MMAABS: Models and Methods of Analysis for Agent Based Systems
Many technologies now exist for building software and hardware systems
in an "agent based" style. Engineers are expected to build individual
systems with high degrees of autonomy and release these into a
loosely constrained environment where they may interact with other
systems about which they have little knowledge. It is difficult, but
necessary, to predict what the large-scale behaviour of such systems
might be. The only way to obtain this knowledge in advance of
deployment of systems is through modelling and analysis. The range of
possible analytical methods is, however, diverse and most of these are
untested on real situations. The principal aim of this workshop is to
bring together those with expertise in analysis and experience in
building or managing large scale agent based systems. Special
emphasis will be made on the use of models and techniques coming
from the areas such as ecology and economics which, in their own ways,
have already faced this sort of large scale modellign problem.
The workshop will provide:
- Examples of analyses appropriate to agent-based systems. We
welcome as broad a range of these as possible, including for
instance: model checking, continuous flow models, agent-based
simulations.
- Studies of real-world systems which yield benchmark analytical
problems. These need not have been conceived as "agent based".
- Discussion of the limitations of existing methods with respect to
benchmark problems.
Web page
http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/groups/ssp/etaps2001/
Organizers
- Jaume Agusti
(AI Institute, Barcelona), agusti@iiia.csic.es
- Stuart
Anderson
(University of Edinburgh, UK), soa@dcs.ed.ac.uk
- Michael Fourman
(University of Edinburgh, UK), mikef@dcs.ed.ac.uk
- Simon Parsons
(University of Liverpool, UK), S.D.Parsons@csc.liv.ac.uk
- David
Robertson
(University of Edinburgh, UK), D.Robertson@ed.ac.uk
- Don Sannella
(University of Edinburgh, UK), dts@dcs.ed.ac.uk
- Carles Sierra
(AI Institute, Barcelona), sierra@iiia.csic.es
- Michael Wooldridge
(University of Liverpool, UK), M.J.Wooldridge@csc.liv.ac.uk
Contact
David Robertson (D.Robertson@ed.ac.uk)