Lars Braubach Knihy

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the scientific satellite events that were held in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2017, held in Málaga, Spain, in November 2017. The ICSOC 2017 workshop track consisted of three workshops on a wide range of topics that fall into the general area of service computing: ASOCA 2017: The Second Workshop on Adaptive Service-Oriented and Cloud Applications ISyCC 2016: The Second Workshop on IoT Systems Provisioning and Management in Cloud Computing WESOACS 2017: The 13th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications and Cloud Services

The earliest work on agents can be traced to the conceptualization of the actor model by Carl Hewitt, who, in a 1970s AI conference paper, described actors as entities with knowledge and goals. Research progressed with the Sprites model, where actors accessed a growing knowledge base, inspired by Hewitt’s “Scientific Computing Metaphor.” During the late 1970s and into the 1980s, a significant debate arose in AI between proponents of declarative and procedural languages. Actor researchers favored a procedural perspective, advocating for an open systems view over the closed world hypothesis inherent in logical, declarative approaches. This open systems perspective acknowledged that agents had arm's-length relationships, could not store consistent facts, and that system information could not be deemed complete (the “negation as failure” model). Subsequent work, including my own, explored using actors for general-purpose concurrent and distributed programming. By the late 1980s, several actor languages and frameworks emerged, such as Act++ (C++) by Dennis Kafura and Actalk (Smalltalk) by Jean-Pierre Briot. Recently, the Actor model has gained traction as parallel and distributed computing platforms and applications, including clusters, web services, P2P networks, multicore processors, and cloud computing, have become prevalent.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th German Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies, MATES 2009, held in Hamburg, Germany in September 2009 - colocated with the 10th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA X) and the 5th International Workshop on Modelling of Objects, Components, and Agents (MOCA 2009). The 14 revised full papers, 10 short papers, and 5 exhibition papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers present and discuss the latest advances of research and development in the area of autonomous agents and multiagent systems ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to applications in various fields.

Die Entwicklung verteilter Systeme ist ein komplexes Unterfangen, das den Einsatz fundierter konzeptioneller AnsŠtze erfordert. Objektorientierung greift fŸr viele der Problemstellungen aus diesem Bereich zu kurz. Der Autor stellt daher praxisnahe Lšsungsmšglichkeiten auf Basis der Agententechnologie detailliert vor. Konkret werden Methoden, Architekturen und Agentenplattformen evaluiert und zusŠtzlich das neuartige Jadex-Framework eingefŸhrt. Die methodische Verwendung des Frameworks wird anhand von anschaulichen Anwendungsbeispielen, wie u.a. der Terminplanung im Krankenhaus, verdeutlicht.