Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems are computational systems in which several (semi-)autonomous agents interact with each other or work together to perform some set of tasks or satisfy some set of goals. These systems may involve 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. PRIMA is a series of workshops on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, integrating the activities in Asia and Pacific Rim countries. PRIMA2002 will build on the great success of its predecessors, PRIMA'98 in Singapore, PRIMA'99 in Kyoto, Japan, PRIMA2000 in Melbourne, Australia, and PRIMA2001 in Taipei, Taiwan.

The aim of PRIMA2002 is to bring together Asia and Pacific Rim researchers 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. The workshop welcomes submissions describing both theoretical and applied research in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.

A one-day tutorial by leading researchers is also planned to be held on August 17, 2002, just before the workshop.

Invited Talk:

• Agent-Based Approach to Social Sciences (tentative)
  Robert Axtell (Brookings Institute, USA)
• Agentcities: Challenges in Open Agent Environments
  Jonathan Dale (Fujitsu Laboratories of America)

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Workshop Themes:

• multi-agent systems and their applications
• agent architectures and their applications
• agent programming languages, frameworks, and toolkits
• agent communication languages, dialogue and interaction protocols
• languages and techniques for describing (multi-)agent systems
• standards for (multi-)agents
• evaluation of multi-agent systems
• challenging research issues in (multi-)agent systems
• conflict resolution and negotiation
• multi-agent planning and learning
• teams and coalitions
• social reasoning, agent modelling, organization
• auctions and markets
• meta modelling and meta reasoning

Submission:

We encourage submission in Springer Lecture Notes Series format. The length of papers is recommended to be 12 to 15 pages long in this format. (See the Springer LNCS home page: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)

Multiple submission policy for papers: Papers that are being submitted to other AI conferences, whether verbatim or in essence, must reflect this fact on the title page. Papers that do not meet this requirement are subject to rejection without review.

Best Paper Awards will be conferred on the authors of the best papers at the workshop.

Important Dates (updated):

• March 29, 2002 submission deadline of papers
• April 30, 2002 notification of acceptance
• May 24, 2002 final camera-ready paper due
• August 18-19, 2002 workshop

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