This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 10th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2007, held in Bankok, Thailand, in November 2007.
The 22 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with 11 application papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. Ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to various applications in different fields, the papers address many current subjects in multi-agent research and development.
Existence of Risk Strategy Equilibrium in Games Having No Pure Strategy
Nash Equilibrium.- Multiagent Planning with Trembling-Hand Perfect
Equilibrium in Multiagent POMDPs.- MAGEFRAME: A Modular Agent Framework to
Support Various Communication Schemas Based on a Self-embedding Algorithm.-
Using Multiagent System to Build Structural Earth Model.- Agent-Supported
Protein Structure Similarity Searching.- Merging Roles in Coordination and in
Agent Deliberation.- Planning Actions with Social Consequences.- Layered
Cooperation of Macro Agents and Micro Agents in Cooperative Active Contour
Model.- Contextual Agent Deliberation in Defeasible Logic.- Real-Time Moving
Target Search.- Formalizing Excusableness of Failures in Multi-Agent
Systems.- Design and Implementation of Security Mechanisms for a Hierarchical
Community-Based Multi-Agent System.- A Need for Biologically Inspired
Architectural Description: The Agent Ontogenesis Case.- Multi-Agent Based Web
Search with Heterogeneous Semantics.- Reasoning about Norms, Obligations,
Time and Agents.- An Agent Modeling Method Based on Scenario Rehearsal for
Multiagent Simulation.- Fast Partial Reallocation in Combinatorial Auctions
for Iterative Resource Allocation.- Deliberation Process in a BDI Model with
Bayesian Networks.- An Asymmetric Protocol for Argumentation Games in
Defeasible Logic.- On the Design of Interface Agents for a DRT Transportation
System.- Supporting Requirements Analysis in Tropos: A Planning-Based
Approach.- Towards Method Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems: A Validation
of a Generic MAS Metamodel.- Entrainment in Human-Agent Text Communication.-
A Driver Modeling Methodology Using Hypothetical Reasoning for Multiagent
Traffic Simulation.- Analysis of Pedestrian Navigation Using Cellular
Phones.- IdentifyingStructural Changes in Networks Generated from Agent-Based
Social Simulation Models.- Multi-agent Simulation of Linguistic Processes: A
NEPs Perspective.- A 3D Conversational Agent for Presenting Digital
Information for Deaf People.- Multiagent-Based Defensive Strategy System for
Military Simulation.- Achieving DRBAC Authorization in Multi-trust Domains
with MAS Architecture and PMI.- When and How to Smile: Emotional Expression
for 3D Conversational Agents.- GAMA: An Environment for Implementing and
Running Spatially Explicit Multi-agent Simulations.- Multi-agent Based
Incineration Process Control System with Qualitative Model.- Engineering
Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems with ODAM Methodology.- Integrating Agent
Technology and SIP Technology to Develop Telecommunication Applications with
JadexT.- A Generic Distributed Algorithm for Computing by Random Mobile
Agents.- Coalition Structure Generation in Task-Based Settings Based on
Cardinality Structure.- A Specialised Architecture for Embedding Trust
Evaluation Capabilities in Intelligent Mobile Agents.- Reasoning with Levels
of Modalities in BDI Logic.- A Distributed Computational Model for Mobile
Agents.- Belief-Based Stability in Non-transferable Utility Coalition
Formation.- Déją Vu: Social Network Agents for Personal Impression
Management.- Agent Dialogue as Partial Argumentation and Its Fixpoint
Semantics.- Developing Knowledge Models for Multi-agent Mediator Systems.- A
Game Theoretic Approach for Deploying Intrusion Detection Agent.- Double
Token-Ring and Region-Tree Based Group Communication Mechanism for Mobile
Agent.- Towards Culturally-Situated Agent Which Can Detect Cultural
Differences.- Ontology-Based Emotion System for Digital Environment.- An
Agent Approach for Distributed Job-Shop Scheduling.