Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications

Following from the very successful First KES Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems – Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2007), held in Wroclaw, Poland, 31 May–1 June 2007, the second event in the KES-AMSTA symposium series (KES-AMSTA 2008) was held in Incheon, Korea, March 26–28, 2008. The symposium was organized by the School of Computer and Information Engineering, Inha University, KES International and the KES Focus Group on Agent and Mul- agent Systems. The KES-AMSTA Symposium Series is a sub-series of the KES Conference Series. The aim of the symposium was to provide an international forum for scientific research into the technologies and applications of agent and multi-agent systems. Agent and multi-agent systems are related to the modern software which has long been recognized as a promising technology for constructing autonomous, complex and intelligent systems. A key development in the field of agent and multi-agent systems has been the specification of agent communication languages and formalization of ontologies. Agent communication languages are intended to provide standard declarative mechanisms for agents to communicate knowledge and make requests of each other, whereas ontologies are intended for conceptualization of the knowledge domain. The symposium attracted a very large number of scientists and practitioners who submitted their papers for nine main tracks concerning the methodology and applications of agent and multi-agent systems, a doctoral track and two special sessions.

Main Track 1: Methodological Aspects of Agent Systems.- A Method for Validating and Discovering Associations between Multi-level Emergent Behaviours in Agent-Based Simulations.- Background Sensing Control for Planning Agents Working in the Real World.- Real-Time Neural Networks Application of Micro-Electroforming for Different Geometry Forms.- On Drawing Conclusions in Presence of Inconsistent Data.- Basic Concepts of Knowledge-Based Image Understanding.- KOSPI Time Series Analysis Using Neural Network with Weighted Fuzzy Membership Functions.- Facilitating MAS Complete Life Cycle through the Protégé-Prometheus Approach.- Holonic Multi-agent System Model for Fuzzy Automatic Speech / Speaker Recognition.- Social Semantic Cloud of Tag: Semantic Model for Social Tagging.- Realization of an Intelligent Frog Call Identification Agent.- Towards a Distributed Fuzzy Decision Making System.- A Color Set Web-Based Agent System for 2-Dimension Emotion Image Space.- Approach to Solving Security Problems Using Meta-Agents in Multi Agent System.- A Software Engineering Process for BDI Agents.- Design Pattern Based Development Methodology and Support Tool for Multi Agent System.- Moving Object Detection and Classification Using Neural Network.- Data Integration in a System with Agents’ Models.- Main Track 2: Agent-Oriented Web Applications.- A Comparative Study of Two Short Text Semantic Similarity Measures.- A User Interface for a Jini-Based Appliances in Ubiquitous Smart Homes.- A Study of Meta-Search Agent Based on Tags and Ontological Approach for Improving Web Searches.- An Agent Using Matrix for Backward Path Search on MANET.- A Personalized URL Re-ranking Methodology Using User’s Browsing Behavior.- Library Services as Multi Agent System.- Main Track 3: Ontology Management.- Ontology Methodology Based Context Awareness Using System Entity Structure for Network Analysis.- A Scalable Framework for Distributed Ontologies.- Bridging Semantic Gap in Distant Communication: Ontology-Based Approach.- Using Meta-agents to Reason with Multiple Ontologies.- Adaptive Information Provisioning in an Agent-Based Virtual Organization—Ontologies in the System.- Main Track 4: Multi-agent Resource Allocation.- Resource and Remembering Influences on Acquaintance Networks.- A Formalization for Distributed Cooperative Sensor Resource Allocation.- Ant Colony Programming with the Candidate List.- A Rough Set Approach on Supply Chain Dynamic Performance Measurement.- Analyzing Knowledge Exchanges in Hybrid MAS GIS Decision Support Systems, Toward a New DSS Architecture.- Multi-agent System for Custom Relationship Management with SVMs Tool.- Main Track 5: Cooperation, Coordination, and Teamwork.- A Model for Fuzzy Grounding of Modal Conjunctions in Artificial Cognitive Agents.- An Integrated Argumentation Environment for Arguing Agents.