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Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems

15th International Conference, PRIMA 2012, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, September 3-7, 2012, Proceedings

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7455)

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

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Foundations

    1. Coalitional Public Announcement Games

      • Thomas Ã…gotnes, Hans van Ditmarsch
      Pages 1-15
    2. Probabilistic Model Checking Multi-agent Behaviors in Dispersion Games Using Counter Abstraction

      • Jianye Hao, Songzheng Song, Yang Liu, Jun Sun, Lin Gui, Jin Song Dong et al.
      Pages 16-30
    3. Debugging Is Explaining

      • Koen V. Hindriks
      Pages 31-45
  3. Auctions and Negotiation

    1. Mechanism for Robust Procurements

      • Yingqian Zhang, Sicco Verwer
      Pages 77-91
    2. Auction-Based Strategies for the Open-System Patrolling Task

      • Cyril Poulet, Vincent Corruble, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni
      Pages 92-106
  4. Coalition Formation and Teamwork

    1. A Decentralized Multi-agent Algorithm for the Set Partitioning Problem

      • Gerrit Anders, Florian Siefert, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Wolfgang Reif
      Pages 107-121
    2. Distributed Search Method with Bounded Cost Vectors on Multiple Objective DCOPs

      • Toshihiro Matsui, Marius Silaghi, Katsutoshi Hirayama, Makoto Yokoo, Hiroshi Matsuo
      Pages 137-152
  5. Norms and Institutions

    1. Analysis of Opinion Spread through Migration and Adoption in Agent Communities

      • Feyza Merve HafızoÄŸlu, Sandip Sen
      Pages 153-167
    2. From Green Norms to Policies – Combining Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches

      • Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Lam-Son Lê, Aditya Ghose
      Pages 168-183
  6. Applications

    1. Effect of Anticipatory Stigmergy on Decentralized Traffic Congestion Control

      • Takayuki Ito, Ryo Kanamori, Jun Takahashi, Ivan Marsa Maestre, Enrique de la Hoz
      Pages 214-227
  7. Back Matter

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2012, held in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, in September 2012. The conference was collocated with the 12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on foundations, auctions and negotiation, coalition formation and teamwork, norms and institutions, and applications.

Keywords

  • agent communities
  • game theory
  • intelligent agents
  • software engineering
  • task allocation

Editors and Affiliations

  • Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Iyad Rahwan

  • School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Wayne Wobcke

  • Tandy School of Computer Science, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, USA

    Sandip Sen

  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Shinjuku, Japan

    Toshiharu Sugawara

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