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.
Author(s): Tadashige Iwao, Makoto Okada, Yuji Takada, Makoto Amamiya (auth.), Hideyuki Nakashima, Chengqi Zhang (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1733 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 248
Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Communication Networks; Software Engineering; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters
Flexible Multi-agent Collaboration Using Pattern Directed Message Collaboration of Field Reactor Model....Pages 1-16
Reliable Agent Communication — A Pragmatic Perspective....Pages 16-31
Formal Semantics of Acknowledgements, Agreements and Disagreements....Pages 32-47
Making Rational Decisions in N-by-N Negotiation Games with a Trusted Third Party....Pages 47-61
The Security Mechanism In Multiagent System AOSDE....Pages 62-71
Remote Messaging Mechanism Supporting Agent Mobility Based on CORBA....Pages 72-83
Persisting Autonomous Workflow for Mobile Agents Using a Mobile Thread Programming Model....Pages 84-95
Mobile Robot Navigation by Distributed Vision Agents....Pages 96-110
Rationality of Reward Sharing in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning....Pages 111-125
How to Design Good Rules for Multiple Learning Agents in Scheduling Problems?....Pages 126-140
Hierarchical Multi-agent Organization for Text Database Discovery....Pages 141-153
Predicting User Actions Using Interface Agents with Individual User Models....Pages 154-169
Gleams of People: Monitoring the Presence of People with Multi-agent Architecture....Pages 170-181
Distributed Fault Location in Networks Using Learning Mobile Agents....Pages 182-196
Designing Multi-Agent Reactive Systems: A Specification Method Based on Reactive Decisional Agents....Pages 197-210
A Class of Isomorphic Transformations for Integrating EMYCIN-Style and PROSPECTOR-Style Systems into a Rule-Based Multi-Agent System....Pages 211-225
An Agent Architecture for Strategy-Centric Adaptive QoS Control in Flexible Videoconference System....Pages 226-240
