Special Issue “Multi-Agent Systems”: Editorial

Multi-agent systems (MAS) allow and promote the development of distributed and intelligent applications in complex and dynamic environments. Applications of this kind have a crucial role in our everyday life, as witnessed by the broad range of domains they are deployed to—such as manufacturing, management sciences, e-commerce, biotechnology, etc. Despite heterogeneity, those domains share common requirements such as autonomy, structured interaction, mobility, and openness—which are well suited for MAS. Therein, in fact, goal-oriented processes can enter and leave the system dynamically and interact with each other according to structured protocols. This special issue gathers 17 contributions spanning from agent-based modelling and simulation to applications of MAS in situated and socio-technical systems.

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[2]  Roberto Micalizio,et al.  Computational Accountability in MAS Organizations with ADOPT , 2018 .

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[9]  Andrew Lucas,et al.  JACK Intelligent Agents – Summary of an Agent Infrastructure , 2001 .

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[13]  Angelica BACIVAROV,et al.  A Neuro-Classification Model for Socio-Technical Systems , 2009 .

[14]  Manuel Castañón-Puga,et al.  Agent-Based Model for Automaticity Management of Traffic Flows across the Network , 2017 .

[15]  José Neves,et al.  Cognitive Assistants—An Analysis and Future Trends Based on Speculative Default Reasoning , 2018 .

[16]  Brian Whitworth,et al.  Social-Technical Systems , 2006 .

[17]  Javier Bajo,et al.  Multi-Agent System for Demand Prediction and Trip Visualization in Bike Sharing Systems , 2018 .

[18]  Iftikhar Hussain,et al.  An Organizational-Based Model and Agent-Based Simulation for Co-Traveling at an Aggregate Level , 2017 .

[19]  Jian Yao,et al.  Learning Behavior Trees for Autonomous Agents with Hybrid Constraints Evolution , 2018, Applied Sciences.

[20]  Andrea Omicini,et al.  Environment Programming in CArtAgO , 2009, Multi-Agent Programming, Languages, Tools and Applications.

[21]  Dinesh Manocha,et al.  Generalized velocity obstacles , 2009, 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

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[31]  Lucy Suchman.  Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication , 1987 .

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[34]  Ji Yeong Lee,et al.  Collision Avoidance from Multiple Passive Agents with Partially Predictable Behavior , 2017 .

[35]  Cristiano Castelfranchi,et al.  Commitments: From Individual Intentions to Groups and Organizations , 1995, ICMAS.

[36]  Bertrand Zavidovique,et al.  Architectural design issues for Bayesian contextual vision , 2004, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2004. ICPR 2004..

[37]  Danny Weyns,et al.  A Formal Model for Situated Multi-Agent Systems , 2004, Fundam. Informaticae.

[38]  Bedir Tekinerdogan,et al.  Development of Semantic Web-Enabled BDI Multi-Agent Systems Using SEA_ML: An Electronic Bartering Case Study , 2018 .