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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)

Conference series link(s): PRIMA: International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems

Conference proceedings info: PRIMA 2010.

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Table of contents (46 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Panel Discussion

    1. What Can Agent-Based Computing Offer Service-Oriented Architectures, and Vice Versa?

      • Wayne Wobcke, Nirmit Desai, Frank Dignum, Aditya Ghose, Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Biplav Srivastava
      Pages 1-10

  3. Conference Papers

    1. Agent Communication

      1. SBDO: A New Robust Approach to Dynamic Distributed Constraint Optimisation
        • Graham Billiau, Chee Fon Chang, Aditya Ghose
        Pages 11-26
      3. A Distributed Task Specification Language for Mixed-Initiative Delegation
        • Patrick Doherty, Fredrik Heintz, David Landén
        Pages 42-57
      4. Adaptive and Non-adaptive Distribution Functions for DSA
        • Melanie Smith, Sandip Sen, Roger Mailler
        Pages 58-73

    2. Agent Cooperation and Negotiation

      1. Multiagent Based Scheduling of Elective Surgery
        • Sankalp Khanna, Timothy Cleaver, Abdul Sattar, David Hansen, Bela Stantic
        Pages 74-89
      2. Effect of Alternative Distributed Task Allocation Strategy Based on Local Observations in Contract Net Protocol
        • Toshiharu Sugawara, Kensuke Fukuda, Toshio Hirotsu, Satoshi Kurihara
        Pages 90-104
      3. Gossip-Based Self-organising Open Agent Societies
        • Sharmila Savarimuthu, Martin Purvis, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Maryam Purvis
        Pages 105-120
      4. Adaptive Negotiation in Managing Wireless Sensor Networks
        • Thao P. Le, Timothy J. Norman, Wamberto Vasconcelos
        Pages 121-136
      5. Negotiation Strategy for Mobile Agent-Based e-Negotiation
        • Raja Al-Jaljouli, Jemal Abawajy
        Pages 137-151
      6. Adaptive Choice of Behavior and Protocol Parameters
        • Frank Grove, Sandip Sen, Oly Mistry
        Pages 152-165

    3. Agent Reasoning

      1. Effect of DisCSP Variable-Ordering Heuristics in Scale-Free Networks
        • Tenda Okimoto, Atsushi Iwasaki, Makoto Yokoo
        Pages 166-180
      2. Multi-attribute Preference Logic
        • Koen V. Hindriks, Wietske Visser, Catholijn M. Jonker
        Pages 181-195
      3. An Empirical Study of Patterns in Agent Programs
        • Koen V. Hindriks, M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Catholijn M. Jonker
        Pages 196-211

    4. Agent-Based Simulation

      1. A Modelling Language to Represent and Specify Emerging Structures in Agent-Based Model
        • Duc-An Vo, Alexis Drogoul, Jean-Daniel Zucker, Tuong-Vinh Ho
        Pages 212-227
      2. Multi-model Based Simulation Platform for Urban Traffic Simulation
        • Yuu Nakajima, Shohei Yamane, Hiromitsu Hattori
        Pages 228-241
      3. GAMA: A Simulation Platform That Integrates Geographical Information Data, Agent-Based Modeling and Multi-scale Control
        • Patrick Taillandier, Duc-An Vo, Edouard Amouroux, Alexis Drogoul
        Pages 242-258

    5. Mobile and Semantic Agents

      1. Ao Dai: Agent Oriented Design for Ambient Intelligence
        • Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Andrei Olaru, Nga Thi Thuy Nguyen, Diego Salomone
        Pages 259-269
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About this book

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.
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Keywords

  • agent-oriented modeling
  • distributed constraint optimization
  • medical knowledge
  • ontologies
  • service oriented architectures
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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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