This volume covers six subjects, which of course are not exhaustive but are sufficiently representative of the current important developments of MAS and, in the meantime, point to the directions for the future. When computer science becomes more social and the social sciences become more computational, publications that can facilitate the talks between the two disciplines are demanded. This edited volume demonstrates our efforts to work this out.
– Shu-Heng Chen (National Chengchi University, Taiwan); Yasushi Kambayashi (Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan); Hiroshi Sato (National Defense Academy, Japan)