1 Multiagent Engineering: A New Software Construction Paradigm Multiagent systems have a long academic tradition. They have their roots in distributed problem solving in Artificial Intelligence (AI) from where they emerged in the mid-eighties as a distinctive discipline. Research in multiagent systems owes much to the work of Rosenschein on rationality and autonomy of intelligent agents, the European MAAMAW workshop series, and last but not least the famous readings of Bond & Gasser (1988) and Jacques Ferbers book on multiagent systems (1991). It gained further by a public discussion via the...

Eine Arbeitsgruppe des Fachbereichs KI der Gesellschaft fur Informatik hatte auf Anregung von W. Bibel hin ein neues Konzept fur die Jahrestagung dieses Fachbereichs erarbeitet. Christopher Habel, Clans-Rainer Rollinger und Thomas Christaller sind an erster Stelle als Autoren des Vorschlags zu nennen, auf dem wesentliche Elemente dieser 17. KI-Jahrestagung autbauen. Diese neue KI-93 besteht im wesentlichen aus zwei Teilen mit einem gemeinsamen Tag: - vom 13. - 15. September findet der "Wissenschaftliche Kongress" statt, der aus Vortragen und 17 Workshops besteht (Leitung des Programmkomitees:...

1 Multiagent Engineering: A New Software Construction Paradigm Multiagent systems have a long academic tradition. They have their roots in distributed problem solving in Artificial Intelligence (AI) from where they emerged in the mid-eighties as a distinctive discipline. Research in multiagent systems owes much to the work of Rosenschein on rationality and autonomy of intelligent agents, the European MAAMAW workshop series, and last but not least the famous readings of Bond & Gasser (1988) and Jacques Ferbers book on multiagent systems (1991). It gained further by a public discussion via the...