Agents in Principle, Agents in Practice

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Talks

   1. Game Theory for Security: Lessons Learned from Deployed Applications

      • Milind Tambe

      Pages 1-1

   2. Tools for a Robust, Sustainable Agent Community

      • Sandip Sen

      Pages 2-2

   3. From Notions to Models and Back Again, Again

      • Liz Sonenberg

      Pages 3-3

3. Full Papers

   1. Coalitions and Teamwork

      1. A Compact Representation Scheme of Coalitional Games Based on Multi-Terminal Zero-Suppressed Binary Decision Diagrams

         • Yuko Sakurai, Suguru Ueda, Atsushi Iwasaki, Shin-Ichi Minato, Makoto Yokoo

         Pages 4-18

      2. Environment Characterization for Non-recontaminating Frontier-Based Robotic Exploration

         • Mikhail Volkov, Alejandro Cornejo, Nancy Lynch, Daniela Rus

         Pages 19-35

   2. Learning

      1. Aspects of Active Norm Learning and the Effect of Lying on Norm Emergence in Agent Societies

         • Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Rexy Arulanandam, Maryam Purvis

         Pages 36-50

   3. Mechanisms and Voting

      1. Strategy-Proof Mechanisms for Interdependent Task Allocation with Private Durations

         • Ayman Ghoneim

         Pages 51-67

      2. Costly Voting with Sequential Participation

         • Ryuya Kagifuku, Shigeo Matsubara

         Pages 68-82

   4. Modelling and Simulation

      1. An Agent-Based Model for Integrated Contagion and Regulation of Negative Mood

         • Azizi Ab Aziz, Jan Treur, C. Natalie van der Wal

         Pages 83-96

      2. A Framework for Agent-Based Modeling of Intelligent Goods

         • Åse Jevinger, Paul Davidsson, Jan A. Persson

         Pages 97-112

      3. Multi-Agent Systems for Biomedical Simulation: Modeling Vascularization of Porous Scaffolds

         • Hamidreza Mehdizadeh, Arsun Artel, Eric M. Brey, Ali Cinar

         Pages 113-128

      4. Group Abstraction for Large-Scale Agent-Based Social Diffusion Models with Unaffected Agents

         • Alexei Sharpanskykh, Jan Treur

         Pages 129-142

   5. Negotiation

      1. Towards a Quantitative Concession-Based Classification Method of Negotiation Strategies

         • Tim Baarslag, Koen Hindriks, Catholijn Jonker

         Pages 143-158

      2. Consensus Policy Based Multi-agent Negotiation

         • Enrique de la Hoz, Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona, Mark Klein, Ivan Marsa-Maestre

         Pages 159-173

   6. Optimization

      1. Distributed Lagrangian Relaxation Protocol for the Over-constrained Generalized Mutual Assignment Problem

         • Kenta Hanada, Katsutoshi Hirayama

         Pages 174-186

      2. The Effect of Congestion Frequency and Saturation on Coordinated Traffic Routing

         • Melanie Smith, Roger Mailler

         Pages 187-201

   7. Sustainability

      1. Coordination, Conventions and the Self-organisation of Sustainable Institutions

         • Jeremy Pitt, Julia Schaumeier, Alexander Artikis

         Pages 202-217

      2. An Agent-Based Extensible Climate Control System for Sustainable Greenhouse Production

         • Jan Corfixen Sørensen, Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen, Mark Klein, Yves Demazeau

         Pages 218-233

   8. Applications

      1. ACTraversal: Ranking Crowdsourced Commonsense Assertions and Certifications

         • Tao-Hsuan Chang, Yen-Ling Kuo, Jane Yung-jen Hsu

         Pages 234-246

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Principles and Practice in Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2011, held in Wollongong, Australia, in November 2011.
The 39 papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They focus on practical aspects of multiagent systems and are organised in topical sections on coalitions and teamwork, learning, mechanisms and voting, modeling and simulation, negotiation and coalitions, optimization, sustainability, agent societies and frameworks, argumentation, and applications.

• agents
• constraint optimization
• game theory
• health social network
• multi-agent systems
• reinforcement learning
• swarm robotics

• Department of Social Informatics, Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  David Kinny

• Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

  Jane Yung-jen Hsu

• Queensland Research Lab, NICTA, Australia

  Guido Governatori

• Decision Systems Lab School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, Australia

  Aditya K. Ghose

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