Approaches to Intelligent Agents: Second Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, Prima'99, Kyoto,Japan, December 2-3, 1999 : Proceedings

by Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents 1999 (Kyoto, Japan); Nakashima, Hideyuki; Zhang, Chengqi

• ISBN13: 9783540668237
• ISBN10: 3540668233
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA'99, held in Kyoto, Japan in December 1999. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 43 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on agent cooperation, agent mobility, learning in multiagent systems, interface agents, and agent system design.

Table of Contents

Cooperation
Flexible Multi-agent Collaboration Using Pattern Directed Message Collaboration of Field Reactor Model	p. 1
Reliable Agent Communication - A Pragmatic Perspective	p. 16
Formal Semantics of Acknowledgements, Agreements and Disagreements Norihiro Ogata	p. 32
Making Rational Decisions in N-by-N Negotiation Games with a Trusted Third Party	p. 47
The Security Mechanism in Multiagent System AOSDE	p. 62
Mobility
Remote Messaging Mechanism Supporting Agent Mobility Based on CORBA	p. 72
Persisting Autonomous Workflow for Mobile Agents Using a Mobile Thread Programming Model	p. 84
Mobile Robot Navigation by Distributed Vision Agents	p. 96
Learning
Rationality of Reward Sharing in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning	p. 111
How to Design Good Rules for Multiple Learning Agents in Scheduling Problems?	p. 126
Hierarchical Multi-agent Organization for Text Database Discovery	p. 141
Interfacing
Predicting User Actions Using Interface Agents with
Individual User Models	p. 154
Gleams of People: Monitoring the Presence of People with
Multi-agent Architecture	p. 170
System Design
Distributed Fault Location in Networks Using Learning Mobile Agents	p. 182
Designing Multi-Agent Reactive Systems: A Specification Method Based on Reactive Decisional Agents	p. 197
A Class of Isomorphic Transformations for Integrating EMYCIN-Style and PROSPECTOR-Style Systems into a Rule-Based
Multi-Agent System	p. 211
An Agent Architecture for Strategy-Centric Adaptive QoS Control in Flexible Videoconference System	p. 226
Author Index	p. 241
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