Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VIII 8th Internatio

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, DALT 2010, held in Toronto, Canada, on May 10, 2010, as a satellite workshop of the 9th Internationa

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Andrea Omicini Sebastian Sardina Wamberto Vasconcelos (Eds.)

Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VIII 8th International Workshop, DALT 2010 Toronto, Canada, May 10, 2010 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 Andrea Omicini Università di Bologna DEIS via Venezia 52, 47521, Cesena, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Sebastian Sardina RMIT University School of Computer Science and Information Technology Melbourne, VIC, 3001, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Wamberto Vasconcelos University of Aberdeen Department of Computing Science Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, UK E-mail: [email protected] ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-20714-3 e-ISBN 978-3-642-20715-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-20715-0 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011925656 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

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Preface

We are delighted to present you with the revised, selected and invited papers of the eighth edition of the International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT 2010), a well-established forum to foster discussion and sharing of experiences among researchers interested in declarative approaches and technologies for software agents and multi-agent systems. DALT 2010 was held as a satellite workshop of the 9th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), in Toronto, Canada, and it took place on May 10. Previous editions were held in 2003 in Melbourne, Australia; in 2004 in New York, USA; in 2005 in Utrecht, The Netherlands; in 2006 in Hakodate, Japan; in 2007 in Honolulu, USA