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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 continuously change and evolve to accommodate new components and meet new requirements. Software must also operate on di?- ent platforms, without recompilation, and with minimal assumptions about its operating environment and its users. Furthermore, software must be robust and ¨ autonomous, capable of serving a naive user with a minimum of overhead and interference. Agent concepts hold great promise for responding to the new realities of software systems. They o?er higher-level abstractions and mechanisms which address issues such as knowledge representation and reasoning, communication, coordination, cooperation among heterogeneous and autonomous parties, p- ception, commitments, goals, beliefs, and intentions, all of which need conceptual modelling. On the one hand, the concrete implementation of these concepts can lead to advanced functionalities, e.g., in inference-based query answering, tra- action control, adaptive work?ows, brokering and integration of disparate inf- mation sources, and automated communication processes. On the other hand, their rich representational capabilities allow more faithful and ?exible treatments of complex organizational processes, leading to more e?ective requirements an- ysis and architectural/detailed design.

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Agent and multiagent concepts offer higher level abstractions and mechanisms which address issues such as knowledge representation and reasoning, communication, coordination, cooperation among heterogeneous and autonomous parties, perception, commitments, goals, beliefs, and intentions all of which need conceptual modeling. The AOSE 2005 workshop sought to examine the credentials of agent-based approaches as a software engineering paradigm, and to gain an insight into what agent-oriented software engineering will look like, and what its benefits will be. This book represents the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE 2005, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in July 2005 as part of AAMAS 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.

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Interoperability: the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the user is a key issue in manufacturing and industrial enterprise generally. It is fundamental to the production of goods and services quickly and at low cost at the same time as maintaining levels of quality and customisation. Interoperability is achieved if internal and external collaborators can interact on at least three levels: data, applications and business enterprise (through the architecture of an enterprise model and making allowance for the semantics of both partners). Not only a problem of software and IT technologies, it implies support for communication and transactions between different organisations that must be based on shared business references. Today, a new and important consideration must be taken into account - economic business evaluation and the definition of dissemination policy. 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. The I-ESA'07 conference from which this book is drawn was sponsored by the European Union via the INTEROP network of excellence and the ATHENA integrated project (in the frame of the 6th IST Framework Research Program). It is also supported by the International Federation for Information Processing, the International Federation of Automatic Control and various national associations. A concise reference to the state of the art in software interoperability, Enterprise Interoperability II will be of great value to engineers and computer scientists working in manufacturing and other process industries and to software engineers and electronic and manufacturing engineers working in the academic environment.

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TheGermanconferenceonMulti-AgentSystemTechnologies(MATES)provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, users, and developers to present and discuss the latest advances in research work as well as prototyped or ?elded systems of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. The conference aims to promotetheoryandapplicationsandcoversthewholerangeofagent-andmul- agent technologies. Forthe ?fth time,the GermanspecialinterestgrouponDistributed Arti?cial Intelligence in cooperation with the Steering Committee of MATES organized this international conference. Building on the four successful predecessors in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006, MATES 2007 took place September 24-26, 2007 under the umbrella of the SABRE (Software, Agents, and Services for Business, Research, and E-Sciences) event organized by the University of Leipzig. Situated in the lively scene of agent-based computing in Europe that is - empli?ed by federated events such as Durham Agents'007; SABRE itself that alsoincludedtheCentralandEasternEuropeanConferenceonMulti-AgentS- tems(CEEMAS);andthesubsequentEuropeanConferenceonComplexSystems (ECCS 2007)in Dresden, MATES 2007not only succeeded in attracting 27 s- missions, out of which 17 could be accepted for presentation and discussion, but also in holding an edition of the doctoral mentoring programme, an important occasion for both students and established researchers to interact and discuss scienti?c and managerial aspects of activities. The programme of MATES 2007 wasroundedo?withinvitedpresentationsbythe distinguishedspeakersMichael George? and Rafael Bordini. Our thanks go to the Programme Committee for their diligent, careful, and constructive work; the local organizers of SABRE for their constant support; and foremost to all authors of submitted papers: the present selection stands to testify the important contribution of the MATES conference series to the rich international agent-oriented systems research landscape.

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