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Proceedings of the 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on IAT, held October 23-26, 2001 in Maebashi City, Japan. This volume is an attempt to capture the essence of the state-of-the-art of intelligent agent technology and to identify the new challenges and opportunities that it is or will be facing.

Preface
Conference Organization
Intelligent Agents for Market-Trend Prediction	p. 2
Social Intelligence Design for Knowledge Creating Communities	p. 3
Query Answering Based on Distributed Knowledge Mining	p. 17
Approximate Reasoning by Agents in Distributed Environments	p. 28
Multi-Agent Infrastructure for Agent Interoperation in Open Computational Environments	p. 40
SPY: A Multi-Agent Model Yielding Semantic Properties	p. 44
ABT with Asynchronous Reordering	p. 54
Social Rationality and Cooperation	p. 64
Belief Revision in Type Theory	p. 69
Heterogeneous BDI Agents II: Circumspect Agents	p. 74
A Preference-Driven Approach to Designing Agent Systems	p. 80
Agent Consumer Reports: of the Agents, by the Agents, and for the Agents	p. 86
Logical Formalizations Built on Game-Theoretic Argument about Commitments	p. 92
Asynchronous Consistency Maintenance	p. 98
Reasoning about Mutual-Belief among Multiple Cooperative Agents	p. 104
Portable Resource Control for Mobile Multi-Agent Systems in JAVA	p. 114
An Agent-Based Mobile E-Commerce Service Platform for Forestry and Agriculture	p. 119
An Itinerary Scripting Language for Mobile Agents in Enterprise Applications	p. 124
Intelligent Agents for Mobile Commerce Services	p. 129
A New Concept of Agent Architecture in Agentspace	p. 134
21[superscript st] Century Systems, INC.'s Agent Enabled Decision Guide Environment (AEDGE)	p. 139
Proactiveness and Effective Observer Mechanisms in Intelligent Agents	p. 144
Parrondo Strategies for Artificial Traders	p. 150
BDI Multi-Agent Learning Based on First-Order Induction of Logical Decision Trees	p. 160
Evolutionary Behaviors of Competitive Agents in Dilemma Situation	p. 170
A Strategy for Creating Initial Data on Active Learning of Multi-Layer Perceptron	p. 180
Equilibrium Selection in a Sequential Multi-Issue Bargaining Model with Evolutionary Agents	p. 190
Affect and Agent Control: Experiments with Simple Affective States	p. 200
Meta-Learning Processes in Multi-Agent Systems	p. 210
Scalability and the Evolution of Normative Behavior	p. 220
Thinking-Learning by Argument	p. 230
Evolution of a Foraging Model with Many Individuals by Kin-selection	p. 235
The Use of Emergent Behaviour in a Multi-Agent System to Drive Self-Adaptation at the Interface	p. 240
A Biologically Inspired Four Legged Robot That Exhibits Some Natural Walking Behaviours	p. 245
CM-RELVIEW: A Tool for Causal Reasoning in Multi-Agent Environments	p. 252
User's Ontology-Based Autonomous Interface Agents	p. 264
Integration and Reuse of Heterogeneous XML DTDs for Information Agents	p. 274
Virtual Museum's Assistant	p. 284
Index Based Document Classification with CC4 Neural Networks	p. 289
Price Watcher Agent for E-Commerce	p. 294
Automated Information Extraction from Web Pages Using an Interactive Learning Agent	p. 300
An Intelligent Agent with Structured Pattern Matching for a Virtual Representative	p. 305
A Calendar Management Agent with Fuzzy Logic	p. 310
XML Based Multi-Agent Collaboration for Active Digital Libraries	p. 315
An Intelligent Channel Allocation Scheme for Mobile Networks: An Application of Agent Technology	p. 322
An Atomic Approach to Agent-Based Imagery and Geospatial Problem Solving	p. 334
Model-Based Creation of Agents and Distribution of Problem Solving	p. 344
A Distributed Algorithm for Coalition Formation Among E-Commerce Agents	p. 355
Optimal Reward Functions in Distributed Reinforcement Learning	p. 365
Polygonal Approximation of Planar Digital Curves Using Ant System	p. 375
A Biological View on Information Ecosystems	p. 385
The CoDAC Collaboration Framework	p. 390
A Multi-Agent Approach to Modelling Interaction in Human Mathematical Reasoning	p. 395
Secure Asynchronous Search	p. 400
Foundations of Market-Driven Agents: An Adaptation of Zeuthen's Bargaining Model	p. 405
Kavanah: An Active User Interface Information Retrieval Application	p. 412
iJADE WeatherMAN - A Multi-Agent Fuzzy-Neuro Network Based Weather Prediction System	p. 424
Acquaintance Models in Coalition Planning for Humanitarian Relief Operation	p. 434
Agent Negotiation in a Virtual Marketplace	p. 444
Modeling User Preferences to Facilitate More Automated and Accurate Transaction Brokering within Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Electronic Markets	p. 454
Attitude Based Agents in E-Commerce Applications	p. 464
Organizing Internet Agents According to a Hierarchy of Information Domains	p. 469
Introducing User Preference Modeling for Meeting Scheduling	p. 474
Executive Attentional Control in Autonomous Robotic Agents	p. 479
Implementation and Analysis of Mobile Agents in a Simulation Environment for Fieldbus Systems	p. 484
Evaluating Believability in an Interactive Narrative	p. 490
iJADE Stock Predictor - An Intelligent Multi-Agent Based Time Series Stock Prediction System	p. 495
Approximate Sensor Fusion in a Navigation Agent	p. 500
Simulating Day-Ahead Trading in Electricity Markets with Agents	p. 505
Using Mobile Agents to Update and Maintain Course Materials on Students' Computers in Internet-Based Distance Education	p. 510
Author Index	p. 515
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