Engineering Societies in the Agents World IX 9th International Workshop, ESAW 2008, Saint-Etienne, France, September 24-26, 2008, Revised Selected Papers
Abstract
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2008, held in Saint-Etienne, France, in September 2008. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited long paper were carefully selected from 29 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on organisations and norm-governed systems, privacy and security, agent-oriented software engineering, emergence and self-organisation, as well as simulation.
Keywords
MAS
agent communication
agent cooperation
agent coordination
agent negotiation
agent simulation
agent societies
agent systems
agent-based modeling
agent-based systems
computational societies
computer linguistic
confidentiality
distributed systems
engineering agent societies
multi-agent simulation
multi-agent systems
privacy
resource allocation
sensitive data transaction
social agents
software development process