Multi-Agent and Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, Joint Workshop MABS 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

Simulation of Multi-agent Systems.- Smooth Scaling Ahead: Progressive MAS Simulation from Single PCs to Grids.- Agent Communication in Distributed Simulations.- Distributed Simulation of MAS.- Extending Time Management Support for Multi-agent Systems.- Designing and Implementing MABS in AKIRA.- Technique and Technology.- Work-Environment Analysis: Environment Centric Multi-agent Simulation for Design of Socio-technical Systems.- Layering Social Interaction Scenarios on Environmental Simulation.- Change Your Tags Fast! - A Necessary Condition for Cooperation?.- Users Matter: A Multi-agent Systems Model of High Performance Computing Cluster Users.- Formal Analysis of Meeting Protocols.- Methodology and Modelling.- From KISS to KIDS - An 'Anti-simplistic' Modelling Approach.- Analysis of Learning Types in an Artificial Market.- Toward Guidelines for Modeling Learning Agents in Multiagent-Based Simulation: Implications from Q-Learning and Sarsa Agents.- Social Dynamics.- Agent-Based Modelling of Forces in Crowds.- An Investigation into the Use of Group Dynamics for Solving Social Dilemmas.- Applications.- ASAP: Agent-Based Simulator for Amusement Park.- Patchiness and Prosociality: An Agent-Based Model of Plio/Pleistocene Hominid Food Sharing.- Plant Disease Incursion Management.- A Hybrid Micro-Simulator for Determining the Effects of Governmental Control Policies on Transport Chains.- Simulation and Analysis of Shared Extended Mind.