From Reaction to Cognition : 5th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World

This volume contains thoroughly refereed full versions of the best papers presented at the 5th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, MAAMAW 93, held in Neuchâtel, Switzerland in August 1993.
The volume opens with a detailed introduction by the volume editors bringing the papers in line and offering a readers guide. The 15 full research papers reflect the state-of-the-art in this dynamic field of research; they are organized in sections on emergence of global properties, emergence of sociality, multi-agent planning, multi-agent communication, and multi-agent architectures.