Jörg Müller

Rachel Palmén

Bringing together the latest research among various communities of practice (disciplinary and place based as well as thematically organised), this volume reflects upon the knowledge, experience and practice gained through taking a unique community of practice approach to fostering gender equality in the sectors of research and innovation, and higher education in Europe and beyond. Based on research funded by the European Union, it considers how inter-organisational collaboration can foster change for gender equality through sharing of experiences of Gender Equality Plan implementation and examining the role of measures such as change-monitoring systems. As such, it will appeal to social scientists with interests in organisational change, the sociology of work and gender equality.

A Community of Practice Approach to Improving Gender Equality in Research

Paolo Petta

Matthias Klusch

Michael Georgeff

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th German Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies, MATES 2007, held in Leipzig, Germany, September 2007, co-located with NetObjectDays, NODe 2007. The papers are organized in topical sections on engineering multi-agent systems, multi-agent planning and learning, multi-agent communication, interaction, and coordination, multi-agent resource allocation, multi-agent planning and simulation, as well as trust and reputation.

5th German Conference, MATES 2007, Leipzig, Germany, September 24-26, 2007, Proceedings

Multiagent System Technologies

Klaus Fischer

Renato Levy

The ATOP (Agent-Based Technologies and Applications for Enterprise Interoperability) workshop series focuses on technologies that support interoperability in networked organizations, on successful applications of these technologies, and on lessons learned. In particular, ATOP brings together research combining ideas from MDA and SOA with agent technologies. The ATOP 2009 and 2010 workshops were held at the AAMAS conferences in Budapest, Hungary, in May 2009, and in Toronto, Canada, in May 2010. The 11 papers presented here were carefully reviewed by three members of the international Program Committee and selected out of 25 contributions to the workshops. The topics covered are modeling interoperable systems; semantic approaches to enterprise interoperability; and interoperable business processes and business interactions. These papers are completed by an invited contribution reporting on OMG agent standardization. The main goal was to collect approaches for the application of agent technologies in these areas. Current trends in the development of agent technologies are compared with recent developments in service-oriented and model-driven system design, with respect to their ability to solve interoperability problems.

International Workshops ATOP 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 12, 2009, and ATOP 2010, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 10, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

Agent-Based Technologies and Applications for Enterprise Interoperability

Seven illustrations show how a village changes between the years 1953 and 1972.

The Changing Countryside

Follows the transformation of a city street, from May 6, 1953 to Jan. 7, 1976.

The Changing City

Kai Mertins

Ricardo Jardim-Gonçalves

Martin Zelm

This volume provides a concise reference to the state-of-the-art in software interoperability. Composed of over 90 papers, Enterprise Interoperability II ranges from academic research through case studies to industrial and administrative experience of interoperability. The international nature of the authorship continues to broaden. Many of the papers have examples and illustrations calculated to deepen understanding and generate new ideas.

New Challenges and Approaches

Enterprise Interoperability II

Munindar P. Singh

Anand S. Rao

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 fact that, after ?ve years, interest not only remains, but actually continues to grow is highly unusual. As 1998 marked the ?fth 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 re ect on how the ?eld has developed and matured. The ?rst ATAL workshop was co-located with the Eleventh European Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (ECAI-94), which was held in Amsterdam. The fact that we chose an AI conference to co-locate with is telling: at that time, we expected most researchers with an interest in agents to come from the AI community. The workshop, whichwasplannedoverthesummerof1993,attracted32submissions,andwasattended by 55 people.ATAL was the largest workshop at ECAI-94, and the clear enthusiasm on behalfofthecommunitymadethedecisiontoholdanotherATALworkshopsimple.The ATAL-94proceedingswereformallypublishedinJanuary1995underthetitleIntelligent Agents, and included an extensive review article, a glossary, a list of key agent systems, and — unusually for the proceedings of an academic workshop — a full subject index. Thehighscienti?candproductionvaluesembodiedbytheATAL-94proceedingsappear to have been recognized by the community, and resulted inATAL proceedings being the most successful sequence of books published in Springer-Verlag s Lecture Notes in Arti?cial Intelligence series.

5th International Workshop, ATAL'98, Paris, France, July 4-7, 1998, Proceedings

Intelligent Agents V. Agents Theories, Architectures, and Languages

Michael Wooldridge

Milind Tambe

PROCEEDINGS IJCAI WORKSHOP ATAL (1995 : MONTREAL) AUTOR

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence '95 Workshop: ATAL (1995 : Montréal, Quebec)

This book is based on the second International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, held in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI'95 in Montreal, Canada in August 1995. The 26 papers are revised final versions of the workshop presentations selected from a total of 54 submissions; also included is a comprehensive introduction, a detailed bibliography listing 355 relevant publications, and a subject index. The book is structured into seven sections, reflecting the most current major directions in agent-related research. Together with its predecessor, Intelligent Agents, published as volume 890 in the LNAI series, this book provides a timely and comprehensive state-of-the-art report.

