| Meeting #6 Meeting in Bath 17 December 2008 |
Meeting #5 Meeting in Hammamet 12 December 2007 |
Meeting #4 Meeting in Lisbon 13 December 2006 |
AL3-TFG3 Meeting in Budapest 16-17 Septembre 2005 |
AL3-TFG2 Meeting in Ljubljana 1-2 March 2005 |
Informal Meeting in New-York 20 July 2004 |
AL3-TFG1 Meeting in Rome 1 July 2004 |
| See also the case studies page. | ||||||
Meeting in Bath (December 17th, 2008)
The meeting will take place the day before EUMAS'08 in Bath.
A call for participation is here (pdf) as well as the programme.
Meeting in Hammamet (December 12th, 2007)
The meeting took place the day before EUMAS'07 in Hammamet.
The day agenda is here (pdf).
Some papers were presented and discussed.
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Offline Emergence Engineering For Agent Societies
by Michael Zapf and Thomas Weise
(pdf)
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Engineering Systems which Generate Emergent Functionalities
by Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Valérie Camps, Jean-Pierre Georgé, and Davy Capera
(pdf, slides)
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From Intelligent Agents to Intelligent Beings
by Paul Valckenaers, Hadeli Hadeli, Bart Saint Germain, Paul Verstraete, Jan Van Belle, and Hendrik Van Brussel
(pdf, slides)
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Emerging Equilibria in Automated Negotiation
by Henry Gomez Rocha, Jhon Acosta Parejo, and Oswaldo Velez-Langs
(pdf)
Meeting in Lisbon (December 13th, 2006)
The meeting will take place the day before EUMAS'06 in Lisbon.
A call for participation and a draft for the day agenda is here (pdf).
Please contact the TFG chairs to get more details.
Meeting in Budapest, Hungary (16-17 September, 2005)
The Third AgentLink III Technical Forum (AL3-TF3) will take place in in Budapest, Hungary, 15-17 September 2005.
A proposal for participation has been made and is accepted.
The TFG SO meeting will be held on the afternoon of 16th of September and on the morning of the 17th of September.
The program of the TFG SO one-day meeting is available as a pdf file.
Some pictures taken during the meeting are available thanks to Luca Gardelli, see the link in the private area.
The short report is here.
| September 16th, 2005 | |
| Part 1 - Welcome | |
| 14:30-14:45 | Presentation of the objectives of the group and of the meeting agenda by chairs |
| 14:45-15:00 | Short "position" presentation by participants presenting themselves, their research, and their long-term views in the area |
| Part 2 - Case Studies and Presentations | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Overview of the selected reference case studies and self-organisation solutions provided (by chairs) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Paul Verstraete - Presentation of the "Manufacturing Control" case study (Abstract, Slides, pdf, 2 Mo) This presentation will be followed by a discussion |
| 16:00-16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15-17:15 | Case studies (ctd)
Establishment of lessons learnt from these experiments for software engineering |
| 17:15-18:15 | Presentations
Luca Gardelli - A Middleware to Support Stigmergy for Cognitive Agents (Abstract, Slides, pdf, 694 Ko) Gerald Silverberg & Bart Verspagen - Self-organisation of R&D Search in Complex Technology Spaces (Abstract, Slides, pdf, 800 Ko) |
| September 17th, 2005 | |
| Part 2 (ctd) - Case Studies and Presentations | |
| 9:15-9:45 | Presentations (ctd)
Giuseppe Vizzari - A Situated MAS for the Detection of Emergent Links in an Adaptive Web Site (Abstract, Slides, pdf, 796 Ko) |
| Part 3 - Concepts Definitions | |
| 9:45-11:15 | Presentations by chairs of definitions of relevant concepts (10 mn) Self-organisation Vs Emergence Establishment of one more definitions of the term "emergent phenomena" |
| 11:15-11:30 | Coffee break |
| Part 4 - Open Issues | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Identification of open issues, hot topics, additional valuable points |
| Part 5 - Book Preparation | |
| 12:00-12:30 | Scope, content and roadmap |
| Part 6 - Wrapping up: Synthesis and Conclusion | |
| 12:30:13:00 | The TFG SO organisers will summarise the work done in the TFG meeting All participants will fill up a form to evaluate the meeting Dissemination plan |
| 13:00 | End of TFG3 SO |
List of Participants
In the E-mail adresses, please replace (at] by @
- Adam Emmanuel University of Valenciennes, Valenciennes, France
(emmanuel.adam (at] univ-valenciennes.fr) - Barata Oliveira Jose Antonio - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugual
(jab@ (at] uninova.pt) - Burguillo-Rial Juan C. - University of Vigo, Spain
