Approaches to Intelligent Agents

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Cooperation

   1. Flexible Multi-agent Collaboration Using Pattern Directed Message Collaboration of Field Reactor Model

      • Tadashige Iwao, Makoto Okada, Yuji Takada, Makoto Amamiya

      Pages 1-16

   2. Reliable Agent Communication — A Pragmatic Perspective

      • David Kinny

      Pages 16-31

   3. Formal Semantics of Acknowledgements, Agreements and Disagreements

      • Norihiro Ogata

      Pages 32-47

   4. Making Rational Decisions in N-by-N Negotiation Games with a Trusted Third Party

      • Shih-Hung Wu, Von-Wun Soo

      Pages 47-61

   5. The Security Mechanism In Multiagent System AOSDE

      • Zhongzhi Shi, 1Ju Wang, Hu Cao

      Pages 62-71

3. Mobility

   1. Remote Messaging Mechanism Supporting Agent Mobility Based on CORBA

      • Byung-Rae Lee, Kyung-Ah Chang, Tai-Yun Kim

      Pages 72-83

   2. Persisting Autonomous Workflow for Mobile Agents Using a Mobile Thread Programming Model

      • Minjie Zhang, Wei Li

      Pages 84-95

   3. Mobile Robot Navigation by Distributed Vision Agents

      • Takushi Sogo, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Toru Ishida

      Pages 96-110

4. Learning

   1. Rationality of Reward Sharing in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

      • Kazuteru Miyazaki, Shigenobu Kobayashi

      Pages 111-125

   2. How to Design Good Rules for Multiple Learning Agents in Scheduling Problems?

      • Keiki Takadama, Masakazu Watabe, Katsunori Shimohara, Shinichi Nakasuka

      Pages 126-140

   3. Hierarchical Multi-agent Organization for Text Database Discovery

      • Yong S. Choi, Jaeho Lee, Suk I. Yoo

      Pages 141-153

5. Interfacing

   1. Predicting User Actions Using Interface Agents with Individual User Models

      • Jung-Jin Lee, Robert McCartney

      Pages 154-169

   2. Gleams of People: Monitoring the Presence of People with Multi-agent Architecture

      • Takeshi Ohguro, Sen Yoshida, Kazuhiro Kuwabara

      Pages 170-181

6. System Design

   1. Distributed Fault Location in Networks Using Learning Mobile Agents

      • Tony White, Bernard Pagurek

      Pages 182-196

   2. Designing Multi-Agent Reactive Systems: A Specification Method Based on Reactive Decisional Agents

      • Bouchaib Bounabat, Rahal Romadi, Salah Labhalla

      Pages 197-210

   3. A Class of Isomorphic Transformations for Integrating EMYCIN-Style and PROSPECTOR-Style Systems into a Rule-Based Multi-Agent System

      • Xudong Luo, Chengqi Zhang, Ho-fung Leung

      Pages 211-225

   4. An Agent Architecture for Strategy-Centric Adaptive QoS Control in Flexible Videoconference System

      • Takuo Suganuma, SungDoke Lee, Takuji Karahashi, Tetsuo Kinoshita, Norio Shiratori

      Pages 226-240

7. Back Matter

   Pages 241-241

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Intelligent agents will be the necessity of the coming century. Software agents will pilot us through the vast sea of information, by communicating with other agents. A group of cooperating agents may accomplish a task which cannot be done by any subset of them. This volume consists of selected papers from PRIMA’99, the second Paci c Rim InternationalWorkshop on Multi-Agents, held in Kyoto,Japan, on Dec- ber 2-3, 1999. PRIMA constitutes a series of workshops on autonomous agents and mul- agent systems, integrating the activities in Asia and the Pacic rim countries, such as MACC (Multiagent Systems and Cooperative Computation) in Japan, and the Australian Workshop on Distributed Arti cial Intelligence. The r st workshop, PRIMA’98, was held in conjunction with PRICAI’98, in Singapore. The aim of this workshop is to encourage activities in this e ld, and to bring togetherresearchersfromAsiaandPacic rimworkingonagentsandmultiagent issues. Unlike usual conferences, this workshop mainly discusses and explores scienti c and practical problems as raised by the participants. Participation is thus limited to professionals who have made a signi cant contribution to the topics of the workshop. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - multi-agent systems and their applications - agent architecture and its applications - languages for describing (multi-)agent systems - standard (multi-)agent problems - challenging research issues in (multi-)agent systems - communication and dialogues - multi-agent learning - other issues on (multi-)agent systems We received 43 submissions to this workshop from more than 10 countries.

• CORBA
• Multi-agent systems
• Navigation
• agent architectures
• agent communication
• agent cooperation
• agent interfaces
• agent system design
• agents
• computational learning
• learning
• multi-agent system
• reinforcement learning
• robot
• semantics

• Electrotechnical Laboratories, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

  Hideyuki Nakashima

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

  Chengqi Zhang

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