Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: 6th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2003, Seoul, Korea, November 7-8, 2003, Proc [Paperback]

Five years ago, with excitement and uncertainty, we witnessed the birth of PRIMA (Paci?c Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents). The ?rst PRIMA in 1998 has now grown into PRIMA 2003, the 6th Paci?c Rim Inter- tional Workshop on Multi-Agents in Seoul, Korea. During a period of ?ve years, the notion of agent research has grown so much that we hear the term agent on a daily basis. Various ?elds such as business, the Web, software engineering, on-line games and such are now using the term agent as a placeholder, just like the term object is used in the object-oriented paradigm. On the other hand, the research area has extended toward real applications, such as the Semantic Web and ubiquitous computing. The themes of PRIMA 2003 re?ected the following trends:  agent-based electronic commerce, auctions and markets  agent architectures and their applications  agent communication languages, dialog and interaction protocols  agent ontologies  agent programming languages, frameworks and toolkits  agentcities  agents and grid computing  agents and peer computing agentsandtheSemanticWeb  agents and Web services  arti?cial social systems  con?ict resolution and negotiation  evaluation of multi-agent systems  languages and techniques for describing (multi-)agent systems  meta modeling and meta reasoning  multi-agent planning and learning  multi-agent systems and their applications  social reasoning, agent modeling, and organization  standards for agents and multi-agent systems  teams and coalitions  ubiquitous agentsA Multi-agent Approach to Business Processes Management in an Electronic Market.- Modeling of a Multi-agent System for Coordination of Supply Chains with Complexity and Uncertainty.- A Teamwork Protocol for Multi-agent System.- Extraction of Implicit Resource Relationships in Multi-agent Systems.- Evolutionary Learning of Multiagents Using Strategic Coalition in the IPD Game.- Multi-agent Travel Planning through Coalition and Negotiation in anl³-