The following Papers; and Posters have been accepted for Agents 2001. PAPERS ID TITLE AUTHORS 14 Interaction Patterns and Observable Commitments in a Multi-Agent Trading Scenario Jeremy Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Alexander Artikis 20 HPTS : a behaviour modelling language for autonomous agents Donikian Stephane 21 RAJA - A Resource-Adaptive Java Agent Infrastructure Yun Ding, Christian Kray, Rainer Malaka, Michael Schillo 24 Terrain Coverage with Ant Robots: A Simulation Study Sven Koenig, Yaxin Liu 30 It Knows What You Are Going To Do: Adding Anticipation to a Quakebot John E. Laird 32 Entropy and Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Bruekner 38 Performance Evaluation of An Agent Server Capable of Hosting Large Numbers of Agents Gaku Yamamoto, Hideki Tai 39 A Knowledge Level Software Engineering Methodology for Agent Oriented Programming Anna Perini, Fausto Giunchiglia, John Mylopoulos, Paolo Bresciani, Paolo Giorgini 43 SPT: Multi-agent visualization based on multivariate data Michael Schroeder, Penny Noy 45 Matchmaking Among Minimal Agents Without a Facilitator Elth Ogston, Stamatis Vassiliadis 47 Principles of Intention Reconsideration Martijn Schut, Michael Wooldridge 49 Adaptive Task and Resource Allocation in Multi-Agent Systems Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge 51 A Logical Approach to High-Level Agent Control L. Chen , K. Bechkoum , G. Clapworthy 54 Mobile Agent Security with the IPEditor Development Tool and the Mobile UNITY Language Yasuyuki Tahara, Akihiko Ohsuga, Shinichi Honiden 58 Reasoning about commitments and penalties for coordination between autonomous agents Cora Beatriz Excelente Toledo, Rachel A. Bourne, Nicholas R. Jennings 59 Incremental Clustering for Profile Maintenance in Information Gathering Web Agents Gabriel L. Somlo, Adele E. Howe 65 A Social Reinforcement Learning Agent Charles Lee Isbell, Jr., Christian Shelton, Michael Kearns, Satinder Singh, Peter Stone 68 An Architecture for Action Selection inSimulated Robotic Soccer Peter Stone, David McAllester 69 An Adaptable Autonomous Bidding Agent Peter Stone, Michael Littman, Satinder Singh, Michael Kearns 71 Cooperative Pedestrian Mobility Aids for the Elderly Glenn Wasson, Sean Graves, Jim Gunderson, Robin Felder 77 Evaluation of Modeling Techniques for Agent-Based Systems Onn Shehory, Arnon Sturm 81 The BOID Architecture Jan Broersen, Mehdi Dastani, Joris Hulstijn, Zhisheng Huang, Leendert van der Torre 84 Cooperative Multi-Agent Intelligent Field Terminals Juichi Kosakaya, Katsunori Yamaoka 87 Social Role Awareness in Animated Agents Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka 89 A Development Toolkit to Realize Autonomous and Inter-operable Agents Federico Bergenti, Agostino Poggi 92 Evolving and messaging decision-making agents Edmund S. Yu 93 A Framework for Modeling Human-like Driving Behaviors For Autonomous Vehicles in Driving Simulators Talal Al-Shihabi , Ronald R. Mourant 95 Improving the Agent-Oriented Modeling Process by Roles Ralph Depke, Reiko Heckel, Jochen M. Küster 103 An auction agent for bidding on combinatorial items Yasuo Matsumoto, Satoru Fujita 110 A Dynamic Mechanism for Time-Constrained Trading Samuel P. M. Choi, Jiming Liu 114 Some Thoughts on the Agent Trust and Delegation Yuh-Jong Hu 124 AgentSalon: Facilitating Face-to-Face Knowledge Exchange by Conversations of Personal Agents Yasuyuki Sumi, Kenji Mase 156 SPT: Distributed Sensor Network for Real Time Tracking Regis Vincent, Bryan Horling, Roger Mailler, Jiaying Shen, Kyle Rawlins, Victor Lesser 157 Using Self-Diagnosis to Adapt Organizational Structures Bryan Horling, Brett Benyo, Victor Lesser 158 Implementing Soft Real-Time Agent Control Regis Vincent, Bryan Horling, Victor Lesser, Tom Wagner 169 Economic Dynamics of Agents in Multiple Auctions Andrew Byde, Chris Preist, Claudio Bartolini 185 Denotational Semantics for Agent Communication Languages Frank