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technical program
day-to-day
program
The
overview program for the AAMAS-05
conference can be found here,
while a searchable table of papers for the conference
can be found below (look here for the industry track
papers and here for the posters).
invited
talks
There will
be four invited talks:
conference banquet
The banquet will take place on wednesday
evening (July 27). The banquet will be held at an old 15th century farm house "De Beesde",
just outside Utrecht. There will be busses to and from the banquet.
best paper and best student paper award
Shortlist
for the AAMAS-05 Best Paper and AAMAS-05 Best
Student Paper have been posted. The list
of nominees is available here.
The winners in each category will be announced at
the conference.
accepted
papers
The
list of accepted papers for the AAMAS-05
conference is the following (ordered by session):
SESSION
1a: embodied, emotional and believable agents I
(Wednesday, July 27 10:30-12:30)
- The
Use of Emotions to create Believable Agents in a
Virtual Environment
Karthi Selvarajah, Debbie Richards
- Thespian:
Using Multi-Agent Fitting to Craft Interactive Drama
Mei Si, Stacy Marsella, David Pynadath
-
ALMA - Layered Model of Affect
Patrick Gebhard
-
Believable Groups of Synthetic Characters
Rui Prada, Ana Paiva
-
Exploiting a Sensed Environment to Improve Human-Agent
Communication
Shana Watters, Tim Miller, Praveen Balachandran,
William E. Schuler, Richard Voyles
SESSION
1b: learning
(Wednesday, July 27 10:30-12:30)
-
Behavior Transfer for Value-Function-Based Reinforcement
Learning
Matthew Taylor, Peter Stone
- Efficient
Learning of Multi-step Best Response
Bikramjit Banerjee, Jing Peng
- Rapid
On-line Temporal Sequence Prediction by an Adaptive
Agent
Steven Jensen, Daniel Boley, Maria Gini, Paul Schrater
-
Theory of Moves Learners: Towards Non-Myopic Equilibria
Arjita Ghosh, Sandip Sen
-
Multi-Agent Reward Analysis for Learning in Noisy
Domains
Adrian Agogino, Kagan Tumer
SESSION
1c: ACL and protocols
(Wednesday, July 27 10:30-12:30)
- A
Formal Framework for Agent Interaction Semantics
Shamimabi Paurobally, Jim Cunningham, Nicholas Jennings
- Towards
Design Tools for Protocol Development
Pinar Yolum
-
Acquiring and Adapting Probabilistic Models of Agent
Conversation
Felix Fischer, Michael Rovatsos, Gerhard Weiss
-
Using a Performative Subsumption Lattice to Support
Commitment-based Conversations
Rob Kremer, Roberto Flores
-
Modeling Exceptions via Commitment Protocols
Ashok Mallya, Munindar P. Singh
SESSION
1d: logical foundations I
(Wednesday,
July 27 10:30-12:30)
- Semantics
of Declarative Goals in Agent Programming
M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules
Meyer
- Dynamic
Epistemic Logic with Assignment
Hans P van Ditmarsch, Wiebe van der Hoek, Barteld
P Kooi
-
A Computationally Grounded Logic of Knowledge, Belief
and Certainty
Kaile Su, Abdul Sattar, Guido Governatori, Qingliang
Chen
-
A Logic for Strategic Reasoning
Wiebe van der Hoek, Wojciech Jamroga, Michael Wooldridge
-
Bounded Model Checking for Knowledge and Real Time
Bozena Wozna, Alessio Lomuscio, Penczek Wojciech
SESSION
2a: collective and emergent behavior
(Wednesday,
July 27 13:30-15:00)
- A
Multiagent System Manages Collaboration in Emergent
Processes
John Debenham
- Towards
a Theory of "Local to Global" in Distributed
Multi-Agent Systems (I)
Yamins Daniel
-
Towards a Theory of "Local to Global"
in Distributed Multi-Agent Systems (II)
Yamins Daniel
-
Using Emergence in Participatory Simulations to
Design Multi-Agent Systems
Paul Guyot, Alexis Drogoul, Christian Lemaitre
SESSION
2b: cooperation I
(Wednesday, July 27 13:30-15:00)
- Formation
of Cooperation Structure by Interaction Network
in Directed MultiAgent
Kosuke Sekiyama, Yukihisa Okade
- Kaa:
Policy-based Explorations of a Richer Model for
Adjustable Autonomy
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Hyuckchul Jung,
Shri Kulkarni, Matthew Johnson, Paul Feltovich,
James Allen, Larry Bunch, Nathanael Chambers, Lucian
Galescu, Renia Jeffers, Niranjan Suri, William Taysom,
Andrzej Uszok
-
MultiAgent Decision Support Via User-Modeling
Terrence Harvey, Keith Decker, Sandra Carberry
-
Agent-Organized Networks for Dynamic Team Formation
Matthew Gaston, Marie desJardins
SESSION
2c: AOSE I
(Wednesday,
July 27 13:30-15:00)
- Optimal
Design in Collaborative Design Network
Yang Xiang, Junjiang Chen, Bill Havens
- Diagnosing
a Team of Agents: Scaling-Up
Meir Kalech, Gal Kaminka
-
