Intelligent Agents V: Agents Theories, Architectures, and Languages
The leading edge of computer science research is notoriously ?ckle. New trends come and go with alarming and unfailing regularity. In such a rapidly changing ?eld, the fact that research interest in a subject lasts more than a year is worthy of note. The
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J¨org P. M¨uller Munindar P. Singh Anand S. Rao (Eds.)
Intelligent Agents V Agents Theories, Architectures, and Languages 5th International Workshop, ATAL’98 Paris, France, July 4-7, 1998 Proceedings
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Series Editors Gerhard Goos, Karlsruhe University, Germany Juris Hartmanis, Cornell University, NY, USA Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Volume Editors J¨org P. M¨uller John Wiley & Sons Ltd., International House Ealing, London W5 5DB, UK E-Mail: [email protected] Anand S. Rao Mitchell Madison Group Level 49, 120 Collins St. Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia E-Mail: anand [email protected] Munindar P. Singh Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8206, USA E-Mail: [email protected]
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Preface The leading edge of computer science research is notoriously fickle. New trends come and go with alarming and unfailing regularity. In such a rapidly changing field, the fact that research interest in a subject lasts more than a year is worthy of note. The fact that, after five years, interest not only remains, but actually continues to grow is highly unusual. As 1998 marked the fifth birthday of the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL), it seemed appropriate for the organizers of the original workshop to comment on this remarkable growth, and reflect on how the field has developed and matured. The first ATAL workshop was co-located with the Eleventh European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-94), which was held in Amsterdam. The fact that we chose an AI conference to co-locate with is telling: at tha
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