Research on Agents and Multi-agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. PAAMS provides an international forum to presents and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer. PAAMS started as a local initiative, but since grown to become the international yearly platform to present, to discuss, and to disseminate the latest developments and the most important outcomes related to real-world applications. It provides a unique opportunity to bring multi-disciplinary experts, academics and practitioners together to Exchange their experience in the development and deployment of Agents and Multi-agents systems. PAAMS intends to bring together researchers and developers from industry and the academic world to report on the latest scientific and technical advances on the application of multi-agent systems, to discuss and debate the major issues, and to showcase the latest systems using agent based technology. It will promote a forum for discussion on how agent based techniques, methods and tools help system designers to accomplish the mapping between available agent technology and application needs. Other stakeholders should be rewarded with a better understanding of the potential and challenges of the agent-oriented approach.

This edition of PAAMS special sessions is organized by the Bioinformatics, Intelligent System and Educational Technology Research Group (http://bisite.usal.es) of the University of Salamanca. The present edition was held in Salamanca, Spain, from 22nd to 24th May 2013.

Latest research trends in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems Results of the workshops of the 12th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2013) held in Salamanca, Spain, from 22th to 24th May 2013 Written by leading experts in the field

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From the Contents: D3S A Distributed Storage Service.- Evaluation of the color-based image segmentation capabilities of a compact mobile robot agent based on Google Android Smartphone.- Distributed and Specialized Agent Communities.- The gateway protocol based on FIPA-ACL for the new agent platform PANGEA.- Applying classifiers in indoor location system.