Engineering societies in the agents world II
Subtitle: second International Workshop, ESAW 2001, Prague, Czech Republic, July 7, 2001 : revised papers
By: Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Robert Tolksdorf (eds.).
Contributors: Omicini, Andrea, 1965-; Petta, Paolo, 1963-; Tolksdorf, Robert, 1965-
Series: Lecture notes in computer science ;; 2203.; Lecture notes in artificial intelligence; Lecture notes in computer science ;; 2203.; Lecture notes in computer science.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Intelligent agents (Computer software) -- Congresses; Engineering -- Societies, etc. -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: ESAW 2001
Description: The idea to initiate a series of workshops to be entitled “Engineering Societies in the Agent’s World” (ESAW) originated in late 1999, among members of the working group on Communication, Coordination, and Collaboration of the Intelligent Informa tion Agents special interest group of AgentLink, the European Network of Excellence for Agent Based Computing. By that time, the convergenceof scienti?c and technolog ical progress in numerous areas, including software engineering, distributed problem solving, knowledge based systems, and dynamic pervasive networking had gained sig ni?cant momentum. As a result, the reality of multiagent systems was now a given. In the eyes of the proposers and supporters of ESAW, these developments led to a new and manifest need, that was being left all but uncovered by the existing range of conferences and meetings. A platform that would overcome the disparate roots of the multiagent systems ?eld by placing a clear focus on an integrative level of anal ysis, namely: arti?cial societies populating a world encompassing the natural and the arti?cial, comprising autonomousentities and their environment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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