Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 10th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2007, held in Bankok, Thailand, in November 2007. The 22 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with 11 application papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. Ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to various applications in different fields, the papers address many current subjects in multi-agent research and development,

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Existence of Risk Strategy Equilibrium in Games Having No Pure Strategy Nash Equilibrium.- Multiagent Planning with Trembling-Hand Perfect Equilibrium in Multiagent POMDPs.- MAGEFRAME: A Modular Agent Framework to Support Various Communication Schemas Based on a Self-embedding Algorithm.- Using Multiagent System to Build Structural Earth Model.- Agent-Supported Protein Structure Similarity Searching.- Merging Roles in Coordination and in Agent Deliberation.- Planning Actions with Social Consequences.- Layered Cooperation of Macro Agents and Micro Agents in Cooperative Active Contour Model.- Contextual Agent Deliberation in Defeasible Logic.- Real-Time Moving Target Search.- Formalizing Excusableness of Failures in Multi-Agent Systems.- Design and Implementation of Security Mechanisms for a Hierarchical Community-Based Multi-Agent System.- A Need for Biologically Inspired Architectural Description: The Agent Ontogenesis Case.- Multi-Agent Based Web Search with Heterogeneous Semantics.- Reasoning about Norms, Obligations, Time and Agents.- An Agent Modeling Method Based on Scenario Rehearsal for Multiagent Simulation.- Fast Partial Reallocation in Combinatorial Auctions for Iterative Resource Allocation.- Deliberation Process in a BDI Model with Bayesian Networks.- An Asymmetric Protocol for Argumentation Games in Defeasible Logic.- On the Design of Interface Agents for a DRT Transportation System.- Supporting Requirements Analysis in Tropos: A Planning-Based Approach.- Towards Method Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems: A Validation of a Generic MAS Metamodel.- Entrainment in Human-Agent Text Communication.- A Driver Modeling Methodology Using Hypothetical Reasoning for Multiagent Traffic Simulation.- Analysis of Pedestrian Navigation Using Cellular Phones.- IdentifyingStructural Changes in Networks Generated from Agent-Based Social Simulation Models.- Multi-agent Simulation of Linguistic Processes: A NEPs Perspective.- A 3D Conversational Agent for Presenting Digital Information for Deaf People.- Multiagent-Based Defensive Strategy System for Military Simulation.- Achieving DRBAC Authorization in Multi-trust Domains with MAS Architecture and PMI.- When and How to Smile: Emotional Expression for 3D Conversational Agents.- GAMA: An Environment for Implementing and Running Spatially Explicit Multi-agent Simulations.- Multi-agent Based Incineration Process Control System with Qualitative Model.- Engineering Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems with ODAM Methodology.- Integrating Agent Technology and SIP Technology to Develop Telecommunication Applications with JadexT.- A Generic Distributed Algorithm for Computing by Random Mobile Agents.- Coalition Structure Generation in Task-Based Settings Based on Cardinality Structure.- A Specialised Architecture for Embedding Trust Evaluation Capabilities in Intelligent Mobile Agents.- Reasoning with Levels of Modalities in BDI Logic.- A Distributed Computational Model for Mobile Agents.- Belief-Based Stability in Non-transferable Utility Coalition Formation.- Déjà Vu: Social Network Agents for Personal Impression Management.- Agent Dialogue as Partial Argumentation and Its Fixpoint Semantics.- Developing Knowledge Models for Multi-agent Mediator Systems.- A Game Theoretic Approach for Deploying Intrusion Detection Agent.- Double Token-Ring and Region-Tree Based Group Communication Mechanism for Mobile Agent.- Towards Culturally-Situated Agent Which Can Detect Cultural Differences.- Ontology-Based Emotion System for Digital Environment.- An Agent Approach for Distributed Job-Shop Scheduling.