Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, Software & Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece
Adaptation, for purposes of self-healing, self-protection, self-management, or self-regulation, is currently considered to be one of the most challenging pr- erties of distributed systems that operate in dynamic, unpredictable, and - tentially hostile environments. Engineering for adaptation is particularly c- plicated when the distributed system itself is composed of autonomous entities that, on one hand, may act collaboratively and with benevolence, and, on the other,maybehavesel?shlywhilepursuingtheirowninterests.Still,theseentities have to coordinate themselves in order to adapt appropriately to the prevailing environmental conditions, and furthermore, to deliberate upon their own and the system’s con?guration, and to be transparent to their users yet consistent with any human requirements. The question, therefore, of “how to organize the envisagedadaptationforsuchautonomousentitiesinasystematicway”becomes of paramount importance. The ?rst international workshop on “Organized Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems” (OAMAS) was a one-day event held as part of the workshop p- gram arranged by the international conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). It was hosted in Estoril during May, 2008, and was attended by more than 30 researchers. OAMAS was the steady convergence of a number of lines of research which suggested that such a workshop would be timely and opportune. This includes the areas of autonomic computing, swarm intelligence, agent societies, self-organizing complex systems, and ‘emergence’ in general.
Editors and Affiliations
Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, Karlovassi, University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece
George Vouros
Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, Software & Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece
Alexander Artikis
Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Kostas Stathis
Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
Jeremy Pitt
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Organized Adaption in Multi-Agent Systems
Book Subtitle: First International Workshop, OAMAS 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 13, 2008. Revised and Invited Papers
Editors: George Vouros, Alexander Artikis, Kostas Stathis, Jeremy Pitt
