This volume contains papers selected for presentation at the 1st KES Symposium on
Agent and Multi-Agent Systems – Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA
2007), held in Wroclaw, Poland, May 31 – June 1, 2007. The symposium was organized
by the Institute of Information Science and Engineering, Wroclaw University of
Technology, and KES International, as part of the KES Conference Series.
The aim of the symposium was to provide an international forum for scientific research
in the technologies and applications of agent and multi-agent systems. Agents
and multi-agent systems are related to the modern software which has long been recognized
as a promising technology for constructing autonomous, complex and intelligent
systems. A key development in the field of agent and multi-agent systems has
been the specification of agent communication languages and formalization of ontologies.
Agent communication languages are intended to provide standard declarative
mechanisms for agents to communicate knowledge and make requests of each
other, whereas ontologies are intended for conceptualization of the knowledge domain.