Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: 6th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2003, Seoul, Korea, November 7-8, 2003. Proceedings

Boon-Hua Ooi (auth.), Jaeho Lee, Mike Barley (eds.)3540204601

Five years ago, with excitement and uncertainty, we witnessed the birth of PRIMA (Paci?c Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents). The ?rst PRIMA in 1998 has now grown into PRIMA 2003, the 6th Paci?c Rim Inter- tional Workshop on Multi-Agents in Seoul, Korea. During a period of ?ve years, the notion of agent research has grown so much that we hear the term agent on a daily basis. Various ?elds such as business, the Web, software engineering, on-line games and such are now using the term agent as a placeholder, just like the term object is used in the object-oriented paradigm. On the other hand, the research area has extended toward real applications, such as the Semantic Web and ubiquitous computing. The themes of PRIMA 2003 re?ected the following trends: – agent-based electronic commerce, auctions and markets – agent architectures and their applications – agent communication languages, dialog and interaction protocols – agent ontologies – agent programming languages, frameworks and toolkits – agentcities – agents and grid computing – agents and peer computing –agentsandtheSemanticWeb – agents and Web services – arti?cial social systems – con?ict resolution and negotiation – evaluation of multi-agent systems – languages and techniques for describing (multi-)agent systems – meta modeling and meta reasoning – multi-agent planning and learning – multi-agent systems and their applications – social reasoning, agent modeling, and organization – standards for agents and multi-agent systems – teams and coalitions – ubiquitous agents

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
A Multi-agent Approach to Business Processes Management in an Electronic Market….Pages 1-12
Modeling of a Multi-agent System for Coordination of Supply Chains with Complexity and Uncertainty….Pages 13-24
A Teamwork Protocol for Multi-agent System….Pages 25-36
Extraction of Implicit Resource Relationships in Multi-agent Systems….Pages 37-49
Evolutionary Learning of Multiagents Using Strategic Coalition in the IPD Game….Pages 50-61
Multi-agent Travel Planning through Coalition and Negotiation in an Auction….Pages 62-73
Agents for Intelligent Information Extraction by Using Domain Knowledge and Token-Based Morphological Patterns….Pages 74-85
Using Web Usage Mining and SVD to Improve E-commerce Recommendation Quality….Pages 86-97
Semantic Web Service Architecture Using Multi-agent Scenario Description….Pages 98-109
A Generic Model for Distributed Real-Time Scheduling Based on Dynamic Heterogeneous Data….Pages 110-121
SweMas Toward a Practical Multi-agent Framework Utilizing the Semantic Web….Pages 122-132
Speculative Constraint Processing in Multi-agent Systems….Pages 133-144
Coordinated Collaboration of Multiagent Systems Based on Genetic Algorithms….Pages 145-157
Honesty, Trust, and Rational Communication in Multiagent Semi-competitive Environments….Pages 158-169
Ontology-Services to Facilitate Agents’ Interoperability….Pages 170-181
An Ontology-Based Intelligent Agent System for Semantic Search in Medicine….Pages 182-193
Agent-Based Intelligent Clinical Information System for Persistent Lifelong Electronic Medical Record….Pages 194-204
Extended Hierarchical Task Network Planning for Interactive Comedy….Pages 205-213
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