Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems 9th Pacific Rim Internat

PRIMA is a series of workshops on agent computing and multi-agent systems, integrating the activities in Asia and Pacific Rim countries. Agent computing and multi-agent systems are computational systems in which several autonomous or se- autonomous agents

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Zhong-Zhi Shi Ramakoti Sadananda (Eds.)

Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems 9th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2006 Guilin, China, August 7-8, 2006 Proceedings

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Zhong-Zhi Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Computing Technology Beijing 100080, China E-mail: [email protected] Ramakoti Sadananda Asian Institute of Technology P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2006929806

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 3-540-36707-1 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-36707-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface

PRIMA is a series of workshops on agent computing and multi-agent systems, integrating the activities in Asia and Pacific Rim countries. Agent computing and multi-agent systems are computational systems in which several autonomous or semiautonomous 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 or distinct goals, and they may involve participation on the part of humans and intelligent agents. The aim of PRIMA 2006 was to bring together Asian and Pacific Rim researchers and developers from academia and industry to report on the latest technical advances or domain applications and to discuss and explore scientific and practical problems as raised by the participants. PRIMA 2006 received 203 submitted papers. Each paper was reviewed by two internationally renowned Program Committee members. After careful reviews, 39 regular papers and 57 short papers were selected for this volume. We would like to thank all the authors who submitted papers to the workshop. We are very grateful to all Program Committee memb