Engineering Societies in the Agents World X 10th International Works
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2009, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in November 2009. The 13 revised full papers and 5 short contributions presented t
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Huib Aldewereld Virginia Dignum Gauthier Picard (Eds.)
Engineering Societies in the Agents World X 10th International Workshop, ESAW 2009 Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 18-20, 2009 Proceedings
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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Huib Aldewereld Virginia Dignum Universiteit Utrecht Institute for Computing and Information Sciences Padualaan 14, P.O.Box 80.089 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands E-mail: {huib,virginia}@cs.uu.nl Gauthier Picard École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne Industrial Engineering and Computer Sciences 158, cours Fauriel 42023 SAINT-ÉTIENNE cedex 2, France E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2009937937
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, I.2, D.2, K.4, D.1.3, H.3.4 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
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Preface
The 10th international workshop “Engineering Societies in the Agents’ World” (ESAW 2009), was held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, during November 18–20, 2009. In the tradition of its predecessors, ESAW 2009 was committed to the idea of multi-agent systems (MAS) as highly interconnected societies of agents, paying particular attention to the social aspects, methodologies and software infrastructures that tackle the emergent complexities of MAS. The idea for the ESAW workshop series was born 10 years ago, in 1999, among the members of the working group on “Communication, Coordination and Collaboration” of AgentLink, the 1st European Network of Excellence on Agent-Based Computing, out of a critical discussion about the general mindset of the agents community. Central to this discussion is the need for proper consideration of systematic aspects of MAS, acknowledging the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach, that takes into account the social, environmental and technological perspectives. These issues that are as actual today as they were in 19
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