Guerin, Jeremy Pitt 186 Architectural Design of a Multi-Agent System for Handling Metadata Streams Don Cruickshank, Luc Moreau, David De Roure 188 Is the wolf angry or ... just hungry? Isabel Machado, Ana Paiva, Rui Prada 189 Wasp Nests for Self-Configurable Factories Vincent A. Cicirello, Stephen F. Smith 192 An Auction-Based Method for Decentralized Train Scheduling David C Parkes, Lyle H Ungar 197 A Reinforcement Learning Model of Selective Visual Attention Silviu Minut, Sridhar Mahadevan 205 SPT: Hierarchical Agent Control: A Framework for Specifying Agent Behavior Marc S. Atkin, Gary W. King, David L. Westbrook, Brent Heeringa, Andrew Hannon, Paul R. Cohen 209 Autonomous mobile manipulators managing perception and failures Alberto Finzi, Fiora Pirri, Milko Vaccaro, Marco Pirrone, Massimo Romano 215 Dynamic Reorganization of Decision-Making Groups K. Suzanne Barber, Cheryl E. Martin 216 A Framework for the Simulation of Agents with Emotions: Report on Experiments with the Iterated Prisoner`s Dilemma Ana Lúcia C. Bazzan, Rafael H. Bordini 219 Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Rajbala Makar, Sridhar Mahadevan, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh 220 A Stable and Efficient Buyer Coalition Formation Scheme for E-marketplaces Junichi Yamamoto, Katia Sycara 224 Communication Decisions in Multi-agent Cooperation: Model and Experiments Ping Xuan, Victor Lesser, Shlomo Zilberstein 225 Probabilistic Pricebots Amy R. Greenwald, Jeffrey O. Kephart 226 Monitoring Deployed Agent Teams Gal A. Kaminka, David V. Pynadath, Milind Tambe 228 Adjustable Autonomy in Real-World Multi-Agent Environments Paul Scerri, David Pynadath, Milind Tambe 229 Intelligent Agents for an Artificial Market System Nikos Karacapilidis, Pavlos Moraitis 231 Agents Teaching Agents To Share Meaning Andrew B. Williams, Zijian Ren, Costas Tsatsoulis 240 SPT: A Multi-Agent System for Automated Genomic Annotation Keith Decker, Xiaojing Zheng, Carl Schmidt 244 SPT: Sensible Agents: An Implemented Multi-Agent System and Testbed K. S. Barber, M. MacMahon , R. McKay 245 The Intelligent Classroom: Providing Competent Assistance David Franklin, Kristian Hammond 247 Integrating tools and infrastructure for generic multi-agent systems. Olivier Gutknecht, Jacques Ferber, Fabien Michel 249 SPT: Toward the Holodeck: Integrating Graphics, Sound, Character and Story William R. Swartout, Jonathan Gratch, Randall Hill, Stacy Marsella, Jeff Rickel, Chris Kyriakakis 258 Automated Negotiation from Declarative Contract Descriptions Daniel M Reeves, Michael P Wellman, Benjamin N Grosof, Hoi Y Chan 262 Argumentation as Distributed Constraint Satisfaction: Applications and Results Hyuckchul Jung, Milind Tambe, Wei-min Shen, Shriniwas Kulkarni, Jay Modi 273 Observing Ants: Tracking and Analyzing the Behavior of Live Insect Colonies Tucker Balch, Zia Khan, Manuela Veloso 281 SPT: CMPack: A Complete Software System for Autonomous Legged Soccer Robots Scott Lenser, James Bruce, Manuela Veloso 298 Tears and Fears: Modeling emotions and emotional behaviors in synthetic agents Jonathan Gratch, Stacy C. Marsella 300 Using Background Knowledge to Speed Reinforcement Learning in Physical Agents Daniel G. Shapiro, Patrick Langley, Ross Shachter 309 How Communication Can Improve the Performance of Multi-Agent Systems Kam-Chuen Jim, C. Lee Giles POSTERS ID TITLE AUTHORS 7 Identifying partners and sustenance of stable, effective coalitions. Partha Sarathi Dutta, Sandip Sen 10 A Shopper`s Assistant Sandip Debnath, Partha Sarathi Dutta, Sandip Sen 11 Building Secure Knowledge Bases: Combining Java Agents and DBagents Edgar Weippl 16 SPT: Software architecture of SETA, an adaptive Web store shell Liliana Ardissono, Anna Goy, Giovanna Petrone, Marino Segnan 18 A formal framework for inter-agent dialogues Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons 22 Distributed Constraint Optimization for Medical Appointment Scheduling Markus