There is a growing interest in the use of ontologies for multi-agent system app- cations. On the one hand, the agent paradigm is successfully employed in those applications where autonomous, loosely-coupled, heterogeneous, and distributed systems need to interoperate in order to achieve a common goal. On the other hand, ontologies have established themselves as a powerful tool to enable kno- edge sharing, and a growing number of applications have bene?ted from the use of ontologies as a means to achieve semantic interoperability among heterogeneous, distributed systems. In principle...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2013, held in Dunedin, New Zealand, in December 2013. The 35 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as agents; AI applications; cognitive modelling; computer vision; constraint satisfaction, search and optimisation; evolutionary computation; game playing; knowledge representation and reasoning; machine learning and data mining; natural language...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Workshops on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2016. The workshop COIN@AAMAS 2016 was held in Singapore, Singapore, in May 2016, and the workshop COIN@ECAI 2016 was held in The Hague, The Netherlands, in August 2016.

The 9 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions for inclusion in this volume. They cover the following topics:
Social Issues: The papers focus on the security of personal data, support for...