Multi-Agent Systems 12th European Conference, EUMAS 2014, Prague, Cz
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
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Nils Bulling (Ed.)
Multi-Agent Systems 12th European Conference, EUMAS 2014 Prague, Czech Republic, December 18–19, 2014 Revised Selected Papers
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Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNAI Series Editors Randy Goebel University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Yuzuru Tanaka Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Wolfgang Wahlster DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
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Nils Bulling (Ed.)
Multi-Agent Systems 12th European Conference, EUMAS 2014 Prague, Czech Republic, December 18–19, 2014 Revised Selected Papers
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Editor Nils Bulling Delft University of Technology Delft The Netherlands
ISSN 0302-9743 ISSN 1611-3349 (electronic) Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ISBN 978-3-319-17129-6 ISBN 978-3-319-17130-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-17130-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015935051 LNCS Sublibrary: SL7 – Artificial Intelligence Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
This volume contains the papers accepted at the 12th European Conference on MultiAgent Systems (EUMAS 2014) held during December 18–19, 2014, in Prague, Czech Republic. Multi-agent systems are systems of interacting, intelligent, and autonomous agents that pursue their goals alone, in collaboration with others, or against others. In order to solve complex problems, agents must have a variety of skills, e.g., they need to communicate and to negotiate with their peers and humans. Also, they need to be able to take good, often strategic, decisions. This requires sophisticated tools and techniques. Such being
