Frontiers of Agents and Multiagent Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Research on intelligent distributed systems has matured within the last decade and many effective applications are now being deployed. Technologies in distributed environments, such as multi-agent systems, the Internet of Things (IoT), wireless devices, Industry 4.0, etc. are increasing and are becoming an element of high added value and economic potential, both in industrial and research fields.

Most computing systems from personal laptops/computers to cluster/grid/cloud computing systems are available for parallel and distributed computing. Distributed computing performs an increasingly important role in modern signal/data processing, information fusion and electronics engineering (e.g., electronic commerce, mobile communications and wireless devices). Particularly, applying multi-agent systems in distributed environments is becoming an element of high added value and economic potential.

This Special Issue aims to advance the state-of-the-art application of intelligent methods to improve distributed scenarios, with a special focus on those applications that take practical applications of multi-Agent Systems, human collaboration, interactions, communication, or industrial scenarios into consideration. We especially encourage the submission of articles describing applications, but we also welcome theoretical work and review articles on novel applications of multi-agent systems and intelligent methods to distributed environments communications such as the Internet of Things (IoT), electronic commerce, mobile communications and wireless devices. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to practical applications of: 

• Multi-agent Systems 
• Distributed problem solving
• Agent cooperation and negotiation
• Human agent interaction, social networks, virtual communities
• Reputation, trust, privacy and security
• Agent engineering and development tools
• Internet of Things, sensors and actuators
• Big data and machine learning
• Smart cities, smart homes, smart buildings, smart health, smart mobility and transportation
• Semantic web, linked data
• Agent-based simulation and prediction, social simulation

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Systems, or Joint Special Issue in Sensors.

Prof. Dr. Fernando De la Prieta
Prof. Dr. Sara Rodriguez
Prof. Dr. Juan M. Corchado
Prof. Dr. Vicent Botti
Guest Editors

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