Pre-Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on "Modeling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World"

Abstract

The purpose of this Workshop is to stimulate exchange and discussion of research in the field of multi-agent systems. MAAMAW is the European forum for DAI studies. While classical DAI research was mainly concerned with distributed problem solving and task allocation in view of a common goal, MAAMAW emphasizes the problems arising when several autonomous agents, endowed with their own goals, knowledge, and abilities, share a common environment and pursue either shared or competing goals. MAAMAW is therefore interested both in classical DAI problems (coordination, communication, cooperation, negotiation, etc.) and in theories of intention and action, or, more generally, in the architecture of the autonomous agent. Multi-agent models are a new area of research in rapid growth, of relevant interest both for AI and for social and management sciences. Both novel theoretical and computational approaches to multi-agent topics are encouraged. A 60 people international workshop to discuss your ideas or exhibit your systems