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Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems

13th International Conference, PRIMA 2010, Kolkata, India, November 12-15, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

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  1. Nirmit Desai

    1. IBM Research, Bangalore, India

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  2. Alan Liu

    1. Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Min-Hsiung, Taiwan

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  3. Michael Winikoff

    1. Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7057)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (46 papers)

  1. Early Innovation Papers

    1. Agent Cooperation and Negotiation

      1. Complex Task Allocation in Mixed-Initiative Delegation: A UAV Case Study
        • David Landén, Fredrik Heintz, Patrick Doherty
        Pages 288-303
      2. Affordance-Based Intention Recognition in Virtual Spatial Environments
        • Michal Sindlar, John-Jules Meyer
        Pages 304-319
      3. A Robust Multi-unit Ascending-Price Auction with Complementarities against Strategic Manipulation
        • Masabumi Furuhata
        Pages 320-335
      4. Mobile Agent Cloning for Servicing Networked Robots
        • W. Wilfred Godfrey, Shivashankar B. Nair
        Pages 336-339

    3. Agent Technologies for Service Computing

      1. The Role of Agents in Adaptive Service Oriented Architectures
        • Fernando Koch, Frank Dignum, Marcel Hiel, Huib Aldewereld
        Pages 371-386
      2. Agent-Based Development for Business Processes
        • Hoa Khanh Dam, Aditya Ghose
        Pages 387-393
      3. TwitAg: A Multi-agent Feature Selection and Recommendation Framework for Twitter
        • Frank Grove, Sandip Sen
        Pages 394-397

    4. Agent-Based Simulation

      1. Automated Multi-agent Simulation Generation and Validation
        • Philippe Caillou
        Pages 398-412
      2. Inferring Equation-Based Models from Agent-Based Models: A Case Study in Competition Dynamics
        • Ngoc Doanh Nguyen, Patrick Taillandier, Alexis Drogoul, Pierre Auger
        Pages 413-427
      3. Towards a Methodology for the Participatory Design of Agent-Based Models
        • Thanh-Quang Chu, Alexis Drogoul, Alain Boucher, Jean-Daniel Jucker
        Pages 428-442

    5. Agent-Based System Development

      1. A Framework for Validating Task Assignment in Multiagent Systems Using Requirements Importance
        • Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Nobukazu Yoshioka, Akihiko Ohsuga, Shinichi Honiden
        Pages 443-458
      2. Task Knowledge Patterns Reuse in Multi-Agent Systems Development
        • WaiShiang Cheah, Leon Sterling, Kuldar Taveter
        Pages 459-474

    6. ServAgents Workshop

      1. Energy-Aware Agents for Detecting Nonessential Appliances
        • Shih-chiang Lee, Gu-yuan Lin, Wan-rong Jih, Chi-Chia Huang, Jane Yung-jen Hsu
        Pages 475-486
      2. Medical Equipment Maintenance Support with Service-Oriented Multi-agent Services
        • Beatriz Lopez, Albert Pla, David Daroca, Luis Collantes, Sara Lozano, Joaquim Meléndez
        Pages 487-498
      3. An Agent-Oriented Approach to Service Analysis and Design
        • Hoa Khanh Dam, Aditya Ghose
        Pages 499-510

    7. IAHC Workshop

      1. Agent-Based Modelling for Risk Assessment of Routine Clinical Processes
        • Wayne Wobcke, Adam Dunn
        Pages 511-522
      2. Healthgrids, the SHARE Project, Medical Data and Agents: Retrospect and Prospect
        • Tony Solomonides
        Pages 523-534
      3. An Intelligent Approach to Surgery Scheduling
        • Sankalp Khanna, Abdul Sattar, Justin Boyle, David Hansen, Bela Stantic
        Pages 535-550
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2010, held in Kolkata, India, in November 2010.
The 18 full papers presented together with 15 early innovation papers were carefully reviewed and selected from over 63 submissions. They focus on practical aspects of multiagent systems and cover topics such as agent communication, agent cooperation and negotiation, agent reasoning, agent-based simulation, mobile and semantic agents, agent technologies for service computing, agent-based system development, ServAgents workshop, IAHC workshop, and PRACSYS workshop.

Editors and Affiliations

  • IBM Research, Bangalore, India

    Nirmit Desai

  • Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Min-Hsiung, Taiwan

    Alan Liu

  • Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Michael Winikoff

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