Design and Applications of Intelligent Agents: Third Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2000 Melbourne, Australia, August 28-29, 2000 Proceedings

ISBN-13: 9783540679110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 186 str.

Chengqui Zhang;Von-Wun Soo

Opis

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2000, held in Melbourne, Australia in August 2000 in conjunction with PRICAI 2000. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on coordination, negotiation, and learning; architecture, specificiation, and allocation; and applications in control and process management.

Spis treści

Coordination, Negotiation, and Learning.- Coordinating Distributed Decision Making Using Reusable Interaction Specifications.- Dynamic Properties of Multiagents Based on a Mechanism of Loose Coalition.- Agent Negotiation under Uncertainty and Risk.- Argumentation as a Social Computing Paradigm.- Rationality Assumptions and Optimality of Co-learning.- Architecture, Specification, and Allocation.- Experiences in the Development of an Agent Architecture.- Building a Network Community Support System on the Multi-agent Platform Shine.- A Secure Route Structure for Information Gathering Agent.- An Approach to Specifying Coordinated Agent Behaviour.- Specifying Agent Behaviour with Use Cases.- Market-Based Network Resource Allocation with Non-tâtonnement Process.- Applications.- Autonomous Cooperative Factory Control.- Delegation of Responsibility in an Agent-Based Process Management System.