From Theory to Practice in Multi-Agent Systems Second Internatio

This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at CEEMAS 2001. The wo- shop was the fourth in a series of international conferences devoted to autonomous agents and multi-agent systems organized in Central-Eastern Europe. Its predecessors wereC

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen

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Barbara Dunin-K¸eplicz Edward Nawarecki (Eds.)

From Theory to Practice in Multi-Agent Systems Second International Workshop of Central and Eastern Europe on Multi-Agent Systems, CEEMAS 2001 Cracow, Poland, September 26-29, 2001 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 Barbara Dunin-K¸eplicz Warsaw University Institute of Informatics ul. Banacha 2, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland E-mail: [email protected] Edward Nawarecki University of Mining and Metallurgy Department of Computer Science al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface

This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at CEEMAS 2001. The workshop was the fourth in a series of international conferences devoted to autonomous agents and multi-agent systems organized in Central-Eastern Europe. Its predecessors were CEEMAS’99 and DAIMAS’97, which took place in St. Petersburg, Russia, as well as DIMAS’95, which took place in Cracow, Poland. Organizers of all these events made efforts to make them wide-open to participants from all over the world. This would have been impossible without some help from friendly centers in the Czech R