Editor's Message to Special Issue on Theory and Application of Agent Research
Takayuki Itō · Journal of Information Processing · 2013
Research and development of the agent technology has been actively conducted in broad fields such as information processing, autonomous and cooperative problem solving, and information retrieval/integration on the web.JAWS (Joint Agent Workshops and Symposium) has provided opportunities for many researchers in this area to make presentation since 2002.This workshop is jointly supported by SIG-ICS, IPSJ; MACC, JSSST; SIG-AI, IE-ICE; and SIG-KBS, JSAI.In JAWS2011, researchers had insightful and attractive discussions and presentations.Based on the success of JAWS2001, Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) cooperated with JAWS called for papers for the special issue of "Theory and Application of Agent Research", the Journal of Information Processing.For this special issue, the following topics related to Theory and Application of Agent Research were of interest.These include, but are