| Session 1A: Agent 
	Oriented Software Engineering | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Nick Jennings | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | ROADMAP: 
	Extending the Gaia Methodology for Complex Open Systems | Thomas Juan, Adrian Pearce, Leon Sterling | 
    
    
	|  | Multiagent 
	Systems Specification by UML Statecharts Aiming at Intelligent 
	Manufacturing | Toshiaki Arai, Frieder Stolzenburg | 
    
    
	|  | The Cognitive 
	Agents Specification Language and Verification Environment for 
	Multiagent Systems | Steven Shapiro, Yves Lesperance, Hector J. 
	Levesque | 
    
    
	|  | From AOSE 
	Methodology to Agent Implementation | Massonet Philippe, Deville Yves, Neve 
	Cédric | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | The Tropos 
	Software Development Methodology: Processes, Models and 
	Diagrams | Fausto Giunchiglia, John Mylopoulos, Anna 
	Perini | 
    
    
	|  | Prometheus: A 
	Methodology for Developing Intelligent Agents | Lin Padgham, Michael Winikoff | 
    
    
	|  | Towards 
	Industrially Applicable Modeling Technique for Agent-Based 
	Systems | Arnon Sturm, Onn Shehory | 
    
    
	|  | Agent-Oriented 
	Software Engineering for Successful TAC Participation | Clemens Fritschi, Klaus Dorer | 
    
    
	|  | HAMAC: an 
	agent-based programming method | Gilles Klein, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, 
	Patrick Taillibert | 
    
    
	|  | P2P Based Knowledge Source Discovery 
	on Research Support System Papits | Tadachika Ozono, Shoji Goto, Nobuhiro Fujimaki, 
	Toramatsu Shintai | 
    
    
	|  | Specifying 
	Agents with UML in Robotic Soccer | Jan Murray | 
    
    
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	| Session 1B: Bidding 
	and Bargaining Agents I | 
    
        
	| Session Chair: Makoto Yokoo | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | A Negotiation 
	Model of Incomplete Information Under Time Constraints | Cao Da-Jun, Xu Liang-xian | 
    
    
	|  | An Alternating 
	Offers Bargaining Model for Computationally Limited Agents | Kate Larson, Tuomas Sandholm | 
    
    
	|  | Multi-Issue 
	Negotiation Under Time Constraints | S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas 
	R. Jennings | 
    
    
	|  | A Peer-to-Peer 
	Agent Auction | Elth Ogston, Stamatis Vassiliadis | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | Bidders with 
	Hard Valuation Problems | Kate Larson, Tuomas Sandholm | 
    
    
	|  | Randomized 
	Strategic Demand Reduction: Getting More by Asking for Less | Paul S.A. Reitsma, Peter Stone, Janos A. 
	Csirik, Michael L. Littman | 
    
    
	|  | Caching in 
	Multi-unit combinatorial auctions | Kidane Asrat Ghebreamlak, Arne Andersson | 
    
    
	|  | A 
	Strategy-Proof Multiunit Double Auction Mechanism | Pu Huang, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Katia Sycara | 
    
    
	|  | Preference 
	Elicitation in Combinatorial Auctions | Wolfram Conen, Tuomas Sandholm | 
    
    
	|  | A Multi-agent 
	Queuing model for Resource Allocations in a Non-Cooperative 
	Game | Pinata Winoto, Tiffany Ya Tang | 
    
    
	|  | KODAMA 
	Project: from Design to Implementation of a Distributed Multi-Agent 
	System | Guoqiang Zhong, Kenìchi Takahashi 
	Takahashi, Satoshi Amamiya, Tsunenori Mine, Makoto Amamiya | 
    
    
	|  | Kodama: Towards 
	a Distributed Web Searching | Tarek Helmy, Satoshi Amamiya, Makoto Amamiya | 
    
    
	| Subsession: Multi-agent Coordination
 | Coordination 
	Mechanisms for Dependency Relationships among Multiple Agents | Wei Chen, Keith S. Decker | 
    
    
	|  | Modeling Multi-Agent 
	Communication Contexts | Antonella Di Stefano, Corrado Santoro | 
    
    
    
    
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	| Session 1C: Trust and 
	Reputation | 
    
        
	| Session Chair: Rino Falcone | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Supervised 
	Interaction - Creating a Web of Trust for Contracting Agents in 
	Electronic Environments | Martin J. Kollingbaum, Timothy J. Norman | 
    
    
	|  | Robustness of Reputation-based Trust: 
	Boolean Case | Sandip Sen, Neelima Sajja | 
    
    
	|  | An Evidential 
	Model of Distributed Reputation Management | Bin Yu, Munindar P. Singh | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | A Multi-Agent 
	Bioinformatics Integration System with Adjustable Autonomy | Konstantinos Karasavvas, Albert Burger, Richard 
	Baldock | 
    
    
	|  | Developing 
	Trust in Recommender Agents | Miquel Montaner, Beatriz López, Josep 
	Lluís de la Rosa | 
    
    
	|  | A Coalition 
	Formation Mechanism Based on Inter-Agent Trust Relationships | Silvia Breban, Julita Vassileva | 
    
    
	|  | Equilibrium 
	Reputation Mechanism for Mobile Agent based Electronic Commerce | XiaoFeng Wang, Kartik Hosanagar, Rammayya 
	Krishnan, Pradeep K Khosla | 
    
    
	|  | Incentive 
	Compatible Trading Mechanism for Trust Revelation | Sviatoslav Braynov, Tuomas Sandholm | 
    
    
	| Subsession: Evolution, adaptation, and learning
 | On-Line 
	Incremental Learning in Bilateral Multi-issue Negotiation | Von-Wun Soo, Chun-An Hung | 
    
    
	|  | A 
	Domain-Independent Diagnosis Tool to Adapt Organizations in 
	Learning Scenarios | Bazzan, A.L.C., Lindemann, V., Lesser, V.R. | 
    
