PRIMA 2013: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems: 16th International Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, December 1-6, 2013. Proceedings PDF
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Guido Boella Edith Elkind Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu Frank Dignum Martin K. Purvis (Eds.) PRIMA 2013: 1 Principles and Practice 9 2 8 I A of Multi-Agent Systems N L 16th International Conference Dunedin, New Zealand, December 2013 Proceedings 123 Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 8291 Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNAISeriesEditors RandyGoebel UniversityofAlberta,Edmonton,Canada YuzuruTanaka HokkaidoUniversity,Sapporo,Japan WolfgangWahlster DFKIandSaarlandUniversity,Saarbrücken,Germany LNAIFoundingSeriesEditor JoergSiekmann DFKIandSaarlandUniversity,Saarbrücken,Germany Guido Boella Edith Elkind Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu Frank Dignum Martin K. Purvis (Eds.) PRIMA 2013: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems 16th International Conference Dunedin, New Zealand, December 1-6, 2013 Proceedings 1 3 VolumeEditors GuidoBoella UniversityofTurin,DepartmentofComputerScience Turin,Italy E-mail:[email protected] EdithElkind NanyangTechnologicalUniversity,DivisionofMathematicalSciences Singapore E-mail:[email protected] BastinTonyRoySavarimuthu MartinK.Purvis UniversityofOtago,DepartmentofInformationScience Dunedin,NewZealand E-mail:{tony.savarimuthu;martin.purvis}@otago.ac.nz FrankDignum UtrechtUniversity,DepartmentofInformationandComputingSciences Utrecht,TheNetherlands E-mail:[email protected] ISSN0302-9743 e-ISSN1611-3349 ISBN978-3-642-44926-0 e-ISBN978-3-642-44927-7 DOI10.1007/978-3-642-44927-7 SpringerHeidelbergNewYorkDordrechtLondon LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2013951858 CRSubjectClassification(1998):I.2.11,I.2.6,I.2.8,D.2,K.4.4,H.3.4,H.5.3,J.2 LNCSSublibrary:SL7–ArtificialIntelligence ©Springer-VerlagBerlinHeidelberg2013 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartof thematerialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseofillustrations,recitation, broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,andtransmissionorinformation storageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodology nowknownorhereafterdeveloped.Exemptedfromthislegalreservationarebriefexcerptsinconnection withreviewsorscholarlyanalysisormaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurposeofbeingenteredand executedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework.Duplicationofthispublication orpartsthereofispermittedonlyundertheprovisionsoftheCopyrightLawofthePublisher’slocation, initscurrentversion,andpermissionforusemustalwaysbeobtainedfromSpringer.Permissionsforuse maybeobtainedthroughRightsLinkattheCopyrightClearanceCenter.Violationsareliabletoprosecution undertherespectiveCopyrightLaw. 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Typesetting:Camera-readybyauthor,dataconversionbyScientificPublishingServices,Chennai,India Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Preface PRIMA,theInternationalConferenceonPrinciplesandPracticeofMulti-Agent Systems, has emergedas one ofthe leading scientific conferencesfor researchon multi-agent systems, attracting high quality, state-of-the-art research from all overtheworld.PRIMAendeavorstobringtogetherresearchers,developers,and academicandindustryleaderswhoareactiveandinterestedinagentsandmulti- agent systems, their practices and related areas. The conference is specifically focused on showcasing work on foundations of agent systems, engineering agent systems as well as on promoting emerging areas of agent-research in several domains. PRIMA2013,the16thInternationalConferenceonPrinciplesandPracticeof Multi-AgentSystems,washeldinDunedin,NewZealand,duringDecember1–6, 2013.TheconferencewashostedbyUniversityofOtago,co-locatedwithAI2013 (26th Australasian Artificial Intelligence Conference). PRIMA 2013 continued to build on the success of its predecessor conferences, held in Kuching (2012), Wollongong (2011), Kolkata (2010), Nagoya (2009), Hanoi (2008) and Bangkok (2007),asahigh-qualityforumforinternationalresearchersandpractitionersto meet and share their work. PRIMA 2013 received 81 submissions from 29 countries, each of which was assigned to three Program Committee (PC) members, who were overseen by a Senior PC (SPC) member. Each paper received at least three reviews. The reviewperiodwasfollowedbyanauthorresponsephase,anddiscussionamongst the PC, led by the SPC member assigned to the paper. Of the 81 submissions, PRIMA 2013 accepted 24 full papers (acceptance rate: 30 percent). Further 20 promising, but not fully mature contributions were accepted at reduced length as short papers; two of these were subsequently withdrawn by the authors. The papers that were submitted by one of the PC chairswere assignedto a separate trackandwereoverseenbytheotherPCchairsinordertoguaranteetheintegrity of the reviewing process. Continuing the past trend, this conference showcased the impact of agents on the real world, across the spectrum from early research and prototypes to maturedeployedsystems.PRIMA2013featuredtwodistinguishedinvitedtalks, byAdityaGhose(“Agentsintheeraofbigdata:Whatthe“endoftheory”might mean for agent systems”) and Nigel Gilbert (“Agents might not be people”). WewouldfirstliketothankallthosewhosubmittedpaperstoPRIMA2013. Special thanks to the Program Committee members for their detailed reviews completed in a timely manner, and the Senior Program Committee for their considered judgements and recommendations on the papers. We are confident that this process has resulted in a high-quality