(jrial (at] uvigo.es) - Crailsheim Karl - Austria
(karl.crailsheim (at] uni-graz.at) - Demazeau Yves - LEIBNIZ IMAG Grenoble, France
(Yves.Demazeau (at] imag.fr) - Gardelli Luca - DEIS University of Bologna, Italy,
(lgardelli (at] deis.unibo.it) - Gaud Nicolas - University of technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, Belfort, France
(Nicolas.gaud (at] utbm.fr) - Georgé Jean-Pierre - IRIT, Toulouse, France
(george (at] irit.fr) - Gleizes Marie-Pierre - IRIT, Toulouse, France
(gleizes (at] irit.fr) - Gulyas Laszlo - AITIA Inc
- Helliboogh Alexander - KU. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
(Alexander.Helliboogh (at) cs.kuleuven.be) - Holvoet Tom - KU. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
(Tom.Holvoet (at] cs.kuleuven.ac.be) - Karageorgos Anthony - University of Thessaly, Volosn Greece
(karageorgos (at] computer.org) - Mamei Marco - DISMI, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
(marco.mamei (at] unimo.it) - Omicini Andrea - DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy
(andrea.omicini (at] unibo.it) - Picault Sébastien - Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Lille, France
(picault@lifl.fr) - Platon Eric - Honiden Laboratory, Japan
(platon (at] nii.ac.jp) - Schmitt Marco - Technical University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
(marco.schmitt (at] tuhh.de) - Schumacher Michael - EPFL IC IIF LIA, Switzerland
(Michael (at] Schumacher@epfl.ch) - Silverberg Gerald - MERIT, Postbus 616, NL-6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
(gerald.silverberg (at] merit.unimaas.nl) - Verstraete Paul - K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
(Paul.Verstraete (at] mech.kuleuven.ac.beà - Vizzari Giuseppe - University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
(giuseppe.vizzari (at] disco.unimib.it) - Zapf Michael - University of Kassel, Germany
(Michael.Zapf (at] uni-kassel.de)
- Paul Verstraete: Manufacturing Control Case Study
This presentation will first describe the case study. It then indicates what the essential model of the factory is. It explains how it is used and why the essential model is needed as an environment for the multi-agent system. Finally, it will demonstrate the need for self-organisation when using the MAS to run a factory.
- Luca Gardelli: A middleware to support stigmergy for cognitive agents
Slides (pdf, 694 Ko)
Stigmergy principles have often been employed as effective means to engineer indirect coordination in MASs where agents were very simple. We would like to extend this approach to systems made of cognitive agents, i.e. agents that can reason on a symbolic stigma. In this presentation we will give some insights on the on-going research about artefacts to support cognitive stigmergy. In particular we will provide some examples of a middleware based on TuCSoN technology.
- Gerald Silverberg, Bart Verspagen: Self-organization of R&D search in complex technology spaces
Slides (pdf, 850 Ko).
We extend an earlier model of innovation dynamics based on invasive percolation by adding endogenous R&D search by economically motivated firms. The {0,1} seeding of the technology lattice is now replaced by draws from a lognormal distribution for technology ‘difficulty’. Firms are rewarded for successful innovations by increases in their R&D budget. We compare two regimes. In the first, firms are fixed in a region of technology space. In the second, they can change their location by myopically comparing progress in their local neighborhoods and probabilistically moving to the region with the highest recent progress. We call this the moving or self-organizational regime. We find that as the mean and standard deviation of the lognormal distribution are varied, the relative rates of aggregate innovation switches between the two regimes. The SO regime has higher innovation rates, other things being equal, for lower means or higher standard deviations of the lognormal distribution. This result holds for increasing size of the search radius. The clustering of firms in the SO regime grows rapidly and fluctuates in a complex way around a high value which increases with the search radius. We also investigate the size distributions of the innovations generated in each regime. In the fixed one, the distribution is approximately lognormal and certainly not fat tailed. In the SO regime, the distributions are radically different. They are much more highly right skewed and show scaling over at least two decades with a slope of almost exactly one, independently of parameter settings. Thus we argue that firm self-organization leads to self-organized criticality.