    
    
    
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	| Session 1D: 
	Self-Organizing Systems | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Jiming Liu | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Programmable 
	Self-Assembly Using Biologically-Inspired Multiagent Control | Radhika Nagpal | 
    
    
	|  | How social 
	spiders inspired an approach for region detection | Bourjot Christine, Chevrier Vincent, Thomas 
	Vincent | 
    
    
	|  | Evolving 
	Adaptive Pheromone Path Planning Mechanisms | John A. Sauter, Robert Matthews, H. Van Dyke 
	Parunak, Sven Brueckner | 
    
    
	|  | Combining 
	amorphous computing and reactive agent-based systems: a paradigm 
	for pervasive intelligence? | David Servat, Alexis Drogoul | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | Digital Pheromone 
	Mechanisms for Coordination of Unmanned Vehicles | H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, John A. 
	Sauter, Robert Savit | 
    
    
	|  | Dynamic 
	Organization of Multi-Agent Systems | P. Mathieu, JC. Routier, Y. Secq | 
    
    
	|  | The Effects of 
	Cooperation on Multiagent Search in Task-Oriented Domains | Jose M Vidal | 
    
    
	|  | From Design to 
	Intention: Signs of a Revolution | Franco Zambonelli, H. Van Dyke Parunak | 
    
    
	|  | Understanding 
	Emergent Web Regularities with Information Foraging Agents | Jiming Liu, Shiwu Zhang, Yiming Ye | 
    
    
	|  | Self Reordering 
	in Polynomial Space Asynchronous Search | Silaghi, Marius-Calin, Faltings, Boi | 
    
    
	|  | Agent 
	Organizations with Utility-Based Fuzzy Coalitions | Leonid B. Sheremetov, José C Romero 
	Cortés | 
    
    
	|  | A Fuzzy System Based Approach 
	    to Social Modeling in Multi-Agent Systems | Esteve del Acebo, Peplluís de la Rosa | 
    
    
	|  | Embodied 
	Intentional Dynamics of Bacterial Behaviour | C.M. Jonker, J.L. Snoep, J. Treur, 
	H.V. Westerhoff, W.C.A. Wijngaards | 
    
    
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	| Session 2A: Markets 
	and Auctions I | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Jeff Rosenschein | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Risk and 
	Expectations in a-priori Time Allocation in Multi-Agent 
	Contracting | Alexander Babanov, John Collins, Maria Gini | 
    
    
	|  | Designing an 
	Auction Protocol under Asymmetric Information on Nature's 
	Selection | Takayuki Ito, Makoto Yokoo, Shigeo Matsubara | 
    
    
	|  | Winner 
	Determination in Combinatorial Auction Generalizations | Tuomas Sandholm, Subhash Suri, Andrew Gilpin, 
	David Levine | 
    
    
	|  | Protocols and 
	Strategies for Automated Multi Attributes Auctions | Esther David, Rina Azulay, Sarit Kraus | 
    
    
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	| Subsession: Agent Architectures
 | Agent Behavior 
	Architectures, A MAS Framework Comparison | Steven P. Fonseca, Martin L. Griss, Reed 
	Letsinger | 
    
    
	|  | A Multi-level 
	Infrastructure for Agent-oriented Development | Martin Purvis, Stephen Cranefield, Mariusz 
	Nowostawski | 
    
    
	|  | Architecting 
	Agents Using Core Competencies | K. S. Barber, D. N. Lam | 
    
    
	|  | Towards a 
	Real-time Architecture for Time-aware Agents | Konstantinos Prouskas, Jeremy Pitt | 
    
    
	|  | Multi-Agent 
	and Software Architectures | Paolo Giorgini, Manuel Kolp, John Mylopoulos | 
    
    
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	| Session 2B: Multiagent 
	Simulation | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Alexis Drogoul | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Multi Agent 
	Simulation Of Unorganized Traffic | Praveen Paruchuri, Alok Reddy Pullalarevu, 
	Kamalakar Karlapalem | 
    
    
	|  | Agent-based 
	interaction analysis of consumer behavior | Lamjed Ben Said, Alexis Drogoul, Thierry Bouron | 
    
    
	|  | ACUMEN: 
	Amplifying Control and Understanding of Multiple ENtities | Jan Allbeck, Karin Kipper, Charles Adams, 
	William Schuler, Elena Zoubanova, Norman Badler, Martha Palmer, 
	Aravind Joshi | 
    
    
	|  | Simulation 
	Level of Detail for Multiagent Control | David C. Brogan, Jessica K. Hodgins | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | Two Multi-Agent 
	Model of Gender Interaction in Artificial Society | Julia V. Frolova, Victor V. Korobitsin | 
    
    
	|  | Variance in 
	Converging Puck Cluster Sizes | Amos Zhang, Michael Chung, Brian Lee, Ryan Cho, 
	Sanza Kazadi, Rahul Vishwanath | 
    
    
	|  | An Agent-Based 
	Simulation for Water Sharing Between Different Users. | Marjorie LE BARS, Jean-Marie ATTONATY, Suzanne 
	Pinson | 
    
    
	|  | Assimilation and 
	Survival in Cyberspace | Robert Ghanea-Hercock | 
    
    
	|  | A Multiagent 
	Interaction Paradigm for Physiological Process Control | Francesco Amigoni, Nicola Gatti, Marco 
	Somalvico | 
    
    
	|  | Simulation of 
	Adaptive Agents: Learning Heuristics for Route Choice in a Commuter 
	Scenario | Franziska Kluegl, Ana Lucia C. Bazzan | 
    
    
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	| Session 2C: Life-Like 
	and Believable Qualities | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Jeff Rickel | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Interacting 
	with Virtual Characters in Interactive Storytelling | Marc Cavazza, Fred Charles, Steven J. Mead | 
    
    
	|  | Using an 
	Ethologically-Inspired Model to Learn Apparent Temporal Causality 
	for Planning in Synthetic Creatures | Robert Burke, Bruce Blumberg | 
    
    
	|  | A step toward 
	irrationality: using emotion to change belief | Stacy Marsella, Jonathan Gratch | 
    
    
	|  | Believability 
	through Context: Using "knowledge in the world" to create 
	intelligent characters | Patrick Doyle | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | SCREAM: 
	Scripting Emotion-based Agent Minds | Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka | 
    
    
	|  | Increasing the 
	Coherence between Human Beings and Virtual Agents | Pilar Herrero, Angelica de Antonio, Steve 
	Benford, Chris Greenhalgh | 
    
    
	|  | Virtual Humans 
	Personified | Sumedha Kshirsagar, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann | 
    
    
	|  | A Motivational 
	System That Drives the Development of Activity | Matthew D. Schmill, Paul R. Cohen | 
    
    
	|  | Emotions, 
	Personality and Feelings in Agent Design | Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz, Christine L. Lisetti | 
    
    
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	| Session 2D: Group and 
	Organizational Dynamics | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Munindar Singh | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Extracting 
	Reputation in Multi Agent Systems by means of Social Network 
	topology | Josep M. Pujol, Ramon Sanguesa, Jordi Delgado | 
    
    
	|  | Reputation and 
	Social Network Analysis in Multi-Agent systems | Jordi Sabater, Carles Sierra | 
    
    
	|  | Multi-Agent 
	Dependence by Dependence Graphs | Jaime Simao Sichman, Rosaria Conte | 
    
    
	|  | Group 
	delegation and responsibility | Timothy J Norman, Chris Reed | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | A Robust 
	Cooperation Architecture for Teams of UCAVs | François Legras | 
    
    
	|  | MOISE+: Towards 
	a structural, functional, and deontic model for MAS organization | Jomi Fred Hubner, Jaime Simao Sichman, Olivier 
	Boissier | 
    
    
	|  | Integrative Negotiation In 
	Complex Organizational Agent Systems | Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser, Tom Wagner | 
    
    
	|  | A Multi-Agent 
	Architecture to Support Synchronous Collaborative Learning in an 
	International Environment | Martin D. Beer, Janice E. Whatley | 
    
    
	|  | The Integrated 
	Modeling of Multi-Agent Systems and their Environment | Sehl Mellouli, Guy W. Mineau, Daniel Pascot | 
    
    
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	| Session 3A: Markets 
	and Auctions II | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Sarit Kraus | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Congregating 
	and Market Formation | Christopher H. Brooks, Edmund H. Durfee | 
    
    
	|  | An 
	Average-case Budget-Non-Negative Double Auction Protocol | Yuko Sakurai, Makoto Yokoo | 
    
    
	|  | Secure 
	Multi-agent Dynamic Programming based on Homomorphic Encryption and 
	its Application to Combinatorial Auctions | Makoto Yokoo, Koutarou Suzuki | 
    
    
	|  | Algorithm for 
	Combinatorial Coalition Formation and Payoff Division in an 
	Electronic Marketplace | Cuihong Li, Katia Sycara | 
    
    
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	| Session 3B: Robot 
	Architectures | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Elisabeth André | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | A Hybrid 
	Mobile Robot Architecture with Integrated Planning and Control | Kian Hsiang Low, Wee Kheng Leow, Marcelo H. 
	Ang, Jr. | 
    
    
	|  | A Hierarchical 
	Architecture for Behavior-Based Robots | Monica N. Nicolescu, Maja J. Mataric | 
    
    
	|  | On the 
	Development of Cooperative Behavior-Based Mobile Manipulators | Bruno Santos Pimentel, Guilherme Augusto Silva 
	Pereira, Mario Fernando Montenegro Campos | 
    
    
	|  | Finding Optimal 
	Path in Unknown Physical Environments | Ariel Felner, Roni Stern, Sarit Kraus | 
    
    
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	| Session 3C: Evolution, 
	Adaption and Learning I | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Sandip Sen | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Mutual online 
	concept learning for multiple agents | Jun Wang, Les Gasser | 
    
    
	|  | A Multiagent 
	Reinforcement Learning Algorithm using Extended Optimal Response | Nobuo Suematsu, Akira Hayashi | 
    
    
	|  | Learning 
	Sequences of Actions in Collectives of Autonomous Agents | Kagan Tumer, Adrian Agogino, David Wolpert | 
    
    
	|  | A bartering 
	approach to improve multiagent learning | Santiago Ontañon, Enric Plaza | 
    
    
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	| Session 4B Multiagent 
	Resource Allocation | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Tuomas Sandholm | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Effort Profiles 
	in Multi-Agent Resource Allocation | H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, John A. 
	Sauter, Robert Savit | 
    
    
	|  | Collaborative 
	Assignment :  A Multiagent Negotiation Approach Using BDI 
	Concepts | Kiam Tian Seow, Khee Yin How | 
    
    
	|  | Negotiating 
	Complex Contracts | Mark Klein, Peyman Faratin, Hiroki Sayama, 
	Yaneer Bar-Yam | 
    
    
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	| Session 4C: 
	Argumentation, Persuasion, and Deception | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Carles Sierra | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | An analysis of 
	formal inter-agent dialogues | Simon Parsons, Michael Wooldridge, Leila Amgoud | 
    
    
	|  | Desiderata for 
	Agent Argumentation Protocols | Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons, Michael 
	Wooldridge | 
    
    
	|  | Argument 
	Exchange in Heterogeneous Electronic Commerce Environments | Luis Brito, Jose Neves | 
    
    
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	| Session 5A: Agent 
	Communication Languages and Protocols | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Michael Huhns | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Open Protocol 
	Design for complex Interactions in Multi-agent Systems | Hamza Mazouzi, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, 
	Serge Haddad | 
    
    
	|  | Flexible 
	Protocol Specification and Execution: Applying Event Calculus 
	Planning using Commitments | Pinar Yolum, Munindar P. Singh | 
    
    
	|  | Operational 
	Specification of a Commitment-Based Agent Communication 
	Language | Nicoletta Fornara, Marco Colombetti | 
    
    
	|  | Representing 
	and Executing Protocols as Joint Actions | Sanjeev Kumar, Marcus J. Huber, Philip R. Cohen | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | CASA: A 
	Distributed Holonic Multi-Agent Architecture for Timber Production | Andreas Gerber, Nils Kammenhuber, Matthias Klusch | 
    
    
	|  | Implementing 
	agent communication languages directly from UML specifications | Stephen Cranefield, Mariusz Nowostawski, Martin 
	Purvis | 
    
    
	|  | The Design of 
	Agent Communication Languages: An Organizational Approach | Juan Manuel Serrano, Sascha Ossowski | 
    
    
	|  | Proving 
	Properties of Open Agent Systems | Frank Guerin, Jeremy Pitt | 
    
    
	|  | Negotiation as a 
	Mechanism for Language Evolution | Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz | 
    
    
	|  | Facilitating Message 
	Exchange through Middle Agents | Terry R. Payne, Massimo Paolucci, Rahul Singh, 
	Katia Sycara | 
    
    
	|  | Automatic 
	ontology mapping for agent communication | F. Wiesman, N. Roos, P. Vogt | 
    
    
	|  | Supporting Software Agents on Small Devices | Sasu Tarkoma, Mikko Laukkanen | 
    
    
	|  | Direct 
	Execution of Team Specifications in STAPLE | Sanjeev Kumar, Philip R. Cohen, Marcus J. Hube | 
    
    
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	| Session 5B: Mobile 
	Software Agents | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Franco Zambonelli | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Core 
	Specification and Experiments in DIET: A Decentralised 
	Ecosystem-inspired Mobile Agent System | Cefn Hoile, Fang Wang, Erwin Bonsma, Paul 
	Marrow | 
    
    
	|  | ACQUIRE: 
	Agent-based Complex QUery and Information Retrieval Engine | Subrata Das, Kurt Shuster | 
    
    
	|  | An optimal 
	location update and searching algorithm for tracking mobile 
	agent | Li Tie Yan, Lam Kwok Yan | 
    
    
	|  | Just-In-Time 
	Information Sharing Architectures in Multiagent Systems | Jonathan Carter, Ali A. Ghorbani, Stephen Marsh | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | Detecting 
	Anomalous Agents in Mobile Agent System: A Preliminary Approach | Tie-Yan Li, Kwok-Yan Li | 
    
    
	|  | On Splitting 
	BDI Agents | Xiaocong Fan | 
    
    
	|  | An Agent Based 
	Framework for Virtual Medical Devices | Zeljko Obrenovic, Dusan Starcevic, Emil 
	Jovanov, Vlada Radivojevic | 
    
    
	|  | Autonomous 
	Mobile Objects In CORBA-Based Distributed Systems | Armin Stranjak, Igor Cavrak, Damir Kovacic, 
	Mario Zagar | 
    
    
	|  | Mobile Agents 
	point the WAY: Context Sensitive Service Delivery through Mobile 
	Lightweight Agents | T.D. Lowen, P.T.  O' Hare, G.M.P O' Hare | 
    
    
	|  | Software Agents 
	to Support Mobile Services | Zakaria Maamar, Wathiq Mansoor | 
    
    
	| Subsession: Scaleability, robustness, and complexity
 | BDI Agents for 
	Game Development | Arran Bartish, Charles Thevathayan | 
    
    
	|  | A 
	Knowledge-Based Methodology for Designing Robust Multi-Agent 
	Systems | Mark Klein, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Juan 
	Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar | 
    
    
	|  | A 
	fault-tolerant open MAS | Laurent Vercouter | 
    
    
	|  | A 
	Fault-Tolerant MultiAgent Framework | Z. Guessoum, J.-P. Briot, S. Charpentier, O. 
	Marin, P. Sens | 
    
    
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	| Session 5C: 
	Conversational Agents | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Candace Sidner | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Embodied Contextual Agent 
	in Information Delivering Application | Catherine Pelachaud, Valeria Carofiglio , 
	Berardina De Carolis, Fiorella de Rosis, Isabella Poggi | 
    
    
	|  | Embodied 
	Agents for Multi-party Dialogue in Immersive Virtual Worlds | David Traum, Jeff Rickel | 
    
    
	|  | A Problem 
	Solving Model for Collaborative Agents | James Allen, Nate Blaylock, George Ferguson | 
    
    
	|  | A Plug-in 
	Architecture for Generating Collaborative Agent Responses | Charles Rich, Neal Lesh, Jeff Rickel | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | Multiple 
	Character-agents Interface: An Information Integration Platform 
	Where Multiple Agents and Human User Collaborate | Yasuhiko Kitamura, Hideki Tsujimoto, Teruhiro 
	Yamada, Taizo Yamamoto | 
    
    
	|  | DOrAM: Real 
	Answers to Real Questions | Taras Mahlin, Claudia V. Goldman, Jeffrey S. 
	Rosenschein | 
    
    
	|  | Helping 
	Conversational Agents to find Informative Responses: Query 
	Expansion Methods for Chatterbots | Marcello L'Abbate, Ulrich Thiel | 
    
    
	|  | Modeling 
	Dialogues in Multi-Agent Systems | Karacapilidis Nikos, Moraitis Pavlos | 
    
    
	|  | Users Talk to 
	their Model Trains: Interaction with a Speech-based Multi-Agent 
	System | Alexander Huber, Bernd Ludwig | 
    
    
	|  | RCal: A Case 
	Study on Semantic Web Agents | Terry R. Payne, Rahul Singh, Katia Sycara | 
    
