06261 Executive Summary – Foundations and Practice of Programming Multi-Agent Systems

Abstract

The "Foundations and Practice of Programming Multi-Agent Systems" Dagstuhl
Seminar aimed at bringing together researchers interested in programming languages
for multi-agent systems, agent-oriented software engineering, and various related aspects
such as verification, and formal semantics. We were delighted with the result of this
seminar, which gave participants a clear view of the most advanced techniques being
currently investigated in research on those topics throughout the world, and also a clear
understanding of all the most important open problems that need to be addressed by this
research community. The seminar was particularly successful in elucidating the relationship
between work being done by the "programming languages for multi-agent systems"
(ProMAS) research community and the "agent-oriented software engineering" (AOSE)
research community. Even though the initiative for this seminar arose from the ProMAS
community, we were delighted to attract many prominent researches from the AOSE
community, which allowed us to achieve the positive result on the connection of ProMAS
and AOSE research.