This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2020, held in hybrid mode in Valencia, Spain, in November 2022. The 31 full papers presented together with 15 short papers and 1 demo pape…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the workshops co-located with the 20th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2022, held in L'Aquila, Italy, in July 2022. The total of 25 full papers presented in this volume were care…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2022, held in L'Aquila, Italy in July 2022. The 37 full papers in this book were reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. Another 10 de…
The diversity of views on causality and mechanisms -- ABM and the vertical view on mechanisms -- The diversity of ABMs -- ABMs and causal inference -- Causal Inference in experimental and observational methods -- Method diversity and causal inference. "The concept of causality …
Explore the issue of causal inference in agent-based computational models in a first-of-it's-kind volume Agent-based Models and Causal Inference delivers an insightful investigation into the conditions under which different quantitative methods can legitimately hold to be able t…
"The concept of causality and quantitative techniques for causal inference have been extensively discussed in sociology by a variety of scholars with different research programs and theoretical perspectives (see, among others, Marini and Singer 1988; Abbott 1998; Doreian 1999; G…
"The concept of causality and quantitative techniques for causal inference have been extensively discussed in sociology by a variety of scholars with different research programs and theoretical perspectives (see, among others, Marini and Singer 1988; Abbott 1998; Doreian 1999; G…
The production control of flexible manufacturing systems is a relevant component that must go along with the requirements of being flexible in terms of new product variants, new machine skills and reaction to unforeseen events during runtime. This work focuses on developing a re…
Systems and Uses of Digital Sciences for Knowledge Organization is a large-scale scientific work that brings together researchers and R&D professionals to discuss ideas and actions in the organization of knowledge. The main objective of this book is to define collaborative strat…
Systems and Uses of Digital Sciences for Knowledge Organization is a large-scale scientific work that brings together researchers and R&D professionals to discuss ideas and actions in the organization of knowledge. The main objective of this book is to define collaborative strat…
The book provides a systematic and in-depth introduction to distributed event-triggered cooperative control for multi-agent systems from a theoretical perspective, which will be of particular interest to the readers. The included major research topics include: a unified design a…
This book draws inspiration from natural shepherding, whereby a farmer utilizes sheepdogs to herd sheep, to inspire a scalable and inherently human friendly approach to swarm control. The book discusses advanced artificial intelligence (AI) approaches needed to design smart robo…
