Design and Applications of Intelligent Agents

1. Front Matter

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2. Coordination, Negotiation, and Learning

   1. Coordinating Distributed Decision Making Using Reusable Interaction Specifications

      • K. S. Barber, D. C. Han, T. H. Liu

      Pages 1-15

   2. Dynamic Properties of Multiagents Based on a Mechanism of Loose Coalition

      • Takashi Katoh, Tetsuo Kinoshita, Norio Shiratori

      Pages 16-30

   3. Agent Negotiation under Uncertainty and Risk

      • Von-Wun Soo

      Pages 31-45

   4. Argumentation as a Social Computing Paradigm

      • Yuichi Umeda, Massashi Yamashita, Masanobu Inagaki, Hajime Sawamura

      Pages 46-60

   5. Rationality Assumptions and Optimality of Co-learning

      • Ron Sun, Dehu Qi

      Pages 61-75

3. Architecture, Specification, and Allocation

   1. Experiences in the Development of an Agent Architecture

      • Geoff Bush, Martin Purvis, Stephen Cranefield

      Pages 76-87

   2. Building a Network Community Support System on the Multi-agent Platform Shine

      • Sen Yoshida, Koji Kamei, Takeshi Ohguro, Kazuhiro Kuwabara, Kaname Funakoshi

      Pages 88-100

   3. A Secure Route Structure for Information Gathering Agent

      • Tieyan Li, Chuk -Yang Seng, Kwok -Yan Lam

      Pages 101-114

   4. An Approach to Specifying Coordinated Agent Behaviour

      • Kenichi Yoshimura, Ralph Rönnquist, Liz Sonenberg

      Pages 115-127

   5. Specifying Agent Behaviour with Use Cases

      • Clinton Heinze, Michael Papasimeon, Simon Goss

      Pages 128-142

   6. Market-Based Network Resource Allocation with Non-tâtonnement Process

      • Kosuke Nakatsuka, Hirofumi Yamaki, Toru Ishida

      Pages 143-155

4. Applications

   1. Autonomous Cooperative Factory Control

      • David Vasko, Francisco Maturana, Angela Bowles, Stephen Vandenberg

      Pages 156-169

   2. Delegation of Responsibility in an Agent-Based Process Management System

      • John Debenham

      Pages 170-181

5. Back Matter

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PRIMA 2000 was the third in the series of Paci c Rim International Workshops on Multi-Agents. It was held on August 28-29, 2000, in Melbourne, Australia in conjunction with the Paci c Rim International Conference on Arti cial Intel- gence 2000. PRIMA is the main forum for the agent or multi-agent researchers in paci c rim countries to exchange and discuss their research results. This volume contains selected papers from PRIMA 2000. It covers theory, design, and applications of intelligent agents. The speci c aspects include co- dination, negotiation, learning, architecture, speci cation, allocation, and app- cation of intelligent agents. All papers are of high quality because each of them was reviewed and recommended by at least two international renowned program committee members. Many people contributed to this volume. We would like to thank all the a- hors who submitted papers to the workshop. Many thanks also to the members of the program committee who diligently reviewed all the papers. Finally, we thank the editorial sta of Springer-Verlag for publishing this volume in the Lecture Notes in Arti cial Intelligence series.

• Intelligent agents
• agent architectures
• agent coordination
• agents
• artificial intelligence
• autonomous agents
• control agents
• information agents
• multi-agent systems

• School of Computing and Mathematics, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

  Chengqi Zhang

• Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan

  Von-Wun Soo

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