    Chapter I: The Role of Organization in Agent Systems: Virginia Dignum
Section I: Methodologies and Frameworks for Agent Organizations
    Chapter II: Modelling Dimensions for Agent Organizations: Luciano R. 
Coutinho, Jaime S. Sichman, Olivier Boissier
    Chapter III : Towards an Integral Approach of Organizations in 
Multi-Agent Systems: Jacques Ferber, Tiberiu Stratulat, John Tranier
    Chapter IV: OMACS: A framework for adaptive, complex systems: Scott 
A. DeLoach
    Chapter V: Hermes: Designing Flexible and Robust Agent Interactions: 
Christopher Cheong, Michael Winikoff
Section II: Formal Approaches for Agent Organizations
    Chapter VI: A Formal Framework for Organization Modeling and 
Analysis: Viara Popova, Alexei Sharpanskykh
    Chapter VII: Describing Agent Societies: A Declarative Semantics: 
Maksim Tsvetovat
    Chapter VIII: Structural Aspects of Organizations: Davide Grossi, 
Frank Dignum
    Chapter IX: A Logic for Agent Organizations: Virginia Dignum, Frank 
Dignum
Section III: Interactions in Organizations
    Chapter X: Grounding Organizations in the Minds of the Agents: 
Cristiano Castelfranchi
    Chapter XI: Modeling Interactions via Commitments and Expectations: 
Paolo Torroni, Federico Chesani, Paola Mello, Pýnar Yolum, Munindar P. 
Singh, Marco Alberti,                 Marco Gavanelli, Evelina Lamma
    Chapter XII: Communications for Agent-based Human Team Support: Gita 
Sukthankar, Katia Sycara, Joseph A. Giampapa, Chris Burnett,
    Chapter XIII: Autonomous Agents Adopting Organizational Rules: Bob 
van der Vecht, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Ch. Meyer
Section IV: Norms and Institutions
    Chapter XIV: Specifying Artificial Institutions in the Event 
Calculus: Nicoletta Fornara, Marco Colombetti
    Chapter XV: Verifying Organizations Regulated by Institutions: 
Francesco Viganò, Marco Colombetti,
    Chapter XVI: A Programming Language for Normative Multi-Agent 
Systems: Mehdi Dastani, Nick A.M. Tinnemeier, John-Jules Ch. Meyer
Section V: Organizational Dynamics
    Chapter XVII: A Minimal Dynamical MAS Organization Model: Antônio 
Carlos da Rocha Costa, Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro
    Chapter XVIII: A Framework for Dynamic Agent Organizations: Shaheen 
Fatima, Michael Wooldridge
    Chapter XIX: Dynamic Specifications for Norm-Governed Systems: 
Alexander Artikis, Dimosthenis Kaponis, Jeremy Pitt
    Chapter XX: Interactions Between Formal and Informal Organizational 
Networks: Marco Lamieri, Diana Mangalagiu
Section VI: Applications
    Chapter XXI: Personal Assistants for Human Organizations: Steven 
Okamoto, Katia Sycara, Paul Scerri
    Chapter XXII: Organizational Self-Design in Worth-Oriented Domains: 
Sachin Kamboj, Keith S. Decker
    Chapter XXIII: A Formal Petri Net-Based Model for Team Monitoring: 
Olivier Bonnet-Torrès, Catherine Tessier