Engineering Societies in the Agents World VII. 7th International Workshop, ESAW 2006 Dublin, Ireland, September 6-8, 2006 Revised Selected and Invited Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2006, held in Dublin, Ireland, September 6-8, 2006. The 22 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on agent oriented system development, methodologies for agent societies, deliberative agents and social aspect, agent oriented simulation, adaptive systems, cordination, negotiation, protocols, and agents, networks and ambient intelligence. Written for: Researchers and professionals Keywords: * MAS * agent communication * agent cooperation * agent coordination * agent negotiation * agent simulation * agent societies * agent systems * agent-based modeling * agent-based systems * agent-oriented software engineering * computational societies * context sensitive agents * distributed applications * distributed systems * engineering agent societies * multi-agent systems * social agents