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Cristiano Castelfranchi
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Department of Communication Sciences, “Cognitive Science”, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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Yves Lespérance
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Department of Computer Science, York University, Toronto, Canada
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Intelligent agents are one of the most important developments in computer science of the past decade. Agents are of interest in many important application areas, ranging from human-computer interaction to industrial process control. The ATAL workshop series aims to bring together researchers interested in the core/micro aspects of agent technology. Speci?cally, ATAL addresses issues such as theories of agency, software architectures for intelligent agents, methodologies and programming languages for r- lizing agents, and software tools for applying and evaluating agent systems. One of the strengthsoftheATALworkshopseriesisitsemphasisonthesynergiesbetweentheories, languages, architectures, infrastructures, methodologies, and formal methods. This year s workshop continued the ATAL trend of attracting a large number of high quality submissions. In more detail, 71 papers were submitted to the ATAL 2000 workshop, from 21 countries. After stringent reviewing, 22 papers were accepted for publication and appear in these proceedings. As with previous workshops in the series, we chose to emphasize what we perceive asimportantnewthemesinagentresearch. Thisyear sthemeswerebothassociatedwith the fact that the technology of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems is beginning to migrate from research labs to software engineering centers. As agents are deployed in applications such as electronic commerce, and start to take over responsibilities for their human users, techniques for controlling their autonomy become crucial. As well, the availability of tools that facilitate the design and implementation of agent systems becomes an important factor in how rapidly the technology will achieve widespread use.
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Table of contents (29 papers)
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Front Matter
Pages I-XVII
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Agent Theories I
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- Michael Wooldridge, Paul E. Dunne
Pages 1-14
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- A.F. Dragoni, P. Giorgini, L. Serafini
Pages 15-30
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- Stephen Zimmerbaum, Richard Scherl
Pages 31-45
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Agent Development Tools and Platforms
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- Scott A. De Loach, Mark Wood
Pages 46-60
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- Patrick Riley, Peter Stone, Manuela Veloso
Pages 61-72
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- Joanna Bryson, Lynn Andrea Stein
Pages 73-88
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- Fabio Bellifemine, Agostino Poggi, Giovanni Rimassa
Pages 89-103
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Agent Theories II
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- Murray Shanahan, Mark Witkowski
Pages 104-121
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- Oswaldo Terán, Bruce Edmonds, Steve Wallis
Pages 122-135
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Models of Agent Communication and Coordination
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- Timothy J. Norman, Chris Reed
Pages 136-149
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- Frank Dignum, Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Rineke Verbrugge
Pages 150-166
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- Marian Nodine, Damith Chandrasekara, Amy Unruh
Pages 167-181
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Autonomy and Models of Agent Coordination
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- Michael Luck, Mark d’Inverno
Pages 182-197
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- Carles Sierra, Ramon de López Màntaras, Dídac Busquets
Pages 198-212
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- Bradley J. Clement, Edmund H. Durfee
Pages 213-227
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Agent Languages
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- Koen V. Hindriks, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van der Hoek, John-Jules Ch. Meyer
Pages 228-243
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- Steven Shapiro, Yves Lespérance
Pages 244-259
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- Rogier M. van Eijk, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van der Hoek, John-Jules Meyer
Pages 260-274
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- Simone Marini, Maurizio Martelli, Viviana Mascardi, Floriano Zini
Pages 275-289
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Communication Sciences, “Cognitive Science”, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Cristiano Castelfranchi
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Department of Computer Science, York University, Toronto, Canada
Yves Lespérance