Since the first edition in 2013, the International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS) is a reference venue where software engineering, MAS, and artificial intelligence researchers can meet, discuss different viewpoints and findings, and share them with industry. Originally set up by merging three separate historical workshops – AOSE, focusing on software engineering aspects, ProMAS about programming aspects, and DALT about the application of declarative techniques to design, program, and verification of MAS – EMAS overall purpose is to facilitate the cross- fertilisation of ideas and experiences in the various fields to: – enhance knowledge and expertise in MAS engineering and improve the state or-the art; – define new directions for MAS engineering that are useful to practitioners, relying in results and recommendations coming from different but continuous research areas; – investigate how practitioners can use or need to adapt established method- ologies for the engineering of large-scale and open MAS. Like in previous editions, also the 5th edition of the workshop has been co-located with AAMAS (International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems) which in 2017 took place in Brasil, Sao Paulo. The previous editions were held in St. Paul (LNAI 8245), in Paris (LNAI 8758), in Istanbul (LNAI 9318) and in Singapore (LNAI 10093). This year the EMAS workshop was held as a two-day event. Eighteen papers were submitted to the workshop and after a double review process, ten papers were selected for inclusion in this volume. All the contributions were revised by taking into account the comments received and the discussions at the workshop. Among them, the paper “Approaching Interactions in Agent-Based Modelling with an Affordance Perspective” by Franziska Klu ̈gl and Sabine Timpf also ap- pears in LNAI 10642 [Sukthankar G., Rodriguez-Aguilar J. (eds), AAMAS 2017 Ws Best Papers, LNAI 10642, 2017, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71682-4 14], since it was selected as the best paper of the workshop. Finally, we would like to thank the members of the Program Committee for their work during the reviewing phase, as well as the members of the EMAS Steering Committee for their valuable suggestions and support. We also ac- knowledge the EasyChair conference management system for its support for the workshop organisation process.
Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. 5th International Workshop, EMAS 2017, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 8-9, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Alessandro Ricci;
2018
Abstract
Since the first edition in 2013, the International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS) is a reference venue where software engineering, MAS, and artificial intelligence researchers can meet, discuss different viewpoints and findings, and share them with industry. Originally set up by merging three separate historical workshops – AOSE, focusing on software engineering aspects, ProMAS about programming aspects, and DALT about the application of declarative techniques to design, program, and verification of MAS – EMAS overall purpose is to facilitate the cross- fertilisation of ideas and experiences in the various fields to: – enhance knowledge and expertise in MAS engineering and improve the state or-the art; – define new directions for MAS engineering that are useful to practitioners, relying in results and recommendations coming from different but continuous research areas; – investigate how practitioners can use or need to adapt established method- ologies for the engineering of large-scale and open MAS. Like in previous editions, also the 5th edition of the workshop has been co-located with AAMAS (International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems) which in 2017 took place in Brasil, Sao Paulo. The previous editions were held in St. Paul (LNAI 8245), in Paris (LNAI 8758), in Istanbul (LNAI 9318) and in Singapore (LNAI 10093). This year the EMAS workshop was held as a two-day event. Eighteen papers were submitted to the workshop and after a double review process, ten papers were selected for inclusion in this volume. All the contributions were revised by taking into account the comments received and the discussions at the workshop. Among them, the paper “Approaching Interactions in Agent-Based Modelling with an Affordance Perspective” by Franziska Klu ̈gl and Sabine Timpf also ap- pears in LNAI 10642 [Sukthankar G., Rodriguez-Aguilar J. (eds), AAMAS 2017 Ws Best Papers, LNAI 10642, 2017, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71682-4 14], since it was selected as the best paper of the workshop. Finally, we would like to thank the members of the Program Committee for their work during the reviewing phase, as well as the members of the EMAS Steering Committee for their valuable suggestions and support. We also ac- knowledge the EasyChair conference management system for its support for the workshop organisation process.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
