ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First of all, we thank all authors and reviewers—those who helped set the stage for the symposium and those involved in the production of the present issue—for their thorough efforts and their patient and reliable collaboration. We also thank all participants of ABModSim for their active participation in discussions and for engaging in the effortful but rewarding reaching out beyond their home domains of specialization.
We would like to express our thanks to Robert Trappl for his long-term commitment to the European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR) and, last but not least, we want to acknowledge the flawless support provided by the organizing committee of the conference, and the conference secretariat in particular, allowing us to focus fully on the scientific and social goals of our symposium. The Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence is supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology.