Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies II Second International

The second edition of the workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Te- nologies (DALT 2004) was held July 2004 in New York City, and was a great success. We saw a signi?cant increase in both the number of submitted papers and workshop attendees from th

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

3476

João Leite Andrea Omicini Paolo Torroni Pınar Yolum (Eds.)

Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies II Second International Workshop, DALT 2004 New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004 Revised Selected Papers

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors João Leite Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal E-mail: [email protected] Andrea Omicini Università di Bologna Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica Via Venezia 52, 47023 Cesena, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Paolo Torroni Università di Bologna Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Pınar Yolum Bogazici University, Department of Computer Engineering TR-34342 Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey Email: [email protected]

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Preface

The second edition of the workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT 2004) was held July 2004 in New York City, and was a great success. We saw a significant increase in both the number of submitted papers and workshop attendees from the first meeting, held July 2003 in Melbourne. Nearly 40 research groups worldwide were motivated to contribute to this event by submitting their most recent research achievements, covering a wide variety of the topics listed in the call for papers. More than 30 top researchers agreed to join the Program Committee, which then collectively faced the hard task of selecting the one-day event program. The fact that research in multi-agent systems is no longer only a novel and promising research horizon at dawn is, in our opinion, the main reason behind DALT’s (still short) success story. On the one hand, age