Formal Approaches to Agent-based Systems Third International Workshop, Faabs 2004, Greenbelt, Md, April 26-27, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems, FAABS 2004, held in Greenbelt, MD, USA in April 2004. The 18 revised full papers and 4 revised poster papers presented have gone through two rounds of reviewing and improvement. Among the topics addressed are agent management systems, norms in agent societies, multi-agent systems reliability, agent architectures, multi-agent systems specification, formal methods, potential energy in multi-agent systems, timed automata, model checking, OBDDs, multi-agent systems verification, agent communication protocols, autonomic agents, and Petri nets.Hinchey, Michael G. is the author of 'Formal Approaches to Agent-based Systems Third International Workshop, Faabs 2004, Greenbelt, Md, April 26-27, 2004, Revised Selected Papers', published 2005 under ISBN 9783540244226 and ISBN 3540244220.