Engineering Societies in the Agents World III Third Internationa
The characteristics of software systems are undergoing dramatic changes. We are moving rapidly into the age of ubiquitous information services. Persistent computing systems are being embedded in everyday objects. They interact in an autonomouswaywith each
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis, and J. van Leeuwen
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Paolo Petta Robert Tolksdorf Franco Zambonelli (Eds.)
Engineering Societies in the Agents World III Third International Workshop, ESAW 2002 Madrid, Spain, September 16-17, 2002 Revised Papers
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editors Paolo Petta Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Agents and New Media Group Schottengasse 3, 1010 Vienna, Austria E-mail: [email protected] Robert Tolksdorf Freie Universität Berlin Institut für Informatik, AG Netzbasierte Informationssysteme Takustr. 9, 14195 Berlin, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Franco Zambonelli Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria Via Allegri 13, 42100 Reggio Emilia, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the Internet at . CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, I.2, C.2.4, D.1.3, D.2.2, D.2.7, D.2.11 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-14009-3 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York 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-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York a member of BertelsmannSpringer Science+Business Media GmbH http://www.springer.de © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by DA-TeX Gerd Blumenstein Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 10872344 06/3142 543210
Preface
The characteristics of software systems are undergoing dramatic changes. We are moving rapidly into the age of ubiquitous information services. Persistent computing systems are being embedded in everyday objects. They interact in an autonomous way with each other to provide us with increasingly complex services and functionalities that we can access at any time from anywhere. As a consequence, not only do the numbers of components of software systems increase; there is also a strong qualitative impact. Software systems are increasingly made up of autonomous, proactive, networked components. These interact
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