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Featured in this issue:• Lee's Ferry. Sightfishing the Colorado River• Montana Midges• California Stripers Twenty-eight researchers and scholars from Europe and Australia contribute ten chapters on the theories and practices of intelligent software agents. Topics include machine learning for agents and multi-agent systems; architectures for cognitive and a-life agents; a versatile multiagent framework for distributed information management tasks; a formal method for the development of agent-based systems; emotionally intelligent agents; evolutionary computation theories and practices; the use of agents in electronic commerce environments; object-oriented methodologies to support agent-oriented technology; organization-oriented design methodology for agent societies; and a multiagent system approach for building computer programs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Advances in Software Maintenance Management: Technologies and Solutions is a compilation of chapters from some of the best researchers and practitioners in the area of software maintenance, all of whom share the goal of exposing recent techniques and methods for helping in software maintenance. The chapters in this book are intended to be useful to a wide audience: project managers and programmers, IT auditors, consultants, as well as professors and students of Software Engineering, where software maintenance is a mandatory matter for study.

From theoretical and practical viewpoints, the application of intelligent software agents is a topic of major interest. There has been a growing interest not only in new methodologies for development of intelligent software agents, but also the way in which these methodologies can be supported by theories and practice. Intelligent Agent Software Engineering focuses on addressing the theories and practices associated with implementing intelligent software agents.

There is a growing interest in new methods for the development of intelligent software agents, and also in the way in which these methods can be supported by theories and practice. This work focuses on addressing the theories and practices associated with implementing intelligent software agents. Intelligence implies a certain degree of autonomy, which in turn, requires the ability to make independent decisions. This chapter sets out a foundation for the management of software maintenance.