Table of Contents

Invited Contributions.- Semantic Web Research Anno 2006: Main Streams, Popular Fallacies, Current Status and Future Challenges.- A Research Agenda for Agent-Based Service-Oriented Architectures.- The Helpful Environment: Distributed Agents and Services Which Cooperate.- Voting in Cooperative Information Agent Scenarios: Use and Abuse.- Agent Based Information Provision.- Agents for Information-Rich Environments.- Information Agents for Optimal Repurposing and Personalization of Web Contents in Semantics-Aware Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing Environments.- Turn Taking for Artificial Conversational Agents.- Inducing Perspective Sharing Between a User and an Embodied Agent by a Thought Balloon as an Input Form.- Applications.- Agent-Based Analysis and Support for Incident Management.- A Distributed Agent Implementation of Multiple Species Flocking Model for Document Partitioning Clustering.- Coverage Density as a Dominant Property of Large-Scale Sensor Networks.- Agents and Services.- Selecting Web Services Statistically.- Conversation-Based Specification and Composition of Agent Services.- Evaluating Dynamic Services in Bioinformatics.- Learning.- A Classification Framework of Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems.- Market-Inspired Approach to Collaborative Learning.- Improving Example Selection for Agents Teaching Ontology Concepts.- Resource and Task Allocation.- Egalitarian Allocations of Indivisible Resources: Theory and Computation.- Iterative Query-Based Approach to Efficient Task Decomposition and Resource Allocation.- Multilevel Approach to Agent-Based Task Allocation in Transportation.- Rational Cooperation (1).- Learning to Negotiate Optimally in Non-stationary Environments.- Eliminating Interdependencies Between Issues for Multi-issue Negotiation.- The Distortion of Cardinal Preferences in Voting.- Rational Cooperation (2).- Risk-Bounded Formation of Fuzzy Coalitions Among Service Agents.- A Simple Argumentation Based Contract Enforcement Mechanism.- A Fuzzy Approach to Reasoning with Trust, Distrust and Insufficient Trust.- Communication and Cooperation.- Performative Patterns for Designing Verifiable ACLs.- Enabling Mobile Agents Interoperability Through FIPA Standards.- Characterising Agents’ Behaviours: Selecting Goal Strategies Based on Attributes.- A Framework of Cooperative Agents with Implicit Support for Ontologies.- Specifying Prools for Knowledge Transfer and Action Restriction in Multiagent Systems.- Agent Based Grid Computing.- Flexible Service Composition.- Using Electronic Institutions to Secure Grid Environments.