E4MAS 2014 - International Workshop on Agent Environments for Multi-Agent Systems ? 10 Years Later

Organizers: Danny Weyns, Van Parunak, Fabien Michel, Olivier Boissier, Michael Schumacher, Alessandro Ricci
In 2004, researchers in multi-agent systems became more and more aware that agent systems consist of more than only agents. The E4MAS workshop that was organized in conjunction with AAMAS 2004 emerged from this awareness. During three successful editions of E4MAS, a substantial group of researchers worked intensively on the subject of agent environments. One of the primary outcomes of this endeavor was a principled understanding that the agent environment should be considered as a primary design abstraction, equally important as the agents. The challenges have been the drivers for numerous follow up research efforts. The goal of this special edition of E4MAS is threefold: (1) To reflect on the past 10 years of research and engineering on agent environments for multi-agent systems; (2) To investigate to what extent the challenges identified a decade ago have been tackled; and (3) To outline challenges for future research on a short and longer term. The workshop will be organized in a highly interactive way, as the preceding editions. Proceedings will be published in a Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume.