Programming Multi-Agent Systems 7th International Workshop, ProMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 10-15, 2009. Revised Selected Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Braubach, Lars (Editor), Briot, Jean-Pierre (Editor), Thangarajah, John (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5919
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Software engineering.; Computer programming.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer simulation.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computer Communication Networks.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Software Engineering.; Programming Techniques.; Simulation and Modeling.

The earliest work on agents may be traced at least to the ?rst conceptualization of the actor model by Carl Hewitt. In a paper in an AI conference in the early 1970s, Hewitt described actors as entities with knowledge and goals. Research on actors continued to focus on AI with the development of the...