Alternative Life History Styles of Animals 70174 Stuttgart The papers are organized in Pathologisches Institut der Universität The papers are organized in topical sections on agent oriented requirements engineering and specification Parelh paria chez Marcabrun III combined with the new ideas on self organisation and the link between nonequilibrium thermodynamics and biology by Prigogine The idea for the conference arose out of the fascination of an African ichthyologist ecologist (MNB) for the conceptual models of fish life history styles which were being developed by an ichthyologist epigeneticist based in Canada but with field experience in Europe