Multi-Agent for Mass User Support

Kurumatani K. (ed.), Chen S.-H. (ed.), Ohuchi A. (ed.)3540246665

This book originates from the IJCAI 2003 International Workshop on Multi-Agents for Mass User Support, MAMUS 2003, held in Acapulco, Mexico in August 2003. Besides revised selected workshop papers, the volume editors invited contributions by leading researchers in order to complete coverage of important aspects.The papers address major current issues of multi-agent technology and its applications to support mass users and society more generally by using social coordination mechanisms. The papers are organized into topical sections on the theoretical background, resource allocation algorithms, mass user support in traffic systems, game theoretic analysis, and architectures for social coordination mechanisms.

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Table of contents :
Table of Contents……Page 10
Mass User Support by Social Coordination among Citizens in a Real Environment……Page 12
Toward a New Principle of Agent Engineering in Multiagent Systems: Computational Equivalence……Page 29
Market-Based Resource Allocation for Information-Collection Scenarios……Page 44
Modeling of Theme Park Problem with Multiagent for Mass User Support……Page 59
Story-Based Planning in Theme Park……Page 81
Effect of Using Route Information Sharing to Reduce Traffic Congestion……Page 97
Is Dial-a-Ride Bus Reasonable in Large Scale Towns? Evaluation of Usability of Dial-a-Ride Systems by Simulation……Page 116
Effects of Conflict between Emergent Charging Agents in Social Dilemma……Page 131
Investigation of Mutual Choice Metanorm in Group Dynamics for Solving Social Dilemmas……Page 148
Individual Digital Rights Management in Multi-agent Information Trading Societies……Page 165
Fairy Wing: Distributed Information Service with RFID Tags……Page 185
CONSORTS: A Multiagent Architecture for Service Coordination in Ubiquitous Computing……Page 201
Author Index……Page 228