Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications

Agents and multi-agent systems are related to a modern software paradigm which has long beenrecognized as a promising technology for constructingautonomous, complex andintelligent systems.Thetopics covered in this volume include agent-oriented software engineering,agent co-operation, co-ordination,negotiation, organization and communication,distributed problem solving,specification of agentcommunication languages, agentprivacy, safety and security,formalization of ontologies and conversational agents. The volume highlights new trends andchallenges in agent and multi-agent research and includes 38 papers classifiedin the following specific topics:learningparadigms, agent-based modeling and simulation, business model innovation anddisruptive technologies,anthropic-oriented computing, serious games andbusiness intelligence,design and implementation of intelligent agentsand multi-agent systems,digital economy, and advances in networkedvirtual enterprises.Published papershave been presented at the 9th KESConference on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems - Technologies and Applications(KES-AMSTA 2015)held in Sorrento, Italy. Presented results should be of value tothe research community working in the fields of artificial intelligence,collective computational intelligence, robotics,dialogue systems and, inparticular, agent and multi-agent systems, technologies, tools and applications.