Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications, KES-AMSTA 2007, held in Wroclaw, Poland in May/June 2007. Coverage includes agent-oriented Web applications, mobility aspects of agent systems, agents for network management, agent approaches to robotic systems, as well as intelligent and secure agents for digital content management.

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Main Track: Methodological Aspects of Agent Systems.- On the Integration of Agent-Based and Mathematical Optimization Techniques.- Building Agent Service Oriented Multi-Agent Systems.- Agent-Based Approach for LabVIEW Developed Distributed Control Systems.- Pr : A Belief Description Logic.- Reinforcement Learning on a Futures Market Simulator.- The Effects of Agent Synchronization in Asynchronous Search Algorithms.- Modelling Social Attitudes of Agents.- Modeling the Activity of a Multiagent System with Evolving Metadata.- Software Component Selection Algorithm Using Intelligent Agents.- A Methodology to Specify Multiagent Systems.- A Stochastic Process Model for Daily Travel Patterns and Traffic Information.- Using Data Mining Algorithms for Statistical Learning of a Software Agent.- Expressivity of STRIPS-Like and HTN-Like Planning.- Implementation and Performance Evaluation of the Agent-Based Algorithm for ANN Training.- Agent-Based Discovery Middleware Supporting Interoperability in Ubiquitous Environments.- Performance of Fast TCP in Multi-agent Systems.- Manipulating Paraconsistent Knowledge in Multi-agent Systems.- Consensus-Based Evaluation Framework for Cooperative Information Retrieval Systems.- Hierarchy of Logics of Irrational and Conflicting Agents.- Stratified Multi-agent HTN Planning in Dynamic Environments.- Main Track: Agent-oriented Web Applications.- WSrep: A Novel Reputation Model for Web Services Selection.- Performance Evaluation of Mobile Agents for Knowledge-Based Web Information Services.- An Agent Based Method for Web Page Prediction.- X-Binder: Path Combining System of XML Documents Based on RDBMS.- A Digital TV Agent System for Broadcast and Web Information Hybrid.- Formal Modeling of Agent-Based English Auctions Using Finite State Process Algebra.- Wiki-News Interface Agent Based on AIS Methods.- Retrieving Geospatial Information into a Web-Mapping Application Using Geospatial Ontologies.- MWING: A Multiagent System for Web Site Measurements.- Application of Agent-Based Personal Web of Trust to Local Document Ranking.- Main Track: Mobility Aspects of Agent Systems and Ontology Management.- Non-repudiation Mechanism of Agent-Based Mobile Payment Systems: Perspectives on Wireless PKI.- Agent-Based Data Compression Supporting Knowledge Discovery in Mobile Environment.- eMARP: Enhanced Mobile Agent for RFID Privacy Protection and Forgery Detection.- Ontology Agent Based Rule Base Fuzzy Cognitive Maps.- OWL-DL Based Ontology Inference Engine Assessment for Context-Aware Services.- Main Track: Multi-agent Resource Allocation.- Multi-resource Load Optimization Strategy in Agent-Based Systems.- Online Network Resource Management for QoS-Sensitive Multimedia Services.- A Resource Discovery Method Based on Multi-agents in P2P Systems.- Agent Based Dynamic Data Storage and Distribution in Data Warehouses.- Semantic Data Integration in P2P Environment Using Schema Mappings and Agent Technology.- Intelligent Resource Allocation-Solutions and Pathways in a Workforce Planning Problem.- A Multi-agent Architecture for Designing and Simulating Large Scale Wireless Systems Resource Allocation.- Main Track: Negotiating Agents.- Towards an Agent-Based Negotiation Platform for Cooperative Decision-Making in Construction Supply Chain.- A Model for Informed Negotiating Agents.- Power in Norm Negotiation.- Quantitative Analysis of Single-Level Single-Mediator Multi-agent Systems.- Software Agent Negotiation for Service Composition.- Main Track: Agents for Network Management.