1. Engineering multi-agent systems: State of affairs and the road ahead
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Alessandro Ricci, Eleonora Giunchiglia, László Zsolt Varga, Lars-Åke Fredlund, Álvaro Fernández Díaz, Carlos A. Iglesias, Koen V. Hindriks, Tasio Méndez, Viviana Mascardi, Arthur Casals, Baris Tekin Teze, Timotheus Kampik, John Bruntse Larsen, Zahia Guessoum, Akın Günay, Michael Winikoff, Angelo Ferrando, Simon Mayer, Clara Benac Earle, Juan Carlos Nieves, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Andrei Ciortea, Vincent J. Koeman, Danny Weyns, Brian Logan, Moharram Challenger, Louise A. Dennis, Geylani Kardas, Amit K. Chopra, Valeria Seidita, Viviana Mascardi, Danny Weyns, Alessandro Ricci, Universita di Genova Dipartimento per lo studio del Territorio e delle sue Risorse (UNIVERSITA DI GENOVA), Universita degli studi di Genova, Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Systèmes Multi-Agents (SMA), LIP6, Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ege university, Lancaster University, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (Mines Saint-Étienne MSE), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), University of Liverpool, University of Oxford [Oxford], Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), University of Nottingham, UK (UON), Department of Computing Science [Umeå, Sweden], Umeå University, Technical University of Denmark [Lyngby] (DTU), University of St.Gallen (HSG), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Università degli studi di Palermo - University of Palermo, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), and University of Otago [Dunedin, Nouvelle-Zélande]
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Engineering ,Multiagent systems D2 ,Design ,Standardization ,Intelligent agents ,Human Factors ,State of affairs ,02 engineering and technology ,computer.software_genre ,Multi-Agent Systems ,Body of knowledge ,Intelligent agent ,020204 information systems ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Theory ,[INFO]Computer Science [cs] ,Experimentation ,Computer. Automation ,Informática ,Telecomunicaciones ,Multi-Agent System ,Requirements engineering ,business.industry ,Multi-agent system ,Agent-Oriented Software Engineering ,020207 software engineering ,General Medicine ,Agents ,Reliability ,Agent-Oriented Programming ,Variety (cybernetics) ,Continuous integration ,Engineering management ,MAS Architecture ,Verification Keywords Software engineering ,Goal Reasoning ,AI ,Security ,Languages ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,business ,Engineering sciences. Technology ,computer - Abstract
International audience; The continuous integration of software-intensive systems together with the ever-increasing computing power offer a breeding ground for intelligent agents and multi-agent systems (MAS) more than ever before. Over the past two decades, a wide variety of languages, models, techniques and methodologies have been proposed to engineer agents and MAS. Despite this substantial body of knowledge and expertise, the systematic engineering of large-scale and open MAS still poses many challenges. Researchers and engineers still face fundamental questions regarding theories, architectures, languages, processes, and platforms for designing, implementing, running, maintaining, and evolving MAS. This paper reports on the results of the 6th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2018, 14th-15th of July, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden), where participants discussed the issues above focusing on the state of affairs and the road ahead for researchers and engineers in this area.
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- 2019
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