About these proceedings
Introduction
This book contains selected and revised papers of the International Workshop on Lea- ing and Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems (LAMAS 2005), held at the AAMAS 2005 Conference in Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 26. An important aspect in multi-agent systems (MASs) is that the environment evolves over time, not only due to external environmental changes but also due to agent int- actions. For this reason it is important that an agent can learn, based on experience, and adapt its knowledge to make rational decisions and act in this changing environment autonomously. Machine learning techniques for single-agent frameworks are well established. Agents operate in uncertain environments and must be able to learn and act - tonomously. This task is, however, more complex when the agent interacts with other agents that have potentially different capabilities and goals. The single-agent case is structurally different from the multi-agent case due to the added dimension of dynamic interactions between the adaptive agents. Multi-agent learning, i.e., the ability of the agents to learn how to cooperate and compete, becomes crucial in many domains. Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems (AAMAS) is an emerging multi-disciplinary area encompassing computer science, software engineering, biology, as well as cognitive and social sciences. A t- oretical framework, in which rationality of learning and interacting agents can be - derstood, is still under development in MASs, although there have been promising ?rst results.
Keywords
Evolution adaptive agents agent communication agent coordination agent environments agent programming agent reasoning agents distributed artificial intelligence learning machine learning multi-agent learning systems multi-agent system reinforcement learning robot
Editors and affiliations
- Karl Tuyls
- Pieter Jan’t Hoen
- Katja Verbeeck
- Sandip Sen
- 1.MICC-IKATUniversiteit MaastrichtThe Netherlands
- 2.Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)AmsterdamThe Netherlands
- 3.KaHo Sint-Lieven, Information Technology GroupGentBelgium
- 4.Department of Mathematical and Computer ScienceUniversity of TulsaUSA
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