Multi-Agent Systems Design, Analysis, and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Multiagent systems have received tremendous attention in different disciplines, including computer science, artificial intelligence, civil engineering, medicine, etc. These systems are composed of self-governing and intelligent parts, called agents, which are autonomous, socially intelligent, reactive, and/or pro-active. They interact with each other, situated in a common environment, eventually participating to or building an organization. Each agent decides on a proper action to solve the task using multiple inputs, e.g., history of actions, interactions with other agents, or its own goal.

This Special Issue solicits papers addressing original research on foundations, theory, development, analysis, and applications of multiagent systems composed by autonomous agents. Topics of interest include economic paradigms (cooperative and non-cooperative algorithmic game theory); social choice and voting; mechanism design; cooperation and teamwork; distributed problem solving; coalition formation; agent societies and societal issues; social networks; trust and reputation; ethical and legal issues; privacy, safety and security; and learning (evolutionary algorithms, multiagent learning, reinforcement learning, deep learning).

Dr. Angelo Fanelli
Prof. Dr. Gianpiero Monaco
Prof. Dr. Luca Moscardelli
Guest Editors

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