The Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents

The Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents took place in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) from 3 to 7 June 2000, the first one held outside the United States. It had a similar attendance to previous years (435 attendees), thus opening the possibility of other conferences outside the United States. The program committee chairs were Maria Gini, the University of Minnesota, and Jeff Rosenschein, the Hebrew University in Israel. There were 199 submissions from 20 countries, from which 48 papers and 65 posters were selected. Gini managed to obtain some key sponsorship from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Science Foundation to support the travel expenses of more than 25 U.S. students.