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About ATAL
The ATAL Workshops The Intelligent Agents book series
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Intelligent agents are one of the most important developments in
computer science to have emerged in the past decade. Agents are
autonomous computer programs, capable of independent action in
environments that are typically dynamic and unpredictable. Agents have
proven to be of interest in many important application areas, such as
electronic commerce on the Internet, the control of space probes on
missions to the outer planets, the design of user interfaces, to
industrial process control. The ATAL workshop series aims to bring
together researchers interested in the theory and practice agent
technology. Specifically, ATAL addresses issues such as theories of
agency (including logics for modelling and specifying agents and game
and economic theory), software architectures for intelligent agents,
methodologies and programming languages for realizing agents, and
software tools for applying and evaluating agent systems. One of the
strengths of the ATAL workshop series is its emphasis on the synergies
between theories, infrastructures, architectures, methodologies,
formal methods, and languages.
ATAL has been held annually since 1994. The first workshop established an enviable precedent for scientific quality that has continued to this day. ATAL is now the pre-eminent international forum for presenting and publishing research on the theory and practice of intelligent agents. |