Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2008, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 15-16, 2008. Proceedings

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Keynote Speech: A Review of the Ontological Status, Computational Foundations and Methodological Processes of Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation Approaches: Open Challenges and Research Perspectives....Pages 1-1
Keynote Speech: Computational Collective Intelligence and Knowledge Inconsistency in Multi-agent Environments....Pages 2-3
Keynote Speech: Agent Oriented Software Engineering: Why and How....Pages 4-5
Coordinating Agents Plans in Multi-Agent Systems Using Colored Petri Nets....Pages 6-13
Design of an Internet-Based Advisory System: A Multi-agent Approach....Pages 14-25
Towards Virtual Epidemiology: An Agent-Based Approach to the Modeling of H5N1 Propagation and Persistence in North-Vietnam....Pages 26-33
Measurement of Underlying Cooperation in Multiagent Reinforcement Learning....Pages 34-41
Reo Connectors as Coordination Artifacts in 2APL Systems....Pages 42-53
A Verification Framework for Normative Multi-Agent Systems....Pages 54-65
Social Viewpoints for Arguing about Coalitions....Pages 66-77
Changing Institutional Goals and Beliefs of Autonomous Agents....Pages 78-85
Reasoning about Constitutive Norms, Counts-As Conditionals, Institutions, Deadlines and Violations....Pages 86-97
When to Use a Multi-Agent System?....Pages 98-108
Multiagent Incremental Learning in Networks....Pages 109-120
UML-F in the Design of an Agent-Oriented Software Framework....Pages 121-126
Interactive Learning of Expert Criteria for Rescue Simulations....Pages 127-138
Modularity in Agent Programming Languages....Pages 139-152
On the Pheromone Update Rules of Ant Colony Optimization Approaches for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem....Pages 153-160
Preliminary Result on Secure Protocols for Multiple Issue Negotiation Problems....Pages 161-172
Performance Analysis about Parallel Greedy Approximation on Combinatorial Auctions....Pages 173-184
Online Market Coordination....Pages 185-196
Towards an Evaluation Framework for MAS Software Engineering....Pages 197-205
From Obligations to Organizational Structures in Multi-Agent Systems....Pages 206-213
Addressing the Brittleness of Agent Interaction....Pages 214-221
Dividing Agents on the Grid for Large Scale Simulation....Pages 222-230
An Interest Rate Adjusting Method with Bayesian Estimation in Social Lending....Pages 231-238
A Temporal Logic for Stochastic Multi-Agent Systems....Pages 239-250
Applying the Logic of Multiple-Valued Argumentation to Social Web: SNS and Wikipedia....Pages 251-258
Simulation of Halal Food Supply Chain with Certification System: A Multi-Agent System Approach....Pages 259-266
A Novel Approach for Conflict Resolution in Context-Awareness Using Semantic Unification of Multi-Cognition....Pages 267-274
Improving Trade-Offs in Bilateral Negotiations under Complete and Incomplete Information Settings....Pages 275-286
PAMS – A New Collaborative Framework for Agent-Based Simulation of Complex Systems....Pages 287-294
Methodological Steps and Issues When Deriving Individual Based-Models from Equation-Based Models: A Case Study in Population Dynamics....Pages 295-306
Abstraction of Agent Cooperation in Agent Oriented Programming Language....Pages 307-314
Knowledge Assessment: A Modal Logic Approach....Pages 315-322
The Design of a Self-locating Automatic-Driving Robot....Pages 323-327
Settling on the Group’s Goals: An n-Person Argumentation Game Approach....Pages 328-339
Revenue Maximising Adaptive Auctioneer Agent....Pages 340-347
Managing Collaboration Using Agent Based Simulation....Pages 348-356
Using Agent-Based Simulation of Human Behavior to Reduce Evacuation Time....Pages 357-369
Participatory Simulation Platform Using Network Games....Pages 370-380
A Multiagent-System Framework for Hierarchical Control and Monitoring of Complex Process Control Systems....Pages 381-388
Agent Reasoning with Semantic Web in Web Blogs....Pages 389-396
Design of a Multiagent System over Mobile Devices for the Planning of Touristic Travels....Pages 397-404
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