Recent Advances in Agent-based Negotiation / Studies in Computational Intelligence Bd.958 (PDF)

the Best Paper Award of AAMAS2006, the 2005 Best Paper Award of JSSST, and the Super Creator Award of 2004 IPA Exploratory Software Creation Project. He was a JST PREST Researcher, and a principal investigator of the Japan Cabinet Funding Program for Next Generation World-Leading Researchers. He is currently principal investigator of JST CREST project.

Dr. Ahmed Moustafa is an Associate Professor at Nagoya Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is a member of the Japan Society of Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Computer Society, Australia Computer Society, Service Science Society of Australia. He was a visiting researcher in University of Adelaide, Auckland University of Technology and Data61, Australia. His main research interests include complex automated negotiation, multiagent reinforcement learning, trust and reputation in multiagent societies, deep reinforcement learning, service oriented computing, collective intelligence, intelligent transportation systems and data mining.

Dr. Takanobu Otsuka is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan. He received his M.E. and Doctor of Engineering from the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2011 and 2016, respectively. Between 2012 and 2015, he was an Assistant Professor at Nagoya Institute of Technology. From 2015 and 2016, he was a visiting researcher at University of California Irvine, USA. His main research interests include IoT, multi-agent systems, intelligent agents, distributed system, and software engineering on offshoring.


Prof. Minjie Zhang received her Ph.D. from the University of New England, Australia in 1996. Dr. Zhang is a full professor, the Director of Centre for Big Data Analytics and Intelligent Systems, and the Research Chair in Computer Science and IT at the University Of Wollongong (UOW), Australia. She is the author/co-author of over 260 research papers. She has organised over 20 international workshops and conferences. As a co-editor, she has edited 14 books and 4 special issues with reputable journals. Her research interests include multi-agent systems and their applications in complex domains, distributed artificial intelligence, smart modeling and simulation in complex systems, agent-based grid/cloud computing, and smart grid systems.