An Analysis of Software Agents, Environ-ments and Applications School (WESAAC): Retrospective, Relevance, and Trends

  • Enyo Gonçalves
    Universidade Federal do Ceará enyo.goncalves[at]gmail.com
  • Mariela Cortés
    Universidade Estadual do Ceará
  • Marcos De Oliveira
    Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Nécio Veras
    Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará
  • Mário FalcÃo
    Universidade Estadual do Ceará
  • Jaelson Castro
    Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Abstract

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) software has been increasing dramatically in last years. In this context, the Software Agents, Environments and Applications School (WESAAC) is a Brazilian event of MAS which is in its tenth edition. When studying a research area, it is important to identify the most active groups, topics, the research trends and so forth. This study aims to investigate how the WESAAC is evolving, by analysing the papers published in its ten editions. We adopted a research strategy that combines scoping study and systematic review good practices. We identify the most participating institutions and authors, the main topics discussed, the types of the contributions, the conferences and journals that have most referenced WESAAC papers, the publications with the greatest impact, and the trends in MAS. We found 128 papers over the 10 WESAAC editions, which were analysed and discussed.
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Gonçalves, E., Cortés, M., De Oliveira, M., Veras, N., FalcÃo, M., & Castro, J. (2017). An Analysis of Software Agents, Environ-ments and Applications School (WESAAC): Retrospective, Relevance, and Trends. ADCAIJ: Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal, 6(2), 19–32. https://doi.org/10.14201/ADCAIJ201761932

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