Brian Logan – författare

As the world begins taking its last breath, Professor Dorian Thomas teaches history to over-privileged students at a New York college. A borderline alcoholic, Thomas plods through his existence until the day he receives a strange note that reads: Must meet with you tonight after classes. Will meet you in front of the old library steps.

The mysterious and dangerous meeting is with Father Michael Donavan who asks Thomas to join their missionthe search for pieces of a missing holy text that has the ability to change lifes destiny and save mankind. Thomas is skeptical. In this new world, organized religion is taboo and, in some cases, illegal.

But when Thomas discovers that Teresa Elizabeth Donavan is part of the group, he doesnt hesitate. Thomas has been waiting ten long years for Elizabeth, his lifes love, to return to him. The diverse groupa team of Gods chosen armyseriously attends to its task and embarks on a dangerous international journey to recover the texts and restore life to what it once was.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2021, which was held during May 3-4, 2021. The conference was initially planned to take place in London, UK, but changed to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 20 full papers and 1 short paper included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 27 submissions. The contributions deal with agent-oriented software engineering, programming multi-agent systems, declarative agent languages and technologies, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers from the 12th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2024, held in Auckland, New Zealand, during May 6–7, 2024.

The 7 full papers and 4 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 18 submissions. These papers focus on topics such as agent-oriented software engineering, programming multi-agent systems, declarative agent languages and technologies, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.