The papers of this proceedings were first presented at the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, held in November 2007, in Silicon Valley, Calif. and sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics and the web Intelligence Consortium. Both full-length and short papers are included, with all organized according to session topic. Topics include autonomy-oriented computing, autonomous knowledge and information agents, agent systems modeling and methodology, and distributed problem solving. The contributors carry out research at academic and private institutions worldwide. Author index only. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
