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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen
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Toru Ishida (Ed.)
Multiagent Platforms First Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA’98 Singapore, November 23, 1998 Selected Papers
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editor Toru Ishida Kyoto University, Department of Social Informatics 606-8501 Kyoto, Japan E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface Autonomous agents and multiagent systems are computational systems in which several (semi-)autonomous agents interact 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. The increase of agent research activities can be observed in the series of ICMAS (International Conference of Multi-Agent Systems). In ICMAS’95, 209 participants were there. At ICMAS’96, the number increased to 282, and at ICMAS’98, there were 552 participants. Though we already have several workshops in Asia Pacific countries, such as MACC (Multiagent Systems and Cooperative Computation) in Japan from 1991 and Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence from 1995, there is not enough interaction so far among the countries compared to Europe and Americas. PRIMA’98 is the First Pacific Rim International Workshop related to aut
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