The list of papers accepted as posters for AAMAS-05 is the following (ordered by session):

SESSION 1a: embodied, emotional and believable agents I
(Wednesday, July 27 10:30-12:30)

• Humans and Agents in 3D Electronic Institutions
  Anton Bogdanovych, Helmut Berger, Carles Sierra, Simeon Simoff
• Design and Evaluation of Expressive Gesture Synthesis for Embodied Conversational Agents
  Bjoern Hartmann, Maurizio Mancini, Stéphanie Buisine, Catherine Pelachaud
• Controlling the Focus of Perceptual Attention in Embodied Conversational Agents
  Youngjun Kim, Randall Hill, David Traum
• Evaluating the Interaction with Synthetic Agents Using Attention and Affect Tracking
  Helmut Prendinger, Chunling Ma, Jin Yingzi, Kazutaka Kushida, Mitsuru Ishizuka

SESSION 1b: learning
(Wednesday, July 27 10:30-12:30)

• Adaptive Agent’s Integration in a New Environment: Interactions as a Source of Learning
  Isabelle Jars, Nadia Kabachi, Michel Lamure
• Coordinated Exploration in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: An Application to Load-balancing
  Katja Verbeeck, Ann Nowe, Karl Tuyls
• Sharing Information for Qlearningbased Network Bandwidth Estimation and Network Failure Detection
  Partha Dutta, Nicholas Jennings, Luc Moreau
• GACS an Evolutionary Approach to the Spatial Coordination of Agents
  Fabien Flacher, Olivier Sigaud
• Automatic Computer Game Balancing: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
  Gustavo Andrade, Geber Ramalho, Hugo Santana, Vincent Corruble

SESSION 1c: ACL and protocols
(Wednesday, July 27 10:30-12:30)

• Communication Management Using Abstraction in Distributed Bayesian Networks
  Jiaying Shen, Victor Lesser
• A Software Tool for the Development of MAS Communication Protocols based on Conversations
  Madieyna Lamine Fall, Sylvain Delisle
• Reliable Group Communication and Institutional Action in a Multi-Agent Trading Scenario
  Stephen Cranefield
• Hermes: A Methodology for Goal¬Oriented Agent Interactions
  Christopher Cheong, Michael Winikoff
• An Integrated Framework for Adaptive Reasoning About Conversation Patterns
  Michael Rovatsos, Felix Fischer, Gerhard Weiss

SESSION 1d: logical foundations I
(Wednesday, July 27 10:30-12:30)

• Temporal Logics for Normative Agent Communication Protocols
  Ulle Endriss
• Bounded Model Checking Knowledge and Branching Time in Synchronous Multiagent Systems
  Xiangyu Luo, Kaile Su, Abdul Sattar, Qingliang Chen, Guanfeng Lv
• Model Generation for PRS-like Agents
  Wayne Wobcke, Marc Chee, Krystian Ji
• Recognition of the Intention to Perform a Procedure: a Method Based on Probabilities
  Robert Demolombe, Ana Maria Otermin Fernandez
• A Logic of Reasoning, Communication and Cooperation with Syntactic Knowledge
  Thomas Agotnes, Michal Walicki

SESSION 2a: collective and emergent behavior
(Wednesday, July 27 13:30-15:00)

• Emergent Programming Feasibility Study using SelfOrganizing
  InstructionAgents
  Jean-Pierre Georgé, Marie-Pierre Gleizes
• Using Decision-Theoretic Models to Enhance Agent
  System Survivability
  Anthony Cassandra, Marian Nodine, Shilpa Bondale, Steve Ford, David Wells
• Stability and Control of Agent Ecosystems
  Maxim Peysakhov, Robert Lass, William Regli

SESSION 2b: cooperation I
(Wednesday, July 27 13:30-15:00)

• Study of Virtual Organizations Using MultiAgent System
  Qinhe Zheng, Xiaoqin (Shelley) Zhang
• A Hybrid Transfer of Control Model for Adjustable Autonomy Multiagent Systems
  Michael Cheng, Robin Cohen
• Agent-Based Virtual Organisations for the Grid
  Jigar Patel, Luke Teacy, Nicholas Jennings, Michael Luck, Stuart Chalmers, Nir Oren, Timothy J. Norman, Alun Preece, Peter M. D. Gray, Gareth Shercliff, Patrick J. Stockreisser, Jianhua Shao, W. Alex Gray, Nick J. Fiddian, Simon Thompson

