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

The increasing importance of intelligent agents and their impact on industry/business worldwide is well documented through academic research papers and industrial reports. There is a strong affinity between the Web a worldwide distributed computing environment and the capability of intelligent agents to act on and through software. The ultimate goal of intelligent agents is to accelerate the evolution of the Web from a passive, static medium to a tuned, highly valued environment. This volume contains selected papers from PRIMA 2001, the fourth Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, held in Taipei, Taiwan, July 28-29, 2001. In this volume, the papers cover specification, modeling, and applications of intelligent agents. PRIMA is a series of workshops on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, integrating the activities in Asia and the Pacific Rim countries. PRIMA 2001 built on the great success of its predecessors, PRIMA98 i n Singapore, PRIMA99 i n Kyoto, Japan, and PRIMA 2000 in Melbourne, Australia. The aim of PRIMA 2001 was to bring together researchers from Asia and the Pacific Rim and developers from academia and industry to report on the latest technical advances or domain applications and to discuss and explore scientific and practical problems as raised by the participants.

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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.

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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-X
The Role of Castes in Formal Specification of MAS....Pages 1-15
A Truly Concurrent Model for Interacting Agents....Pages 16-30
Reliable Agent Computation: An Algebraic Approach....Pages 31-47
An Argument-Based Agent System with KQML as an Agent Communication Language....Pages 48-62
On Fairness in an Alternating-Offers Bargaining Model with Evolutionary Agents....Pages 63-77
Sealed Bid Multi-object Auctions with Necessary Bundles and its Application to Spectrum Auctions....Pages 78-92
Strategic Multi-Personal-Agent Interaction....Pages 93-107
Market Performance of Adaptive Trading Agents in Synchronous Double Auctions....Pages 108-121
Negotiation-Credit Driven Coalition Formation in E-Markets....Pages 122-138
An Adaptive Agent Society for Environmental Scanning through the Internet....Pages 139-153
Gaz-Guide: Agent-Mediated Information Retrieval for Official Gazettes....Pages 154-167
Technological Innovation of High-tech Industry and patent policy -Agent based Simulation with Double Loop Learning-....Pages 168-182
Collaborative Filtering for a Distributed Smart IC Card System....Pages 183-197
Incorporating content-based collaborative filtering in a community support system....Pages 198-209
A Personal Agent for Bookmark Classification....Pages 210-221
Scalable Workflow System Model Based on Mobile Agents....Pages 222-236
Back Matter....Pages 237-237

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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-X
The Role of Castes in Formal Specification of MAS....Pages 1-15
A Truly Concurrent Model for Interacting Agents....Pages 16-30
Reliable Agent Computation: An Algebraic Approach....Pages 31-47
An Argument-Based Agent System with KQML as an Agent Communication Language....Pages 48-62
On Fairness in an Alternating-Offers Bargaining Model with Evolutionary Agents....Pages 63-77
Sealed Bid Multi-object Auctions with Necessary Bundles and its Application to Spectrum Auctions....Pages 78-92
Strategic Multi-Personal-Agent Interaction....Pages 93-107
Market Performance of Adaptive Trading Agents in Synchronous Double Auctions....Pages 108-121
Negotiation-Credit Driven Coalition Formation in E-Markets....Pages 122-138
An Adaptive Agent Society for Environmental Scanning through the Internet....Pages 139-153
Gaz-Guide: Agent-Mediated Information Retrieval for Official Gazettes....Pages 154-167
Technological Innovation of High-tech Industry and patent policy -Agent based Simulation with Double Loop Learning-....Pages 168-182
Collaborative Filtering for a Distributed Smart IC Card System....Pages 183-197
Incorporating content-based collaborative filtering in a community support system....Pages 198-209
A Personal Agent for Bookmark Classification....Pages 210-221
Scalable Workflow System Model Based on Mobile Agents....Pages 222-236
Back Matter....Pages 237-237
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