TY - BOOK
T1 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Logics for Agents and Mobility 2008 (LAM’08)
AU - Muller, Berndt
AU - Koehler-Bussmeier, M
PY - 2008/1/1
Y1 - 2008/1/1
N2 - The aim of the workshop was to bring together active researchers and PhD students in the area of logics and mobile systems, especially in the field of agents and multi-agent systems. Many notions used in the theory of agents are derived from philosophy and linguistics (belief, desire, intention, speech act, etc.), and interdisciplinary discourse has proved fruitful for the advance of this domain. On the other hand, the deployment of large-scale pervasive infrastructures (mobile ad-hoc networks, mobile devices, RFIDs, etc.) is becoming a reality. This raises a number of scientific and technological challenges for the software modelling and programming models for such large-scale, open and highly-dynamic distributed systems. The agent and multi-agent systems approach seems particularly adapted to tackle this challenge, but there are many issues remaining to be investigated. For instance, the agents must be location-aware since the actual services available to them may depend on their (physical or virtual) location. The quality and quantity of resources at their disposal is also largely fluctuant, and the agents must be able to adapt to such highly dynamic environments. Moreover, mobility itself raises a large number of difficult issues related to safety and security, which require the ability to reason about the software (e.g. for analysis or verification). The logics and type systems with temporal or other kinds of modalities (relating to location, resource and/or security-awareness) play a central role in the semantic characterisation and then verification of properties about mobile agent systems. There are still many open problems and research questions in the theory of such systems. The workshop was intended to showcase new results and active research undertaken in these areas.
AB - The aim of the workshop was to bring together active researchers and PhD students in the area of logics and mobile systems, especially in the field of agents and multi-agent systems. Many notions used in the theory of agents are derived from philosophy and linguistics (belief, desire, intention, speech act, etc.), and interdisciplinary discourse has proved fruitful for the advance of this domain. On the other hand, the deployment of large-scale pervasive infrastructures (mobile ad-hoc networks, mobile devices, RFIDs, etc.) is becoming a reality. This raises a number of scientific and technological challenges for the software modelling and programming models for such large-scale, open and highly-dynamic distributed systems. The agent and multi-agent systems approach seems particularly adapted to tackle this challenge, but there are many issues remaining to be investigated. For instance, the agents must be location-aware since the actual services available to them may depend on their (physical or virtual) location. The quality and quantity of resources at their disposal is also largely fluctuant, and the agents must be able to adapt to such highly dynamic environments. Moreover, mobility itself raises a large number of difficult issues related to safety and security, which require the ability to reason about the software (e.g. for analysis or verification). The logics and type systems with temporal or other kinds of modalities (relating to location, resource and/or security-awareness) play a central role in the semantic characterisation and then verification of properties about mobile agent systems. There are still many open problems and research questions in the theory of such systems. The workshop was intended to showcase new results and active research undertaken in these areas.
M3 - Scholarly edition
BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Logics for Agents and Mobility 2008 (LAM’08)
PB - Universität Hamburg
ER -