This issue of Clinics in Plastic Surgery, guest edited by Dr. Roberto L. Flores, is devoted to Craniofacial Distraction. Topics in this issue include: Robin Sequence: Neonatal Mandibular Distraction, Craniofacial Microsomia: Early Distraction, Cleft lip and palate: LeFort I Distraction with Halo, Cleft lip and palate: LeFort I Distraction with internal device, Cleft lip and palate: Alveolar Distraction, Treacher Collins: Mandibular distraction, Treacher Collins: Counter Clockwise Craniofacial DO, Craniosynostosis: Posterior Cranial Vault Remodeling, Craniosynostosis: LeFort III Distraction Osteogenesis, Craniosynostosis: LeFort II distraction with Zygoma repositioning, Frontofacial monobloc with internal distraction and its variant with combined external traction in severe faciocraniosynostostic infants, Craniosynostosis: Monobloc Distraction and Facial Bipartition Distraction with External Device, Facial Bipartition with Distraction, and Craniofacial Distraction - Orthodontic Considerations.

Although everyone recognizes communication as a central concept in mul- agents, many no longer see agent communication as a research topic. Unf- tunately there seems to be a tendency to regard communication as a kind of information exchange that can easily be covered using the standard FIPA ACL. However, the papers in this volume show that research in agent communication is far from ?nished. If we want to develop the full potential of multi-agent s- tems, agent communication should also develop to a level beyond parameter or value passing as is done in OO approaches! In this book we present the latest collection of papers around the topic of agentcommunication.Thecollectioncomprisesofthebestpapersfromtheagent communication workshops of 2005 and 2006, enriched with a few revised agent communication papers from the AAMAS conference. Due to some unfortunate circumstances the proceedings of the 2005 workshop were delayed, but it gave us the opportunity to join the best papers of the 2006 edition to this volume. Together these papers give a very good overview of the state of the art in this areaofresearchandgiveagoodindicationofthetopicsthatareofmajorinterest at the moment.

This issue of Clinics in Plastic Surgery, guest edited by Dr. Roberto L. Flores, is devoted to Craniofacial Distraction. Topics in this issue include: Robin Sequence: Neonatal Mandibular Distraction, Craniofacial Microsomia: Early Distraction, Cleft lip and palate: LeFort I Distraction with Halo, Cleft lip and palate: LeFort I Distraction with internal device, Cleft lip and palate: Alveolar Distraction, Treacher Collins: Mandibular distraction, Treacher Collins: Counter Clockwise Craniofacial DO, Craniosynostosis: Posterior Cranial Vault Remodeling, Craniosynostosis: LeFort III Distraction Osteogenesis, Craniosynostosis: LeFort II distraction with Zygoma repositioning, Frontofacial monobloc with internal distraction and its variant with combined external traction in severe faciocraniosynostostic infants, Craniosynostosis: Monobloc Distraction and Facial Bipartition Distraction with External Device, Facial Bipartition with Distraction, and Craniofacial Distraction - Orthodontic Considerations.

Although everyone recognizes communication as a central concept in mul- agents, many no longer see agent communication as a research topic. Unf- tunately there seems to be a tendency to regard communication as a kind of information exchange that can easily be covered using the standard FIPA ACL. However, the papers in this volume show that research in agent communication is far from ?nished. If we want to develop the full potential of multi-agent s- tems, agent communication should also develop to a level beyond parameter or value passing as is done in OO approaches! In this book we present the latest collection of papers around the topic of agentcommunication.Thecollectioncomprisesofthebestpapersfromtheagent communication workshops of 2005 and 2006, enriched with a few revised agent communication papers from the AAMAS conference. Due to some unfortunate circumstances the proceedings of the 2005 workshop were delayed, but it gave us the opportunity to join the best papers of the 2006 edition to this volume. Together these papers give a very good overview of the state of the art in this areaofresearchandgiveagoodindicationofthetopicsthatareofmajorinterest at the moment.