Kluwer MS-AS-SO series - Gerhard Weiss

Announcement and Call for Book Proposals

Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies,
and Simulated Organizations

An International Book Series By
Kluwer Academic Publishers:
Kluwer's Official Book Series Page

Editorial Board

Kathleen M. Carley, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA
Yves Demazeau, CNRS, Laboratoire LEIBNIZ, France
Ed Durfee, University of Michigan, USA
Les Gasser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, UK
Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, SC, USA
Nick Jennings, University of Southampton, UK
Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts, MA, USA
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA
Gerhard Weiss, Technical University of Munich, Germany (series editor)
Michael Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, UK

Description

This international book series concentrates on systems composed of computational agents (i.e., intelligent and autonomous entities) that interact with each other and perhaps with humans. Dependent on the research and application focus, such systems are usually referred to as multiagent systems, artificial societies, or simulated organizations. These systems are among the most promising technologies in computer science which is going to build more and more complex (i.e., large, distributed, open, heterogeneous, and dynamic) information environments in which computing devices and computational processes act as ``individuals'' rather than just ``parts''. The concepts of multiagent systems, artificial societies, and simulated organizations lie at the bottom of a new, emerging paradigm of computation and intelligence that requires to deal with topics such as

cooperation and competition
coordination and collaboration
communication protocols and languages
negotiation, consensus development, and conflict detection and resolution
intelligent cognitive activities jointly realized by multiple agents (e.g., distributed problem solving, planning, learning, and decision making)
emergent and organizational intelligence
organizational and social structuring and dynamics
decentralized control and management
security, reliability, and robustness
The computational treatment of these and related topics is the subject of this book series. More generally, the series covers the whole range of

engineering issues (including analysis, design, verification, software/hardware realization)
issues of industrial and commercial application (including deployment, operation, and maintenance)
that raise when viewing collections of computers from the perspective of multiagent systems, artificial societies, and simulated organizations.
The series comprises

textbooks and textbook-like volumes
tutorials and state-of-the-art surveys
anthologies and readings

Contact Information

Potential authors and editors of books for this series are asked to contact the series editor

Gerhard Weiss
Institut fuer Informatik
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Arcisstr. 21
D-80290 Muenchen, Germany
Phone: (+49) 89-289-22606
Email: weissg@in.tum.de