4th International Workshop “Programming Multi-Agent Systems”
Hakodate, Japan, 09/05/2006
Even though the scientific contributions generated by the Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) research community can have a significant impact in the development of real-world distributed systems, the techniques resulting from such contributions will only be widely adopted when suitable programming languages and tools are available. Furthermore, such languages and tools must incorporate MAS techniques in a principled but practical way, so as to support the ever more complex task of professional programmers, in particular when the systems have to operate in dynamic environments.
The ProMAS workshop series aims to address practical issues related to developing and deploying multi-agent systems. In particular, ProMAS aims to address how MAS designs or specifications can be effectively implemented. To address such issues, the workshop promotes the discussion and exchange of ideas concerning concepts, techniques, and principles that are important for multi-agent programming technology. In the three previous editions, ProMAS constituted an invaluable occasion, bringing together leading researchers from both academia and industry to discuss such issues. Confirming the growing importance of this area of research, in 2005 ProMAS was the most popular of all AAMAS workshops in terms of numbers of registered participants.
We encourage the submission of proposals for programming languages and development tools that provide specific programming constructs to facilitate the implementation of the essential concepts used in multi-agent system analysis and specifications (e.g., mental attitudes, distribution, and social interaction). We also welcome submissions describing significant multi-agent applications, as well as agent programming tools that allow the integration of agents with legacy systems. Further, we are particularly interested in approaches or applications that show clearly the added-value of multi-agent programming, and explain why and how this technology should be adopted by designers and programmers both in academia and industry.
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Programming Languages for multi-agent systems • Extensions of traditional languages for multi-agent programming • Theoretical and practical aspects of multi-agent programming • Computational complexity of MAS • Semantics for multi-agent programming languages • High-level executable multi-agent specification languages • Algorithms, techniques, or protocols for multi-agent issues (e.g., coordination, cooperation, negotiation) • Agent communication issues in multi-agent programming • Implementation of social and organisational aspects of MAS • Formal methods for specification and verification of MAS • Verification tools for implementations of MAS • Test and debugging tools and techniques • Agent development tools and platforms • Generic tools and infrastructures for multi-agent programming • Interoperability and standards for MAS • Programming mobile agents • Safety and security for mobile MAS deployment • Fault tolerance and load balancing for mobile MAS • Application areas for multi-agent programming languages • Applications using legacy systems • Programming MAS for Grid-based applications • Programming MAS for the Semantic Web • Deployed (industrial-strength) MAS • Benchmarks and testbeds for comparing MAS languages and tools
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ArgMAS 2006 @ AAMAS 2006 • 
Programming Multi-Agent Systems (edited volume, 2007) — Rafael H. Bordini, Mehdi Dastani, Jürgen Dix, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni