New Whiltesteine Agents book: Software Agent-Based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits

Dear All,
we are happy to announce that the inaugural issue of the new journal

               Multiagent and Grid Systems (MAGS)

has now been launched. Information about the new journal and the 
inaugural issue can be found below and at at:

http://iospress.metapress.com/(jn1kmf45sqrged55rkcq1jbt)/app/home/issue.asp?referrer=parent&backto=journal,1,1;linkingpublicationresults,1:119767,1

It is also possible to download most of the papers from the above Website.

Best regards,
Huaglory Tianfield, Rainer Unland (editors-in-chief)


Multiagent and Grid Systems
An International Journal
ISSN: 1574-1702
IOS Press (http://www.iospress.nl/)

Issue: Volume 1, Number 1 / 2005

Table of Contents:
Foreword 	p. 1
   	Huaglory Tianfield and Rainer Unland
	
Towards flexible coordination of human-agent teams 	pp. 3 - 16
   	Nathan Schurr, Janusz Marecki, Milind Tambe, Paul Scerri
	
An Agent-based Resource Allocation Model for computational grids 	pp. 17 
- 27
   	S.S. Manvi, M.N. Birje, Bhanu Prasad
	
An evidential and genetic method for cooperative learning systems 	pp. 
29 - 40
   	Toufik Benouhiba and Jean-Marc Nigro
	

Agent-based middleware to access multimedia services in a Grid 
environment 	pp. 41 - 59
   	D. Bruneo, A. Zaia, A. Puliafito
	

Call for Papers
Special issue of Multiagent and Grid Systems - An International 
Journal 	p. 61
	

	
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Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland
University of Duisburg-Essen
Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB)
Practical Computer Science, especially Data
Management Systems and Knowledge Representation
Schuetzenbahn 70
45117 Essen, Germany
Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421
Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460
email: UnlandR   at  informatik.uni-essen.de
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