Agent-Oriented Software Engineering V 5th International Workshop, AO
The explosive growth of application areas such as electronic commerce, ent- prise resource planning and mobile computing has profoundly and irreversibly changed our views on software systems. Nowadays, software is to be based on open architectures that co
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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany
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James Odell Paolo Giorgini Jörg P. Müller (Eds.)
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering V 5th International Workshop, AOSE 2004 New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004 Revised Selected Papers
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Volume Editors James Odell Agentis 3646 West Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, USA E-mail: [email protected] Paolo Giorgini University of Trento, Department of Information and Communication Technology Via Somamrive, 14, 38050 Provo, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Jörg P. Müller Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Intelligent Autonomous Systems Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, 81730 Munich, Germany E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface
The explosive growth of application areas such as electronic commerce, enterprise resource planning and mobile computing has profoundly and irreversibly changed our views on software systems. Nowadays, software is to be based on open architectures that continuously change and evolve to accommodate new components and meet new requirements. Software must also operate on different platforms, without recompilation, and with minimal assumptions about its operating environment and its users. Furthermore, software must be robust and autonomous,
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