Ho-Fung Leung - Böcker

This book contains the carefully selected and reviewed papers presented at three satellite events that were held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2010, in Hong Kong, China, in December 2010. The collection comprises a total of 40 contributions that originate from the First International Symposium on Web Intelligent Systems and Services (WISS 2010), from the First International Workshop on Cloud Information Systems Engineering (CISE 2010) and from the Second International Workshop on Mobile Business Collaboration (MBC 2010). The papers address a wide range of hot topics and are organized in topical sections on: decision and e-markets; rules and XML; web service intelligence; semantics and services; analyzing web resources; engineering web systems; intelligent web applications; web communities and personalization; cloud information system engineering; mobile business collaboration.

Thisbook mainly aims at solving the problems in both cooperative and competitivemulti-agent systems (MASs), exploring aspects such as how agents caneffectively learn to achieve the shared optimal solution based on their localinformation and how they can learn to increase their individual utility byexploiting the weakness of their opponents. The book describes fundamental andadvanced techniques of how multi-agent systems can be engineered towards thegoal of ensuring fairness, social optimality, and individual rationality; awide range of further relevant topics are also covered both theoretically andexperimentally. The book will be beneficial to researchers in the fields ofmulti-agent systems, game theory and artificial intelligence in general, as wellas practitioners developing practical multi-agent systems.

Thisbook mainly aims at solving the problems in both cooperative and competitivemulti-agent systems (MASs), exploring aspects such as how agents caneffectively learn to achieve the shared optimal solution based on their localinformation and how they can learn to increase their individual utility byexploiting the weakness of their opponents. The book describes fundamental andadvanced techniques of how multi-agent systems can be engineered towards thegoal of ensuring fairness, social optimality, and individual rationality; awide range of further relevant topics are also covered both theoretically andexperimentally. The book will be beneficial to researchers in the fields ofmulti-agent systems, game theory and artificial intelligence in general, as wellas practitioners developing practical multi-agent systems.

This book presents the first attempt to combine concurrent logic programming and constraint logic programing. It is divided into three parts. In the first part, a novel computation model, called the multi-Pandora model, which is designed on the basis of the Pandora model, is presented. In the second part, the distributed implementation schemes for Parlog, Pandora, and multi-Pandora are presented. Finally, the author presents the distributed constraint solvers for finite domain constraints, as well as the distributed constraint solvers in the domains of real numbers and Boolean rings which can be incorporated into the schemes presented in the second part to handle the ‘ask’- and ‘tell’-constraints.