James L. Rash

Proceedings of a Conference Held at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, May 5-6, 1992

1992 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Michael G. Hinchey

Christopher Rouff

Walter F. Truszkowski

Diana Gordon-Spears

The idea of a FAABS workshop was first conceived in 1998 at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, while the Agent Technology Development Group in the Advanced Architectures and Automation Branch (Code 588) was developing a prototype agent community to automate satellite ground operations. While developing this system, several race conditions arose within and between agents. Due to the complexity of the agents and the communications between them, it was decided that a formal approach was needed to specify the agents and the communications between them, so that the system could be checked for additional errors. A formal model of the inter-agent communications was developed, with the expectation that this would enable us to find more errors. Success in this convinced us of the importance of using formal methods to model agent-based systems. To share our own experiences and to learn how others were approaching these issues, we decided to hold a workshop on formal methods and agent-based systems. The response was overwhelming. The result was the first FAABS workshop, which was held at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Posters, paper presentations, panels, and an invited talk by J Moore stimulated much discussion and subsequent collaboration.

Second International Workshop, FAABS 2002, Greenbelt, MD, USA, October 29-31, 2002, Revised Papers

Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems

Proceedings of a Workshop Series Held at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, May 1-2, 1990

1990 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Christopher A. Rouff

Diana Gordon

Walter Truszkowski

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems, FAABS 2000, held in Greenbelt, MD, USA, in April 2000. The 22 revised full papers presented together with 13 posters and two panel discussion reports were carefully reviewed and improved for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on verifying agents' mental states, synthesizing agents initially, frameworks and formalizations, modeling and execution, inter-agent communication, and adaptive agents.

First International Workshop, FAABS 2000 Greenbelt, MD, USA, April 5-7, 2000 Revised Papers

Walt Truszkowski

Patricia Rago

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts, WRAC 2005, held in Greenbelt, MD, USA in September 2005. The 27 full papers presented are fully revised to incorporate reviewers' comments and discussions at the workshop. Topics addressed are social aspects of agents, agent architectures, autonomic systems, agent communities, and agent intelligence.

Second International Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts, WRAC 2005, Greenbelt, MD, USA, September 20-22, 2005, Revised Papers

Innovative Concepts for Autonomic and Agent-Based Systems

James L. Rash

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