    
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	| Session 5D: 
	Formalisms and Logics I | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: John-Jules Meyer | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | What does it 
	mean that an agent is performing a typical procedure? A formal 
	definition in Situation Calculus | Robert Demolombe, Erwan Hamon | 
    
    
	|  | Agents dealing 
	with Time and Uncertainty | Juergen Dix, Sarit Kraus, VS Subrahmanian | 
    
    
	|  | A logic of 
	intention with cooperation principles and with assertive speech 
	acts as communication primitives | Andreas Herzig, Dominique Longin | 
    
    
	|  | Deduction 
	Systems for BDI Logics Using Sequent Calculus | Nide Naoyuki, Shiro Takata | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | Expressing 
	Systems Capabilities for Knowledge Coordination | Eudenia Xavier Meneses, Flávio Soares 
	Correa da Silva | 
    
    
	|  | Agent 
	Negotiation as Proof Search in Linear Logic | James Harland, Michael Winikoff | 
    
    
	|  | Coordinating 
	the Safe Execution of Tasks in a Constrained Multi-Agent System | Anna Ciampolini, Evelina Lamma, Paola Mello, 
	Paolo Torroni | 
    
    
	|  | Fuzzy 
	argumentation for negotiating agents | Michael Schroeder, Ralf Schweimeier | 
    
    
	|  | Planning in a 
	Multi-Agent Environment: Theory and Practice | Juergen Dix, Hector Munoz-Avila, Dana Nau, 
	Lingling Zhang | 
        
    
	|  | The Bit Transmission 
	Problem Revisited | Alessio Lomuscio, Marek Sergot | 
    
    
	|  | A Logic for 
	Semi-Public Communication in Multi-Agent Systems | Laszlo Aszalos, Andreas Herzig | 
    
    
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	| Session 6A: 
	Applications | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: James Allen | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | The Techsat-21 
	Autonomous Science Agent | Steve Chien, Robert Sherwood, Rebecca Castano, 
	Brian Williams, Paul Zetocha, Pat Capaellare | 
    
    
	|  | An Open Agent 
	Architecture for Assisting Elder Independence | Karen Z Haigh, John Phelps, Christopher W Geib | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | Personal Access 
	to a Worlwide Agent Network | António Lopes, Sérgio Gaio, 
	Luís Botelho | 
    
    
	|  | A first step 
	towards providing health-care agent-based services to mobile 
	users | Antonio Moreno, David Isern | 
    
    
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	| Session 6B: Social 
	Order | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Constraining 
	Autonomy through Norms | Fabiola Lopez y Lopez, Michael Luck, Mark 
	d'Inverno | 
    
    
	|  | An Approach to 
	the Analysis and Design of Multiagent Systems Based on Interaction 
	Frames | Michael Rovatsos, Gerhard Weiss, Marco Wolf | 
    
    
	|  | Methodological 
	principles in construction and observation of open computational 
	systems | Martin Fredriksson, Rune Gustavsson | 
    
    
	|  | Towards an 
	Organizational Model for Agent Societies Using Contracts | Virginia Dignum, John-Jules Meyer, Hans Weigand | 
    
    
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	| Session 6C: Mobile 
	Embodied Agents | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Hideyuki Nakashima | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | The AGILO 
	Autonomous Robot Soccer Team: Computational Principles, 
	Experiences, and Perspectives | Michael Beetz, Sebastian Buck, Robert Hanek, 
	Thorsten Schmitt | 
    
    
	|  | How to Make a 
	Self-Reconfigurable Robot Run | Kasper Stoy, Wei-Min Shen, Peter Will | 
    
    
	|  | Anticipating Where to Look: 
	Predicting the Movements of Mobile Agents in Complex Terrain | Randall W. Hill, Jr., Youngjun Kim, Jonathan 
	Gratch | 
    
    
	|  | Real-time Multi-target Tracking 
	by Cooperative Distributed Active Vision Agents | Norimichi Ukita, Takashi Matsuyama | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | Multiagent 
	Reactive Plan Application Learning in Dynamic Environments | Huseyin Sevay, Costas Tsatsoulis | 
    
    
	|  | Reinforcement 
	learning for landmark-based robot navigation | Didac Busquets, Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, Carles 
	Sierra, Thomas G. Dietterich | 
    
    
	|  | Coevolutive 
	Planning In Markov Decision Processes | Bruno Scherrer, François Charpillet | 
    
