PRIMA2008 Program
All program sessions will take place in The Francophone Institute of Computer Science, Building D, 42 Ta Quang Buu Street, Bach Khoa, Ha Noi
 
  Sunday, December 14, 2008
18:30 -
20:30
Conference Reception
At The Francophone Institute of Computer Science
   
  Monday, December 15, 2008
08:00 -
09:00
Registration & Coffee 
09:00 -
09:25
Opening Session
Chair: BUI The Duy
Auditorium

Opening Speech by ColTech Rector
NGUYEN Huu Duc (Honorary Chair)
Opening Speech by IFI Director
Richard CANAL (Honorary Chair)
Welcome Speech by PRIMA08 Conference Chair
HA Quang Thuy
09:30 -
10:30
Keynote Speaker 1
Topic: Agent Oriented Software Engineering: Why and How?
Lin Padgham, RMIT
Chair:
Auditorium
10:30 -
11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 -
12:30
Session 1
Topic: Negotiations
Chair:
Auditorium
Session 2
Topic: Simulation
Chair:
Class Room 1
Improving Trade-offs in Bilateral Negotiations under Complete and Incomplete Information Settings
Ivan Marsa-Maestre, Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona, and Juan R. Velasco
Using Agent-Based Simulation of Human Behavior to Reduce Evacuation Time
Arief Rahman, Ahmad Kamil Mahmood, and Etienne Schneider
Revenue Maximising Adaptive Auctioneer Agent
Janine Claire Pike and Elizabeth Marie Ehlers 
An Interest Rate Adjusting Method with Bayesian Estimation in Social Lending
Masashi Iwakami and Takayuki Ito
Performance Analysis about Parallel Greedy Approximation on Combinatorial Auctions
Naoki Fukuta and Takayuki Ito
Towards virtual epidemiology: an agent-based approach to the modeling of H5N1 propagation and persistence in North-Vietnam
Edouard Amouroux, Stéphanie Desvaux and Alexis Drogoul 
Preliminary Result on Secure Protocols for Multiple Issue Negotiation Problems
Katsuhide Fujita, Takayuki Ito and Mark Klein
Simulation of Halal Food Supply Chain with Certification System: A Multi-Agent System Approach
YiHua Lam and Saadat M. Alhashmi
    Managing Collaboration Using Agent Based Simulation
Utomo Putro, Manahan Siallagan, Santi Novani and Dhanan Utomo
12:30 -
14:00
Buffet Lunch
14:00 -
15:00
Keynote Speaker 2
Topic Computational Collective Intelligence and Knowledge Inconsistency in Multi-agent Environments
Nguyen Ngoc Thanh
Chair:
Auditorium
15:00 -
15:15
Coffee Break
15:15 -
16:25
Session 3
Topic: Organization
Chair:
Auditorium
Session 4
Topic: Modeling / Dynamics
Chair:
Class Room 1
A Temporal Logic for Stochastic Multi-Agent Systems
Wojciech Jamroga
Methodological steps and issues when deriving individual based-models from equation-based models: a case study in population dynamics
Ngoc Doanh Nguyen, Alexis Drogoul and Pierre Auger
On the pheromone update rules of Ant Colony Optimization approaches for the job shop scheduling problem
Dong Do Duc, Huy Q. Dinh and Huan Hoang Xuan
Knowledge Assessment: A Modal Logic Approach
Vineet Padmanabhan, Guido Governatori and Subhasis Thakur
From Obligations to Organizational Structures in Multi-Agent Systems
O. Gutiérrez-García, Jean-L. Koning, and Félix F. Ramos-Corchado
Changing Institutional Goals and Beliefs of Autonomous Agents
Guido Boella, Leendert van der Torre and Serena Villata
16:30 -
18:30
Doctoral Mentoring AND/OR Panel Discussion
Chair: TRAN Dan Que
Class Room 1
18:35 -
19:00
Transportation to the Banquet
19h00 - Banquet
   