- Agent Collaboration for Multiple Trading Strategy Integration.- Strategy Acquisition on Multi-issue Negotiation without Estimating Opponent’s Preference.- Predictor Agent for Online Auctions.- Discovering Behavior Patterns in Muti-agent Teams.- Fuzzy Logic for Cooperative Robot Communication.- An Approach to Event-Driven Algorithm for Intelligent Agents in Multi-agent Systems.- Agvs Distributed Control Subject to Imprecise Operation Times.- On the Multi-threading Approach of Efficient Multi-agent Methodology for Modelling Cellular Communications Bandwidth Management.- Main Track 6: Agents for Network Management.- Design of the Architecture for Agent of the Personality Security in the Ubiquitous Environment.- The Multi Agent System Solutions for Wireless Sensor Network Applications.- A Study of Implanted and Wearable Body Sensor Networks.- Complexity of Road Networks as Agents’ Environments.- Resource Limitations, Transmission Costs and Critical Thresholds in Scale-Free Networks.- Main Track 7: Multi-agent Learning.- Temporal Difference Learning and Simulated Annealing for Optimal Control: A Case Study.- Separating Learning as an Aspect in Malaca Agents.- Learning Semantic Web from E-Tourism.- Incremental Biomedical Ontology Change Management through Learning Agents.- An A-Team Approach to Learning Classifiers from Distributed Data Sources.- The User Preference Learning for Multi-agent Based on Neural Network in Ubiquitous Computing Environment.- Main Track 8: Mobile Agents.- Performance Evaluation of Mobile Grid Services.- Are You Satisfied with Your Recommendation Service?: Discovering Social Networks for Personalized Mobile Services.- SETNR/A: An Agent-Based Secure Payment Protocol for Mobile Commerce.- A Key Management Scheme Combined with Intrusion Detection for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Agent Based Formation and Enactment of Adaptable Inter-organizational Workflows in Virtual Organizations.- Main Track 9: Agents in Applications.- The Impact of Information Sharing Mechanism to Geographic Market Formation.- Agent System for Online Ticket Resale.- Application of Ubiquitous Computing Technology to the Steel-Plate Piling Process of Ship Construction.- The Choquet Integral Analytic Hierarchy Process for Radwaste Repository Site Selection in Taiwan.- Contribution of Hypercontours to Multiagent Automatic Image Analysis.- Bayesian Communication Leading to Nash Equilibrium Through Robust Messages - p-Belief System Case -.- Manager-Agent Framework of a Medical Device Communication for u-Healthcare Services with USN.- An Intelligent Multi Agent Design in Healthcare Management System.- A Middleware Platform Based on Multi-Agents for u-Healthcare Services with Sensor Networks.- Doctoral Track.- Measuring Similarity of Observations Made by Artificial Cognitive Agents.- An Algorithm for Agent Knowledge Integration Using Conjunctive and Disjunctive Structures.- A Note on Root Choice for Parallel Processing of Tree Decompositions.- An Agent’s Activities Are Controlled by His Priorities.- Mining Based Decision Support Multi-agent System for Personalized e-Healthcare Service.- A Multi-agent Mechanism in Machine Learning Approach to Anti-virus System.- Data-Mining Model Based on Multi-agent for the Intelligent Distributed Framework.- Recalling the Embodied Meaning of Modal Conjunctions in Artificial Cognitive Agents.- Performance Evaluation of Multiagent Systems: Communication Criterion.- Using Multiple Models to Imitate the YMCA.- Special Session: Self-organization in Multi-agent Systems.- A Comparison of Performance-Evaluating Strategies for Data Exchange in Multi-agent System.- The Emergence and Collapse of the Self Monitoring Center in Multi-agent Systems.- The Design of Model Checking Agent for SMS Management System.- An Intelligent Agent-Based System for Multilingual Financial News Digest.- An Agent-Based Diabetic Patient Simulation.- A Multi-agent System for Computer Network Security Monitoring.- Special Session: Intelligent and Secure Agent for Digital Content Management.- Vulnerabilities in a Remote Agent Authentication Scheme Using Smart Cards.- A Security Enhancement of the E0 Cipher in Bluetooth System.- Study of Optimal Traffic Information Using Agents Techniques.- A Recommendation Using Item Quality.- Secure Storage and Communication in J2ME Based Lightweight Multi-Agent Systems.- A New Key Agreement Protocol Based on Chaotic Maps.