Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems 10th Pacific Rim Interna
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 10th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2007, held in Bankok, Thailand, in November 2007. The 22 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presente
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Aditya Ghose Guido Governatori Ramakoti Sadananda (Eds.)
Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2007 Bangkok, Thailand, November 21-23, 2007 Revised 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 Aditya Ghose School of Computer Science and Software Engineering University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Guido Governatori National ICT Australia Queensland Research Laboratory St Lucia, Queensland, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Ramakoti Sadananda Rangsit University, Bangkok, Thailand 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
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Preface
PRIMA has emerged as a major platform for academic and research exchange on agent technologies. The PRIMA workshop series was initiated as a workshop of the Pacific Rim International Conference in Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) to provide a forum that would bring together research in the areas of agent technology and multi-agent systems, both in the Pacific Rim region and beyond. The inaugural workshop in the series was held in Singapore in 1998, with subsequent meetings in Kyoto (1999), Melbourne (2000), Taipei (2001), Tokyo (2002), Seoul (2003), Auckland (2004), Kuala Lumpur (2005) and Guilin (2006). At the 10th PRIMA in Bangkok in November 2007, the Steering Committee agreed that the series had grown in size and achieved a level of maturity to become a conference series of its own. It was therefore agreed that from Bangkok in 2007 PRIMA would stand for the Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2007 received 102 valid submissions. Each submission was peerreviewed by at least three referees selected from the Program Committ
