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                                       Figure 1.3.  Selected themes that apply across section boundaries.



                             Acknowledgments

                               We would like to thank Gerhard Weiss, the series editor of Multiagent Systems, Artificial
                             Societies, and Simulated Organizations for the exciting opportunity to publish this book. We
                             also thank Melissa Fearon from Kluwer Academic Publishers for continuous advice during the
                             editing and publication process. For their support of the AAAI Fall symposium Socially In-
                             telligent Agents – The Human in the Loop, from which this book emerged, we like to thank
                             AAAI (the American Association for Artificial Intelligence). Kerstin Dautenhahn, the chair of
                             the AAAI Fall Symposium, warmly thanks the co-organisers: Elisabeth André (DFKI GmbH,
                             Germany), Ruth Aylett (Univ. Salford, UK), Cynthia Breazeal (MIT Media Lab, USA), Cris-
                             tiano Castelfranchi (Italian National Research Council, Italy), Justine Cassell (MIT Media Lab,
                             USA), Francois Michaud (Univ. de Sherbrooke, Canada), and Fiorella de Rosis (Univ. of Bari,
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