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PRIMA 2017: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems

20th International Conference, Nice, France, October 30 – November 3, 2017, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 10621)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): PRIMA: International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems

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Table of contents (36 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
  2. Invited Talk

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. Agent and Multiagent Theories, Architectures, and Languages

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
    2. Other-Condemning Anger = Blaming Accountable Agents for Unattainable Desires

      • Mehdi Dastani, Emiliano Lorini, John-Jules Meyer, Alexander Pankov
      Pages 15-33
    3. Group Decision Making in a Bipolar Leveled Framework

      • Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr, Romain Guillaume
      Pages 34-52
  4. Teamwork and Coordination in Multiagent Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
    2. Reachability and Expectation in Gossiping

      • Hans van Ditmarsch, Ioannis Kokkinis, Anders Stockmarr
      Pages 93-109
    3. Optimising Social Welfare in Multi-Resource Threshold Task Games

      • Fatma R. Habib, Maria Polukarov, Enrico H. Gerding
      Pages 110-126
    4. Coalition Structure Generation for Partition Function Games Utilizing a Concise Graphical Representation

      • Aolong Zha, Kazuki Nomoto, Suguru Ueda, Miyuki Koshimura, Yuko Sakurai, Makoto Yokoo
      Pages 143-159
  5. Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
    2. An Agent-Based System for Printed/Handwritten Text Discrimination

      • Florence Cloppet, Pavlos Moraitis, Nicole Vincent
      Pages 180-197
    3. Towards a Generic Multi-agent Approach for Medical Image Segmentation

      • Mohamed T. Bennai, Zahia Guessoum, Smaine Mazouzi, Stéphane Cormier, Mohamed Mezghiche
      Pages 198-211
    4. A Balking Queue Approach for Modeling Human-Multi-Robot Interaction for Water Monitoring

      • Masoume M. Raeissi, Nathan Brooks, Alessandro Farinelli
      Pages 212-223
  6. Cooperation and Negotiation in Multiagent Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225
    2. Specifications for Peer-to-Peer Argumentation Dialogues

      • Bas Testerink, Floris J. Bex
      Pages 227-244

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2017, held in Nice, France, in October/November 2017. 
The 24 revised full papers presented together with one abstract of a keynote talk and 11 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. 
The intention of the papers is to showcase research in several domains, ranging from foundations of agent theory and engineering aspects of agent systems, to emerging interdisciplinary areas of agent-based research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Bo An

  • Universidade Federal Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Ana Bazzan

  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

    João Leite

  • Université Côte d’Azur, Sophia Antipolis, France

    Serena Villata

  • University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    Leendert van der Torre

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