- Giuseppe Vizzari: A Situated MAS for the Detection of Emergent Links in an Adaptive Web Site
Slides (pdf, 796 Ko).
A web site presents an intrinsic graph-like spatial structure defined by pages connected by hyperlinks. This structure may be considered as an environment on which reactive situated agents related to visitors of the web site are positioned and move in order to track their navigation. In particular, the situated agents may detect recurrent patterns of navigation, and propose them as possible emerging links. The latter are hyperlinks that are not provided by the static structure of the website but that are considered useful to customize the web site structure to better fit specific user's behaviour, or to globally optimize it for every generic visitor. The selection of those emerging links that can be exploited to adapt static web pages is delegated to a specific UI agent. The latter selects the possible emerging links according to the current context of the visitor (i.e. selects only those links starting from the currently viewed page), and other considerations (present only emergent links generated by the visiting user or also exploit those ones generated by other users). Users access thus a self-organizing web site which adapts its structure to their behaviours.
If you plan to attend the meeting, please:
- send a mail to one of the TFG chairs,
- register on the AgentLink III web site before Wednesday, September 7.
If you also plan to present the results of your case study or another subject about emergence or self-organisation, please let the chairs know as soon as possible (This call is closed).
Meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia (1-2 March, 2005)
A meeting has taken place during the second AgentLink III Technical Forum (AL3-TF2) on March 1st and 2nd, 2005.
Documents after the meeting
- The long report is here (pdf, 600 Ko).
- A short report of the meeting is available here too (pdf).
- The slides of the summary report presented during the plenary session are here (pdf). For the slides concerning the different presentations participants made, see the program below
- The final program is available (pdf).
Agenda with slides
This agenda is available as a pdf file.
| March 1st, 2005 | |
| Part 1 - Presentations | |
| 14:15-14:30 | Presentation of the objectives of the group and of the agenda by chairs |
| 14:30-14:45 | Short "position" presentation by participants presenting themselves, their research, and their long-term views in the area |
| Part 2 - Presentations of case studies by participants | |
| 14:45-15:45 | Presentations of the three case studies
Salima Hassas - Managing Computer Networks (Slides, pdf, 1.2 Mo) Paul Valckenaers - Manufacturing Control (paper, pdf, 200 Ko) Carole Bernon - Space Conformation of Molecules (Slides, pdf, 216 Ko) |
| 15:45-16:15 | Presentations of case studies by participants
Paul Valckenaers - Manufacturing Control Marie-Pierre Gleizes - Manufacturing Control (Slides following the given framework, pdf, 658 Ko, Slides slightly different, pdf, 693 Ko) |
| 16:15-16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30-18:15 | Presentations of case studies by participants (ctd)
George Vouros - Managing Computer Networks (Slides, pdf, 155 Ko) Nicolas Gaud - Managing Computer Networks (Slides, pdf, 319 Ko) Joris Deguet - Managing Computer Networks (Slides, pdf, 689 Ko) Carole Bernon - Space Conformation of Molecules (Slides, pdf, 455 Ko) |
| March 2nd, 2005 | |
| Part 3 - Links with other disciplines | |
| 9:00-10:00 | "Complexity in mammalian visual system" by Markus Bongard - Department Histology and Institute of Bioengineering Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Alicante, Spain (Slides, pdf, 7 Mo) |
| Part 4 - Work on definitions | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Assessment of the list of criteria and measures for self-organisation |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Assessment of the list of criteria and measures for self-organisation |
