| Agent Programming in Ciao Prolog | p. 1 |
| Multi-relational Data Mining: A perspective | p. 3 |
| A Comparison of GLOWER and other Machine Learning Methods for Investment Decision Making | p. 5 |
| Parallel Implementation of Decision Tree Learning Algorithms | p. 6 |
| Reducing Rankings of Classifiers by Eliminating Redundant Classifiers | p. 14 |
| Non-parametric Nearest Neighbor with Local Adaptation | p. 22 |
| Selection Restrictions Acquisition from Corpora | p. 30 |
| Classification Rule Learning with APRIORI-C | p. 44 |
| Proportional Membership in Fuzzy Clustering as a Model of Ideal Types | p. 52 |
| Evolution of Cubic Spline Activation Functions for Artificial Neural Networks | p. 63 |
| Multilingual Document Clustering, Topic Extraction and Data Transformations | p. 74 |
| Sampling-Based Relative Landmarks: Systematically Test-Driving Algorithms Before Choosing | p. 88 |
| Recursive Adaptive ECOC Models | p. 96 |
| A Study on End-Cut Preference in Least Squares Regression Trees | p. 104 |
| The Use of Domain Knowledge in Feature Construction for Financial Time Series Prediction | p. 116 |
| Optimizing the Sharpe Ratio for a Rank Based Trading System | p. 130 |
| Choice: The Key for Autonomy | p. 142 |
| Dynamic Evaluation of Coordination Mechanisms for Autonomous Agents | p. 155 |
| Evolving Multi-agent Viewpoints - an Architecture | p. 169 |
| Enabling Agents to Update Their Knowledge and to Prefer | p. 183 |
| Modelling Agent Societies: Co-ordination Frameworks and Institutions | p. 191 |
| Argumentation as Distributed Belief Revision: Conflict Resolution in Decentralised Co-operative Multi-agent Systems | p. 205 |
| Scheduling, Re-scheduling and Communication in the Multi-agent Extended Enterprise Environment | p. 219 |
| Electronic Institutions as a Framework for Agents' Negotiation and Mutual Commitment | p. 232 |
| An Imitation-Based Approach to Modeling Homogenous Agents Societies | p. 246 |
| Situation Calculus as Hybrid Logic: First Steps | p. 253 |
| A Modified Semantics for LUPS | p. 261 |
| On the Use of Multi-dimensional Dynamic Logic Programming to Represent Societal Agents' Viewpoints | p. 276 |
| A Procedural Semantics for Multi-adjoint Logic Programming | p. 290 |
| Representing and Reasoning on Three-Dimensional Qualitative Orientation Point Objects | p. 298 |
| Encodings for Equilibrium Logic and Logic Programs with Nested Expressions | p. 306 |
| A Context-Free Grammar Representation for Normal Inhabitants of Types in TA[subscript [lambda]] | p. 321 |
| Permissive Belief Revision | p. 335 |
| Global Hull Consistency with Local Search for Continuous Constraint Solving | p. 349 |
| Towards Provably Complete Stochastic Search Algorithms for Satisfiability | p. 363 |
| A Combined Constraint-Based Search Method for Single-Track Railway Scheduling Problem | p. 371 |
| A Temporal Planning System for Time-Optimal Planning | p. 379 |
| SimPlanner: An Execution-Monitoring System for Replanning in Dynamic Worlds | p. 393 |
| Hybrid Hierarchical Knowledge Organization for Planning | p. 401 |
| STeLLa: An Optimal Sequential and Parallel Planner | p. 409 |
| Author Index | p. 417 |
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