PRIMA 2006 ,Guilin
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PRIMA 2006

Ninth Pacific Rim International Workshop

on Multi-Agents (PRIMA2006)

7-8 August 2006, Guilin

http://www.intsci.ac.cn/PRIMA2006/

Overview

PRIMA is a series of workshops on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, integrating the activities in Asia and Pacific Rim countries. Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems are computational systems in which several autonomous or 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. PRIMA2006 will build on the great success of its predecessors, PRIMA'98 in Singapore, PRIMA'99 in Kyoto, Japan, PRIMA2000 in Melbourne, Australia, PRIMA2001 in Taipei, Taiwan, PRIMA2002 in Tokyo, Japan, PRIMA2003 in Seoul, Korea, PRIMA2004 in Auckland, New Zealand, and PRIMA2005 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The aim of PRIMA2006 is to bring together Asian 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.

Workshop Themes:

Technical issues to be addressed include, but are not restricted to:

  • Agents and grid computing
  • Agents and peer computing
  • Agents and semantic Web
  • Agents and Web services
  • Agent-based electronic commerce, auctions and markets
  • Agent and digital cities
  • Agent and Computer Games
  • Biologically inspired multiagent systems
  • Conflict resolution and negotiation
  • Languages & techniques for describing (multi)agent systems
  • Agent communication languages, dialog & interaction protocols
  • Agent ontologies
  • Agent programming languages, frameworks, and toolkits meta-modeling and meta reasoning
  • Multiagent planning and learning
  • Evaluation of multiagent systems
  • Multiagent systems and their applications
  • Multiagent systems and evolving intelligence
  • Agent architectures and their applications
  • Swarm intelligence
  • Cognitive models for agent
  • Standards for agents and multiagent systems
  • Agent-based simulation
  • Ubiquitous agents
  • Trust, privacy and security issues in agent systems
  • Agent-oriented software engineering

Submission

We require online submission through http://www.intsci.ac.cn/PRIMA2006/ in Springer Lecture Notes Series format. The maximal length of papers is recommended to be 12 pages long in this format (See the Springer LNCS home page: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Each submission must include one cover page which should describe: 

Title of the paper with an abstract of no more than 500 words; 

A few keywords, from the list above where possible, giving a clear indication of topics;

Author names with affiliations, complete postal addresses, and phone numbers; 

Email address of the contact author.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline       30 March, 2006 Extended to 10 April, 2006

Author Notification        30 April, 2006 Extended to 8 May, 2006

Camera-ready Due        20 May, 2006

Submission Deadline

The submission deadline is (strictly): 30 March, 2006 Extended to 10 April, 2006. Please get your paper in by this date for review purpose. Late paper will not be processed.

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 award

Best Paper Award and Runner Up Prizes will be conferred on the authors of the best papers at the workshop. The awards will be mostly determined on the review scores.

Review

All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity. At least three referees will review each submission independently.

Author Registration Requirements

Authors of all accepted paper are required to send workshop registration fee, together with their camera-ready version of their paper. Failing to do so, will result in paper not being included in the Workshop Proceedings nor in the Paper Presentation Sessions of the Workshop.

Publication

All accepted papers will be published as a part of a volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.

Organization and Program Committees

General Chairs

Toru Ishida (Japan)

Program Chairs

Zhongzhi Shi (China) Ramakoti Sadananda (Thailand)

PC Committee

Mohd Sharifuddin Ahmad (Malaysia) Mike Barley (New Zealand) Penny Baillie-de Byl (Australia) Joongmin Choi (Korea)
Stephen Cranefield (New Zealand) Jirapun Daengdej (Thailand) Jingbo Dang (USA) John Debenham (Australia)
Klaus Fisher (Germany) Zili Zhang (Australia) Yanxiang He (China) Bryan Horling (USA)
Chun-Nan Hsu (Taiwan) Jun Hu (China) Shanli Hu (China) Michael Huhns (USA)
Toru Ishida (Japan) Ilkon Kim (Korea) Incheol Kim (Korea) Yasuhiko Kitamura (Japan)
Jean-Luc Koning (France) Robert Kremer (Canada) Kazuhiro Kuwabara (Japan) Jaeho Lee (Korea)
Jimmy H.M. Lee (China) Ho-fung Leung (China) Wei Li (Australia) Yongquan Liang (China)
Lejian Liao (China) Chao-Lin Liu (Taiwan) Jiming Liu (China) Jyi-Shane Liu (Taiwan)
Rey-Long Liu (Taiwan) Jian Lv (China) Dickson Lukose (Malaysia) Xudong Luo (UK)
Joerg Mueller (Germany) Shivashankar B. Nair (India) Sascha Ossowski (Spain) Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk (Malaysia)
Yuhui Qiu (China) Anita Raja (USA) Ali Selamat (Malaysia) Raymund Sison (Philippines)
Von-Wun Soo (Taiwan) Toshiharu Sugawara (Japan) Jung-Jin Yang (Korea) Soe-Tsyr Yuan (Taiwan)
Laura Zavala (USA) Minjie Zhang (Australia) Shensheng Zhang (China)

Publicity chair

Ho-fung Leung (China)

Contact

For general information, please contact

Rui Huang

Institute of Computing Technologies, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China

Tel: (86) 10-82610254

Fax: ( 86) 10-62567724

E-mail: huangr@ics.ict.ac.cn