ESAW 2008

The 9th Annual International Workshop "Engineering Societies in the Agents World" (ESAW 08) will be held at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne (ENSM-SE) in Saint-Etienne, France on the 24th, 25th and 26th of September, 2008.

The sequel to successful editions since 2000, ESAW 08 remains committed to the use of the notion of multi-agent system as seed for animated, constructive, and highly inter-disciplinary discussions about technologies, methodologies, and tools for the engineering of complex distributed applications. While the workshop places an emphasis on practical engineering issues and applications, it also welcomes theoretical, philosophical, and empirical contributions, provided that they clearly document their connection to the core applied issues. Prospective papers about new paradigms, theories, models are also appreciated.

analysis, design, development and verification of agent societies  •  engineering open, large-scale multi-agent systems  •  models of complex distributed systems with agents and societies  •  interaction-coordination patterns in agent societies  •  inter-disciplinary approaches for agent societies engineering  •  self-* approaches in agent societies  •  security, trust and norms in agent societies  •  agent-based autonomic systems  •  middleware infrastructures for agent societies  •  electronic institutions in agent societies  •  programming languages and IDE for agent societies  •  The role of environment in MAS engineering  •  organisatinal models for agent societies  •  modelling and engineering simulations as agent societies  •  virtual enterprises, organisations and supply chains as agent societies