Abstract
This paper presents an overview on some of the exciting interdisciplinary research areas that have emerged in recent years in multi-agent systems and Grid computing, e.g., semantic Grids, agent-based Grid computing, service-oriented architectures, autonomic computing, self-organizing software applications, and large-scale open multi-agent stems. It is a common trend that large-scale complex computing systems and software applications are required to be endowed with self-organizing capabilities. Since large-scale open multi-agent systems provide with a type of generic models for many of these newly emerging research problems with large-scale complex computing systems and software applications, self-organization of large-scale open multi-agent systems provide with a uniform approach to addressing the challenges arising therewith.