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The 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents

Second Call for Paper: PRIMA 2008

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December 15-16, 2008
Hanoi, Vietnam

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

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PUBLICATION
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All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag as a volume of LNAI series.

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IMPORTANT DATES:
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Papers due: June 30, 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
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. PRIMA08 will build on the great successes of its predecessors PRIMA2007 held in Bangkok,
Thailand, PRIMA2006 in Guilin, China, PRIMA2005 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, PRIMA2004 in Auckland, New Zealand,
PRIMA2003 in Seoul, Korea, PRIMA2002 in Tokyo, Japan, PRIMA2001 in Taipei, Taiwan, PRIMA2000 in Melbourne,
Australia, PRIMA99 in Kyoto, Japan, and PRIMA98 in Singapore. Since 2007, due to the growing community of multi-agents
researchers in Pacific Rim, the workshop has been extended to a conference scale.

The conference 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 conference offers
exceptional opportunities for presentation of original work, technological advances, practical problems and
concerns of the research community. PRIMA conference proceedings are published in the form of a volume in the
Springer Lecture Notes in AI series. The conference 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.

The location of the conference - 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 architectural
souvenirs left by all who conquered this great valley, from the Chinese who first came in the last millennium to
the French, booted out in our own century.

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

General Track:
- 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
- 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

Special Track "Multi-issue negotiation":
- Complex Negotiations
- Multi-Issue Negotiations
- Concurrent Negotiations
- Multiple Negotiations
- Sequential Negotiations
- Bilateral Negotiations
- Multilateral negotiation
- Negotiation and Coordination Mechanisms
- Negotiation under Asymmetric Information
- Large Scale Negotiation
- Matchmaking and Brokering Mechanisms
- Coordination for Local and Global Consistency
- 2-sided Matching
- Predicting Opponent's Behaviours in Negotiation
- Utility models and Preference models
- Complexity aspects of Multi-issue negotiation
- Negotiation Simulation
- Applications

Special Track "Agents and HCI":
- Embodied Conversational Agents
- Socially Intelligent Agents
- Emotional Agents
- Ubiquitous agents
- Applications



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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
Dongmo Zhang, Australia
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
Naoki Fukuta, Japan
Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Poland
Nicolas Marilleau, Vietnam
Paolo Giorgini, Italy
Rafael H Bordini, UK
Ryszard Kowalczyk, Australia
Shaheen Fatima, UK
Shivashankar B. Nair, India
Son Bao Pham, Vietnam
Stephane Bressan, Singapore
Suresh Chande, Finland
Takayuki Ito, Japan
Tokuro Matsuo, Japan
Tommie Meyer, South Africa
Toru Ishida, Japan
Toshiharu Sugawara, Japan
Valentin Robu, Netherlands
Vineet Padmanabhan, India
Virginia Dignum, Netherlands
Von-Wun Soo, Taiwan
Wayne Wobcke, Australia
Wojtek Jamroga, Germany
Yasuhiko Kitamura, Japan
Zili Zhang, Australia

Publicity Chair
Son Bao Pham, Vietnam

Organizing Committee
Thu Hien Tran, Vietnam
Thi Chau Ma, Vietnam