Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in Multi-Agent Systems

"This book presents a subselection of papers presented at the ECAI 2000 Workshop on Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in Multi-Agent Systems together with additional papers from well-known researchers in the field.
The 13 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the present book. Besides two introductory survey papers, the book offers topical sections on architectures and frameworks, enhanced reactivity, and controlled social deliberation. "

I Introduction
Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in Multi-Agent Systems-A Short Guide to the Contributions
Reactivity and Deliberation: A Survey on Multi-Robot Systems
II Architectures and Frameworks
Bridging Deliberation and Reactivity in Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems through Map Focus
Balancing between Reactivity and Deliberation in the ICAGENT Framework
On Augmenting Reactivity with Deliberation in a Controlled Manner
HAC: A Unified View of Reactive and Deliberative Activity
III Enhanced Reactivity
Team Cooperation Using Dual Dynamics
A Hierarchy of Reactive Behaviors Handles Complexity
Reinforcement Learning for Cooperating and Communicating Reactive Agents in Electrical Power Grids
Being Reactive by Exchanging Roles: An Empirical Study
IV Controlled Social Deliberation
Situation Based Strategic Positioning for Coordinating a Team of Homogeneous Agents
Deliberation Levels in Theoretic-Decision Approaches for Task Allocation in Resource-Bounded Agents
Cognition, Sociability, and Constraints
Author Index