This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, EUMAS 2014, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in December 2014. The 21 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: agent-based models, trust and reputation; coordination, coalitions and teamwork; logic and formal approaches; theories in practice and real-world problems; decision making, conflicts and agreements.
Table of Content
Agent-Based Models, Trust and Reputation.- Ants in the OCEAN: Modulating Agents with Personality for Planning with Humans.- A Trust-Based Situation Awareness Model.- Angerona – A Flexible Multiagent Framework for Knowledge-Based Agents.- Affordance-Based Interaction Design for Agent-Based Simulation Models.- MORE: Merged Opinions Reputation Model.- Coordination, Coalitions and Teamwork.- Computing Coalitions in Multiagent Systems: A Contextual Reasoning Approach.- Comparison of Task-Allocation Algorithms in Frontier-Based Multi-robot Exploration.- Homecoming: A Multi-robot Exploration Method for Conjunct Environments with a Systematic Return Procedure.- Distributed Deliberation on Direct Help in Agent Teamwork.- Forming Coalitions in Self-interested Multi-agent Environments Through the Promotion of Fair and Cooperative Behaviour.- Auction-Based Dynamic Task Allocation for Foraging with a Cooperative Robot Team.- Logic and Formal Approaches.- Tableaux and Complexity Bounds for a Multiagent Justification Logic with Interacting Justifications.- A Framework for Epistemic Gossip Protocols.- Compliance Games.- Synthesis with Rational Environments.- STIT Based Deontic Logics for the Miners Puzzle.- Arbitrary Announcements on Topological Subset Spaces.- Theories in Practice and Real-World Problems Direct Exchange Mechanisms for Option Pricing.- A Study on the Influence of the Number of MTurkers on the Quality of the Aggregate Output.- Multi-Agent Cooperation for Optimizing Weight of Electrical Aircraft Harnesses.- Optimizing Emergency Medical Assistance Coordination in After-Hours Urgent Surgery Patients.- Spatial Coordination Games for Large-Scale Visualization.- Decision Making, Conflicts and Agreements Modeling a Multi-issue Negotiation Protocol for Agent Extensible Negotiations.- Conflict Resolution in Assumption-Based Frameworks.- Decision Making in Agent-Based Models.- Strategic Argumentation Under Grounded Semantics is NP-Complete.- Deliberative Argumentation for Service Provision in Smart Environments.- Priority-Based Merging Operator Without Distance Measures.- A Dialogical Model for Collaborative Decision Making Based on Compromises.