Approaches to Intelligence Agents: Second Pacific Rim InternationalWorkshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA’99 Kyoto, Japan, December 2–3, 1999 ProceedingsAuthor: Hideyuki Nakashima, Chengqi Zhang Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg ISBN: 978-3-540-66823-7 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46693-2Table of Contents:Flexible Multi-agent Collaboration Using Pattern Directed Message Collaboration of Field Reactor Model Reliable Agent Communication — A Pragmatic Perspective Formal Semantics of Acknowledgements, Agreements and Disagreements Making Rational Decisions in N-by-N Negotiation Games with a Trusted Third Party The Security Mechanism In Multiagent System AOSDE Remote Messaging Mechanism Supporting Agent Mobility Based on CORBA Persisting Autonomous Workflow for Mobile Agents Using a Mobile Thread Programming Model Mobile Robot Navigation by Distributed Vision Agents Rationality of Reward Sharing in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning How to Design Good Rules for Multiple Learning Agents in Scheduling Problems? Hierarchical Multi-agent Organization for Text Database Discovery Predicting User Actions Using Interface Agents with Individual User Models Gleams of People: Monitoring the Presence of People with Multi-agent Architecture Distributed Fault Location in Networks Using Learning Mobile Agents Designing Multi-Agent Reactive Systems: A Specification Method Based on Reactive Decisional Agents A Class of Isomorphic Transformations for Integrating EMYCIN-Style and PROSPECTOR-Style Systems into a Rule-Based Multi-Agent System An Agent Architecture for Strategy-Centric Adaptive QoS Control in Flexible Videoconference System, Includes bibliographical references and index