SESSION 2c: AOSE I
(Wednesday, July 27 13:30-15:00)

• From Concepts to Agents: Towards a Framework for
  Multi-Agent System Modelling
  Richard Hill, Simon Polovina, Martin Beer
• Multi-agent Concepts as Basis for Dynamic Plug-in Software Architectures
  Lawrence Cabac, Michael Duvigneau, Daniel Moldt, Heiko Rölke
• Comparative Analysis of Top–Down and Bottom–up
  Methodologies for Multi–Agent System Design
  Valentino Crespi, Aram Galstyan, Kristina Lerman

SESSION 2d: negotiation and agreement I
(Wednesday, July 27 13:30-15:00)

• A RealWorld Approach to Secure and Trusted Negotiation in MASs
  Roberto Bianchi, Andrea Fontana, Federico Bergenti
• A Verifiable Protocol for Arguing about Rejections in Negotiation
  Jelle van Veenen, Henry Prakken
• Negotiating Agents: From Full Autonomy to Dynamic Degrees of Delegation
  Diemo Urbig, Kay Schröter

SESSION 3a: learning and emergent behavior
(Wednesday, July 27 15:30-17:00)

• Pheromone Model: Application to Traffic Congestion Prediction
  Osamu Masutani, Hiroshi Sasaki, Hirotoshi Iwasaki, Yasushi Ando, Yoshiaki Fukazawa, Shinichi Honiden
• Simulating Data Dissemination Techniques for Local Reputation Systems
  Andreas Schlosser, Marco Voss
• On Decentralised Clustering in Self-monitoring Networks
  Piraveenan Mahendra, Mikhail Prokopenko, Peter Wang, Don Price
• Discovering Strategic Multi-Agent Behavior in a Robotic Soccer Domain
  Andraz Bezek
• Intelligent Agents for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Richard Tynan, David Marsh, Donal O'Kane, Gregory O'Hare

SESSION 3b: cooperation II
(Wednesday, July 27 15:30-17:00)

• Task and Social Coordination in Agent Organizations
  Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum
• Towards a Formal Model for Task Allocation via Coalition Formation
  Leila Amgoud
• Reducing Coalition Structures via Agreement Specification
  Guido Boella, Sauro Luigi, Leon van der Torre
• An Organisation Infrastructure for Multi-Agent Systems based on Agent Coordination Contexts
  Mirko Viroli, Alessandro Ricci, Andrea Omicini
• A Framework for Specifying Group Decision-Making Mechanisms
  Luke Hunsberger

SESSION 3c: voting
(Wednesday, July 27 15:30-17:00)

• Strategy/Falsename Proof Protocols for Combinatorial Multi-Attribute Procurement Auction: Handling Arbitrary Utility of the Buyer
  Takayuki Suyama, Makoto Yokoo
• Cooperation In Stochastic Games Through Communication
  Raghav Aras, Alain Dutech, François Charpillet
• Using Tags to Evolve Trust and Cooperation Between Groups
  Aviv Zohar, Jeffrey Rosenschein
• An analysis of the Shapley value and its uncertainty for the voting game
  Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas Jennings
• Optimizing Auctioneer’s Revenues in Expanding Multi-Unit Auctions
  Onn Shehory, Eran Dror
• Computing the Communication Costs of Item Allocation
  Timothy Rauenbusch, Stuart Shieber, Barbara Grosz

SESSION 3d: negotiation and agreement II
(Wednesday, July 27 15:30-17:00)

• Experimental Analysis of Negotiation Meta Strategies
  Raquel Ros Espinoza, Carles Sierra
• A Negotiation Model for Autonomous Agents: Key Features and Comparison with Existing Models
  Fernando Lopes, Nuno Mamede, Augusto Novais, Helder Coelho
• A Decentralized Bargaining Protocol on Dependent Continuous Multi-Issue for Approximate Pareto Optimal Outcomes
  Nicola Gatti, Francesco Amigoni
• Strategical Considerations for Negotiating Agents
  Leila Amgoud, Souhila Kaci
• Balancing Conflict and Cost in the Selection of Negotiation Opponents
  Steve Munroe, Michael Luck

SESSION 4a: coordination and planning
(Thursday, July 28 10:30-12:30)

