Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems V Research Issues and P
Software is present in every aspect of our lives, pushing us inevitably towards a world of distributed computing systems. Agent concepts hold great promise for responding to the new realities of large-scale distributed systems. Multi-agent systems (MASs)
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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany
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Ricardo Choren Alessandro Garcia Holger Giese Ho-fung Leung Carlos Lucena Alexander Romanovsky (Eds.)
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems V Research Issues and Practical Applications
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Volume Editors Ricardo Choren PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil E-mail: [email protected] Alessandro Garcia Lancaster University United Kingdom E-mail: [email protected] Holger Giese University of Paderborn D-33098 Paderborn, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Ho-fung Leung The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China E-mail: [email protected] Carlos Lucena PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil E-mail: [email protected] Alexander Romanovsky University of Newcastle Newcatle upon Tyne, UK E-mail: [email protected] Library of Congress Control Number: 2007931241 CR Subject Classification (1998): D.2, I.2.11, C.2.4, D.1.3, H.3.5 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 2 – Programming and Software Engineering ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN-10 3-540-73130-X Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York ISBN-13 978-3-540-73130-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
Software is present in every aspect of our lives, pushing us inevitably towards a world of distributed computing systems. Agent concepts hold great promise for responding to the new realities of large-scale distributed systems. Multi-agent systems (MASs) and their underlying
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