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Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems

12th International Conference, PRIMA 2009, Nagoya, Japan, December 14-16, 2009, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5925)

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

Conference proceedings info: PRIMA 2009.

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Table of contents (52 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Technical Papers

    1. Designing Protocols for Collaborative Translation

      • Daisuke Morita, Toru Ishida
      Pages 17-32
    2. An Affective Agent Playing Tic-Tac-Toe as Part of a Healing Environment

      • Matthijs Pontier, Ghazanfar Farooq Siddiqui
      Pages 33-47
    3. A Multi-agent Model for Emotion Contagion Spirals Integrated within a Supporting Ambient Agent Model

      • Tibor Bosse, Rob Duell, Zulfiqar A. Memon, Jan Treur, C. Natalie van der Wal
      Pages 48-67
    4. Statistical Utterance Selection Using Word Co-occurrence for a Dialogue Agent

      • Naoki Isomura, Fujio Toriumi, Kenichiro Ishii
      Pages 68-79
    5. On the Impact of Witness-Based Collusion in Agent Societies

      • Amirali Salehi-Abari, Tony White
      Pages 80-96
    6. Efficient Methods for Multi-agent Multi-issue Negotiation: Allocating Resources

      • Mengxiao Wu, Mathijs de Weerdt, Han La Poutré
      Pages 97-112
    7. Gaia Agents Implementation through Models Transformation

      • Nikolaos Spanoudakis, Pavlos Moraitis
      Pages 127-142
    8. ONTOMO: Development of Ontology Building Service

      • I. Shin, Takahiro Kawamura, Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Ken Nakayama, Yasuyuki Tahara, Akihiko Ohsuga
      Pages 143-158
    9. Syncretic Argumentation by Means of Lattice Homomorphism

      • Taichi Hasegawa, Safia Abbas, Hajime Sawamura
      Pages 159-174
    10. SIM-MADARP: An Agent-Based Tool for Dial-a-Ride Simulation

      • Makarena Donoso, Daniel Sandoval, Claudio Cubillos
      Pages 191-199
    11. An Empirical Study of Agent Programs

      • M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Koen V. Hindriks
      Pages 200-215
    12. A Multiagent Model for Provider-Centered Trust in Composite Web Services

      • Julien Bourdon, Laurent Vercouter, Toru Ishida
      Pages 216-228
    13. Memory Complexity of Automated Trust Negotiation Strategies

      • Indika H. Katugampala, Hirofumi Yamaki, Yukiko Yamaguchi
      Pages 229-244
    14. NegoExplorer: A Region-Based Recursive Approach to Bilateral Multi-attribute Negotiation

      • Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona, Ivan Marsa-Maestre, Enrique de la Hoz, Juan R. Velasco
      Pages 261-275
    15. Applying User Feedback and Query Learning Methods to Multiple Communities

      • Tsunenori Mine, Hirotake Kobayashi
      Pages 276-291

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About this book

Agents are software processes that perceive and act in an environment, processing their perceptions to make intelligent decisions about actions to achieve their goals. Multi-agent systems have multiple agents that work in the same environment to achieve either joint or conflicting goals. Agent computing and technology is an exciting, emerging paradigm expected to play a key role in many society-changing practices from disaster response to manufacturing to agriculture. Agent and mul- agent researchers are focused on building working systems that bring together a broad range of technical areas from market theory to software engineering to user interfaces. Agent systems are expected to operate in real-world environments, with all the challenges complex environments present. After 11 successful PRIMA workshops/conferences (Pacific-Rim International Conference/Workshop on Multi-Agents), PRIMA became a new conference titled “International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems” in 2009. With over 100 submissions, an acceptance rate for full papers of 25% and 50% for posters, a demonstration session, an industry track, a RoboCup competition and workshops and tutorials, PRIMA has become an important venue for multi-agent research. Papers submitted are from all parts of the world, though with a higher representation of Pacific Rim countries than other major multi-agent research forums. This volume presents 34 high-quality and exciting technical papers on multimedia research and an additional 18 poster papers that give brief views on exciting research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, South Korea

    Jung-Jin Yang

  • Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Department of Informatics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Makoto Yokoo

  • School of Techno-Business Administration, Dept. of Computer Science, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan

    Takayuki Ito

  • School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Zhi Jin

  • Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

    Paul Scerri

Bibliographic Information

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