• Coordination of Quantum Internet Agents
  Matthias Klusch
• A Simulator for Multi-Agent Partnership Formation Based on Dependence Graphs
  Júlio Monteiro, Jaime Sichman
• Buyer’s Coalition for Optimal Search
  David Sarne, Sarit Kraus
• Individual Beliefs and Group Acceptances within Agent Organizations
  Ioannis Partsakoulakis, George Vouros
• The DEFACTO System for Human Omnipresence to Coordinate Agent Teams: The Future of Disaster Response
  Nathan Schurr, Janusz Marecki, Nikhil Kasinadhuni, J.P. Lewis, Milind Tambe, Paul Scerri

SESSION 4b: agent applications
(Thursday, July 28 10:30-12:30)

• Untraceability of Mobile Agents
  Rafal Leszczyna, Janusz Gorski
• Access Control with Safe Role Assignment for Mobile Agents
  Guillermo Navarro, Joan Borrell, Jose Antonio Ortega-Ruiz, Sergi Robles
• Just in Time Mobile Agent Generation and Management
  Glenn Jayaputera, Seng Loke, Arkady Zaslavsky
• Attacking the Migration Bottleneck of Mobile Agents
  Peter Braun, Steffen Kern, Ingo Mueller, Ryszard Kowalczyk
• Efficient Information Retrieval Using Mobile Agents
  Irene Sygkouna, Miltiades Anagnostou

SESSION 4c: trust and reputation I
(Thursday, July 28 10:30-12:30)

• Formalising Trust for Online Communities
  Ali Shaikh Ali, Omer Rana
• Fuzzy Number Approach to Trust in Coalition Environment
  Martin Rehak, Michal Pechoucek, Petr Benda
• Trusted Intermediating Agents in Electronic Trade Networks
  Tomas B. Klos, Floortje Alkemade
• Trust-Based Contracting in Supply Chains
  Sandip Sen, Sabyasachi Saha, Dipyaman Banerjee
• A Framework for Decomposing Reputation in MAS into Competence and Integrity
  Michael Smith, Marie des Jardins

SESSION 4d: argumentation and dialog
(Thursday, July 28 10:30-12:30)

• Law-Governed Linda as a Semantics for Agent Dialogue Protocols
  Sylvie Doutre, Peter McBurney, Michael Wooldridge
• Liberalizing Protocols for Argumentation in Multi-agent Systems
  Gerard A.W. Vreeswijk
• Generating Intentions Through Argumentation
  Katie Atkinson, Trevor Bench-Capon, Peter McBurney
• A Drosophila for Computational Dialectics
  Simon Wells, Chris Reed

SESSION 5a: AOSE II
(Thursday, July 28 14:00-15:30)

• Agent Synthesis: Partnership and Agreement in Cooperative Mobile Agents
  Fuyuki Ishikawa, Nobukazu Yoshioka, Yasuyuki Tahara, Shinichi Honiden
• Integrating a MAS and a Pandemonium: the Open-Source Framework AKIRA
  Giovanni Pezzulo, Calvi Gianguglielmo, Rino Facone
• SEAGENT: A Platform for Developing Semantic Web Based Multi Agent Systems
  Oguz Dikenelli, Riza Cenk Erdur, Ozgur Gumus, Erdem Eser Ekinci, Önder Gürcan, Geylani Karda, Ínanç Seylan, Ali Murat Tiryaki

SESSION 5b: information agents, brokering and matchmaking
(Thursday, July 28 14:00-15:30)

• Handling Information Overload:A MAS Architecture For Distributed Information Brokering
  Klaus Stein, Christoph Schlieder
• Agent-based Matchmaking of Mathematical Web Services
  Simone Ludwig, Omer Rana, Bill Naylor, Julian Padget

SESSION 5c: auctions and mechanism design
(Thursday, July 28 14:00-15:30)

• Usability of Dial-a-Ride Systems
  Itsuki Noda, Masayuki Ohta, Yoichiro Kumada, Kosuke Shinoda, Hideyuki Nakashima
• Distributed Network Scheduling
  Brad Clement, Steven Schaffer

SESSION 5d: norms, social laws and social structures
(Thursday, July 28 14:00-15:30)

• Agent-Oriented Context-Aware Platforms Supporting Communities of Practice in Health Care
  Luiz Olavo Silva Santos, Renata Guizzardi, Marten van Sinderen
• An Operational Approach to Norms in Artificial Institutions
  Francesco Vigano', Nicoletta Fornara, Marco Colombetti
• Norm Compliance of Protocols in Electronic Institutions
  Huib Aldewereld, Javier Vazquez-Salceda, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Meyer

SESSION 6a: logical foundations II
(Thursday, July 28 16:00-17:00)

