Multi-Agent-Systems and Applications II [electronic resource] : 9th ECCAI-ACAI/EASSS 2001, AEMAS 2001, HoloMAS 2001. Selected Revised Papers /

Multi-Agent Systems and Applications ACAI 2001: Selected Tutorial Papers -- Intelligent Agents: The Key Concepts -- Motivated Agent Behaviour and Requirements Applied to Virtual Emergencies -- Software Agents for Electronic Business: Opportunities and Challenges -- From Simulated Dialogues to Interactive Performances -- Cooperating Agents for Holonic Manufacturing -- Multi-Agent Systems and Applications ACAI 2001: Selected Student Papers -- Self-Stabilizing Distributed Algorithms for Defeat Status Computation in Argumentation -- Replanning in a Resource-Based Framework -- Distributed Branch and Bound Algorithm in Coalition Planning -- Formal Conversations for the Contract Net Protocol -- Adaptive Agents in Argumentation-Based Negotiation -- Flexible Load Balancing in Distributed Information Agent Systems -- Autonomous Agents Applied to Manufacturing Scheduling Problems: A Negotiation-Based Heuristic Approach -- Adaptability and Embodiment Using Multi-Agent Systems AEMAS 2001: Selected Papers -- Adaptability and Embodiment Using Multi-Agent Systems -- Distributed Shared Agent Representations -- Modeling Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems Inspired by Developmental Biology -- Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems HoloMAS 2001: Selected Papers -- Holons & Agents: Recent Developments and Mutual Impacts -- Material Handling Problem: FIPA Compliant Agent Implementation -- Industrial MAS for Planning and Control -- An Integral Implementation of a Machine-Holon Applying the ZEUS Agent Framework -- ExPlanTech: Exploitation of Agent-Based Technology in Production Planning -- A Holonic Approach to Reconfiguring Real-Time Distributed Control Systems -- Rationales for Holonic Applications in Chemical Process Industries -- Distributed Deadline Control in Holonic Manufacturing Systems -- CPlanT: Coalition Planning Multi-Agent System for Humanitarian Relief Operations.