Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 6th Pacific Rim Inter
Five years ago, with excitement and uncertainty, we witnessed the birth of PRIMA (Paci?c Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents). The ?rst PRIMA in 1998 has now grown into PRIMA 2003, the 6th Paci?c Rim Inter- tional Workshop on Multi-Agents in Seoul,
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Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 6th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2003 Seoul, Korea, November 7-8, 2003 Proceedings
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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 Editors Jaeho Lee University of Seoul Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 90 Cheonnong-dong, Tongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-743, Korea E-mail: [email protected] Mike Barley University of Auckland Department of Computer Science Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface
Five years ago, with excitement and uncertainty, we witnessed the birth of PRIMA (Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents). The first PRIMA in 1998 has now grown into PRIMA 2003, the 6th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents in Seoul, Korea. During a period of five years, the notion of agent research has grown so much that we hear the term agent on a daily basis. Various fields such as business, the Web, software engineering, on-line games and such are now using the term agent as a placeholder, just like the term object is used in the object-oriented paradigm. On the other hand, the research area has extended toward real applications, such as the Semantic Web and ubiquitous computing. The themes of PRIMA 2003 reflected the following trends: – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
agent-based electronic commerce, auctions and markets agent architectures and their applications agent communicatio
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