Intelligent Agents and Multi Agent Systems : 5th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi Agents PRIMA 2002 Tokyo Japan August 18–19 2002 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi Agents PRIMA 2002 held in Tokyo Japan in August 2002. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The book offers topical sections on architectures models and mechanisms; coordination negotiation and organization; agent based inter faces; and applications