Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies IX 9th Internationa

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, DALT 2011, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in May 2011. The volume contains 6 revised selected presented at DALT 2011

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LNAI Founding Series Editor Joerg Siekmann DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

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Chiaki Sakama Sebastian Sardina WambertoVasconcelos Michael Winikoff (Eds.)

Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies IX 9th International Workshop, DALT 2011 Taipei, Taiwan, May 3, 2011 Revised Selected and Invited Papers

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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 Chiaki Sakama Wakayama University, Dept. of Computer and Communication Sciences 930 Sakaedani, Wakayama 640-8510, Japan E-mail: [email protected] Sebastian Sardina RMIT University, School of Computer Science and Information Technology PO Box GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne, VIC, 3001, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Wamberto Vasconcelos University of Aberdeen, Dept. of Computing Science Meston Building, Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, UK E-mail: [email protected] Michael Winikoff University of Otago, Dept. of Information Science PO Box 56, Dunedin, 9054, New Zealand E-mail: [email protected] ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-29112-8 e-ISBN 978-3-642-29113-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-29113-5 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012933973 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, C.2.4, D.2.4, D.2, D.3, F.3.1 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 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 revised papers presented at the International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT 2011). In addition to these technical contributions, this volume also revisits the most influential papers of past DALT editions, through a “retrospective” in which the authors themselves appraise the impact of the research in the field and how it led to future developments. DALT 2011 was the ninth and most recent edition of the ongo