ICMAS-95 : proceedings First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, June 12-14, 1995, San Francisco, California

June 12-14, 1995, San Francisco The first international conference on multiagent systems is organized as a joint effort of the North American Distributed Artificial Intelligence community, the Japanese Multiagent and Cooperative Computing community, and the European Modeling Autonomous Agents in a Multiagent World community, with support from AAAI and sanctioned by ECCAI. The Proceedings cover a broad spectrum of perspectives including artificial life, communications issues, and negotiation strategies.Topics cover :- Agent Architectures.- Artificial Life (from a multiagent perspective).- Believable Agents.- Cooperation, Coordination, and Conflict.- Communcation Issues.- Conceptual and Theoretical Foundations of Multiagent Systems.- Development and Engineering Methodologies.- Distributed Artificial Intelligence.- Distributed Consensus and Algorithms for Multiagent Interaction.- Distributed Search.- Evaluation of Multiagent Systems.- Integrated Testbeds and Development Environments.- Intelligent Agents in Enterprise Integration Systems and Similar Types of Applications.- Learning and Adaptation in Multiagent Systems.- Multiagent Cooperative Reasoning from Distributed Heterogeneous Databases.- Multiagent Planning and Planning for Multiagent Worlds.- Negotiation Strategies (in both competitive and cooperative situations).- Organization, Organizational Knowledge, and Organization Self-Design.- Practical Applications of Multiagent Systems (enterprises, robotics, sensing, manufacturing).- Resource Allocation in Multiagent Systems.- Social Structures and their Signfiicance in Multiagent Systems.- User Interface Issues for Multiagent Systems.Distributed for AAAI Press