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Organized Adaption in Multi-Agent Systems: First International Workshop, OAMAS 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 13, 2008. Revised and Invited Papers

Edited by George Vouros, Edited by Alexander Artikis, Edited by Kostas Stathis, Edited by Jeremy Pitt

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Adaptation, for purposes of self-healing, self-protection, self-management, or self-regulation, is currently considered to be one of the most challenging pr- erties of distributed systems that operate in dynamic, unpredictable, and - tentially hostile environments. Engineering for adaptation is particularly c- plicated when the distributed system itself is composed of autonomous entities that, on one hand, may act collaboratively and with benevolence, and, on the other,maybehavesel?shlywhilepursuingtheirowninterests.Still,theseentities have to coordinate themselves in order to adapt appropriately to the prevailing environmental conditions, and furthermore, to deliberate upon their own and the systemâ€™s con?guration, and to be transparent to their users yet consistent with any human requirements. The question, therefore, of â€œhow to organize the envisagedadaptationforsuchautonomousentitiesinasystematicwayâ€becomes of paramount importance. The ?rst international workshop on â€œOrganized Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systemsâ€ (OAMAS) was a one-day event held as part of the workshop p- gram arranged by the international conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). It was hosted in Estoril during May, 2008, and was attended by more than 30 researchers. OAMAS was the steady convergence of a number of lines of research which suggested that such a workshop would be timely and opportune. This includes the areas of autonomic computing, swarm intelligence, agent societies, self-organizing complex systems, and â€˜emergenceâ€™ in general.