• A BDI Architecture for Goal Deliberation
  Alexander Pokahr, Lars Braubach, Winfried Lamersdorf
• Towards An Agent Oriented Programming Language with Caste and Scenario Mechanisms
  Ji Wang, Rui Shen, Hong Zhu
• On the Metaphysics of Agents
  Paul Davidsson, Stefan Johansson
• Game Theoretic Golog under Partial Observability
  Alberto Finzi, Thomas Lukasiewicz
• How Local Is That Optimum? k-Optimality for DCOP
  Jonathan Pearce, Rajiv Maheswaran, Milind Tambe

SESSION 6b: task and resource allocation I
(Thursday, July 28 16:00-17:00)

• A Decentralized Variable Ordering Method for Distributed Constraint Optimization
  Anton Chechetka, Katia Sycara
• Allocation Of Indivisible Goods: A General Model And Some Complexity Results
  Sylvain Bouveret, Hélène Fargier, Jérôme Lang, Michel Lemaître
• Adaptive A*
  Sven Koenig, Maxim Likhachev
• An Autonomous Performance Control Framework for Distributed Multi-Agent Systems: A Queueing Theory Based Approach
  Nathan Gnanasambandam, Seokcheon Lee, Soundar R.T. Kumara, Natarajan Gautam, Wilbur Peng, Vikram Manikonda, Marshall Brinn, Mark Greaves

SESSION 6c: ontologies
(Thursday, July 28 16:00-17:00)

• OWL Ontology Translation based on the O3F Framework
  Luís Mota, Luís Botelho
• Coordinating Change of Agents’ States in Situated Agents Models
  Giuseppe Vizzari, Stefania Bandini
• Observation-Based Proactive Communication in Team Cooperation
  Yu Zhang, Richard A. Volz, Thomas R. Ioerger
• Layered Message Semantics using Social Commitments
  Roberto Flores, Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib-draa
• Engineering Agent Interactions from ACL-based Reusable Connectors
  Juan Manuel Serrano, Sascha Ossowski, Sergio Saugar

SESSION 7a: argumentation and dialog
(Friday, July 29 10:30-12:30)

• Protocol Synthesis with Dialogue Structure Theory
  Jarred McGinnis, David Roberston, Chris Walton
• ArgumentBased Negotiation in a Social Context
  Nishan Karunatillake, Nicholas Jennings, Iyad Rahwan, Timothy Norman

SESSION 7b: multi-agent plans and planning
(Friday, July 29 10:30-12:30)

• Real-time Dense Communication among Agents for Active Tracking
  Norimichi Ukita
• Multiagent Planning through Plan Repair
  Roman van der Krogt, Mathijs de Weerdt, Nico Roos, Cees Witteveen
• Data Storage in Unreliable Multiagent Networks
  Filip Miletic, Patrick Dewilde
• Service-Based Computing for Agents on Disruption and Delay Prone Networks
  Joseph Kopena, Guarav Naik, Maxim Peysakhov, Evan Sultanik, William Regli, Moshe Kam

SESSION 7c: task and resource allocation II
(Friday, July 29 10:30-12:30)

• Agent-Based Integration of Web Services with Workflow Management Systems
  Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Maryam Purvis, Martin Purvis, Stephen Cranefield
• Evaluating the Minority Game Strategy in Agent Role Assignments
  Tingting Wang, Jiming Liu

SESSION 7d: robotics
(Friday, July 29 10:30-12:30)

• Construction of Numerical Potential Fields with Reactive Agents
  Olivier Simonin
• Physical Deployment of Digital Pheromones Through RFID Technology
  Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
• Towards Flexible Teamwork in Behavior-Based Robots: Extended Abstract
  Gal Kaminka, Inna Frenkel

SESSION 7e: embodied, emotional and believable agents II
(Friday, July 29 10:30-12:30)

• Intentional Adequacy of Computer Programs as the Experimental Reference of Agent-Based Social Simulation
  Nuno David, Jaime Sichman, Helder Coelho
• An Artificial Maieutic Approach for Eliciting Experts’ Knowledge in Multi-agent Simulations
  Francois Sempe, Minh Nguyen-Duc, Alain Boucher, Alexis Drogoul
• TACOP: A Cognitive Agent for a Naval Training Simulation Environment
  Willem van Doesburg, Egon van den Broek, Annerieke Heuvelink
• Validation of an Agent Based System Using Petri Nets
  Thomas Moncion, Guillaume Hutzler, Patrick Amar