Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems: 13th International Conference, PRIMA 2010, Kolkata, India, November 12-15, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

Front Matter....Pages -
What Can Agent-Based Computing Offer Service-Oriented Architectures, and Vice Versa?....Pages 1-10
A Modelling Language to Represent and Specify Emerging Structures in Agent-Based Model....Pages 212-227
Multi-model Based Simulation Platform for Urban Traffic Simulation....Pages 228-241
GAMA: A Simulation Platform That Integrates Geographical Information Data, Agent-Based Modeling and Multi-scale Control....Pages 242-258
Ao Dai: Agent Oriented Design for Ambient Intelligence....Pages 259-269
Probabilistic Approaches to Tag Recommendation in a Social Bookmarking Network....Pages 270-287
SBDO: A New Robust Approach to Dynamic Distributed Constraint Optimisation....Pages 11-26
Solving Distributed CSPs Using Dynamic, Partial Centralization without Explicit Constraint Passing....Pages 27-41
A Distributed Task Specification Language for Mixed-Initiative Delegation....Pages 42-57
Adaptive and Non-adaptive Distribution Functions for DSA....Pages 58-73
Multiagent Based Scheduling of Elective Surgery....Pages 74-89
Effect of Alternative Distributed Task Allocation Strategy Based on Local Observations in Contract Net Protocol....Pages 90-104
Gossip-Based Self-organising Open Agent Societies....Pages 105-120
Adaptive Negotiation in Managing Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 121-136
Negotiation Strategy for Mobile Agent-Based e-Negotiation....Pages 137-151
Adaptive Choice of Behavior and Protocol Parameters....Pages 152-165
Effect of DisCSP Variable-Ordering Heuristics in Scale-Free Networks....Pages 166-180
Multi-attribute Preference Logic....Pages 181-195
An Empirical Study of Patterns in Agent Programs....Pages 196-211
Complex Task Allocation in Mixed-Initiative Delegation: A UAV Case Study....Pages 288-303
Agent-Based Modelling for Risk Assessment of Routine Clinical Processes....Pages 511-522
Healthgrids, the SHARE Project, Medical Data and Agents: Retrospect and Prospect....Pages 523-534
An Intelligent Approach to Surgery Scheduling....Pages 535-550
Using Distributed Agents for Patient Scheduling....Pages 551-560
The Role of Agents in Adaptive Service Oriented Architectures....Pages 371-386
Agent-Based Development for Business Processes....Pages 387-393
TwitAg: A Multi-agent Feature Selection and Recommendation Framework for Twitter....Pages 394-397
Energy-Aware Agents for Detecting Nonessential Appliances....Pages 475-486
Medical Equipment Maintenance Support with Service-Oriented Multi-agent Services....Pages 487-498
An Agent-Oriented Approach to Service Analysis and Design....Pages 499-510
Automated Multi-agent Simulation Generation and Validation....Pages 398-412
Inferring Equation-Based Models from Agent-Based Models: A Case Study in Competition Dynamics....Pages 413-427
Towards a Methodology for the Participatory Design of Agent-Based Models....Pages 428-442
A Framework for Validating Task Assignment in Multiagent Systems Using Requirements Importance....Pages 443-458
Task Knowledge Patterns Reuse in Multi-Agent Systems Development....Pages 459-474
Affordance-Based Intention Recognition in Virtual Spatial Environments....Pages 304-319
A Robust Multi-unit Ascending-Price Auction with Complementarities against Strategic Manipulation....Pages 320-335
Mobile Agent Cloning for Servicing Networked Robots....Pages 336-339
Towards Distributing Agent Intelligence: Using Decentralized Software Services for the Creation of Complex Problem Modelling....Pages 340-354
Averting the Tragedy of the Commons by Adapting Aspiration Levels....Pages 355-370
Software Agents in Clinical Workflow, Clinical Guidelines and Clinical Trial Medicine....Pages 561-574
Using Belief Theory to Formalize the Agent Behavior: Application to the Simulation of Avian Flu Propagation....Pages 575-587
A Cluster-Based Approach for Disturbed, Spatialized, Distributed Information Gathering Systems....Pages 588-603
Simulation of the Emotion Dynamics in a Group of Agents in an Evacuation Situation....Pages 604-619
From Biological to Urban Cells: Lessons from Three Multilevel Agent-Based Models....Pages 620-635
Multi-agent Based Simulation of Traffic in Vietnam....Pages 636-648
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