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Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems have grown into a promising technology offering a credible alternative for the design of intelligent and cooperative systems. Recently efforts have been made to provide novel tools, methods, and frameworks to establish the necessary standards for wider use of MAS as a technology of its own and not only as an attractive paradigm.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Programming of the First International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems, PROMAS 2003, held in...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications, MATA 2004, held in Florianopolis, Brazil in October 2004.

The 35 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on context-aware support for mobile systems, context-aware applications and networks, service and network management, grid and agent technologies in mobile environments, sensor networks, security issues, performance and QoS,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Asian Computing Science Conference, ASIAN 2004, dedicated to Jean-Louis Lassez on the occasion of his 60th birthday and held in Chiang Mai, Thailand in December 2004.

The 17 revised full papers presented together with 3 keynote papers and 16 invited papers honouring Jean-Louis Lassez were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The contributed papers are focusing on higher-level decision making, whereas the invited papers address a broader variety of topics in theoretical computer science.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 30th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, WG 2004, held in Bad Honnef, Germany in June 2004.

The 31 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully selected from 66 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on graph algorithms: trees; graph algorithms: recognition and decomposition; graph algorithms: various problems; optimization and approximation algorithms; parameterized complexity and...

Swarm robotics can be defined as the study of how a swarm of relatively simple physically embodied agents can be constructed to collectively accomplish tasks that are beyond the capabilities of a single one. Unlike other studies on multi-robot systems, swarm robotics emphasizes self-organization and emergence, while keeping in mind the issues of scalability and robustness. These emphases promote the use of relatively simple robots, equipped with localized sensing ability, scalable communication mechanisms, and the exploration of decentralized control strategies.

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