A short history

The term “Agreement Technologies” was introduced by Michael Wooldridge in conversations at the AAMAS conference in 2004. It was also used by Nicholas R. Jennings as title for a keynote talk given in 2005. Carles Sierra was among the first to shape the field in terms of five key areas, in the context of the Spanish Consolider Project on Agreement Technologies. Sascha Ossowski chaired a European COST action on Agreement Technologies involving almost 200 researchers from more than 30 countries. A Spanish network on Agreement Computing was led by Carles Sierra.