Hannebauer, Sebastian Müller 27 Market-mechanisms to reduce pollution Esfir Freitsis, Sarit Kraus 28 SPT: JADE - A FIPA2000 Compliant Agent Development Environment Fabio Bellifemine, Agostino Poggi, Giovanni Rimassa 29 Motivational Quantities: State-based Control for Organizationally Situated Agents Thomas Wagner, Victor Lesser 33 Representing Social Structures in UML H. Van Dyke Parunak, James Odell 35 Teaching a Robot How to Read Symbols François Michaud, Dominic Létourneau 41 Incremental reinforcement learning for designing multi-agent systems Olivier Buffet, Alain Dutech, Francois Charpillet 48 Using Artificial Emotion for Long-Term Activity of an Autonomous Robot François Michaud, Jonathan Audet 50 A reflexive, not impulsive agent Berardina De Carolis, Fiorella de Rosis, Catherine Pelachaud, Isabella Poggi 52 Building Agents for Service Provisioning out of Components Ralf Sesseler 53 A Repository of Knowledge About Handling Exceptions in Multi-Agent Systems Mark Klein 56 Specifying Agent Behavior as Concurrent Tasks Scott A. DeLoach 57 Trust-based Facilitator for e-Partnership Chihiro Ono, Dai Kanetomo, Keesoo Kim, Boyd C. Paulson, Jr., Mark Cutkosky, Charles J. Petrie, Jr. 64 A Formal Model of Open Agent Societies Alexander Artikis, Jeremy Pitt 67 Using Rat Navigation Models to Learn Orientation from Visual Input on a Mobile Robot Brett Browning 73 Tempus Fugit and the Need for an e-Social Contract James H. Kaufman, Joann Ruvolo, Daniel A. Ford 82 Smart Distance and WWWaware - A Multi-agent Approach Yiming Ye, Stephen Boies, Paul Huang, John K. Tsotsos 86 Efficiency improvements for transactions of web-agents Michael Schroeder, Luke Boro, Julie McCann 91 Architecture and Preliminary Experimental Results of Emotionally Grounded Symbol Acquisition by Four-Legged Robot Masahiro Fujita, Gabriel Costa, Tsuyoshi Takagi, Rika Hasegawa, Jun Yokono, Hideki Shimomura 94 Agent Management using Conversation Patterns Christos Stergiou, Geert Arys, none, none, none, none 98 Movies2Go - An Online Voting Based Movie Recommender System Rajatish Mukherjee, Partha Sarathi, Gerdur Jonsdottir, Sandip Sen 101 A Formal Model of Responsibilities in Agent-Based Teams Thomas R. Ioerger, J. Colby Johnson 105 Identifying the Scope of Modeling in Multi-Agent Settings Sanguk Noh, Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz 106 Team Learning the Face of Distributed Information Pragnesh Jay Modi, Wei-Min Shen 116 A multi-agent reinforcement learning method for a partially-observable competitive game. Yoichiro Matsuno, Tatsuya Yamazaki, Jun Matsuda, Shin Ishii 120 An Agent Bidding Strategy Based on Fuzzy Logic in a Continuous Double Auction Minghua He, Ho-fung Leung 126 UML Class Diagrams - Revisited in the Context of Agent-Based Systems Bernhard Bauer 129 MORPHEUS: A More Scalable Comparison-Shopping Agent Jaeyoung Yang, Joongmin Choi 131 SPT: Matchmaking for Autonomous Agents in Electronic Marketplaces Daniel Veit, Bjoern Fiehn, Joerg Mueller, Martin Schneider 134 Modelling and visualising agent conversations with Petri Nets Mariusz Nowostawski, Martin Purvis, Stephen Cranefield 136 Context Aware Personal Information Agents Josep Lluis Arcos, Enric Plaza 141 Timed Mobile Agent Planning for Distributed Information Retrieval Jin-Wook Baek, Gyu-Tae Kim, Heon-Young Yeom 142 Portable Resource Control in the J-SEAL2 Mobile Agent System Walter Binder, Jarle G. Hulaas, Alex Villazon 144 Market-Based Agent Allocation in Global Information Systems Ian Wang 150 Sympathetic Agents assist in Route Planning Patrick De Causmaecker, Peter Demeester, Greet Vanden Berghe 159 Scheduling Multi-Task Multi-Agent Systems Daniela Rus, Cliff Stein, Rong Xie 171 A reputation model for gregarious societies Jordi Sabater, Carles Sierra 172 Flexible Negotiation and Dialogue Games Mehdi Dastani, Joris Hulstijn, Leon van der Torre 175 Simultaneous Optimization of Multiple Criteria for Efficient Agent Service Brokering Aneurin M. Easwaran, Jeremy