Agents in Principle, Agents in Practice 14th International Confe
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 care
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LNAI Founding Series Editor Joerg Siekmann DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
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David Kinny Jane Yung-jen Hsu Guido Governatori Aditya Ghose (Eds.)
Agents in Principle, Agents in Practice 14th International Conference, PRIMA 2011 Wollongong, Australia, November 16-18, 2011 Proceedings
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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors David Kinny Kyoto University, Department of Social Informatics Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan E-mail: [email protected] Jane Yung-jen Hsu National Taiwan University Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering 1 Roosevelt Road, Taipei 106, Taiwan E-mail: [email protected] Guido Governatori NICTA, Queensland Research Laboratory PO Box 6020, St. Lucia, QLD 4067, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Aditya Ghose University of Wollongong School of Computer Science and Software Engineering Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia E-mail: [email protected] ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-25043-9 e-ISBN 978-3-642-25044-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-25044-6 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011940004 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, I.2.11, I.2.9, C.2.4, K.4, D.2, H.3-5 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
Agent computing is a remarkably successful and transformational approach to developing computer systems that can rapidly and reliably solve real-world problems that usually demand human knowledge and expertise. The value, power and flexibility of agent and multi-agent systems have been demonstrated in application areas such as logistics, manufacturing, simulation, robotics, decisionsupport, entertainment, online markets, as well as disaster management and military applications. As one of the largest a
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