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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Autonomous Intelligent Systems: Agents and Data Mining, AIS-ADM 2005, held in St. Petersburg, Russia in June 2005. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers and the abstract of an invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agent-based data mining issues, ontologies and Web mining, and applications and case studies.

Provides a comprehensive review of the most recent advances in agent and Web service technologies. Provides an integrated view of the most recent contributions that support formation, integration, collaboration, and operation in virtual enterprise. Presents examples of applications of these technologies throughout various aspects of the virtual enterprise life cycle.

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 volume gathers the peer reviewed papers presented at the 11th edition of the International Workshop on Service-oriented, Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems for the Industry of the Future, SOHOMA’21, organized on 18-19 November, 2021 by the Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology of Cluny, France in collaboration with University Politehnica of Bucharest (the CIMR Research Centre in Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Robotics), Polytechnic University Hauts-de-France (the LAMIH Laboratory of Industrial and Human Automation Control, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science) and Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (the CeDRI Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2006, held in Guilin, China, in August 2006. The book presents 39 revised full papers and 57 revised short papers together with 4 invited talks, addressing subjects from theoretical and methodological issues to applications. Topics include agent models, agent architectures, agent-oriented software engineering, semantic Web service, collaboration, coordination and negotiation, and more.