Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: 7th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2004 Auckland, New Zealand, August 8-13, ... (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) - Tapa blanda

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Autonomousagentsandmulti-agentsystemsarecomputationalsystemsinwhich several (semi-)autonomous agents interact with each other or work together to performsomesetoftasksorsatisfysomesetofgoals.Thesesystemsmayinvolve computational agents that are homogeneous or heterogeneous,they may involve activities on the part of agents having common or distinct goals, and they may involve participation on the part of humans and intelligent agents. ThisvolumecontainsselectedpapersfromPRIMA2004,the 7thPaci?cRim InternationalWorkshoponMulti-agents,heldinAuckland,NewZealand,during August8-13,2004in conjunctionwith the8thPaci?cRim InternationalConf- ence on Arti?cial Intelligence (PRICAI 2004). PRIMA is a series of workshops on autonomous agents and multi-agents that focusses on the research activities in the Asian and Paci?c Rim countries. PRIMA 2004 was built upon the great successes of its predecessors. Fifty-two papers were submitted to the workshop, each paper was reviewed by three internationally renowned program committee members. After careful review, 24 papers were selected for this volume. We would like to thank all the authors who submitted papers to the workshop. We would also like to thank all the program committee members for their diligent work in reviewing the papers.Wewouldliketothankourinvitedspeakers,SandipSenandToruIshida. Additionally, we thank the editorial sta? of Springer for publishing this volume in the series Lecture Notes in Arti?cial Intelligence. Lastly, we want to thank our sponsors, the Auckland University of Technology's Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI), and the University of Auckland's Department of Computer Science, for the ?nancial support provided.

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2004, held in Auckland, New Zealand in August 2004 in conjunction with PRICAI 2004.

The 24 revised full papers presented went through two rounds of reviewing and improvement and were selected from 52 submissions. The papers address many current topics in multi-agent research and development, ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to various applications in different fields.