Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems - SELMAS 2006: workshop report

This paper is intended to sum up the results of the 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS 2006) held in Shanghai, China, May 22-23, 2006, as part of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2006). The main purpose of this workshop was to share and pool together the collective experience of people, both academics and practitioners, who are actively working on software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems. A selected set of expanded workshop papers and invited papers will appear in the 5th edition of the book Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems (LNCS, Springer, 2007). The theme of this workshop edition was "Building Dependable Multi-Agent Systems". The workshop consisted of an opening presentation, several paper presentations organized into four technical sessions, two keynotes and two discussion groups. During the workshop we informally reviewed ongoing and previous work and debated a number of important issues. The SELMAS 2006 Web site can be found at <www.teccomm.les.inf.puc-rio.br/selmas2006>. We begin by presenting an overview of our goals and the workshop structure, and then focus on the workshop technical program and results.