* This paper has been prepared with a specific purpose in mind - to
provide a basis for the Panel on Learning in Distributed Systems. It was
edited by P.Brazdil on the basis of the individual contributions received
and/or papers made available. The names of the authors are shown in the
alphabetic order.
1 The reader could consult (van de Velde, 1991) This collection of
papers describes some recent advances in the area of autonomous agent learning.