    
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	| Session 6D: Agent 
	Analysis and Validation | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Jan Treur | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Model checking 
	multiagent systems with MABLE | Michael Wooldridge, Michael Fisher, 
	Mac-Philippe Huget, Simon Parsons | 
    
    
	|  | Debugging 
	Multi-Agent Systems Using Design Artifacts:  The Case of 
	Interaction Protocols | David Poutakidis, Lin Padgham, Michael 
	Winikoff | 
    
    
	|  | An Approach to 
	Conforming a MAS into a FIPA-compliant system | Christos Georgousopoulos, Omer F. Rana | 
    
    
	|  | The Computational Complexity 
	of Boolean and Stochastic Agent Design Problems | Paul E. Dunne, Michael Wooldridge, Michael Laurence | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
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	| Subsession: Distributed Problem Solving
 | Interaction Graphs 
	for Planning Problem Decomposition | Mark Iwen, Amol D. Mali | 
    
    
	|  | An analysis of 
	Multi-Agent Diagnosis | Nico Roos, Annette ten Teije, Andre Bos, Cees 
	Witteveen | 
    
    
	|  | Distributed 
	Problem Solving in Sensor Networks | Weixiong Zhang, Zhidong Deng, Guandong Wang, 
	Lars Wittenburg, Zhao Xing | 
    
    
	|  | Using Agents to 
	Reach an Ontology Consensus | Andrew Brent Williams, Todd Krygowski, George 
	Thomas | 
    
    
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	| Session 7A: Bidding 
	and Bargaining Agents II | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Katia Sycara | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Strategic 
	Sequential Bidding in Auctions using Dynamic Programming | Gerald Tesauro, Jonathan L. Bredin | 
    
    
	|  | The Eager 
	Bidder Problem: A Fundamental Problem of DAI and Selected 
	Solutions | Michael Schillo, Klaus Fischer, Christian Kray | 
    
    
	|  | Optimal 
	sequencing of individually rational contracts | Partha Sarathi Dutta, Sandip Sen | 
    
    
	|  | Decision 
	Procedures for Multiple Auctions | Andrew Byde, Chris Preist, Nicholas R Jennings | 
    
    
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	| Session 7B: Agent 
	Analysis and Design | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Liz Sonenberg | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Skeleton-based 
	Agent Development for Electronic Institutions | Wamberto W. Vasconcelos, Jordi Sabater, Carles 
	Sierra, Joaquim Queirol | 
    
    
	|  | Extreme 
	Programming of Multi-Agent Systems | Holger Knublauch | 
    
    
	|  | Specifying 
	agent observable behaviour | Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini | 
    
    
	|  | ViP: A Visual 
	Programming Language for Plan Execution Systems | David Kinny | 
    
    
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	| Session 7C: Theories 
	of Agency, Autonomy, and Teamwork | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Milind Tambe | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | The ABC of 
	Rational Agent Modelling | Michael Fisher, Chiara Ghidini | 
    
    
	|  | Why the Elf Acted Autonomously: 
	Towards a Theory of Adjustable Autonomy | Paul Scerri, David V. Pynadath, Milind Tambe | 
    
    
	|  | A Dynamic Perspective on an Agent's 
	Mental States and Interaction with its Environment | C.M. Jonker, J. Treur | 
    
    
	|  | Multiagent 
	Teamwork: Analyzing the Optimality and Complexity of Key Theories 
	and Models | David V. Pynadath, Milind Tambe | 
    
    
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	| Session 8B: 
	Scalability and Robustness | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Ed Durfee | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Towards Robust 
	Teams with Many Agents | Gal A. Kaminka | 
    
    
	|  | Improving 
	Fault Tolerance by Replicating Agents | Alan Fedoruk, Ralph Deters | 
    
    
	|  | MACE3J: Fast, 
	Flexible Distributed Simulation of Large, Large-Grain Multi-Agent 
	Systems | Les Gasser, Kelvin Kakugawa | 
    
    
	|  | An Industrial 
	Application of Agents for Dynamic Planning and Scheduling | Min-Jung Yoo | 
    
    
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	| Session 8C: 
	Formalisms and Logics II | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Alessio Lomuscio | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Ascribing 
	beliefs to resource bounded agents | Natasha Alechina, Brian Logan | 
    
    
	|  | Iterated 
	belief changed in MAS | Jan-Willem Roorda, Wiebe van der Hoek, 
	John-Jules Meyer | 
    
    
	|  | Speculative 
	Computation with Multi-Agent Belief Revision | Ken Satoh, Keiji Yamamoto | 
    
    
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	| Session 9A: 
	Applications in Commerce | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Catholijn Jonker | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | IntelliShopper: A Proactive, 
	Personal, Private Shopping Assistant | Filippo Menczer, Nick Street, Narayan 
	Vishwakarma, Alvaro Monge', Markus Jakobsson | 
    
    
	|  | How valuable 
	are shopbots? | Panos M. Markopoulos, Jeffrey O. Kephart | 
    
    
	|  | Automating 
	Supply-Chain Management | Michael N. Huhns, Larry M. Stephens, Nenad 
	Ivezic | 
    
    
	|  | A Multi-Agent 
	Platform for a Corporate Semantic Web | Fabien Gandon, Laurent Berthelot, Rose 
	Dieng-Kuntz | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | Risk 
	Management in Natural Gas Supply Chain | Wei Yang, Katia Sycara | 
    
    
	|  | Bi-concurrent 
	Layered Architecture for eCommerce Agents | Onn Shehory, Maria Goldstein, Adi Shulman, 
	Arnon Sturm, Boris Yurovitsky | 
    
    
	|  | Semantic 
	Resolution for E-Commerce | Yun Peng, Youyong Zou, Xiaocheng Luan, Nenad 
	Ivezic, Michael Gruninger, Albert Jones | 
    
    
	|  | CoMMA A 
	Multi-Agent System for Corporate Memory Management | F. Bergenti, A. Poggi, G. Rimassa, P. Turci | 
    
    
	|  | Conflict Management 
	for Agent Guidance | Karen L. Myers, David N. Morley | 
    
