Significant, novel applications of agent technology.

Virtual agents, including: agents in games and virtual environments companion and coaching agents modeling personality, emotions multimodal interaction verbal and non-verbal expressiveness.

Robotic agents, including: integrated perception, cognition, and action cognitive robotics robot planning (including action and motion planning) multi-robot systems.

Learning agents, including: computational architectures for learning agents evolution, adaptation multi-agent learning.

Economi c paradigms, including: auction and mechanism design bargaining and negotiation economically-motivated agents game theory (cooperative and non-cooperative) social choice and voting.

Agreement technologies, including: argumentation collective decision making judgment aggregation and belief merging negotiation norms.

Agent-based simulation, including: emergent behavior participatory simulation simulation techniques, tools and environments social simulation.

Agent-based system development, including: agent development techniques, tools and environments agent programming languages agent specification or validation languages.Agent societies and societal issues, including: artificial social systems environments, organizations and institutions ethical and legal issues privacy, safety and security trust, reliability and reputation.Ontologies for agent systems, agents and the semantic web, agents and semantic web services, Grid-based systems, and service-oriented computing.Agent communication languages, including: their semantics, pragmatics, and implementation agent communication protocols and conversations agent commitments speech act theory.Cooperation and teamwork, including: distributed problem solving human-robot/agent interaction multi-user/multi-virtual-agent interaction coalition formation coordination.Agent decision-making architectures and their evaluation, including: cognitive models knowledge representation logics for agency ontological reasoning planning (single and multi-agent) reasoning (single and multi-agent).Coverage in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems includes, but is not limited to: It provides a leading forum for disseminating significant original research results in the foundations, theory, development, analysis, and applications of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. This is the official journal of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.

Groove agent 4 on multiple computers