- A Misuse Detection Agent for Intrusion Detection in a Multi-agent Architecture.- An Agent System for Bandwidth Allocation in Reservation-Based Networks Using Evolutionary Computing and Vickrey Auctions.- Multiagent Approach to Network Traffic Anomalies Uncertainty Level Assessment in Distributed Intrusion Detection System.- An Algorithm for Loopless Optimum Paths Finding Agent System and Its Application to Multimodal Public Transit Network.- A Channel Sounding Scheme of MIMO-OFDM System for Intelligent Area Network.- Wireless Intelligent LBT Agents for Common Frequency Band Efficiency.- Verification of Mobile Agent Network Simulator.- The Study of Multi-agent Network Flow Architecture for Application Performance Evaluation.- Main Track: Agent Approaches to Robotic Systems.- Robotic Agent Control Based on Adaptive Intelligent Algorithm in Ubiquitous Networks.- Saving Energy Consumption of Multi-robots Using Higher-Order Mobile Agents.- A Plan-Based Control Architecture for Intelligent Robotic Agents.- Remarks on Behaviours Programming of the Interactive Therapeutic Robot Koala Based on Fuzzy Logic Techniques.- Design of Admissible Schedules for AGV Systems with Constraints: A Logic-Algebraic Approach.- Main Track: Market Agents and other Applications.- Design and Implementation of Efficient Directory Facilitator for Context-Aware Service Discovery.- The CrocodileAgent: Designing a Robust Trading Agent for Volatile E-Market Conditions.- A Study to Apply Intelligent Agents for B2C Shopping Mall.- Password-Only Authenticated Key Exchange Between Two Agents in the Four-Party Setting.- Diagnostic Knowledge Acquisition for Agent-Based Medical Applications.- Remote Control Multi-Agent System for u-Healthcare Service.- A Block Based Moving Object Detection Utilizing the Distribution of Noise.- Multi-Agent System for Hierarchical Control with Self-organising Database.- Doctoral Track.- Water Floating Self-assembling Agents.- Failure Detection Service for Large Scale Systems.- Container Handling Using Multi-agent Architecture.- Distributed Code and Data Propagation Algorithm for Longest Common Subsequence Problem Solving.- Special Session: Mobile Agent Application and its Development.- Design and Evaluation of a Converting Patching Agent for VOD Services.- A Self-organizing Cluster Agent for Routing Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Design of Intelligence Mobile Agent Lifecycle for the Progress Management and Mobile Computing.- An Agent Environment for Contextualizing Folksonomies in a Triadic Context.- Design of Knowledge Discovery Agent for a Bit-Map on Ad Hoc Mobile Networks.- Mobile Collaboration Framework for u-Healthcare Agent Services and Its Application Using PDAs.- Developing Load Balancing System for RFID Middlewares Using Mobile Agent Technology.- Design Agent for the Reliable Web Security Requirement Control.- Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Robot Agent System Considering the Server's Workload.- WANT: A Personal Knowledge Management System on Social Software Agent Technologies.- Mobile Agents Using Data Mining for Diagnosis Support in Ubiquitous Healthcare.- Agent-Based Approach to Distributed Ensemble Learning of Fuzzy ARTMAP Classifiers.- Framework for Data Aggregation and Insurance Service in Vehicle Telematics Using Multi-agents.- Special Session: Agent on Networked Media and Its Applications on Next-Generation Convergence Network (ANM07).- Business Model and Comparasion of S/W Source Code vs. Digital License for IPRs.- PKG-MIB: Private-Mib for Package-Based Linux Systems in a Large Scale Management Domain.- Performance of TPR*-Trees for Predicting Future Positions of Moving Objects in U-Cities.- Strategy of Positioning for LBS on U-Campus.- Indirect DiffServ QoS for SIP in Broadband Access Networks.- An Intelligent Positioning Scheme for Mobile Agents in Ubiquitous Networks for U-City.- A User Interface for Controlling Information Appliances in Smart Homes.- A Design of the Simulator for Web-Based Loa…