Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 1999
The 1998 Workshop of the UK Special Interest Group on Multi-Agent Systems was held inManchester in December, chaired and organised by Michael Fisher of Manchester MetropolitanUniversity, continuing the series of focussed and constructive meetings in this field. After two verysuccessful workshops on the Foundations of Multi-Agent Systems at the University of Warwick in1996 (Luck, 1997; Doran et al., 1997; d'Inverno et al., 1997; Fisher et al., 1997) and 1997 (Luck etal., 1998; Aylett et al., 1998; Binmore et al., 1998), the scope was broadened for 1998 to a widerrange of issues concerning all aspects of multi-agent systems.