This book introduces major agent platforms, frameworks, systems, tools, and applications. Each system is described by their developers in sufficient detail so that the reader can get a good understanding of the architecture, functionality, and application areas of the system. All systems are running systems. One main focus of the book lies on agent platforms and toolkits.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the international conference NetObjectDays 2002, held in Erfurt, Germany, in October 2002.

The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on embedded and distributed systems; components and MDA; Java technology; Web services; aspect-oriented software design; agents and mobility; software product lines; synchronization; testing, refactoring, and CASE tools.

Effiziente, konstruktive und zielgerichtete kooperative Zusammenarbeit spielt in einer Zeit immer schnellerer Entwicklungszyklen die entscheidende Rolle im Kampf um Marktvorteile. Hier, wie auch in vielen anderen Arbeits- und Lebensbereichen, eroffnet der Einsatz von Informationstechnologie neue, faszinierende Perspektiven, die zu entscheidenden Veranderungen in der menschlichen Zusammenarbeit in Unternehmen und im Privatbereich gefuhrt haben und noch fuhren werden. Dieses Buch liefert einen umfassenden, kompetenten und auch fur den Nicht-Fachmann verstandlichen Einblick in die Grundlagen,...

This two volume set LNCS 6587 and LNCS 6588 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2011, held in Saarbrucken, Germany, in April 2010. The 53 revised full papers and 12 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited keynote papers, 22 demonstration papers, 4 industrial papers, 8 demo papers, and the abstract of 1 panel discussion, were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 225 submissions. The topics covered are social network, social network and privacy, data mining, probability and...

This two volume set LNCS 6587 and LNCS 6588 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2011, held in Saarbrucken, Germany, in April 2010. The 53 revised full papers and 12 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited keynote papers, 22 demonstration papers, 4 industrial papers, 8 demo papers, and the abstract of 1 panel discussion, were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 225 submissions. The topics covered are social network, social network and privacy, data mining, probability and...

Praxisnah und anhand vieler Beispiele fuhren die Autoren in Datenmodellierungstechniken und Datenbanktechnologien ein. Im ersten Teil vorgestellte Methoden und Techniken der Anforderungserhebung und analyse dienen der Entwicklung eines passenden Datenmodells. Die wesentlichen Grundlagen von Datenbanksystemen behandelt der zweite Teil anhand der Abfragesprache SQL und des Transaktionsmanagements. Schliesslich werden auch Data Warehouses und NoSQL Datenbanken besprochen."

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, MATES 2016, held in Klagenfurt, Austria, in September 2016.

12 long papers and 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions.

MATES 2016 conference talks covered a broad area of topics of interest including MAS engineering and modeling, issues of human-agent interaction, collaboration and coordination, agent-based adaptation and optimization, and applications of MAS, in particular in the smart energy domain.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, MATES 2017, held in Lepzig, Germany, in August 2017.