Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications 5th
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th KES International Conference on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems, KES-AMSTA 2011, held in Manchester, UK, in June/July 2011. The 69 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for in
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James O’Shea Ngoc Thanh Nguyen Keeley Crockett Robert J. Howlett Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds.)
Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications 5th KES International Conference, KES-AMSTA 2011 Manchester, UK, June 29 – July 1, 2011 Proceedings
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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors James O’Shea Keeley Crockett Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester, M1 5GD, UK E-mail: {j.d.oshea,k.crockett}@mmu.ac.uk Ngoc Thanh Nguyen Wroclaw University of Technology 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland E-mail: [email protected] Robert J. Howlett Bournemouth University Poole BH12 5BB, UK E-mail: [email protected] Lakhmi C. Jain University of South Australia Mawson Lakes, SA, 5095, Australia E-mail: [email protected] ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-21999-3 e-ISBN 978-3-642-22000-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-22000-5 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011929847 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.2.8, H.3-5, J.4, C.2, D.2 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
This volume contains the proceedings of the KES Conference on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems – Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2011) hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester between June 29 and July 1, 2011. The conference was organized by Manchester Metropolitan University, KES International and its focus group on agent and multi-agent systems. The KES-AMSTA conference is a subseries of the KES conference series. Following the successes of previous KES Symposia on Agent and MultiAgent Systems – Technologies and Applications, held in Wroclaw, Poland (KESAMSTA 2007), Incheon, Korea (KES-AMSTA 2008), Uppsala, Sweden (KESAMSTA 2009) and
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