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Engineering Multi-Agent Systems: State of Affairs and the Road Ahead

Viviana Mascardi 1 Danny Weyns 2 Alessandro Ricci 3 Clara Benac Earle 4 Arthur Casals 5, 6 Moharram Challenger 7 Amit Chopra 8 Andrei Ciortea 9 Louise Dennis 10 Álvaro Fernández Díaz 4 Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni 6 Angelo Ferrando 11 Lars-Åke Fredlund 4 Eleonora Giunchiglia 12 Zahia Guessoum 6 Akin Günay 8 Koen Hindriks 13 Carlos Iglesias 4 Brian Logan 14 Timotheus Kampik 15 Geylani Kardas 7 Vincent Koeman 13 John Larsen 16 Simon Mayer 17, 18 Tasio Méndez 4 Juan Nieves 19 Valeria Seidita 20 Baris Tezel 16 László Varga 21 Michael Winikoff 22
1 UNIVERSITA DI GENOVA - Universita di Genova Dipartimento per lo studio del Territorio e delle sue Risorse
2 KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
3 UNIBO - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna]
4 UPM - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
5 USP - Universidade de São Paulo
6 SMA - Systèmes Multi-Agents
LIP6
7 Ege university
8 Lancaster University
9 Mines Saint-Étienne MSE - École des Mines de Saint-Étienne
10 University of Liverpool
11 Universita degli studi di Genova
12 University of Oxford [Oxford]
13 TU Delft - Delft University of Technology
14 UON - University of Nottingham, UK
15 Department of Computing Science [Umeå, Sweden]
16 DTU - Technical University of Denmark [Lyngby]
17 HSG - University of St.Gallen
18 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich [Zürich]
19 Umeå University
20 Università degli studi di Palermo - University of Palermo
21 ELTE - Eötvös Loránd University
22 University of Otago [Dunedin, Nouvelle-Zélande]
Abstract : The continuous integration of software-intensive systems together with the ever-increasing computing power offer a breeding ground for intelligent agents and multi-agent systems (MAS) more than ever before. Over the past two decades, a wide variety of languages, models, techniques and methodologies have been proposed to engineer agents and MAS. Despite this substantial body of knowledge and expertise, the systematic engineering of large-scale and open MAS still poses many challenges. Researchers and engineers still face fundamental questions regarding theories, architectures, languages, processes, and platforms for designing, implementing, running, maintaining, and evolving MAS. This paper reports on the results of the 6th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2018, 14th-15th of July, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden), where participants discussed the issues above focusing on the state of affairs and the road ahead for researchers and engineers in this area.
Keywords : AI Goal Reasoning Agents Multi-Agent Systems Intelligent agents Multiagent systems D2 Design Reliability Experimentation Security Human Factors Standardization Languages Theory Verification Keywords Software engineering
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Viviana Mascardi, Danny Weyns, Alessandro Ricci, Clara Benac Earle, Arthur Casals, et al.. Engineering Multi-Agent Systems: State of Affairs and the Road Ahead. Software Engineering Notes, Association for Computing Machinery, 2019, 44 (1), pp.18-28. ⟨10.1145/3310013.3322175⟩. ⟨hal-02893378⟩

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