Agreement is one of the crucial social concepts that helps human agents to cope with their social environment and is present in all human interactions. In fact, without agreement there is no cooperation and ultimately social systems cannot emerge. Agreement is necessary in our everyday life.
Until recently, the concept of agreement was a domain of study mainly for philosophers, sociologists and was only applicable to human societies. However, this situation has changed in the recent years, especially with the spectacular emergence of information society technologies. Computer science has moved from the paradigm of an isolated machine to the paradigm of a network of systems and of distributed computing. Likewise, artificial intelligence is quickly moving from the paradigm of an isolated and non‐situated intelligence to the paradigm of situated, social and collective intelligence. Hence, the concept of agreement has become key for a robust understanding and an efficient implementation of artificial social systems.
In this context, Agreement Technologies is a new approach of Distributed Artificial Intelligence for constructing large‐scale open distributed computer systems. This workshop on Agreement Technologies is specifically addressed for any work that aims at developing models, frameworks, methods and algorithms for constructing such systems. In other words, this workshop focuses on approaches and solutions for the needs of next generation computing systems where autonomy, interaction and mobility will be the key issues. Most importantly, it concentrates on techniques that enable software components to reach agreements on the mutual performance of services.
Agreement Technologies integrates many research efforts from different fields of Artificial Intelligence. Hence, this workshop is specifically tailored to research works related to this new approach. Finally, the editors would like to thank all the people that bring about WAT and Iberamia 2010. First of all, thanks to the authors for ensuring the richness of the workshop and the members of the program committee for their professionalism and dedication. Furthermore, we owe particular gratitude to the Iberamia organizing committee.
Marc Esteva, Alberto Fernández, Adriana Giret and Vicente Julián WAT2010 Organizing Committee ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Marc Esteva (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spain) Adriana Giret (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain) Alberto Fernández (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Vicente Julian (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)
Luis Botelho (ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal) Vicente Botti (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) Christiano Castelfranchi (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy) Jaelson Castro (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil) Carlos Chesnevar (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina) John Debenham (University of Technology, Australia) Frank Dignum (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands) Marc Esteva (IIIA‐CSIC, Spain) Alberto Fernandez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Adriana Giret (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) Carlos Angel Iglesias (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Vicente Julian (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) Maite Lopez‐Sanchez (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) Michael Luck (King's College London, UK) Peter McBurney (University of Liverpool, UK) Pablo Noriega (IIIA‐CSIC, Spain) Eugenio de Oliveira (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) Eva Onaindia (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) Sascha Ossowski (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) David Pearce (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Enric Plaza (IIIA‐CSIC, Spain) Maria Jose Ramirez (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) Juan Antonio Rodriguez‐Aguilar (IIIA‐CSIC, Spain) Juan Manuel Serrano (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Jaime Sichman (EP/USP Sao Paulo) Viviane Torres da Silva (Universidade Federal Flumiense, Brazil) Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK) Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK) 1. An Electronic Institution for simulating water-right markets Vicente Botti, Antonio Garrido, Juan Gimeno, Adriana Giret,
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