| 11:30-12:15 | Assessment of the definitions of emergence |
| Part 5 - Future works | |
| 12:15-12:45 | Plan of the proposed book and journal and conference papers |
| Part 6 - Synthesis, roadmap and conclusion | |
| 12:45-13:00 | Wrapping up: Synthesis and conclusion |
| 12:45-13:00 | End of TFG2 SO |
List of Participants
In the E-mail adresses, please replace (at] by @
- Bernon Carole - IRIT, Toulouse, France
(bernon (at] irit.fr) - Bongard Markus (Invited Speaker) - University Miguel Hernandez, Alicante, Spain
(markus.bongard (at] umh.es) - Chevrier Vincent - LORIA, Nancy, France
(chevrier (at] loria.fr) - Deguet Joris - LEIBNIZ Laboratory, France
(joris.deguet (at] imag.fr) - Di Marzo Serugendo Giovanna - University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
(Giovanna.Dimarzo (at] cui.unige.ch) - Fabien Michel - LIRMM, Montpellier, France
(fmichel (at] lirmm.fr) - Gardelli Luca - University of Bologna, Italy
(lgardelli (at] deis.unibo.fr) - Gaud Nicolas - University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard, Belfort, France
(nicolas.gaud (at] utbm.fr) - Gleizes Marie-Pierre - IRIT, Toulouse, France
(gleizes (at] irit.fr) - Gouaich Abdelkader - LIRMM, Montpellier, France
(gouaich (at] lirmm.fr) - Guessoum Zahia - LIP6, Paris, France
(Zahia.Guessoum (at] lip6.fr) - Hassas Salima - LIRIS, University Claude Bernard-Lyon 1, Lyon, France
(hassas (at] bat710.univ-lyon1.fr) - Holvoet Tom - KU.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
(Tom.Holvoet (at] cs.kuleuven.ac.be) - Jezic Gordan - University of Zagreb, Croatia
(gordan.jezic (at] fer.hr) - Karageorgos Anthony - University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
(karageorgos@computer.org) - Kusek Mario - University of Zagreb, Croatia
(mario.kusek (at] fer.hr) - Lopardo Gabriel - University of Girona, Spain
(glopardo (at] silver.udg.es) - Mamei Marco - University of Modena, Italy
(mamei.marco (at] unimo.it) - Platon Eric - Honiden Laboratory, Japan
(platon (at] nii.ac.jp) - Sousa Paulo - Departamento de Engenharia Informática Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
(psousa (at] dei.isep.ipp.pt) - Valckenaers Paul - K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
(Paul.Valckenaers (at] mech.kuleuven.ac.be) - Verstraete Paul - K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
(Paul.Verstraete (at] mech.kuleuven.ac.be) - Vizzari Giuseppe - University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
(giuseppe.vizzari (at] disco.unimib.it) - Vouros George - University of Agean, Greece
(georgev(at] aegean.gr) - Weyns Danny - K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
(Danny.Weyns (at] cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Preparation - Documents
To prepare this meeting, a framework to work on case studies is available in the private area.
A preliminary program is available in pdf format along with the aims and scope of this TFG.
Location - Information
See also the page of AgentLink for more information about the location of this event.
Please contact the TFG chairs to get more details.
Meeting in New York (July 20th, 2004)
A dinner meeting will take place on Tuesday July 20th after the ESOA 2004 workshop in New York.
Please contact the TFG chairs to get more details.
Meeting in Rome, Italy (July 1st, 2004)
Location - Information
See the AgentLink III web page to get more information about the location of the meeting, etc.
Preparation - Documents
Some documents are available to prepare the future meeting:
- Call for participations and propositions (doc and pdf formats): to get information about how you can participate.
- A first draft to try to define terms and build a roadmap. All contributions are welcomed.
- The current version of this draft.
Some working documents are in a private area (contact a TFG SO chair to know how to access it).
Documents available after the meeting:
- Some slides about the introduction and the topics currently under study (pdf file, 2,2 Mb),
- Slides of the plenary session (pdf file, 281 Kb),
- Final report of the meeting.
