Series Editors
Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
Volume Editors
Peter Bruza
Queensland University of Technology, Faculty of Science and Technology
GPO Box 2434, Brisbane 4001, Australia
Donald Sofge
Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence
Naval Research Laboratory
4555 Overlook Avenue S.W., Washington, DC 20375, USA
William Lawless
Paine College, 1235 15th Street, Augusta, GA 30901-3182, USA
Keith van Rijsbergen
University of Glasgow, Department of Computing Science
17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK
Matthias Klusch
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Library of Congress Control Number: Applied for
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, F.1, F.2.1-2, F.4.1, I.6, H.3
LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence
ISSN
0302-9743
ISBN-10
3-642-00833-X Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
ISBN-13
978-3-642-00833-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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