text_combined: andrea omicini lkskcmcltxsjauniboit call papers special issue acm transactions autonomous adaptive systems taas agentlink perspective autonomous adaptive systems aims scope agentlink recently closed eight years fruitful successful activity series european commission ec sponsored projects particular agentlink iii worked last two years put europe leading edge international competitiveness increasinglyimportant area agent technologies end order support coordination collaboration european research efforts agentlink iii established series research meetings called agentlink iii technical forums tfs technical forums included number parallel workshops called technical forum groups tfgs specific hot research topics suggested response call proposals issued technical forum meeting three tf events held agentlink iii rome italy ljubljana slovenia budapest hungary participants came mostly european neighbouring countries also australia japan usa outcomes tfg activity outstanding terms communities developed around tfgs scientific results emerged discussions tfg meetings agentlink aims collect select publish important advances produced agentlink technical forum activity fall area autonomous adaptive systems within prestigious acm transactions autonomous adaptive systems taas therefore soliciting submissions summarise expand tf activities therefor encourage potential authors visit web pages taas httpesoaunigechtaas understand aim scope journal authors themes potential authors special issue researchers actively participated agentlink technical forum activities last two years along colleagues usual collaborators submission accompanied message mail letter explicitly stating least one authors actively participated activity one agentlink iii tfgs article submitted develops along lines elaborated tfg discussion papers present original research innovative results themes submitted articles first fall within one areas subject scientific work 14 agentlink iii tfgs agentoriented software engineering aose tfg agents bioinformatics bioagents tfg agents applied healthcare healthcare tfg intelligent information agents web economies iia4we tfg law electronic agents lea tfg networked agents netagents tfg programming multiagent systems promas tfg selforganisation multiagent systems selforg tfg trust open collaborative agent business environments trust tfg environments multiagent systems env tfg multiagent resource allocation mara tfg towards semantic web agents knowledge web agentlink swa tfg towards standard agenttoagent argumentation interchange format aif tfg coordinating agent standardisation activities casa tfg submitted papers also explicitly indicate one tfg activity origin paper contribution precise information please consult agentlink iii tfg pages httpwwwagentlinkorgactivitiestfg naturally papers submitted special issue also foucs themes interest hosting journal potential authors carefully take account taas aims scope specified journal web pages httpesoaunigechtaas indexrhtml submissions submissions fall areas interest taas related least one agentlink iii tfgs include least one author actively participated one agentlink iii tfg activities past two years end submissions accompanied message stating involvement authors least one agentlink iii tfg activities indicating reference tfgs least one possibly one paper papers formatted according instruction submission httpesoaunigechtaasauthorshtml sent pdf format andrea omicini july 15th 2006 submitted papers reviewed least three different expert reviewers coming agentlink community taas editorial board review process driven guest editors special issue peter mcburney andrea omicini terry payne paolo petta editorinchief giovanna di marzo serugendo final versions accepted papers ready publication end 2006 clarification please contact andrea omicini address prof andrea omicini mailtolkskcmcltxsjauniboit httpliadeisuniboitao deis alma mater studiorum università di bologna via venezia 52 47023 cesena italy ph 39 0547 3 39220 fax 39 0547 3 39219 viale risorgimento 2 40136 bologna italy ph 39 051 20 93047 fax 39 051 20 93073 thu 07 aug 2008 063909 0200 uai cfp special issue acm transactions autonomous adaptive systems taas