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Call for Paper: PRIMA 2007

The 10th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents

November 21-23, 2007
Bangkok, Thailand

Website: http://www.prima2007.org
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PUBLICATION
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PRIMA 2007 workshop proceeding will be published in the
Springer Lecture Notes in AI series.

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IMPORTANT DATES:
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Papers due: July 16, 2007

Author notification: September 3, 2007

Camera-ready papers due: September 24, 2007

Registration deadline: September/October, 2007

Workshop dates: Nov 21 - 23, 2007

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ABOUT PRIMA 2007
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PRIMA is a series of workshops on autonomous agents and
multi-agents integrating the activities in Asia Pacific
countries (since PRIMA 1998 Singapore). The emergence of the
agent paradigm is an exciting development in Computer Science
and Information Technology and the paradigm is expected to play
a central role during the coming years in the development of
complex distributed systems and networked systems impacting a
wide variety of endeavors in our civilization. The workshop
endeavors to bring together researchers, developers, and
academe and industry leaders, active and interested in Agents
and Multi-Agent Systems, their applications and related areas.
The workshop offers exceptional opportunities for presentation
of original work, technological advances, practical problems and
concerns of the research community. The workshop will also
feature a doctoral mentoring program which is focused on
supporting the doctoral students with their research by
providing them peer support. The senior and distinguished
researchers attending the workshop are expected to be
available for interaction with the young and promising
researchers. PRIMA 2007 is also likely to incorporate regional
versions of several major agent contests, such as the Trading
Agent Competition, Robocup etc.

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Technical Themes
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The research areas include but are not limited 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
- Mobile Agents and Agency in Mobile Environment

A small number of thematically focussed special sessions
are also being planned.

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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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Honorary Chair
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Arthit Ourairat, Thailand

General Chair
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R.Sadananda, Thailand

Program Co-Chairs
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Aditya Ghose, Australia
Guido Governatori, Australia

Doctoral mentoring chair
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The Duy Bui, Vietnam

Publicity Chairs
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Chattrakul Sombattheera, Thailand
Aneesh Krishna, Australia

Program Committee
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Abdul Sattar, Australia
Alexis Drogoul, Vietnam
Ali Selamat, Malaysia
Antonino Rotolo, Italy
Bressan Stephane, Singapore
Chao-Lin Liu, Taiwan
Dencho Batanov, Cyprus
Dongmo Zhang, Australia
Frank Dignum, Netherlands
Graham Low, Australia
Hajime Sawamura, Japan
Hans van Ditmarsch, New Zealand
Hideyuki Nakashima, Japan
Ho-fung Leung, China
Ho Tuong Vinh, Vietnam
Jaeho Lee, Korea
Jean-Luc Koning, France
Jane Hsu, Taiwan
Joerg Denzinger, Canada
John Debenham, Australia
Joongmin Choi, Korea
Jyi-Shane Liu, Taiwan
Jung-Jin Yang, Korea
Kamal Karlapalem, India
Leendert van der Torre, Luxembourg
Leon Sterling, Australia
Lin Liu, China
Liz Sonenberg, Australia
Lukose Dickson, Malaysia
Maryam Purvis, New Zealand
Mehmet Orgun, Australia
Michael Winikoff, Australia
Mike Barley, New Zealand
Mikhail Prokopenko, Australia
Minkoo Kim, Korea
Paolo Giorgini, Italy
Rafael H Bordini, UK
Rey-Long Liu, Taiwan
Ryszard Kowalczyk, Australia
Sascha Ossowski, Spain
Shivashankar B. Nair, India
Suresh Chande, Finland
Thomas Meyer, Australia
Toru Ishida, Japan
Toshiharu Sugawara
Vineet Padmanabhan, Australia
Virginia Dignum, Netherlands
Von-Wun Soo, Japan
Wayne Wobcke, Australia
Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa, USA
Yasuhiko Kitamura, Japan
Zili Zhang, Australia

Organizing Committee
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Chattrakul Sombattheera, Thailand
Chom Kimpan, Thailand
Chonawat Srisaan,Thailand
Esa Kujansuu, Finland
Gyanam Sadananda, Germany
Henna Halinen, Finland
HwaJoon Kim, Thailand
Jaakko Lautarinne, Finland
Jeroen Schedler, Netherlands
Julia Jokinen, Finland
Malivan Praditeera, Thailand
Pongjan Yoopat,Thailand
Poonphon Suesaowaluk, Thailand
Prasit Jiyapanichkul, Thailand
Riku Kestila, Finland
Siriporn Supratid, Thailand
Suwarin Pattamavorakun, Thailand