Bücher von Matthew Taylor

Gap years are supposed to be fun! Yet when three friends, who have a knack of ending up in sticky situations, travel from a 1,000,000 acre sheep station in Outback Australia to The Surf Coast on the Great Ocean Road, to Prague and Viet Nam---they need all their unconventional skills to find a way out.Ever had someone stand up for you, or wanted to stand up for someone else? These three very good friends stand up for those who are unable to do so for themselves, as well as protecting each other. Travel with them to different parts of the world, immerse yourself in different cultures, and tumble with them from one adventure to another, and along the way, learn a new meaning for F.U.C.K. In Hot Air Rising by Matthew Taylor we experience a sense of comradeship, wonder, adrenaline rush, standing up for what you believe in, and belonging. Oh! and there is a bit of cheeky maths to delve into if you like, or skip.

ThisbookpresentsselectedandrevisedpapersoftheSecondWorkshoponAd- tive and Learning Agents 2009 (ALA-09), held at the AAMAS 2009 conference in Budapest, Hungary, May 12. The goalof ALA is to provide an interdisciplinaryforum for scientists from a variety of ?elds such as computer science, biology, game theory and economics. This year's edition of ALA was the second after the merger of the former wo- shops ALAMAS and ALAg. In 2008 this joint workshop was organized for the ?rst time under the ?ag of both events. ALAMAS was a yearly returning Eu- pean workshop on adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems (held eight times). ALAg was the international workshop on adaptive and learning agents, which was usually held at AAMAS. To increase the strength, visibility and quality of the workshop it was decided to merge both workshops under the ?ag of ALA and to set up a Steering Committee as an organizational backbone. This book contains six papers presented during the workshop, which were carefully selected after an additional review round in the summer of 2009. We therefore wish to explicitly thank the members of the Program Committee for the quality and sincerity of their e?orts and service. Furthermore we would like to thank all the members of the senior Steering Committee for making this workshop possible and supporting it with sound advice. We also thank the AAMAS conference for providing us a platform for holding this event. Finally we also wish to thank all authors who responded to our call-for-papers with interesting contributions.

Traces British football from the establishment of the earliest clubs in the nineteenth century to its place as one of the prominent and commercialised leisure industries at the beginning of the twenty first century. This work also covers the big business, the press and electronic media, and development in playing styles, tactics and rules.