    
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	| Session 9B: 
	Coordination and Cooperation I | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Keith Decker | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Learning to 
	Select a Coordination Mechanism | Cora B. Excelente-Toledo, Nicholas R. Jennings | 
    
    
	|  | The evolution 
	and stability of cooperative traits | Sandip Sen, Partha Sarathi Dutta | 
    
    
	|  | Learning and 
	Decision-Making for Intention Reconciliation | Sanmay Das, Barbara Grosz, Avi Pfeffer | 
    
    
	|  | Vowels 
	Co-ordination Model | Joao Luis T. da Silva, Yves Demazeau | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | A Multi-agent 
	System for Collaborative Bookmarking | Rushed Kanawati, Maria Malek | 
    
    
	|  | The Mediation 
	Algorithm for Real Time Negotiation | Timothy Rauenbusch | 
    
    
	|  | Evolution of 
	collective commitment during reconfiguration | Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Rineke Verbrugge | 
    
    
	|  | An Architecture 
	to Implement Agents co-operating in Dynamic Environments | Andrea Bonarini, Marcello Restelli | 
    
    
	|  | Towards 
	Any-Team Coaching in Adversarial Domains | Patrick Riley, Manuela Veloso, Gal Kaminka | 
    
    
	|  | Hierarchical 
	organizations for real-time large-scale task and team 
	environments | Osher Yadgar, Sarit Kraus, Charles L. Ortiz, 
	Jr. | 
    
    
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	| Session 9C: Evolution, 
	Adaptation, and Learning II | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Bernard Burg | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Learning and 
	Exploiting Context in Agents | Bruce Edmonds | 
    
    
	|  | Experience 
	Generalization for Concurrent Reinforcement Learners: the 
	Minimax-QS Algorithm | Carlos H. C. Ribeiro, Rene Pegoraro, Anna H. 
	Reali-Costa | 
    
    
	|  | Being the new 
	guy in an experienced team - enhancing training on the job | Joerg Denzinger, Sean Ennis | 
    
    
	|  | Modeling And 
	Design Monitor Agent Using Layered Control Architecture | Tang Chao, Feng Shan, Wang Pan | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | LEAF: 
	A FIPA Compliant Software Toolkit for Learning Based MAS | Steven Lynden, Omer F. Rana | 
    
    
	|  | Construction of 
	a Learning Agent Handling Its Rewards According to Environmental 
	Situations | Koichi Moriyama, Masayuki Numao | 
    
    
	|  | Learning to 
	weigh basic behaviors in Scalable Agents | Olivier Buffet, Alain Dutech, François 
	Charpillet | 
    
    
	|  | An Architecture 
	of Active Agent Repository for Dynamic Networking | Takahiro Uchiya, Takashi Katoh, Takuo Suganuma, 
	Tetsuo Kinoshita, Norio Shiratori | 
    
    
	|  | Emergence and 
	Evolution of Agent-based Referral Networks | Bin Yu, Munindar P. Singh | 
    
    
	|  | Evolutionary 
	Programming in SADDE | Carles Sierra, Jordi Sabater, Jaume Agusti, 
	Pere Garcia | 
    
    
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	| Session 9D: Embodied 
	Agents | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Catherine Pelachaud | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Object 
	Persistence for Synthetic Creatures | Damian A. Isla, Bruce M. Blumberg | 
    
    
	|  | The COSIMA 
	Prototype for Multi-Objective Bargaining | Stefan Fischer, Werner Kießling, Stefan 
	Holland, Michael Fleder | 
    
    
	|  | Learning 
	Domain Knowledge for Teaching Procedural Skills | Richard Angros, Jr., W. Lewis Johnson, Jeff 
	Rickel, Andrew Scholer | 
    
    
	|  | Development of 
	a Human Agent for a Multi-Agent Based Human-Robot Interaction | Kazuhiko Kawamura, Tamara Rogers, Xinyo Ao | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | Proposal of a 
	Script Language for Embodied Conversational Agents as an 
	Asynchronous Conversational Media | Toru Takahashi, Hideaki Takeda | 
    
    
	|  | Perceptually 
	Driven Cognitive Mapping of Urban Environments | Randall W. Hill, Jr., Changhee Han, Michael van 
	Lent | 
    
    
	|  | Data-Driven 
	Generation of Simulated Soccer Behaviors | David C. Brogan, Yannick Loitiere | 
    
    
	|  | A Distributed 
	Surveillance Task using Multiple Miniature Robots | Paul E. Rybski, Maria Gini, Dean F. Hougen, 
	Sascha A. Stoeter, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos | 
    
    
	|  | Segmentation of 
	Environments using Hidden Markov Modeling of Other Agents | Noda, Itsuki | 
    
    
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	| Session 10A: 
	Specification of Social Structures | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Jaime Simão Sichman | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | ISLANDER an 
	electronic institution editor | Marc Esteva, David de la Cruz, Carles Sierra | 
    
    
	|  | Animated  
	Specification  of  Computational  Societies | Alexander Artikis, Jeremy Pitt, Marek Sergot | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | Satisficing 
	Coalition Formation among Agents | Leen-Kiat Soh, Costas Tsatsoulis | 
    
    
	|  | Engineering 
	Agent Societies: a Case Study in Smart Environments | Alessandro Ricci, Andrea Omicini, Enrico Denti | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | No Agent is an 
	Island: A Framework for the Study of Inter Agent Behavior | T.J.M. Bench-Capon, P.E. Dunne | 
    
