MASTA'05: 3rd Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems - Theory and Applications Joao Balsa Luis Moniz Luis Paulo Reis Universidade de Lisboa, Universidade de Lisboa, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Portugal Portugal (jbalsa@ @ di.fc.ul.pt) ([email protected]) (lpreis @ fe.up.pt) Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is now one of the most rele- vant and attractive research areas in the field of computer sci- ence. Since 1993 the area of Multi-Agent Systems/Distributed Artificial Intelligence has been present in the EPIA confer- ences, both as individual tracks in the main conference and as autonomous workshops. The 3rd Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications (MASTA 2005) took place in the University of Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal, December 6-8, 2005, as part of EPIA 2005 - 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Focusing on a fundamental area of research in Artificial Intelligence, the 3rd MASTA workshop was the forum for presenting and discussing the most recent and innovative work in the areas of multi-agent systems and autonomous agents. MASTA 2005 received 36 submissions from 11 countries with Portugal, Brazil and The Netherlands being the most contributing countries. Although submissions covered almost all areas in the agents and multi-agent research field, some topics of special interest were on: agent architectures, agent- based applications, agent-oriented software engineering, for- mal methods for modeling agent based systems, negotiation in MAS, coordination and MAS learning. Each paper was blindly reviewed by three senior program committee members. From the 36 submitted, 9 high quality full papers were selected for publication in the Springer LNCS main volume of the conference proceedings, while 10 papers were selected for the local UBI/IEEE proceedings, 6 as full papers and 4 as posters. We would like to thank all the authors who submitted their work to the workshop and enabled the success of MASTA 2005. We would also like to give a special thanks to all the members of the Program Committee who took upon most of the burden in reviewing the papers enabling its accurate evaluation. 0-7803-9365-1/05/$17.00c2005 IEEE 273

[IEEE 2005 Purtuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Covilha, Portugal (2005.12.5-2005.12.8)] 2005 Purtuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - MASTA'05: 3rd Workshop

Download PDF Report

Upload
luis-paulo
View
214
Download
0

Embed Size (px)

Citation preview

Page 1: [IEEE 2005 Purtuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Covilha, Portugal (2005.12.5-2005.12.8)] 2005 Purtuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - MASTA'05: 3rd Workshop

MASTA'05: 3rd Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems- Theory and Applications

Joao Balsa Luis Moniz Luis Paulo ReisUniversidade de Lisboa, Universidade de Lisboa, Universidade do Porto,

Portugal Portugal Portugal(jbalsa@ @di.fc.ul.pt) ([email protected]) ([email protected])

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is now one of the most rele-vant and attractive research areas in the field of computer sci-ence. Since 1993 the area of Multi-Agent Systems/DistributedArtificial Intelligence has been present in the EPIA confer-ences, both as individual tracks in the main conference and asautonomous workshops.The 3rd Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and

Applications (MASTA 2005) took place in the Universityof Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal, December 6-8, 2005,as part of EPIA 2005 - 12th Portuguese Conference onArtificial Intelligence. Focusing on a fundamental area ofresearch in Artificial Intelligence, the 3rd MASTA workshopwas the forum for presenting and discussing the most recentand innovative work in the areas of multi-agent systems andautonomous agents.MASTA 2005 received 36 submissions from 11 countries

with Portugal, Brazil and The Netherlands being the mostcontributing countries. Although submissions covered almostall areas in the agents and multi-agent research field, sometopics of special interest were on: agent architectures, agent-based applications, agent-oriented software engineering, for-mal methods for modeling agent based systems, negotiationin MAS, coordination and MAS learning.

Each paper was blindly reviewed by three senior programcommittee members. From the 36 submitted, 9 high qualityfull papers were selected for publication in the Springer LNCSmain volume of the conference proceedings, while 10 paperswere selected for the local UBI/IEEE proceedings, 6 as fullpapers and 4 as posters. We would like to thank all the authorswho submitted their work to the workshop and enabled thesuccess of MASTA 2005. We would also like to give a specialthanks to all the members of the Program Committee who tookupon most of the burden in reviewing the papers enabling itsaccurate evaluation.

0-7803-9365-1/05/$17.00c2005 IEEE273