Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV
Subtitle: 4th International Workshop, ESAW 2003, London, UK, October 29-31, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)
Contributors: Andrea Omicini (Editor); Paolo Petta (Editor); Jeremy Pitt (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 5, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9783540222316
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Programming - Software Development; Computer Science; Computers - General Information; Reference; Artificial Intelligence - General; General; Computers / Artificial Intelligence; MAS; agent communication; agent cooperation; agent coordination; agent societies; context sensitive agents; e-commerce agents; engineering agent societies; Congresses; Engineering; Intelligent agents (Computer software); Societies, etc.
First sentence: As explicited in the aims and scope of the "Engineering Societies in the Agents World" workshop, software systems are undergoing drastic changes in scale and complexity, making them more resemble natural systems and societies than mechanical systems and traditional software architectures.