Design and Applications of Intelligent Agents : Third Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi Agents PRIMA 2000 Melbourne Australia August 28 – 29 2000 Proceedings This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi Agents PRIMA 2000 held in Melbourne Australia in August 2000 in conjunction with PRICAI 2000. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on coordination negotiation and learning; architecture specificiation and allocation; and applications in control and process management