IT'S ALL OVER...

After all the preparations and planning - its over. The AAMAS-03 conference was attended by 471 delegates, from 29 countries across all five continents. You can look at some memorable images from the conference.

BEST PAPERS

Three paper prizes were awarded at the conference; the shortlisted papers, and the awards themselves, were as follows.

Finalists of the Student Best paper award:

• An Asynchronous Complete Method for Distributed Constraint Optimization, by Pragnesh Jay Modi, Wei-min Shen, Milind Tambe, and Makoto Yokoo
• Natural Methods for Robot Task Learning: Instructive Demonstrations, Generalization and Practice, by Monica N. Nicolescu and Maja J. Mataric
• A Language for Modeling Agents!G Decision Making Processes in Games, by Ya!Gakov Gal and Avi Pfeffer
• Transition-Independent Decentralized Markov Decision Processes,by Raphen Becker, Shlomo Zilberstein, Victor Lesser, and Claudia V. Goldman
• Locating Moving Entities in Dynamic Indoor Environments with Teams of Mobile Robots, by Mathew Rosencrantz, Geoffrey Gordon, and Sebastian Thrun --- winner

Finalists of the Best Innovative System/Application Paper Award:

• Resource-aware Exploration of the Emergent Dynamics of Simulated Systems, by Sven A. Brueckner and H. Van Dyke Parunak
• Commitments and Causality for Multiagent Design, by Feng Wan and Munindar P. Singh
• A Key-based Coordination Algorithm for Dynamic Readiness and Repair Service Coordination, by Tom Wagner Valerie Guralnik and John Phelps
• Locating Moving Entities in Dynamic Indoor Environments with Teams of Mobile Robots, by Mathew Rosencrantz, Geoffrey Gordon, and Sebastian Thrun
• Negotiation over Tasks in Hybrid Human-agent Teams for Simulation-based Training, by David Traum, Jeff Rickel, Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella --- winner

Finalists of the Best Paper Award:

• Resource-aware Exploration of the Emergent Dynamics of Simulated Systems, by Sven A. Brueckner and H. Van Dyke Parunak
• On the outcomes of Formal inter-agent Dialogues, by Simon Parsons, Michael Wooldridge, and Leila Amgoud
• Can Software Agents Influence Human Relations? Balance Theory in Agent-mediated Communities-, by Hideyuki Nakanish, Satoshi Nakazawa, Toru Ishida, Katsuya Takanashi, and Katherine Isbister
• Locating Moving Entities in Dynamic Indoor Environments with Teams of Mobile Robots, by Mathew Rosencrantz, Geoffrey Gordon, and Sebastian Thrun
• Transition-Independent Decentralized Markov Decision Processes, by Raphen Becker, Shlomo Zilberstein, Victor Lesser, and Claudia V. Goldman --- winner

WHO ATTENDED?

The breakdown of delegates by country was as follows: Australia 120, Belgium 4, Brazil 7, Canada 11, Cyprus 1, Egypt 1, Finland 1, France 21, Germany 10, Hong Kong 1, Ireland 1, Israel 7, Italy 24, Japan 39, New Zealand 5, Norway 1, PR China 5, Portugal 2, Russia 1, Singapore 6, South Africa 1, Spain 11, Sweden 1, Switzerland 7, Taiwan 2, Thailand 2, Netherlands 13, UK 40, and USA 126.

THIS WEB SITE

Note that this web site will be maintained for reference purposes, but will not be actively edited from now on (other than top add a few more memorable pictures!)

AAMAS-04

AAMAS-04 will be held in New York City in July 2004. The AAMAS-04 WWW site is now live - see you in New York!