PRIMA 2008: First Call For Papers

[Wojtek Jamroga]

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The 11th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA 2008)
First Call for Papers

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December 15-16, 2008
Hanoi, Vietnam

Website: http://www.prima-conf.org
Contact: contact at prima-conf.org

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PUBLICATION
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The previous editions of the workshops have been published in the
Springer's Lecture Notes in AI series.

The proceedings of PRIMA 2008 are expected to be published in LNAI, too.

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IMPORTANT DATES:
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Papers due: June 15, 2008
Author notification: July 30, 2008
Camera-ready papers due: August 15, 2008
Early registration deadline: August 15, 2008
Registration deadline: December 1, 2008
Workshop dates: December 15 - 16, 2008

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SPECIAL EVENTS:
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- Doctoral Mentoring Session
- Agent School

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ABOUT PRIMA 2008
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PRIMA is a series of workshops on autonomous agents and multi-agents
integrating the activities in Asia and Pacific countries. 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. PRIMA '08 will build on the great successes of its
predecessors PRIMA 2007 held in Bangkok, Thailand, PRIMA 2006 in Guilin,
China, PRIMA 2005 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, PRIMA 2004 in Auckland, New
Zealand, PRIMA 2003 in Seoul, Korea, PRIMA 2002 in Tokyo, Japan, PRIMA
2001 in Taipei, Taiwan, PRIMA 2000 in Melbourne, Australia, PRIMA '99 in
Kyoto, Japan, and PRIMA '98 in Singapore.

The workshop endeavors to bring together researchers, developers, and
industry leaders, 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. PRIMA
workshop proceedings are published in the form of a volume in the
Springer Lecture Notes in AI series. 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. Senior
researchers attending the workshop are expected to be available for
interaction with young and promising researchers.

The location of the workshop - Hanoi - is a sacred land of Vietnam.
People have settled here along the Red River for a thousand years.
Nestled along wooded boulevards among the city's two dozen lakes you
will find gems of Vietnamese, Chinese and French architecture.

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Technical Themes
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The research areas include but are not limited to:

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

Two special tracks on "Multi-issue negotiation" and "Agents and HCI" are
also being planned.

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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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Honorary Chairs
Huu Duc Nguyen, Vietnam
Richard Canal, Vietnam

Advisory Board
R.Sadananda, Thailand
Aditya Ghose, Australia
Guido Governatori, Australia

General Chair
Quang Thuy Ha, Vietnam

Program Co-Chairs
The Duy Bui, Vietnam
Tuong Vinh Ho, Vietnam

Doctoral Mentoring Chair
Dinh Que Tran, Vietnam

Agent School Chair
Hiromitsu Hattori, Japan

Organizing Chair
The Hien Nguyen, Vietnam

Program Committee
Abdul Sattar, Australia
Alan Liu, Taiwan
Alberto Fernandez, Spain
Alexis Drogoul, Vietnam
Antonino Rotolo, Italy
Chao-Lin Liu, Taiwan
Dencho Batanov, Cyprus
Dirk Heylen, The Netherlands
Frank Dignum, Netherlands
Graham Low, Australia
Hans van Ditmarsch, New Zealand
Ho-fung Leung, China
Jaeho Lee, Korea
Jean-Luc Koning, France
Jane Hsu, Taiwan
Joerg Denzinger, Canada
Joongmin Choi, Korea
Jyi-Shane Liu, Taiwan
Jung-Jin Yang, Korea
Kamal Karlapalem, India
Leendert van der Torre, Luxembourg
Lin Liu, China
Mehmet Orgun, Australia
Michael Winikoff, Australia
Mike Barley, New Zealand
Minkoo Kim, Korea
Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Poland
Nicolas Marilleau, Vietnam
Paolo Giorgini, Italy
Rafael H Bordini, UK
Ryszard Kowalczyk, Australia
Shivashankar B. Nair, India
Stephane Bressan, Singapore
Suresh Chande, Finland
Tommie Meyer, South Africa
Toru Ishida, Japan
Toshiharu Sugawara, Japan
Vineet Padmanabhan, India
Virginia Dignum, Netherlands
Von-Wun Soo, Taiwan
Wayne Wobcke, Australia
Wojtek Jamroga, Germany
Yasuhiko Kitamura, Japan
Zili Zhang, Australia

Publicity Chair
Thu Hien Tran, Vietnam

Organizing Committee
Thi Chau Ma, Vietnam
Thi Duyen Ngo, Vietnam
Thi Hoi Le, Vietnam