From Reaction to Cognition

This text presents selected papers from the fifth European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World held in August 1993. The emergence of global properties and sociality, and multi-agent planning are some of the topics discussed here. This volume contains thoroughly refereed full versions of the best papers presented at the 5th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, MAAMAW '93, held in Neuchâtel, Switzerland in August 1993. The volume opens with a detailed introduction by the volume editors bringing the papers in line and offering a readers' guide. The 15 full research papers reflect the state-of-the-art in this dynamic field of research; they are organized in sections on emergence of global properties, emergence of sociality, multi-agent planning, multi-agent communication, and multi-agent architectures.