Special track on Mobile Agents and Systems: editorial message

An agent is a computational entity that interacts with one or more counterparts or real-world systems with the following key features to varying degrees: (a) autonomy, (b) reactiveness, (c) pro-activeness, and (d) social abilities. An agent may also be mobile, in which case the agent migrates along with its associated data, state and logic to another host to interact with local resources, other agents, and remote hosts to perform a given task Mobile agents offer several capabilities such as bandwidth-efficient and low latency communication, disconnected operation, and support for development of highly dynamic and flexible systems. Several agents can collectively form a multi-agent system with decentralized data and a varying degree of global system control (potentially none at all). In this track we are interested in the combined issues of mobile and multi-agent systems (MMS) viewed from an applied perspective.