Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV 4th International W
The fourth internationalworkshop,“EngineeringSocietiesin the Agents World” (ESAW 2003) was a three-dayevent that took place at the end of October 2003. After previous events in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Spain, the workshop crossed the Channel, to b
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Andrea Omicini Paolo Petta Jeremy Pitt (Eds.)
Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV 4th International Workshop, ESAW 2003 London, UK, October 29-31, 2003 Revised Selected and Invited 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 Andrea Omicini Universit`a di Bologna a Cesena Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica Via Venezia 52, 47023 Cesena, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Paolo Petta Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Freyung 6/2, 1010 Vienna, Austria E-mail: [email protected] Jeremy Pitt Imperial College Intelligent Systems and Networks Group Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2BT, UK E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2004108441
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 3-540-22231-6 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 to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer-Verlag is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by DA-TeX Gerd Blumenstein Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 11012399 06/3142 543210
Preface
The fourth international workshop, “Engineering Societies in the Agents World” (ESAW 2003) was a three-day event that took place at the end of October 2003. After previous events in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Spain, the workshop crossed the Channel, to be held at the premises of Imperial College, London. The steady increase in the variety of backgrounds of contributing scientists, fascinating new perspectives on the topics, and number of participants, bespeaks the success of the ESAW workshop series. Its idea was born in 1999 among members of the working group on “Communication, Coordination, and Collaboration” of the first lease of life of the European Network of Excellence on Agent-Based Computing, AgentLink, out of a critical discussion about the general mindset of the agent community. At that time, we felt that proper considerations of systemic aspects of agent technology deployment, such as acknowledgement of the importance of the social and environmental perspectives, were sorely missing: a deficiency that we resolved should be addressed directly by a new f
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