Multi-Agent Systems

This Special Issue Multi-Agent Systems gathers original research articles reporting results on the steadily growing area of agent-oriented computing and multi-agent systems technologies. After more than 20 years of academic research on multi-agent systems (MASs) in fact agent-oriented models and technologies have been promoted as the most suitable candidates for the design and development of distributed and intelligent applications in complex and dynamic environments.With respect to both their quality and range the papers in this Special Issue already represent a meaningful sample of the most recent advancements in the field of agent-oriented models and technologies. In particular the 17 contributions cover agent-based modeling and simulation situated multi-agent systems socio-technical multi-agent systems and semantic technologies applied to multi-agent systems. In fact it is surprising to witness how such a limited portion of MAS research already highlights the most relevant usage of agent-based models and technologies as well as their most appreciated characteristics.We are thus confident that the readers of Applied Sciences will be able to appreciate the growing role that MASs will play in the design and development of the next generation of complex intelligent systems. This Special Issue has been converted into a yearly series for which a new call for papers is already available at the Applied Sciences journal''s website: https: //mdpi/journal/applsci/special_issues/Multi-Agent_Systems_2019.