Agenda of the Meeting
This agenda is available as a pdf file.
| Part 1: Presentations |
| 09:00-09:15 | Presentation by participants |
| Part 2: Application of Self-Organisation in MAS: Some Examples |
| 09:15-09:35 | Salima Hassas - "Engineering of Self-Organisation in MAS" (pdf document, 3 Mb, and ppt document, 453 Kb) |
| 09:35-09:55 | Vincent Chevrier - "From Biological Self-Organised Systems to Collective Problem Solving" (zipped ps document, 2.9 Mb) |
| 09:55-10:15 | Gabriel Lopardo - "Self-Organisation in BioMASs (Bio-inspired MAS and Substitutes). An Evolutionary and Ecological Approach)" (pdf document, 235 Kb) |
| 10:15-10:35 | Vincent Hilaire - "Holonic Multi-Agent Systems" (pdf document, 354 Kb) |
| 10:35-10:55 | Pierre Glize - "Self-Organizing MAS" (pdf document, 774 Kb) |
| 11:00-11:20 | Coffee Break |
| Part 3: General Talks
Links with Other Disciplines and Future vision of Self-Organisation in MAS |
| 11:20-12:00 | Jean-Pierre Mano - "Self-Organisation in Natural Systems" (ppt document, 2.8 Mb - In pdf format: Slides 1-24, 2.5 Mb, Slides 25-48, 2.2 Mb, Slides 49-81, 2.7 Mb, ) |
| 12:00-12:45 | Franco Zambonelli - "Spatial Computing" |
| 12:45-13:00 | Discussion / Summary / Actions |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| Part 4: Work on Definitions |
| 14:00-14:15 | Introduction of the work by chairs: objectives, how to proceed... |
| 14:15-16:00 | Interactive work |
| 16:00-16:20 | Coffee Break |
| Part 5: Benchmarks - Measures |
| 16:20-17:00 | Paul Marrow - "Self-organisation and multi-agent systems: an industrial perspective?"
pdf document, 1.8 Mb)
Abstract: Future directions in Information and Communications Technology require means of developing and managing complex systems. Multi-agent systems have already proved themselves useful tools for development of complex software, while self-organisation is an important field for understanding phenomena in complex systems at many levels. Accordingly the development and understanding of self-organisation in multi-agent systems is relevant to the future of ICT applications. In this talk I shall present several examples of self-organisation in multi-agent systems from BT's technology research, and consider how to understand self-organisation in the multi-agent system context, with reference to methods of measurement and analysis. |
| Part 6: Synthesis and Conclusion |
| 17:00-18:00 | Discussion |
| 18:00 | End of TFG SO |
List of Participants
- Bernon Carole - IRIT - Toulouse - France
(bernon@irit.fr ) - Bourjot Christine - LORIA - Nancy - France
( bourjot@loria.fr ) - Burghardt Paul - DECIS Labs - Delft - Netherlands
(paul.burghardt@decis.nl ) - Castelfranchi Cristiano - CNR - Rome - Italy
(c.castelfranchi@istc.cnr.it ) - Chevrier Vincent - LORIA - France
(chevrier@loria.fr ) - Di Marzo Serugendo Giovanna - University of Geneva - Geneva - Switzerland
(Giovanna.Dimarzo@cui.unige.ch ) - Gleizes Marie-Pierre - IRIT- Toulouse - France
(Marie-Pierre.Gleizes@irit.fr ) - Glize Pierre - IRIT - Toulouse - France
(Pierre.Glize@irit.fr ) - Guessoum Zahia - LIP6 - Paris - France
(Zahia.Guessoum@lip6.fr ) - Hassas Salima - LIRIS - Université Claude Bernard-Lyon 1 - Lyon - France
(hassas@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr ) - Hilaire Vincent - University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard - Belfort - France
(vincent.hilaire@utbm.fr ) - Karageorgos Anthony - University of Thessaly, Volos - Greece
(karageorgos@computer.org ) - Mano Jean-Pierre - IRIT - Toulouse - France
(mano@irit.fr ) - Marrow Paul - BT Pervasive ICT Research Centre - London - UK
( paul.marrow@bt.com ) - Picault Sébastien - LIFL Villeuneuve d’Ascq - France
(picault@lifl.fr ) - Reitbauer Alois - Profactor -
(Alois.Reitbauer@profactor.at ) - Valckenaers Paul - K.U.Leuven - Leuven - Belgium
(valckenaersp@acm.org ) - Zambonelli Franco - University of Modena - Modena - Italy
(franco.zambonelli@unimo.it )