  Tuesday, December 16, 2008
08:30 -
09:00
Registration & Coffee 
09:00 -
10:00
Keynote Speaker 3
Topic: A review of the ontological status, computational foundations and methodological processes of agent-based modeling and simulation approaches: open challenges and research perspectives
Alexis Drogoul, IFI – IRD
Chair:
Auditorium
10:00 -
10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 -
12:30
Session 5
Topic: Reasoning / Learning
Chair:
Auditorium
Session 6
Topic: Application
Chair:
Class Room 1
Multi-agent Incremental Learning in Networks
Gauvain Bourgne, Amal Seghrouchni, N. Maudet and Henry Soldano
Design of an Internet-Based Advisory System: A Multi-Agent Approach
Saadat. M. Alhashmi 
Reasoning About Constitutive Norms, Counts-As Conditionals, Institutions, Deadlines and Violations
Guido Boella, Jan Broersen and Leendert van der Torre
Design of a Multi-agent System over Mobile Devices for the Planning of Touristic Travels
Miguel Valdés and Claudio Cubillos 
Interactive Learning of Expert Criteria for Rescue Simulations
Thanh-Quang CHU et al.
 
A Novel Approach for Conflict Resolution in Context-Awareness using Semantic Unification of Multi-Cognition
Keonsoo Lee and Minkoo Kim
Measurement of Underlying Cooperation in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
Sachiyo Arai, Yoshihisa Ishigaki, and Hironori Hirata
Agent Reasoning with Semantic Web in Web Blogs
Dinh Que Tran and Tuan Nha Hoang
  Applying the Logic of Multiple-Valued Argumentation to Social Web: SNS and Wikipedia
Shusuke Kuribara, Safia Abbas, and Hajime Sawamura
12:30 -
14:00
Buffet Lunch
14:00 -
15:30
Session 7
Topic: Coordination / Interaction 1
Chair:
Auditorium
Session 8
Topic: Distributed Systems
Chair:
Class Room 1
Settling on the Group’s Goals: An n-Person Argumentation Game Approach
Duy Hoang Pham, Subhasis Thakur and Guido Governatori
Participatory Simulation Platform using Network Games
Shoichi Sawada, H. Hattori, M. Odagaki, K. Nakajima and T. Ishida
A Verification Framework for Normative Multi-Agent Systems
L˘acr˘amioara A¸stef˘anoaei, M. Dastani, J. Meyer, Frank S. de Boer
PAMS – a new collaborative framework for agent-based simulation of complex systems
Trong Khanh Nguyen, Nicolas Marilleau, Tuong Vinh Ho
Abstraction of agent cooperation in agent oriented programming language
Duc Nguyen Tuan and Ikuo Takeuchi
Dividing Agents on the Grid for Large Scale Simulation
Dac Phuong Ho, The Duy Bui and Nguyen Luong Do
Coordinating Agents Plans in Multi-Agent Systems Using Colored Petri Nets
Maryam Abadeh, Kamran Zaminifar and Mohammad-R. Khayyambashi
A Multi-agent-System Framework for Hierarchical Control and Monitoring of Complex Process Control Systems
Vu Van Tan, Dae-Seung Yoo, and Myeong-Jae Yi
15:30 -
16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 -
18:00
Session 9
Topic: Coordination / Interaction 2
Chair:
Auditorium
Session 10
Topic: Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Chair:
Class Room 1
Reo Connectors as Coordination Artifacts in 2APL Systems
Farhad Arbab et all.
When to use a Multi-Agent System?
Paul Bogg, Ghassan Beydoun and Graham Low
Social Viewpoints for Arguing about Coalitions
Guido Boella , Leendert van der Torre and Serena Villata
UML-F in the Design of an Agent-Oriented Software Framework
Daniel Cabrera-Paniagua and Claudio Cubillos
Online Market Coordination
Masabumi Furuhata, Dongmo Zhang and Laurent Perrussel
Modularity in Agent Programming Languages An Illustration in Extended 2APL
Mehdi Dastani, Christian P. Mol, and Bas R. Steunebrink
Addressing the Brittleness of Agent Interaction
Mohd Fadzil Hassan and Dave Robertson
Towards an evaluation framework for MAS software engineering
Emilia Garcia, Adriana Giret, and Vicente Botti
  The Design of a Self-locating Automatic-driving Robot
Gi-Duck Park, Robert McCartney and Jung-Jin Yang 
18h00 Conference Close
Presentation guidance:

- Each paper will have 15 minutes for oral presentation and 5 minutes for questions.
- Each Doctoral paper (Doctoral Mentoring) will have 15 minutes for oral presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.