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Multi-agent
systems (MAS) is
one of the most interesting technologies that have emerged in computer
science in the last 20 years. As it is said in the ATAL home page, one of the most
important workshops on the area in the late 90's, "Agents are autonomous computer
programs, capable of independent action in environments that are typically
dynamic and unpredictable. Agents have proven to be of interest in many
important application areas, such as electronic commerce on the Internet, the
control of space probes on missions to the outer planets, the design of user
interfaces, to industrial process control". Within the computer
science community, this technology was used specially in problem solving.
On the other hand, the models, software architectures and inplementations
issued from the field could be very useful to another scientific discipline: social
simulation. Social scientists usually need some computational testbeds to
test their theories about social interaction or emergence of conventions,
among others. The MABS workshop series aims to bring together researchers
from artificial intelligence, computer science and social sciences interested
in using multi-agent models and technology in social simulation. MABS has been held every
two years from 1998 to 2002, and annually since then. The workshop is
now one of the most successful international forum for presenting and
publishing research on the theory and practice of multi-agent-based
simulation. |