IJCAI'95-ATAL Workshop, Montreal, Canada, August 19-20, 1995 Proceedings

Intelligent Agents II - Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages

A comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to our changing bodies. Kids ask a lot of questions (and that's an understatement). Sometimes the answers are easy for parents to come up with . . . and sometimes they're a little more complicated. That's what this book is for! When Boys and Girls Become Men and Women should accompany children (and their parents) on the long road to adulthood and allows both groups to explore this new territory together, step by step. Everyone looks different, and everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, interests and passions, but our bodies go through similar processes, no matter how similar or different we may look or act. When Boys and Girls Become Men and Women is perfect for those who are curious about their own bodies, as well as their peers', and for grade-schoolers and preteens who want to know more about everything from puberty to pregnancy. Chapters include: What Girls Want to Know About Boys What Boys Want to Know About Girls Girls and Boys Grow Up Good Personal Hygeine Love, and What It Entails What Happens During Sexual Intercourse We Want Love, not Babies Even Healthy People Go to the Doctor Pregnancy: From a Cell to a Whole Person A Baby Enters the World Jörg Müller and Dagmar Geisler's When Boys and Girls Become Men and Women is the perfect introduction to sexual education for elementary school students, as well as young adults.

When Boys and Girls Become Men and Women

Jörg Steiner

Follows the adventures of two rabbits after they escape from the rabbit factory.

Rabbit Island

Bruno Vallespir

Guy Doumeingts

Gérard Morel

Composed of over 50 papers, "Enterprise Interoperability" ranges from academic research through case studies to industrial and administrative experience of interoperability. The international nature of the authorship continues to broaden. Many of the papers have examples and illustrations calculated to deepen understanding and generate new ideas. This is a concise reference to the state-of-the-art in software interoperability.

Enterprise Interoperability

Florian Alt

Daniel Michelis

This book looks at the future of advertising from the perspective of pervasive computing. Pervasive computing encompasses the integration of computers into everyday devices, like the covering of surfaces with interactive displays and networked mobile phones. Advertising is the communication of sponsored messages to inform, convince, and persuade to buy. We believe that our future cities will be digital, giving us instant access to any information we need everywhere, like at bus stops, on the sidewalk, inside the subway and in shopping malls. We will be able to play with and change the appearance of our cities effortlessly, like making flowers grow along a building wall or changing the colour of the street we are in. Like the internet as we know it, this digitalization will be paid for by adverts, which unobtrusively provide us suggestions for nearby restaurants or cafés. If any content annoys us, we will be able to effortlessly say so and change it with simple gestures, and content providers and advertisers will know what we like and be able to act accordingly. This book presents the technological foundations to make this vision a reality.

Pervasive Advertising

The superiority of the differing ways of life on two neighboring islands is put to the test when gold is discovered on one of them.

The Sea People

Franco Zambonelli

This book represents the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE 2005. The 18 revised full papers were carefully selected from 35 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on modeling tools, analysis and validation tools, multiagent systems design, implementation tools, and experiences and comparative evaluations.

6th International Workshop, AOSE 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005. Revised and Invited Papers

Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VI

El Gran Gris es una historia magníficamente narrada e ilustrada, que transcurre a partir de la huida de los dos conejos protagonistas, en paisajes y escenas de una plasticidad impactante. Sin embargo, la vida en libertad, tan necesaria para el Pequeño Marrón, se convierte en un tormento para el Gran Gris. Aturdido por un mundo que ya no conoce, el de la libertad, le pide a su compañero de huida que regresen a la fábrica de conejos, a la jaula, donde él tiene todo lo que necesita y donde esperará hasta que los hombres lo lleven, ya pronto, al país de los Guardianes Blancos, de donde nadie ha vuelto y nadie sabe dónde se encuentra. Jörg Steiner nació en Biel (Suiza), donde sigue residiendo. Estudió magisterio y ejerció como maestro hasta que comienza a publicar sus trabajos literarios. Ha sido distinguido, entre otros, con el Premio Internacional Charles Veillon, el Premio de Literatura del Cantón de Berna, el Mildred L. Bachelder Award (USA), el Premio de la Paz Gustav Heinemann, el Premio Alemán de Literatura Juvenil, el Premio Erich Fried (Austria), el Premio de Literatura de Berlín... Jörg Steiner es miembro del Grupo 47. Jörg Müller nació en Lausanne. Estudió en la Escuela de Arte de Biel, realizando posteriormente trabajos gráficos en diversas agencias de publicidad en París, Zürich y Berna. Ha recibido, entre otros, el Premio Hans Christian Andersen de Ilustración, el Premio Alemán al Libro Infantil, el Premio Suizo al Libro Juvenil, la Medalla de Oro de IBA de Leipzig... Otro título de Müller en la colección “Rosa y manzana”: El soldadito de plomo

El Gran Gris

Intelligent Agents V: Agents Theories, Architectures, and Languages

Brahim Chaib-draa

This book takes a close look at recent progress in the field of supply chain management using agent technology and more specifically multiagent systems. Sixteen chapters are organized in four main parts: Introductory Papers; Multiagent Based Supply Chain Modeling; Collaboration and Coordination Between Agents in a Supply Chain; and Multiagent Based Supply Chain Management: Applications. The result is a comprehensive review of existing literature, and ideas for future research.

Jörg Müller

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