Engineering Societies in the Agents World VII 7th International
The seventh international workshop ESAW 2006 – Engineering Societies in the Agents World VII—was hosted in the School of Computer Science and Inf- matics, University College Dublin, Ireland in September 2006. This workshop was organized as a stand-alone e
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Gregory M.P. O’Hare Alessandro Ricci Michael J. O’Grady O˘guz Dikenelli (Eds.)
Engineering Societies in the Agents World VII 7th International Workshop, ESAW 2006 Dublin, Ireland, September 6-8, 2006 Revised Selected and Invited 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 Gregory M.P. O’Hare Michael J. O’Grady University College Dublin School of Computer Science and Informatics, Adaptive Information Cluster Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland E-mail: {gregory.ohare, michael.j.ogrady}@ucd.ie Alessandro Ricci Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica (DEIS) via Venezia 52, 47023 Cesena, Italy E-mail: [email protected] O˘guz Dikenelli Ege University Department of Computer Engineering 35100 Bornova, Izmir, Turkey E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface
The seventh international workshop ESAW 2006 – Engineering Societies in the Agents World VII—was hosted in the School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland in September 2006. This workshop was organized as a stand-alone event, running over three days, and continued and enhanced the high-quality conference theme that now uniquely characterizes the ESAW workshop series. ESAW VII built upon the success of prior ESAW workshops – Ku¸sadasi (2005), London (2004) and Toulouse (2004), going back to the inaugural workshop held in Berlin (2000). This workshop was attended by 50 participants from 13 different countries. Over 25 researchers presented their work and substantial time was allocated each day for ad-hoc interactive discussions on those presented topics. Indeed, these opportunities for the exchange of views and open discussion with f
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