Multi-agent rationality. 8th European workshop on Modelling autonomous agents in a multi-agent world, MAAMAW '97. Ronneby, Sweden, May 13--16, 1997. Proceedings (Q1356231)

These are the proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World (MAAMAW'97), held in Ronneby, Sweden, in May 1997. The volume contains fifteen papers on virtually all aspects of multi-agent systems and methodology, though emphasis is laid on aspects of emerging group or multi-agent rationality and its formalization in terms of utility notions most of which have their roots in game theory. The topics covered in these papers include multi-agent coordination and negotiation models, organizational models of societies of autonomous agents in which notions such as adaptation, commitments, organizational roles and delegation machanisms play an essential role, distributed belief revision in multi-agent environments, causal reasoning, norms as constraints on agent actions, selection strategies in reactive/deliberate multi-agent planning, distributed problem solving (viewed as concurrent theorem proving), and multi-agent programming environments.