Intelligent Agents VIII Agent Theories, Architectures, and Langu

This volume is the eighth in the Intelligent Agents series associated with the ATAL workshops. These workshops on “Agent Theories, Architectures, and L- guages” have established themselves as a tradition, and play the role of small but internationally wel

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

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John-Jules Ch. Meyer Milind Tambe (Eds.)

Intelligent Agents VIII Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages 8th International Workshop, ATAL 2001 Seattle, WA, USA, August 1-3, 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 John-Jules Ch. Meyer Utrecht University, Institute of Information and Computing Sciences Intelligent Systems Group, Padualaan 14 De Uithof, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] Milind Tambe University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute Henry Salvatori Computer Center 232, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781, USA E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface

This volume is the eighth in the Intelligent Agents series associated with the ATAL workshops. These workshops on “Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages” have established themselves as a tradition, and play the role of small but internationally well-known conferences on the subject, where besides theory per se also integration of theory and practice is in focus. Specifically, ATAL addresses issues of theories of agency, software architectures for intelligent agents, methodologies and programming languages for realizing agents, and software tools for apply