Engineering Multi-Agent Systems

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 11th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2023, which was held in London, UK, during May 2930, 2023.

The 11 full papers and 7 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 25 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: agent-oriented software engineering; agents and microservices; strategy, reasoning, and planning; engineering domains and applications; agents in hypermedia environments; frameworks, tooling, and devops.

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This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 11th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2023, which was held in London, UK, during May 29 30, 2023. The 11 full papers and 7 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 25 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: agent-oriented software engineering; agents and microservices; strategy, reasoning, and planning; engineering domains and applications; agents in hypermedia environments; frameworks, tooling, and devops.

Inhalt
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.- **Towards Forward Responsibility in BDI Agents.- Imperative and Event-Driven Programming of Interoperable Software Agents.- vGOAL: a GOAL-based Specification Language for Safe Autonomous Decision-Making.- Agents and Microservices.- Protocol-Based Engineering of Microservices.- Exploiting Service-Discovery and OpenAPI in Multi-Agent MicroServices (MAMS) Applications.- Using Multi-Agent MicroServices (MAMS) for Agent-Based Modelling.- Strategy, Reasoning, and Planning.- Dynamics of Causal Dependencies in Multi-agent Settings.- Multi-armed Bandit Based Tariff Generation Strategy for Multi-Agent Smart Grid Systems.- Load Balancing in Distributed Multi-Agent Path Finder (DMAPF).- Engineering Domains and Applications.- **A **Multi-Agent Approach for Decentralized Voltage Regulation in Micro Grids by Considering Distributed Generators.- Synthesizing Multi-agent System Organization from Engineering Descriptions.- Towards Developing Digial Twin Enabled Multi-Agent Systems.- Agents in Hypermedia Environments.- Towards Context-based Authorizations for Interactions in Hypermedia-driven Agent Environments The CASHMERE Framework.- Towards Context-based Authorizations for Interactions in Hypermedia.- Pody: A Solid-based Approach to Embody Agents in Web-based Multi-Agent Systems.- Frameworks, Tooling, and DevOps.- **Fantastic MASs and where to find them: First results and lesson learned.- The Entity-Operation Model for Practical Multi-entity Deployment.- Remote Deployment of a JADE Agent in Docker.