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As intelligent autonomous agents and multiagent system applications
become more pervasive, it becomes increasingly important to
understand the risks associated with using these systems. Incorrect
or inappropriate agent behavior can have harmful - fects, including
financial cost, loss of data, and injury to humans or systems. For
- ample, NASA has proposed missions where multiagent systems,
working in space or on other planets, will need to do their own
reasoning about safety issues that concern not only themselves but
also that of their mission. Likewise, industry is interested in
agent systems that can search for new supply opportunities and
engage in (semi-) automated negotiations over new supply contracts.
These systems should be able to securely negotiate such
arrangements and decide which credentials can be requested and
which credentials may be disclosed. Such systems may encounter
environments that are only partially understood and where they must
learn for themselves which aspects of their environment are safe
and which are dangerous. Thus, security and safety are two central
issues when developing and deploying such systems. We refer to a
multiagent system's security as the ability of the system to deal
with threats that are intentionally caused by other intelligent
agents and/or s- tems, and the system's safety as its ability to
deal with any other threats to its goals.
Five years ago, with excitement and uncertainty, we witnessed the
birth of PRIMA (Paci?c Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents).
The ?rst PRIMA in 1998 has now grown into PRIMA 2003, the 6th
Paci?c Rim Inter- tional Workshop on Multi-Agents in Seoul, Korea.
During a period of ?ve years, the notion of agent research has
grown so much that we hear the term agent on a daily basis. Various
?elds such as business, the Web, software engineering, on-line
games and such are now using the term agent as a placeholder, just
like the term object is used in the object-oriented paradigm. On
the other hand, the research area has extended toward real
applications, such as the Semantic Web and ubiquitous computing.
The themes of PRIMA 2003 re?ected the following trends: -
agent-based electronic commerce, auctions and markets - agent
architectures and their applications - agent communication
languages, dialog and interaction protocols - agent ontologies -
agent programming languages, frameworks and toolkits - agentcities
- agents and grid computing - agents and peer computing
-agentsandtheSemanticWeb - agents and Web services - arti?cial
social systems - con?ict resolution and negotiation - evaluation of
multi-agent systems - languages and techniques for describing
(multi-)agent systems - meta modeling and meta reasoning -
multi-agent planning and learning - multi-agent systems and their
applications - social reasoning, agent modeling, and organization -
standards for agents and multi-agent systems - teams and coalitions
- ubiquitous agents
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