The success of any corporate enterprise is reliant upon the effectiveness of its leadership. The methods used to prepare corporate leaders can have a significant impact on the success of the employees and the company. Improving Business Performance Through Effective Managerial Training Initiatives is a critical scholarly publication that explores leadership within corporations and how proper education can lead to positive outcomes within corporations. Featuring coverage on a wide range of topics, including managerial mindsets, learning-performance relationship, and strategic risk management, this book is geared toward academicians, researchers, students, and policy makers seeking relevant research on the importance of quality leadership education within corporations to promote success.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Knowledge Technology Week, KTW 2011, held in Kajang, Malaysia, in July 2011. The 29 revised full papers presented together with 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. KTW 2011 consisted of a number of co-located events. This volume contains selected papers from the proceedings of the Third Malaysian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MJCAI 2011), the Third Semantic Technology and Knowledge Engineering (STAKE 2011), and the International Workshop on Semantic Agents (IWSA 2012).

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2012, held in Kuching, Malaysia, in September 2012. The 60 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers, 22 short papers, and 11 poster papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 240 submissions. The topics roughly include AI foundations, applications of AI, cognition and intelligent interactions, computer-aided education, constraint and search, creativity support, decision theory, evolutionary computation, game playing, information retrieval and extraction, knowledge mining and acquisition, knowledge representation and logic, linked open data and semantic web, machine learning and data mining, multimedia and AI, natural language processing, robotics, social intelligence, vision and perception, web and text mining, web and knowledge-based system.

The Paci?c-Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA) is held - nually, and is one of the principal research forums in the practice and theory of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. Autonomous agents and mul- agent systems are computational systems in which several (semi-) autonomous agents interact with each other or work together to perform some set of tasks or satisfy some set of goals. These systems may involve computational agents that are homogeneous or heterogeneous, they may involve activities on the part of agentshavingcommongoalsordistinctgoals, andtheymayinvolveparticipation on the part of humans and intelligent agents. PRIMA is the ?rst Paci?c Rim workshop related to autonomous agents and multi-agentsystems. AlthoughwealreadyhaveseveralworkshopsinPaci?cRim countries, such as MACC (Multi-agent Systems and Cooperative Computation) inJapanfrom1991, andtheAustralianWorkshoponDistributedArti?cialInt- ligence from 1995, there has been less interactionamong the countriescompared toEuropeandtheAmericas. Since1998, thePRIMAseriesofworkshophasbeen conducted annually. PRIMA 2005, the ?rst of its kind to be held in Malaysia, followed a strong tradition of workshops that began in 1998 as a platform to enable researchers from the Paci?c-Rim countries to share and collaborate their research ?ndings in the areas of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. In additionto thetraditionaltechnicalpaperpresentationandposterpaperpres- tations there weretwo additionalactivities speci?cally for the bene't ofdoctoral students, and industry participants: (1) A Doctoral Mentoring Session (2) Agent School The Chairs of the workshop take this opportunity to thank the members of the Local Organizing Committee, the Programme Committee, the Doctoral - lection Committee, and all the additional paper review

This volume contains revisedversions of selected papers presented at the Fourth Australian Workshop on Distributed Arti?cial Intelligence (DAK 91), together with a set of invited papers. Each paper has been reviewed by at least two program committee members. The workshop was held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on July 17,1992. The goalof the workshopwas to promoteresearchin distributed arti?cial intelligence and multi-agent systems, both nationally and internationally. Thepapers covera widerangeofissuesin the?eldof distributed arti?cial intelligence and multi-agent systems, such as theories, languages, and applications. Manypeoplecontributedtothesuccessofthis workshop. Wewouldliketothank all the authors who submitted papers to the workshop. Many thanks also to the members of the programme committee who diligently reviewed all the papers submitted. Finally, we thank the editorial sta? of Springer-Verlag for publishing this contribution to the Lecture Notes in Arti?cial Intelligence series. October 1998 Chengqi Zhang and Dickson Lukose Programme Committee Chengqi Zhang (Co-Chair) University of New England, Australia Dickson Lukose (Co-Chair) Brightware Inc., USA Victor Lesser University of Massachusetts, USA Je?rey S. Rosenschein Hebrew University, Israel Toshiharu Sugawara NTT Basic Research Labs, Japan Rose Dieng ACACIA Project, INRIA, France Norbert Glaser CRIN-INRIA Lorraine, France Sascha Ossowski Rey Juan Carlos Univ, Spain Michael Luck University of Warwick, UK Mark d Inverno University of Westminster, UK Tim Norman University of London, UK Douglas Norrie University of Calgary, Canada Bernard Moulin Laval University, Canada Zhisheng Huang University of London, UK Minjie Zhang Edith Cowan University, Australia Brahim Chaib-draa Laval University, Canada Table of Contents TeamFormationbySelf-InterestedMobileAgents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ."

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS '97, held in Seattle, Washington, USA, in August 1997.
The 39 full papers presented were carefully selected and revised for inclusion in the volume. Also included are 9 abstracts of conceptual graphs tools. The papers are organized in sections on knowledge representation, knowledge modeling, formal concept analysis, formal reasoning, applications of conceptual graphs, and conceptual graphs tools. This book competently documents the progress achieved in the area since the predecessor conference ICCS '96, the proceedings of which have been published as LNAI 1115.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, held in Canberra, ACT, Australia, in November 1995.
The 16 full papers included in the book are revised versions of the contributions accepted for presentation at the workshop; they cover a wide range of current issues in the field of DAI, such as formal frameworks, methodology, theory, and architecture; various aspects of agents and multi-agent systems are addressed.