Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

This book constitutes the proceedings of the the 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2008, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in December 2008.

The 19 regular papers and 22 short papers presented together with 3 keynote speeches, were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. Many current subjects in multi-agent research and development are addressed, ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to various applications in different fields. There was a track on multi-issue negotiation and agents and HCI.

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PRIMA 2008 was the 11th in a series of conferences gathering researchers - voted to developing intelligent agents and multi-agent technologies from Asia and the Paci?c regions. From its ?rst incarnation over a decade ago, PRIMA has emerged as a signi?cant international forum, facilitating the exchange and dissemination of innovative research from around the globe. PRIMA 2008 was held in Vietnam, a tribute to this country's emerging s- enti?c vitality and importance as a developing innovation center. The Program Committee received 56 submissions from 20 countries. Many of these papers are the work of PhD or Masters students from Asian countries including - rea, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Iran, India, and Vietnam. In accordance with the rules, each submission was carefully peer-reviewed by three Program C- mittee referees. Only 19 submissions were accepted as regular papers, with a competitive rate of 33%. Additionally, the Program Committee decided to accept 22 short papers mainly written by graduate students, allowing our young colleagues an opp- tunity to present their work and new perspectives. These fresh perspectives enhanced our experienced of the conference and complemented the high quality of the professional papers submitted.

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Keynote Speech: A Review of the Ontological Status, Computational Foundations and Methodological Processes of Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation Approaches: Open Challenges and Research Perspectives.- Keynote Speech: Computational Collective Intelligence and Knowledge Inconsistency in Multi-agent Environments.- Keynote Speech: Agent Oriented Software Engineering: Why and How.- Coordinating Agents Plans in Multi-Agent Systems Using Colored Petri Nets.- Design of an Internet-Based Advisory System: A Multi-agent Approach.- Towards Virtual Epidemiology: An Agent-Based Approach to the Modeling of H5N1 Propagation and Persistence in North-Vietnam.- Measurement of Underlying Cooperation in Multiagent Reinforcement Learning.- Reo Connectors as Coordination Artifacts in 2APL Systems.- A Verification Framework for Normative Multi-Agent Systems.- Social Viewpoints for Arguing about Coalitions.- Changing Institutional Goals and Beliefs of Autonomous Agents.- Reasoning about Constitutive Norms, Counts-As Conditionals, Institutions, Deadlines and Violations.- When to Use a Multi-Agent System?.- Multiagent Incremental Learning in Networks.- UML-F in the Design of an Agent-Oriented Software Framework.- Interactive Learning of Expert Criteria for Rescue Simulations.- Modularity in Agent Programming Languages.- On the Pheromone Update Rules of Ant Colony Optimization Approaches for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem.- Preliminary Result on Secure Protocols for Multiple Issue Negotiation Problems.- Performance Analysis about Parallel Greedy Approximation on Combinatorial Auctions.- Online Market Coordination.- Towards an Evaluation Framework for MAS Software Engineering.- From Obligations to Organizational Structures in Multi-Agent Systems.- Addressing the Brittleness of Agent Interaction.- Dividing Agents on the Grid for Large Scale Simulation.- An Interest Rate Adjusting Method with Bayesian Estimation in Social Lending.- A Temporal Logic for Stochastic Multi-Agent Systems.- Applying the Logic of Multiple-Valued Argumentation to Social Web: SNS and Wikipedia.- Simulation of Halal Food Supply Chain with Certification System: A Multi-Agent System Approach.- A Novel Approach for Conflict Resolution in Context-Awareness Using Semantic Unification of Multi-Cognition.- Improving Trade-Offs in Bilateral Negotiations under Complete and Incomplete Information Settings.- PAMS - A New Collaborative Framework for Agent-Based Simulation of Complex Systems.- Methodological Steps and Issues When Deriving Individual Based-Models from Equation-Based Models: A Case Study in Population Dynamics.- Abstraction of Agent Cooperation in Agent Oriented Programming Language.- Knowledge Assessment: A Modal Logic Approach.- The Design of a Self-locating Automatic-Driving Robot.- Settling on the Group's Goals: An n-Person Argumentation Game Approach.- Revenue Maximising Adaptive Auctioneer Agent.- Managing Collaboration Using Agent Based Simulation.- Using Agent-Based Simulation of Human Behavior to Reduce Evacuation Time.- Participatory Simulation Platform Using Network Games.- A Multiagent-System Framework for Hierarchical Control and Monitoring of Complex Process Control Systems.- Agent Reasoning with Semantic Web in Web Blogs.- Design of a Multiagent System over Mobile Devices for the Planning of Touristic Travels.