PRIMA 2002 Program

Opening

Best Paper Award & PRIMA Runner Up Paper Prize Presentation

Architecture, Models and Mechanisms (Chair: David Kinny)

An Architecture for Normative Reactive Agents [PRIMA Runner Up Paper Prize]
Guido Boella and Rossana Damiano

A Real-Time Agent Architecture: Design, Implementation and Evaluation
Jimmy H.M. Lee and Lei Zhao

Individual Level Analysis Using Decision Making Features in Multiagent Based Simulation
Tomomi Takashina, Kazuhide Tanaka and Shigeyoshi Watanabe

False-name-proof Multi-unit Auction Protocol utilizing Greedy Allocation based on Approximate Evaluation Values [Best Paper Award]
Kenji Terada and Makoto Yokoo

Coordination, Negotiation and Organization (Chair: Jaeho Lee)

Developing Alternative Mechanisms for Multiagent Coordination
Wei Chen and Keith Decker

An Operational Semantics for Negotiating Agents
Mohamed Jmaiel and Ahmed Hadj Kacem

An Organizational Metamodel for the Design of Catalogues of Communicative Actions [PRIMA Runner Up Paper Prize]
Juan Manuel Serrano and Sascha Ossowski

Principles for Dynamic Multi-Agent Organizations
Philippe Mathieu, Jean-Christophe Routier and Yann Secq

Short Paper Presentation (1) (Chair: Hideyuki Nakashima)

RoboCup Agent Learning from Observations with Hierarchical Multiple Decision Trees
Ruck Thawonmas, Junichiro Hirayama and Fumiaki Takeda

Autonomous Market Agent System using reinforcement learning
Ji Hyun Yun, Il Kon Kim and Jeon Woo Lee

Adaptive Multi-attribute Negotiation Agents for B2B E-commerce
Raymond Y. K. Lau

Empirical Study of Flexible Mobile Multiagent System
Hideki Hara, Takahiro Uchiya, Kenji Sugawara and Tetsuo Kinoshita

Invited talk (Chair: Kazuhiro Kuwabara)

Agentcities: Challenges in Open Agent Environments
Jonathan Dale (Fujitsu Laboratories of America)

Agent-based Interface (Chair: Sascha Ossowski)

Conducting the Disambiguation Dialogues Between Software Agent Sellers and Human Buyers
Von-Wun Soo and Hai-Long Cheng (presentation by Shih-Yau Yang)

Mutual Learning of Mind Reading between a Human and a Life-like Agent
Seiji Yamada and Tomohiro Yamaguchi

Automatic Short Story Generator based on Autonomous Agents
Yunju Shim and Minkoo Kim

Meta-Level Architecture for Executing Multi-agent Scenarios [PRIMA Runner Up Paper Prize]
Zhiqiang Gao, Tomoyuki Kawasoe, Akishige Yamamoto and Toru Ishida

Applications (Chair: Chengqi Zhang)

Application-oriented Flow Control in Agent-based Network Middleware
Gen Kitagata, Takuo Suganuma, and Tetsuo Kinoshita

Continuous Truck Delivery Scheduling and Execution System with Multiple Agents
Jun Sawamoto, Hidekazu Tsuji and Hisao Koizumi

Designing Agents for Context-Rich Textual Information Tasks
Jyi-Shane Liu (presentation by Makoto Yokoo)

Short Paper Presentation (2) (Chair: Makoto Yokoo)

Parallel Web Spider Based on Intelligent Agent
Mingkai Dong, Shaohui Liu, Haijun Zhang and Zhongzhi Shi

An Intelligent Agent-Based Architecture for Active Network Management
Antonio Barba and Ernesto Sanchez

Active Agent Repository: Mechanism for Reuse of Agent Behavioral History
Takahiro Uchiya, Takuo Suganuma, Tetsuo Kinoshita and Norio Shiratori

Management and Transmission of DICOM files Using Multiagent Systems communicating with XML encoded ACL
GiBeom Kwon, IlKon Kim, SuYeon Cho and JeunWoo Lee

Collaborative Information Retrieval for a Personal Repository System based on Vector Space Model
Takashi Yukawa, Sen Yoshida and Kuzuhiro Kuwabara