diverse conference program. ThanksalsotoEasyChairfortheuseoftheirconferencemanagementsystem to facilitate this complex process and the preparationof these proceedings. Our VI Preface sincere thanks to the senior advisors of PRIMA 2013, Aditya Ghose, Sandip Sen, and MakotoYokoo. A special thanks to Michael Winikoff for coordination, Heather Cooper and Lu Cox for organization, and the staff members and stu- dents of the department of Information Science and Computer Science for their efforts in local organization. September 2013 Guido Boella Edith Elkind Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu Frank Dignum Martin K. Purvis Organization PRIMA2013washostedbyUniversityofOtago,andwasheldinDunedin, New Zealand, during December 1–6, 2013. Conference Committee General Co-chairs Frank Dignum Utrecht University, The Netherlands Martin Purvis University of Otago, New Zealand Program Committee Co-chairs Guido Boella University of Torino, Italy Edith Elkind Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu University of Otago, New Zealand Workshop Chairs Virginia Dignum Delft University, The Netherlands Alistair Knott University of Otago, New Zealand Publicity Chairs Tina Balke University of Surrey, UK Quan Bai Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Sponsorship Chair Mike Barley University of Auckland, New Zealand Local Arrangements Chairs Maryam Purvis University of Otago, New Zealand Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu University of Otago, New Zealand Local Arrangements Advisors Michael Winikoff University of Otago, New Zealand Stephen Cranefield University of Otago, New Zealand Senior Advisors Aditya Ghose University of Wollongong, Australia Sandip Sen University of Tulsa, USA Makoto Yokoo Kyushu University, Japan VIII Organization Finance Chair Stephen Hall-Jones University of Otago, New Zealand Web Masters Mariusz Nowostawski University of Otago, New Zealand Heather Cooper University of Otago, New Zealand Senior Program Committee Bo An Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Hoa Khanh Dam University of Wollongong, Australia Guido Governatori NICTA, Australia Katsutoshi Hirayama Kobe University, Japan Takayuki Ito Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Andrea Omicini Alma Mater Studiorum Universita` di Bologna, Italy Julian Padget University of Bath, UK Jeremy Pitt Imperial College London, UK David Pynadath Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, USA Paul Scerri Carnegie Mellon University, USA Paolo Torroni University of Bologna, Italy Pradeep Varakantham Singapore Management University, Singapore Harko Verhagen Stockholm University/KTH, Sweden Jie Zhang Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Program Committee Tina Balke University of Surrey, UK Francesco Belardinelli Universite d’Evry, France Gauvain Bourgne CRIL, CNRS UMR8188, Universit´e d’Artois, France Stefano Bromuri University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland Nils Bulling Clausthal University of Technology, Germany D´ıdac Busquets Imperial College London, UK Arthur Carvalho University of Waterloo, Canada Shih-Fen Cheng Singapore Management University, Singapore Amit Chopra Lancaster University, UK Mehdi Dastani Utrecht University, The Netherlands Paul Davidsson Malm¨o University, Sweden Yves Demazeau CNRS - Laboratoire LIG, France Hiromitsu Hattori Kyoto University, Japan Organization IX Reiko Hishiyama Waseda University, Japan Wan-Rong Jih National Taiwan University, Taiwan Ozgur Kafali Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Yoonheui Kim University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Yasuhiko Kitamura Kwansei Gakuin University Ramachandra Kota Secure Meters Ltd., UK Kazuhiro Kuwabara Ritsumeikan University, Japan Ho-Pun Lam NICTA, Australia Joao Leite CENTRIA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Churn-Jung Liau Academia Sinica at Taipei, Taiwan Maite Lopez-Sanchez Universitat de Barcelona, Spain Xudong Luo Sun Yat-sen University, China Sunilkumar Manvi BasaveshwarEngg. College, India Shigeo Matsubara Kyoto University, Japan Toshihiro Matsui Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Felipe Meneguzzi PUCRS, Brasil Tsunenori Mine Kyushu University, Japan Yohei Murakami Kyoto University, Japan Yuu Nakajima Kyoto University, Japan Hideyuki Nakanishi Osaka University, Japan Brendan Neville University of Essex, UK Mariusz Nowostawski University of Otago, New Zealand Nir Oren University of Aberdeen, UK Wojciech Penczek IPI PAN and University of Podlasie, Poland Duy Hoang Pham Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Vietnam Hongyang Qu University of Oxford, UK Franco Raimondi Middlesex University, UK Alessandro Ricci University of Bologna, Italy Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar IIIA-CSIC, Spain Yuko Sakurai JST, Japan Mei Si Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA Guillermo Ricardo Simari Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Insu Song James Cook University, Australia Long Tran-Thanh University of Southampton, UK Wamberto Vasconcelos University of Aberdeen, UK Serena Villata Inria Sophia Antipolis, France Meritxell Vinyals University of Southampton, UK Gerhard Weiss University Maastricht, The Netherlands Brendon Woodford University of Otago, New Zealand Neil Yorke-Smith American University of Beirut, Libanon X Organization Additional Reviewers Adam, Carole Knapik, Micha(cid:3)l Aitken, Jonathan Morales, Javier Cerutti, Federico Oliehoek, Frans Chen, Siqi Otsuka, Takanobu Fossel, Joscha Ranjbar-Sahraei, Bijan Gabbriellini, Simone Szreter, Maciej Kacprzak, Magdalena Zhao, Dengji Kanamori, Ryo
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