KI 2008 is the 31st edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI. The technical programme of KI 2008 will comprise paper and poster presentations and a variety of workshops and tutorials. The tutorials will be held the day before the technical program starts. Tutorials will be free of ch...

Im Oktober 2008 fand die Tagung “Lernen, Wissen, und Adaption” (LWA) statt. Seit 1999 treffen sich auf der LWA hauptsächlich in Deutschland angesiedelte Wissenschaftler aus unterschiedlichen Forschungsrichtungen der Informatik. 2008 fanden sich 120 Teilnehmer über drei Tage in Würzburg ein, wo die Tagung durch Joachim Baumeister und Martin Atzmüller organisiert wurde. Das Programm der LWA beinh...

Information Retrieval, especially in connection with the internet, is a well known research field. But as the technologies used for the internet become more and more elaborate, so grows the need to not only find (retrieve) already available information, but to generate knowledge. In this paper the emergence of collective intelligence from information retrieval and social network analysis will b...

In this paper we present a stochastic semantics for Bigraphical Reactive Systems. A reduction and a labelled stochastic semantics for bigraphs are defined. As a sanity check, we prove that the two semantics are consistent with each other. We illustrate the expressiveness of the framework with an example of membrane budding in a biological system.

In the wake of European settler-colonialism, the indigenous peoples of North America still contend with the social and psychological sequelae of cultural devastation, forced assimilation, social marginality, enduring discrimination, and material poverty within their respective nation-states. In response to this contemporary legacy of conquest and colonization, a cottage industry devoted to the ...

The International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 as a merger of three highly respected individual conferences: the International Conference in Autonomous Agents, the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectur...