The Fifth
International Conference on Autonomous Agents
May
28 - June 1, 2001
Montreal,
Canada
Technical
Program
Monday, May 28
Tutorials:
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Room |
Morning
Session 8:00-12:00 |
Afternoon
Session 13:30-17:30 |
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MaisonNeuve A |
T1: Boosting eServices through
Animated Interface Agents Thomas Rist rist@dfki.de |
T1 |
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MaisonNeuve B |
T2: Agent-Mediated
Electronic Commerce Tuomas Sandholm sandholm@cs.cmu.edu |
T2 |
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MaisonNeuve C |
T3: Autonomous Agents and
the Law Carey Heckman ceh@dartmouth.edu |
T4: E-Commerce Legislation
and Other Legal Aspects of Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce Ian
Kerr iankerr@uottawa.ca |
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Terrasse |
T5: Multi-Agent Coordination
Technology Mark Klein m_klein@mit.edu |
T6: Engineering Internet
Agents Applications via Coordination Andrea Omicini aomicini@deis.unibo.it, Franco
Zambonelli franco.zambonelli@unimo.it |
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Huronie A |
T7: From Robotic to Virtual
Agents: Lessons and Issues Ruth Aylett R.S.Aylett@salford.ac.uk Daniel Ballin ballind@info.bt.co.uk |
T8: Autonomous Virtual
Humans in Virtual Environments Nadia Magnenat Thalmann thalmann@cui.unige.ch Daniel Thalmann thalmann@lig.di.epfl.ch |
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Huronie B |
T9: Theory and Practice of
Agent Communication Languages Tim Finin finin@umbc.edu Yannis
Labrou Yannis@powermarket.com |
T10: Rational Action in
Autonomous Agents Michael Wooldridge M.J.Wooldridge@csc.liv.ac.uk Simon Parsons S.D.Parsons@csc.liv.ac.uk |
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MaisonNeuve E |
T11: Animated Agents for
Education, Training, and Entertainment W.Lewis Johnson johnson@isi.edu |
T12: Image & Reputation
Among Autonomous Agents Rosaria Conte conte@ip.rm.cnr.it Mario
Paolucci paolucci@istat.it |
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Habitacion A |
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T13: Intoduction to
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agents Systems Nicholas Jennings nrj@ecs.soton.ac.uk Michael Luck mml@ecs.soton.ac.uk |
Tuesday, May 29
8:00-17:30
18:30-19:00 Opening Words: General Chair, Program
Co-Chairs Cartier A & B
19:00-20:00 Plenary Speaker: Eric Horvitz, Microsoft, "Attention,
Intention, and Initiative: Toward Insightful Interactive Agents" Cartier A
& B
Chair:
Jörg Müller
20:00-22:00 Welcome Reception
Wednesday, May 30
9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker: Norman Badler,
University of Pennsylvania, "Embodied Agents with Behavioral
Consistency", Ball Room
Chair: Elisabeth Andre
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-12:00 Paper Sessions:
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Session 1 Chair: Manuela Veloso Action Selection & Planning Viger B & C |
Session 2 Chair: Carles Sierra Artificial Market Systems &
E-Commerce Ball Room |
Session 3 Chair: Tom Wagner Software Prototypes Huronie A & B |
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Papers: A Logical Approach to
High-Level Agent Control L Chen , K Bechkoum
, G Clapworthy The BOID
Architecture J Broersen, M Dastani, J
Hulstijn, Z Huang, L van der Torre Posters: Motivational Quantities:
State-based Control for Organizationally Situated Agents T Wagner, V Lesser Learning Symbolic
Navigation Plans from Executing MDP Policies M
Beetz, T Belker A multi-Agent System for
Real-Time Agent Coordination in Uncertain Environments L Lita, J Schulte, S Thrun Identifying partners and
sustenance of stable, effective coalitions PS
Dutta, S Sen A fuzzy model of
reputation in multi-AGENT systems JC Rubiera,
JMM Lopez, JD Muro Designing Protocols Using
the Event Calculus P Yolum, MP Singh Emergent Bucket Brigading
- A simple mechanism for improving performance in multi-robot
constrained-space foraging tasks E
Ostergaard, G Sukhatme, M Mataric Incremental reinforcement
learning for designing multi-agent systems O
Buffet, A Dutech, F Charpillet Using Rat Navigation
Models to Learn Orientation from Visual Input on a Mobile Robot B Browning Architecture and
Preliminary Experimental Results of Emotionally Grounded Symbol Acquisition
by Four-Legged Robot M Fujita, G Costa, T
Takagi, R Hasegawa, J Yokono, H Shimomura Team Learning the Face of
Distributed Information PJ Modi, WM Shen A multi-agent
reinforcement learning method for a partially-observable competitive
game Y Matsuno, T Yamazaki, J Matsuda, S
Ishii External Attribution of Intentional
Notions to Explain and Predict Agent Behaviour CM
Jonker, J Treur, W de Vries |
Papers: An Auction-Based Method
for Decentralized Train Scheduling DC Parkes, LH
Ungar Automated Negotiation
from Declarative Contract Descriptions DM
Reeves, MP Wellman, BN Grosof, HY Chan Posters: A Shopper`s
Assistant S Debnath, PS Dutta, S Sen An Agent Bidding Strategy
Based on Fuzzy Logic in a Continuous Double Auction M He, H Leung MORPHEUS: A More Scalable
Comparison-Shopping Agent J Yang, J Choi SPT: Matchmaking for
Autonomous Agents in Electronic Marketplaces D
Veit, B Fiehn, J Mueller, M Schneider Market-Based Agent
Allocation in Global Information Systems I
Wang Simultaneous Optimization
of Multiple Criteria for Efficient Agent Service Brokering AM Easwaran, J Pitt Vicious Strategies for
Vickrey Auctions F Brandt, G Weiß Holonic Agents for the
Coordination of Supply Webs A Gerber, M
Klusch, C Russ, I Zinnikus Towards a Definition of
Robustness for Market-Style Open Multi-agent Systems M Schillo, H Buerckert, K Fischer, M Klusch Design of a Trust Model
for a Secure Multi-Agent Marketplace S
Robles, J Borrell, J Bigham, L Tokarchuk, L Cuthbert Interaction Without
Committment: An initial approach M
Tsvetovat, G Economou, M Paolucci, K Sycara SPT: Exploring decision
processes in multi-agent automated contracting J
Collins, M Gini Determining Bidding
Strategies in Sequential Auctions:Quasi-linear Utility and Budget
Constraints H Hattori, M Yokoo, Y Sakurai, T
Shintani |
Papers: SPT: Multi-agent
visualization based on multivariate data M
Schroeder, P Noy SPT: Sensible Agents: An
Implemented Multi-Agent System and Testbed KS
Barber, M MacMahon , R McKay Posters: Representing Social
Structures in UML HVD Parunak, J Odell Specifying Agent Behavior
as Concurrent Tasks SA DeLoach UML Class Diagrams -
Revisited in the Context of Agent-Based Systems B Bauer Using Agents to Build a
Practical Implementation of the INCA (Intelligent Community Alarm)
System M Beer, I Anderson, D Huang Trust-based Facilitator
for e-Partnership C Ono, D Kanetomo, K Kim,
BC Paulson, Jr., M Cutkosky, CJ Petrie, Jr. PHOSPHORUS: A Task-Based
Agent Matchmaker Y Gil, S Ramachandran Efficiency improvements
for transactions of web-agents M Schroeder, L
Boro, J McCann MOVIES2GO - An Online
Voting Based Movie Recommender System R
Mukherjee, PS Dutta, G Jonsdottir, S Sen Context Aware Personal
Information Agents JL Arcos, E Plaza Collaborative
Sanctioning: Applications in Restaurant Recommendations based on Timed Mobile Agent
Planning for Distributed Information Retrieval J
Baek, G Kim, H Yeom Interacting
Multi-Agentsystems and Simulation - An exploration into Mole and James B Kullick, A Uhrmacher |
12:00-13:00
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Poster Display 1 Maisonneuve E & F |
Software Demos 1 Maisonneuve A |
Robotics Event 1 Viger A |
13:00-14:00 Software Demos 1, Maisonneuve A
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:15 Paper Sessions:
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Session 4 Chair: Mike Wooldridge Coordinating Multiple Agents Viger B & C |
Session 5 Chair: Lewis Johnson Collaboration between Humans and
Agents Ball Room |
Session 6 Chair: Tom Wagner Software Prototypes Huronie A & B |
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Papers: Entropy and
Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems HVD
PARUNAK, S BRUECKNER Reasoning about commitments
and penalties for coordination between autonomous agents C Beatriz, E Toledo, RA Bourne, NR Jennings Posters: Distributed Constraint
Optimization for Medical Appointment Scheduling M Hannebauer, S Müller Market-mechanisms to
reduce pollution E Freitsis, S Kraus A Repository of Knowledge
About Handling Exceptions in Multi-Agent Systems M Klein Identifying the Scope of
Modeling in Multi-Agent Settings S Noh, PJ
Gmytrasiewicz Distribuited scheduling
of multi-stage production systems A Brun, A Portioli-Staudacher Evolving Coordination
Strategies in Simulated Robot Soccer ALV
Coelho, D Weingaertner, FAC Gomide SPT: Integrating
Multiagent Coordination with Reactive Plan Execution J Cox, B Clement, P Pappachan, E Durfee A Satisficing Multiagent
Plan Coordination Algorithm for Dynamic Domains PM Pappachan, EH Durfee Dynamic Scheduling of a
Fixed Bandwidth Communications Channel for Controlling Multiple Robots PE Rybski, SA Stoeter, DF Hougen, M Gini, N
Papanikolopoulos Adaptive Team Coaching
Using Opponent Model Selection P Riley, M
Veloso A Formal Model of
Responsibilities in Agent-Based Teams TR
Ioerger, JC Johnson Scheduling Multi-Task
Multi-Agent Systems D Rus, C Stein, R Xie |
Papers: The Intelligent
Classroom: Providing Competent Assistance D
Franklin, K Hammond Cooperative Pedestrian
Mobility Aids for the Elderly G Wasson,
S Graves, J Gunderson, R Felder Posters: Tempus Fugit and the Need
for an e-Social Contract JH Kaufman, J
Ruvolo, DA Ford Smart Distance and
WWWaware - A Multi-agent Approach Yi Ye, S
Boies, P Huang, JK Tsotsos A formal framework for
inter-agent dialogues P McBurney, S Parsons Flexible Negotiation and
Dialogue Games M Dastani, J Hulstijn, L van
der Torre SPT: SageTalk: Designing a
Tool for Designing Successful Web-based Social Agents K Isbister, D Klencke Teaching a Robot How to
Read Symbols F Michaud, D Létourneau A reflexive, not impulsive
agent B De Carolis, F de Rosis, C Pelachaud,
I Poggi Using Artificial Emotion
for Long-Term Activity of an Autonomous Robot F
Michaud, J Audet Sympathetic Agents assist
in Route Planning P De Causmaecker, P
Demeester, GV Berghe A Formal Model of Open
Agent Societies A Artikis, J Pitt A reputation model for
gregarious societies J Sabater, C Sierra |
Papers: SPT: Autonomous mobile
manipulators managing perception and failures A
Finzi, F Pirri, M Vaccaro, M Pirrone, M Romano SPT: CMPack: A Complete
Software System for Autonomous Legged Soccer Robots S Lenser, J Bruce, M Veloso Posters: Building Secure Knowledge
Bases: Combining Java Agents and DBagents E Weippl SPT: Software
architecture of SETA, an adaptive Web store shell L Ardissono, A Goy, G Petrone, M Segnan SPT: JADE - A FIPA2000
Compliant Agent Development Environment F
Bellifemine, A Poggi, G Rimassa Building Agents for
Service Provisioning out of Components R
Sesseler Agent Management using
Conversation Patterns C Stergiou, G Arys Portable Resource Control
in the J-SEAL2 Mobile Agent System W Binder,
JG Hulaas, A Villazon An Agent-Based System for
Email Highlighting S Abu-Hakima, C McFarland,
JF Meech Every Agent a Web Server,
Every Agent Community a Intranet... N Combs, M Brinn, T Carrico An Agent-based Approach
for Imagery & Geospatial Computing JJ
Nolan, R Simon, AK Sood Configuration Management
Issues of Multiagent Systems K Sycara, O
Juarez, JA Giampapa Mobile Agents for
Monitoring Distributed Systems D Hart, M
Tudoreanu, E Kraemer Modelling and visualising
agent conversations with Petri Nets M Nowostawski,
M Purvis, S Cranefield Dealing with
interoperability for the development and testing of smart agent-based
services P Charlton, N Lhuillier, D Bonnefoy,
Y Camenen |
16:15-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30
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Poster Display 2 Maisonneuve E & F |
Software Demos 2 Maisonneuve B & C |
Workshop Summaries Viger B & C |
Robotics Event 2 Viger A |
17:30-18:30
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Poster Display 2 Maisonneuve E & F |
Software Demos 2 Maisonneuve A |
Robotics Event 2 Viger A |
Thursday, May 31
9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker: Jordan Pollack, Brandeis
University Ball Room
Chair: Sandip Sen
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-12:00 Paper Sessions:
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Session 7 Chair: Doina Precup Adaptation and Learning Viger B & C |
Session 8 Chair: Jeff Rickel Models of Emotion and Pesonality Ball Room |
Session 9 Chair: Maria Gini Multiagent Teams Huronie A & B |
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An Adaptable Autonomous
Bidding Agent P Stone, M Littman, S Singh, M
Kearns Hierarchical Multi-Agent
Reinforcement Learning R Makar, S Mahadevan,
M Ghavamzadeh Using Background
Knowledge to Speed Reinforcement Learning in Physical Agents DG Shapiro, P Langley, R Shachter Incremental Clustering
for Profile Maintenance in Information Gathering Web Agents GL Somlo, AE Howe |
Social Role Awareness in
Animated Agents H Prendinger, M Ishizuka
Tears and Fears: Modeling
emotions and emotional behaviors in synthetic agents J Gratch, SC Marsella A Framework for Modeling
Human-like Driving Behaviors For Autonomous Vehicles in Driving Simulators
T Al-Shihabi , RR Mourant A Framework for the
Simulation of Agents with Emotions: Report on Experiments with the Iterated
Prisoner`s Dilemma A Lúcia, C Bazzan, RH
Bordini |
Adjustable Autonomy in
Real-World Multi-Agent Environments P Scerri,
D Pynadath, M Tambe Monitoring Deployed Agent
Teams GA Kaminka, DV Pynadath, M Tambe An Architecture for
Action Selection inSimulated Robotic Soccer P
Stone, D McAllester Argumentation as
Distributed Constraint Satisfaction: Applications and Results H Jung, M Tambe, S Kulkarni |
12:00-13:00 Panel: Agents in
E-Commerce Ball Room
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:35 Paper Sessions:
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Session 10 Chair: Nick Jennings Agent Architectures Viger B & C |
Session 11 Chair: Justine Cassell Human-like Qualities of Synthetic
Agents Ball Room |
Session 12 Chair: Tom Wagner Software Prototypes Huronie A & B |
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RAJA - A Resource-Adaptive Java
Agent Infrastructure Y Ding, C Kray, R
Malaka, M Schillo Principles of Intention
Reconsideration M Schut, M Wooldridge Cooperative Multi-Agent
Intelligent Field Terminals J Kosakaya, K
Yamaoka Implementing Soft
Real-Time Agent Control R Vincent, B Horling,
V Lesser, T Wagner Performance Evaluation of
An Agent Server Capable of Hosting Large Numbers of Agents G Yamamoto, H Tai |
Is the wolf angry or ...
just hungry? I Machado, A Paiva, R Prada A Social Reinforcement
Learning Agent CL Isbell, Jr., C Shelton, M
Kearns, S Singh, P Stone It Knows What You're
Going To Do: Adding Anticipation to a Quakebot JE
Laird AgentSalon: Facilitating
Face-to-Face Knowledge Exchange by Conversations of Personal Agents Y Sumi, K Mase HPTS : a behaviour
modelling language for autonomous agents D
Stephane |
SPT: Toward the Holodeck:
Integrating Graphics, Sound, Character and Story WR Swartout, J Gratch, R Hill, S Marsella, J Rickel, C
Kyriakakis SPT: Distributed Sensor
Network for Real Time Tracking R Vincent, B
Horling, R Mailler, J Shen, K Rawlins, V Lesser SPT: Hierarchical Agent
Control: A Framework for Specifying Agent Behavior MS Atkin, GW King, DL Westbrook, B Heeringa, A Hannon, PR
Cohen SPT: A Multi-Agent System
for Automated Genomic Annotation K Decker, X
Zheng, C Schmidt SPT: Integrating tools
and infrastructure for generic multi-agent systems O Gutknecht, J Ferber, F Michel |
16:35-16:50 Coffee Break
16:50-18:20 Robotics Event Final Viger
A
19:30-24:00 Banquet
Friday, June 1
9:00-10:00 Autonomous Agents Award Speaker: Tuomas
Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University, "Agents in Combinatorial
Markets" Ball Room
Chair:
Lewis Johnson
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:15 Paper Sessions:
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Session 13 Chair: Katia Sycara Adaptation and Learning Viger B & C |
Session 14 Chair: Klaus Fischer Agent Communication Languages Ball Room |
Session 15 Chair: Milind Tambe Agent Societies Huronie A & B |
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Evolving and messaging
decision-making agents ES Yu A Reinforcement Learning
Model of Selective Visual Attention S Minut,
S Mahadevan Agents Teaching Agents To
Share Meaning AB Williams, Z Ren, C
Tsatsoulis Wasp Nests for
Self-Configurable Factories VA Cicirello, SF
Smith |
Interaction Patterns and
Observable Commitments in a Multi-Agent Trading Scenario J Pitt, L Kamara, A Artikis Some Thoughts on the
Agent Trust and Delegation (R.O.C.) Y Hu Denotational Semantics
for Agent Communication Languages F Guerin, J
Pitt Architectural Design of a
Multi-Agent System for Handling Metadata Streams D Cruickshank, L Moreau, D De Roure |
Dynamic Reorganization of
Decision-Making Groups KS Barber, CE Martin
Observing Ants: Tracking
and Analyzing the Behavior of Live Insect Colonies T Balch, Z Khan, M Veloso Using Self-Diagnosis to
Adapt Organizational Structures B Horling, B
Benyo, V Lesser Adaptive Task and
Resource Allocation in Multi-Agent Systems S
Fatima, M Wooldridge |
12:15-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:35 Paper Sessions:
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Session 16 Chair: Jeremy Pitt Artificial Market Systems &
E-Commerce Viger B & C |
Session 17 Chair: Thomas Rist Multiagent Communication &
Collaboration Ball Room |
Session 18 Chair: Paolo Petta Agent-Based Software Engineering Huronie A & B |
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Economic Dynamics of
Agents in Multiple Auctions A Byde, C Preist,
C Bartolini An auction agent for bidding
on combinatorial items Y Matsumoto, S Fujita Probabilistic
Pricebots AR Greenwald, JO Kephart A Dynamic Mechanism for
Time-Constrained Trading SPM Choi, J Liu A Stable and Efficient
Buyer Coalition Formatin Scheme for e-marketplaces J Yamamoto, K Sycara |
How Communication Can
Improve the Performance of Multi-Agent Systems K
Jim, CL Giles Intelligent Agents for an
Artificial Market System N Karacapilidis, P
Moraitis Terrain Coverage with Ant
Robots: A Simulation Study S Koenig, Y Liu Matchmaking Among Minimal
Agents Without a Facilitator E Ogston, S
Vassiliadis Communication Decisions
in Multi-agent Cooperation: Model and Experiments P Xuan, V Lesser, S Zilberstein |
Evaluation of Modeling
Techniques for Agent-Based Systems O Shehory,
A Sturm A Development Toolkit to
Realize Autonomous and Inter-operable Agents F
Bergenti, A Poggi Improving the
Agent-Oriented Modeling Process by Roles R
Depke, R Heckel, JM Küster A Knowledge Level
Software Engineering Methodology for Agent Oriented Programming A Perini, F Giunchiglia, J Mylopoulos, P Bresciani, P
Giorgini Mobile Agent Security
with the IPEditor Development Tool and the Mobile UNITY Language Y Tahara, A Ohsuga, S Honiden |
15:35-15:45 Closing
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