    
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	| Session 10B: 
	Philosophical Foundations | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: David Traum | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | An Agent 
	Architecture for Long-Term Robustness | John R. Rose, Michael N. Huhns, Soumik Sinha 
	Roy, William H. Turkett, Jr. | 
    
    
	|  | An Analysis of 
	Agent Speech Acts as Institutional Actions | Marco Colombetti, Mario Verdicchio | 
    
    
	| Poster | Intentions: 
	first choice, commitment follows | Guido Boella | 
    
    
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	| Session 10C: 
	Information Sharing | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Thomas Rist | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | I-Gaia: an Information Processing Layer 
	for the DIET Platform | A.Gallardo-Antolín, A. 
	Navia-Vázquez, H.Y. Molina-Bulla, A.B. 
	Rodríguez-González, F.J. Valverde-Albacete, J. 
	Cid-Sueiro, A.R. Figueiras-Vidal, T. Koutris, C. Xirouhaki, M. Koubarakis | 
    
    
	|  | Channeled 
	Multicast for Group Communications | Paolo Busetta, Antonia Donà, Michele 
	Nori | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | Agent-Based 
	Transactions into Decentralised P2P | Loris Penserini, Maurizio Panti, Luca Spalazzi | 
    
    
	|  | The Impact of 
	InfoCenters on E-Marketplaces | Itai Yarom, Claudia V. Goldman, Jeffrey S. 
	Rosenschein | 
    
    
	|  | Defining 
	Like-minded Agents with the Aid of Visualization | Penny Noy, Michael Schroeder | 
    
    
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	| Session 10D: 
	Management of Computation | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Onn Shehory | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Self-organized Autonomous Web Proxies | Markus J. Kaiser, Kwok Ching Tsui, Jiming Liu | 
    
    
	|  | Intelligent 
	Agents for QoS Management | Krunoslav Trzec, Darko Huljenic | 
    
    
	| Poster Announcements
 | Self-Stabilization as Multiagent 
	Systems Property | Petra Funk, Ingo Zinnikus | 
    
    
	|  | Towards 
	bringing heterogeneous agents to cooperation: an architecture for 
	multimedia services | Romaric Charton, Anne Boyer, François 
	Charpillet | 
    
    
	|  | A Multi-agent 
	system architecture for active networks | Mohamed Mostagir, Keith Decker | 
    
    
	|  | Application of a 
	Distributed Data Mining Approach to Network Intrusion Detection | J. Bala, S. Baik, A. Hadjarian, BK Gogia, C. Manthorne | 
    
    
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	| Session 11A: 
	Coordination and Cooperation II | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: David Pynadath | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Designing 
	Agent Collectives for Systems with Markovian Dynamics | David H. Wolpert, John W. Lawson | 
    
    
	|  | A Multi-Agent 
	Method for Forming and Dynamic Restructuring of Pareto Optimal 
	Coalitions | Caillou, Aknine, Pinson | 
    
    
	|  | Non-Cooperative Formation of 
	Multi-Agent Teams | Robert L. Axtell | 
    
    
	|  | Efficiency and 
	Robustness of Threshold-Based Distributed Allocation Algorithms in 
	Multi-Agent Systems | William Agassounon, Alcherio Martinoli | 
    
    
	|  | Multi-Agent 
	Polices: From Centralized Ones to Decentralized Ones | Ping Xuan, Victor Lesser | 
    
    
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	| Session 11B: 
	Distributed Problem Solving | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Tom Wagner | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Tractable 
	Multiagent Planning for Epistemic Goals | Wiebe van der Hoek, Michael Wooldridge | 
    
    
	|  | Collective 
	Perception in Massive, Open, and Heterogeneous Multi-agent 
	Environment | Yiming Ye, Steven J. Boies, Jiming Liu, Xun Yi | 
    
    
	|  | Dealing with 
	Space in Multi-Agent System: a model for Situated MAS | Stefania Bandini, Sara Manzoni, Carla Simone | 
    
    
	|  | A Scalable, 
	Distributed Algorithm for Efficient Task Allocation | Pedro V. Sander, Denis Peleshchuk, Barbara J. 
	Grosz | 
    
    
	|  | Local Search 
	for Distributed SAT with Complex Local Problems | Katsutoshi Hirayama, Makoto Yokoo | 
    
    
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	| Session 11C: Decision 
	Making | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Jürgen Dix | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | AgentSpeak(XL): Efficient Intention 
	Selection in BDI Agents via Decision-Theoretic Task Scheduling | Rafael H. Bordini, Ana L. C. Bazzan, Rafael de 
	O. Jan, Daniel M. Basso, Rosa M. Vicari, Victor R. Lesser | 
    
    
	|  | Task Selection 
	Problem under Uncertainty as Decision-Making | Hanna, Mouaddib | 
    
    
	|  | Automatic 
	Orchestration of Behaviours through the management of Resources and 
	Priority Levels | Lamarche, Donikian | 
    
    
	|  | Satisficing 
	Strategies for Resource-Limited Policy Search in Dynamic 
	Environments | Dimitri A. Dolgov, Edmund H. Durfee | 
    
    
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	| Session 12B: 
	Negotiation | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Tuomas Sandholm | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Multi-Linked 
	Negotiation in Multi-Agent System | Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser | 
    
    
	|  | Structured 
	Negotiation | Charles L. Ortiz, Jr., Eric Hsu | 
    
    
	|  | A study on the 
	termination of negotiation dialogues | Paolo Torroni | 
    
    
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	| Session 12C: Middle 
	Agents | 
    
    
	| Session Chair: Leon Sterling | 
    
    
	|  | Title | Author | 
    
    
	| Papers | Self-organising Communities Formed 
	by Middle Agents | Fang Wang | 
    
    
	|  | An Improved 
	Matchmaking Algorithm for Middle Agents | Zili Zhang, Chengqi Zhang | 
    
    
	|  | Supporting 
	Nomadic Agent-based Applications in FIPA Agent Architecture | Mikko Laukkanen, Heikki Helin, Heimo Laamanen | 
    
    
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