Pitt 177 Vicious Strategies for Vickrey Auctions Felix Brandt, Gerhard Weiß 179 Distribuited scheduling of multi-stage production systems Alessandro Brun, Alberto Portioli-Staudacher 181 Dealing with interoperability for the development and testing of smart agent-based services Patricia Charlton, Nicolas Lhuillier, David Bonnefoy, Yann Camenen 184 Holonic Agents for the Coordination of Supply Webs Andreas Gerber, Matthias Klusch, Christian Russ, Ingo Zinnikus 190 An Agent-Based System for Email Highlighting Suhayya Abu-Hakima, Connie McFarland, John F Meech 196 Learning Symbolic Navigation Plans from Executing MDP Policies Michael Beetz, Thorsten Belker 199 A fuzzy model of reputation in multi-AGENT systems Javier Carbo Rubiera, Jose Manuel Molina Lopez, Jorge Davila Muro 202 Every Agent a Web Server, Every Agent Community a Intranet... Nathan Combs, BBN, Marshall Brinn, BBN, Todd Carrico, DARPA 203 Towards a Definition of Robustness for Market-Style Open Multi-Agent Systems Michael Schillo, Hans-Juergen Buerckert, Klaus Fischer, Matthias Klusch 207 Design of a Trust Model for a Secure Multi-Agent Marketplace Sergi Robles, Joan Borrell, John Bigham, Laurissa Tokarchuk, Laurie Cuthbert 213 Evolving Coordination Strategies in Simulated Robot Soccer Andre Luis Vasconcelos Coelho, Daniel Weingaertner, Fernando Antonio Campos Gomide 217 Designing Protocols Using the Event Calculus Pinar Yolum, Munindar P. Singh 222 Aiding the Visually Impaired Through an Enhanced Screen Reader Marcus J. Huber, Rich Simpson 233 An Agent-based Approach for Imagery & Geospatial Computing James J. Nolan, Robert Simon, Arun K. Sood 235 Integrating Multiagent Coordination with Reactive Plan Execution Jeffrey Cox, Bradley Clement, Pradeep Pappachan, Edmund Durfee 236 Interacting Multi-Agentsystems and Simulation - An exploration into Mole and James Bernd Kullick, Adelinde Uhrmacher 241 A Satisficing Multiagent Plan Coordination Algorithm for Dynamic Domains Pradeep M. Pappachan, Edmund H. Durfee 250 Interaction Without Committment: An initial approach Maksim Tsvetovat, Gregg Economou, Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara 254 SPT: SageTalk: Designing a Tool for Designing Successful Web-based Social Agents Katherine Isbister, David Klencke 259 Configuration Management Issues of Multiagent Systems Katia Sycara, Octavio Juarez, Joseph A. Giampapa 267 Collaborative Sanctioning: Applications in Restaurant Recommendations based on Reputation Lik Mui, Peter Szolovits, Cheewee Wang 268 Emergent Bucket Brigading - A simple mechanism for improving performance in multi-robot constrained-space foraging tasks Esben Ostergaard, Gaurav Sukhatme, Maja Mataric 278 SPT: Exploring decision processes in multi-agent automated contracting John Collins, Maria Gini 280 Dynamic Scheduling of a Fixed Bandwidth Communications Channel for Controlling Multiple R Paul E. Rybski, Sascha A. Stoeter, Dean F. Hougen, Maria Gini, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos 286 Mobile Agents for Monitoring Distributed Systems Delbert Hart, Mihail Tudoreanu, Eileen Kraemer 287 Antisocial and Pro-Social Agents: The Tradeoff Between Conflict and Cooperation Sviatoslav Brainov 288 PHOSPHORUS: A Task-Based Agent Matchmaker Yolanda Gil, Surya Ramachandran 291 External Attribution of Intentional Notions to Explain and Predict Agent Behaviour C.M. Jonker, J. Treur, W. de Vries 296 Using Agents to Build a Practical Implementation of the INCA (Intelligent Community Alarm) System Martin Beer, Iain Anderson, David Huang 301 Adaptive Team Coaching Using Opponent Model Selection Patrick Riley, Manuela Veloso 302 Determining Bidding Strategies in Sequential Auctions:Quasi-linear Utility and Budget Constraints Hiromitsu Hattori, Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sakurai, Toramatsu Shintani 308 A multi-Agent System for Real-Time Agent Coordination in Uncertain Environments Lucian Lita, Jamieson Schulte, Sebastian Thrun