Multi-Agent Systems 2020
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 64118
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Interests: affective computing; agreement technology; artificial intelligence; computational chemistry; computer science
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Interests: multi-agent systems; agreement technologies; Ambient Intelligence; affective computing; intelligent transport systems
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Dear Colleagues,
Research done on Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade, and many effective applications of this technology are being deployed. Despite the fact that computational approaches for multi-agent systems have mainly emerged in recent decades, scholars have been prolific with the variety of methods proposed to solve this paradigm. Different communities have emerged with Multi-Agent Systems as their main research topic.
Multi-agent systems allow the development of distributed and intelligent applications in complex and dynamic environments. Systems of this kind play a crucial role in life, evidenced by the broad range of applied areas involved in their use, including manufacturing, management sciences, e-commerce, biotechnology, etc.
The interest of researchers in this new discipline lies in diverse reasons. Firstly, computational systems have gradually shifted towards a distributed paradigm where heterogeneous entities with different goals can enter and leave the system dynamically and interact with each other. Secondly, new computational systems should be able to negotiate with one another, typically on behalf of humans, in order to come to mutually acceptable agreements. As a consequence, autonomy, interaction, mobility, and openness are key concepts studied in the area.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to make known some of the advances made in this paradigm and try to show the current state of this technology by analysing different aspects as well as its possible application to various domains. In this review of the current state, we do not intend to exhaustively explore all the current existing works but rather give an overview of the research in agent technology, showing the high level of activity in this area.
Prof. Dr. Vicent BottiProf. Dr. Vicente Julian
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Agent and multi-agent applications
- Agent engineering: development techniques, tools, and platforms
- Agent-based simulation
- Biologically-inspired approaches and methods
- Collective intelligence
- Complex systems
- Distributed problem solving
- Human-robot–agent interaction
- Intelligent control and manufacturing systems
- Learning and adaptation in MAS
- Methodologies for agent-based systems
- Multi-robot systems
- Negotiation and conflict resolution
- Normative systems
- Organizations and institutions
- Reasoning in agent-based systems
- Self-organization
- Single and multi-agent planning and scheduling
- Socio-technical systems
- Teamwork, team formation, and teamwork analysis
- Trust and reputation
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