Multi-Agent Systems for Society 8th Pacific Rim International Wo
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2005, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in September 2005. The 29 revised full papers and 2 keynote papers present
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Dickson Lukose Zhongzhi Shi (Eds.)
Multi-Agent Systems for Society 8th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2005 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 26-28, 2005 Revised Selected Papers
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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 Dickson Lukose DL Informatique Sdn. Bhd. Seri Kembangan, Selangor, Malaysia E-mail: [email protected] Zhongzhi Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China E-mail: [email protected]
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CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, I.2, C.2.4, D.2, F.3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-642-03337-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-642-03337-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
The Pacific-Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA) is held annually, and is one of the principal research forums in the practice and theory of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. Autonomous agents and multiagent systems are computational systems in which several (semi-) autonomous agents interact with each other or work together to perform some set of tasks or satisfy some set of goals. These systems may involve computational agents that are homogeneous or heterogeneous, they may involve activities on the part of agents having common goals or distinct goals, and they may involve participation on the part of humans and intelligent agents. PRIMA is the first Pacific Rim workshop related to autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. Although we already have several workshops in Pacific Rim countries, such as MACC (Multi-agent Systems and Cooperative Computation) in Japan from 1991, and the Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence from 1995, there has been less interaction among the countries compared to Europe and the Americas. Since 1998, the PRIMA series of workshop has been conducted annually. PRIMA 2005, the first of its kind to be held in Malaysia, followed a strong tradition of workshops that began in 1
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