Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies First International Workshop, DALT 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 15, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers

The growing complexity of agent systems calls for models and technologies that allow for system predictability and enable feature discovery and verification. Formal methods and declarative technologies have recently attracted a growing interest as a means for dealing with such issues.
This book presents revised and extended versions of 11 papers selected for presentation at the First International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, DALT 2003, held in Melbourne, Australia in July 2003 during AAMAS; also included are 3 invited papers by leading researchers in the area to ensure competent coverage of all relevant topics.
The papers are organized in topical sections on- software engineering and MAS prototyping- agent reasoning, BDI logics, and extensions- social aspects of multi-agent systems

MAS as Complex Systems: A View on the Role of Declarative Approaches.- A Logic-Based Infrastructure for Reconfiguring Applications.- Operational Semantics for Agents by Iterated Refinement.- Go! for Multi-threaded Deliberative Agents.- An Agent-Based Domain Specific Framework for Rapid Prototyping of Applications in Evolutionary Biology.- A Logic for Ignorance.- Coo-BDI: Extending the BDI Model with Cooperativity.- Extending the Operational Semantics of a BDI Agent-Oriented Programming Language for Introducing Speech-Act Based Communication.- A Combined Logic of Expectation and Observation.- A Proposal for Reasoning in Agents: Restricted Entailment.- A Social Approach to Communication in Multiagent Systems.- Logic-Based Electronic Institutions.- Modeling Interactions Using Social Integrity Constraints: A Resource Sharing Case Study.- Linear Logic, Partial Deduction and Cooperative Problem Solving.