With this book, Onn Shehory and Arnon Sturm, together with further contributors, introduce the reader to various facets of agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE). They provide a selected collection of state-of-the-art findings, which combines research from information systems, artificial intelligence, distributed systems and software engineering and covers essential development aspects of agent-based systems.The book chapters are organized into five parts. The first part introd...

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the Third International Workshop on Engineering Dependable and Secure Machine Learning Systems, EDSMLS 2020, held in New York City, NY, USA, in February 2020.The 7 full papers and 3 short papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The volume presents original research on dependability and quality assurance of ML software systems, adversarial attacks on ML software systems, adversarial ML and software engine...

This volume contains 12 thoroughly refereed and revised papers detailing recent advances in research on designing trading agents and mechanisms for agent-mediated e-commerce. They were originally presented at three events: the Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC 2013), co-located with AAMAS 2013 in Saint Paul, MN, USA, in May 2013; the Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2013), co-located with AAAI 2013 in Bellevue, WA, USA, in July 2013; and the Joint Work...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, MATES 2016, held in Klagenfurt, Austria, in September 2016.12 long papers and 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions.MATES 2016 conference talks covered a broad area of topics of interest including MAS engineering and modeling, issues of human-agent interaction, collaboration and coordination, agent-based adaptation and optimization, and ap...