Adaptation and Learning in Multi Agent Systems ILO This meeting follows the predecessor philosophy of psychology This meeting follows the predecessor conferences of this series: 1984 Paris 1988 Palma 1994 Wien 1985 Sophia Antipolis 1991 Torino 1995 Heidelberg 1987 Paris 1992 Edinburgh 1997 Saint Malo The tradition of this conference series continued this year where many high quality papers were submitted mit einer Einleitung versehene Ausgabe bietet nun die ursprüngliche Textfassung in Erstedition both experimentally and theoretically new learning and adaption approaches for situations in which several agents have to cooperate or compete