Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems - SELMAS 2005: workshop report

Abstract

This paper is intended to sum up the results of the 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS 2005) held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, May 15--16, 2005, as part of the 27^th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'05). The main purpose of this workshop was to share and pool together the collective experience of people, both academics and practitioners, who are actively working on software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems. A selected set of expanded workshop papers and invited papers will appear in the 4^th edition of the book Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems (LNCS, Springer, 2006). The theme of this workshop edition was "Software Everywhere - Context-Aware Agents". The workshop consisted of an opening presentation, several paper presentations organized into three technical sessions, two keynotes, one panel, and two discussion groups. During the workshop we informally reviewed ongoing and previous work and debated a number of important issues. The SELMAS 2005 Web site, including the electronic version of this report, can be found at <www.teccomm.les.inf.pucrio.br/selmas2005>. We begin by presenting an overview of our goals and the workshop structure, and then focus on the workshop technical program and results.

References

1. A. Garcia. R. Choren, C. Lucena, A. Romanovsky, T. Holvoet, P. Giorgini (Eds.). Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems. International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2005), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, May 2005.
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Index Terms

• Computing methodologies

  • Artificial intelligence

    • Distributed artificial intelligence

      • Multi-agent systems

• General and reference

  • Document types

    • General conference proceedings

• Software and its engineering