Intelligent Agents - Specification, Modeling and Application : 4th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2001, Taipei, Taiwan, July 28-29, 2001, Proceedings

by Yuan, Soe-Tsyr; Yokoo, Makoto

• ISBN13: 9783540424345
• ISBN10: 3540424342
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2001, held in Taipei, Taiwan in July 2001. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The book offers topical sections on specification, modeling, and applications.

Table of Contents

Specification
The Role of Castes in Formal Specification of MAS	1	(15)
Hong Zhu
A Truly Concurrent Model for Interacting Agents	16	(15)
Wieke de Vries
Frank S.de Boer
Wiebe van der Hoek
John-Jules Ch. Meyer
Reliable Agent Computation: An Algebraic Approach	31	(17)
David Kinny
An Argument-Based Agent System with KQML as an Agent Communication Language	48	(15)
Yoshirou Toda
Masashi Yamashita
Hajime Sawamura
Modeling
On Fairness in an Alternating-Offers Bargaining Model with Evolutionary Agents	63	(15)
Norberto Eiji Nawa
Katsunori Shimohara
Osamu Katai
Sealed Bid Multi-Object Auctions with Necessary Bundles and its Application to Spectrum Auctions	78	(15)
Tomomi Matsui
Takahiro Watanabe
Strategic Multi-Personal Interaction	93	(15)
Aizhong (Alan) Lin
Market Performance of Adaptive Trading Agents in Synchronous Double Auctions	108	(14)
Wei-Tek Hsu
Von-Wun Soo
Negotiation-Credit Driven Coalition Formation in E-Markets	122	(17)
Yu-Hsin Lin
Soe-Tsyr Yuan
Applications
An Adaptive Agent Society for Environmental Scanning through the Internet	139	(15)
Rey-Long Liu
Gaz-Guide: Agent-Mediated Information Retrieval for Official Gazettes	154	(14)
Jyi-Shane Liu
Von-Wun Soo
Chia-Ning Ching
Chen-Yu Lee
Chun-Yu Lin
Technological Innovation of High-Tech Industry and Patent Policy -Agent Based Simulation with Double Loop Learning	168	(15)
Hao Lee
Hiroshi Deguchi
Collaborative Filtering for a Distributed Smart IC and System	183	(15)
Eiji Murakami
Takao Terano
Incorporating Content-Based Collaborative Filtering in a Community Support System	198	(12)
Kaname Funakoshi
Koji Kamei
Sen Yoshida
Kazuhiro Kuwabara
A Personal Agent for Bookmark Classification	210	(12)
In-Cheol Kim
Scalable Workflow System Model Based on Mobile Agents	222	(15)
Jeong-Joon Yoo
Doheon Lee
Young-Ho Suh
Dong-Ik Lee
Author Index	237