S-Assess: A Library for Behavioral Self-Assessment
Scott Wallace
-
IDReAM: Intrusion Detection and Response executed
with Agent Mobility Architecture and Implementation
Noria Foukia
SESSION
2d: negotiation and agreement I
(Wednesday,
July 27 13:30-15:00)
- On
Possibilistic Case-based Reasoning for Selecting
Partners for Multi-attribute Agent Negotiation
Jakub Brzostowski, Ryszard Kowalczyk
- Modeling
Complex Multi-Issue Negotiations Using Utility Graphs
Valentin Robu, Koye Somefun, Han La Poutre
-
Negotiation Mechanism for TAC SCM Component Market
Dongmo Zhang
-
Negotiating over Small Bundles of Resources
Yann Chevaleyre , Ulle Endriss, Jérôme
Lang, Nicolas Maudet
SESSION
3a: learning and emergent behavior
(Wednesday,
July 27 15:30-17:00)
- Global
Convergence of Local Agent Behaviors
Van Parunak, Sven Brueckner, John Sauter, R. Matthews
- Emerging
Collective Behavior in a Simple Artificial Financial
Market
Roberto da Silva, Ana Bazzan, Alexandre Baraviera,
Sílvio Dahmen
- Approximating
State Estimation in Multiagent Settings Using Particle
Filters
Prashant Doshi, Piotr Gmytrasiewicz
SESSION
3b: cooperation II
(Wednesday, July 27 15:30-17:00)
- Automated
Resource-Driven Mission Phasing Techniques for Constrained
Agents
Jianhui Wu, Edmund Durfee
- A
Comparative Evaluation of Agent Location Mechanisms
in Large Scale MAS
David Ben Ami, Onn Shehory
-
Effect of referrals on convergence to satisficing
distributions
Teddy Candale, Sandip Sen
SESSION
3c: voting
(Wednesday,
July 27 15:30-17:00)
- Decentralized
Voting with Unconditional Privacy
Felix Brandt, Tuomas Sandholm
- Voting
Policies that Cope with Unreliable Agents
Christian Guttmann, Ingrid Zukerman
-
Formalization of a Voting Protocol for Virtual Organizations
Jeremy Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Marek Sergot, Alexander
Artikis
SESSION
3d: negotiation and agreement II
(Wednesday, July 27 15:30-17:00)
- Adapting
to Agents' Personalities in Negotiation
Shavit Talman, Yakov Gal, Meirav Hadad, Sarit Kraus
- Bumping
Strategies for the Multiagent Agreement Problem
Pragnesh Jay Modi, Manuela Veloso
-
Modeling Opponent Decision in Repeated One-shot
Negotiations
Sabyasachi Saha, Anish Biswas, Sandip Sen
SESSION
4a: coordination and planning
(Thursday, July 28 10:30-12:30)
- An
Integrated Token-Based Algorithm for Scalable Coordination
Yang Xu, Paul Scerri, Bin Yu, Steven Okamoto, Michael
Lewis, Katia Sycara
- Programming
Stigmergic Coordination with the TOTA Middleware
Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
- Tactical
coordination in no-press Diplomacy
Stefan Johansson, Fredrik Håård
-
Multiagent Coordination by Extended Markov Tracking
Zinovi Rabinovich, Jeffrey Rosenschein
-
Coordination and Composition in Multi-Agent Systems
Mehdi Dastani, Farhad Arbab, Frank de Boer
SESSION
4b: agent applications
(Thursday, July 28 10:30-12:30)
- Towards
a Behavioural Traffic Monitoring System
Marco Rigolli, Mike Brady
- An
Earth Watching Satellite Constellation: How to Manage
a Team of Watching Agents with Limited Communications
Sylvain Damiani, Gérard Verfaillie, Marie-Claire
Charmeau
-
Using Cooperative Mediation to Coordinate Traffic
Lights: a Case Study
Denise de Oliveira, Ana Bazzan, Victor Lesser
-
Multiagent Traffic Management: An Improved Control
Mechanism
Kurt Dresner, Peter Stone
-
Smooth Traffic Flow with a Cooperative Car Navigation
System
Tomohisa Yamashita, Kiyoshi Izumi, Koichi Kurumatani,
Hideyuki Nakashima
SESSION
4c: trust and reputation I
(Thursday, July 28 10:30-12:30)
- Task
Delegation using Experience-Based Multi-Dimensional
Trust
Nathan Griffiths
- An
Information-Based model for Trust
Carles Sierra, John Debenham
-
Towards a Functional Ontology of Reputation
Sara Casare, Jaime Sichman
-
A Specification of the Agent Reputation and Trust
(A R T) Testbed: Experimentation and Competition
for Trust in Agent Societies
Karen K. Fullam, Tomas B. Klos, Guillaume Muller,
Jordi Sabater, Andreas Schlosser, Zvi Topol, K.
Suzanne Barber, Jeffrey Rosenschein, Laurent Vercouter,
Marco Voss
-
Agent-Based Trust Model Involving Multiple Qualities
E. Michael Maximilien, Munindar P. Singh
SESSION
4d: argumentation and dialog
(Thursday, July 28 10:30-12:30)
- Formal
Handling of Threats and Rewards in a Negotiation
Dialogue
Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade
- Towards
a Formal Framework for the Search of a Consensus
Between Autonomous Agents
Leila Amgoud, Sihem Belabbes, Henri Prade
-
What Kind of Argument Are We Going to Have Today?
Eva Cogan, Simon Parsons, Peter McBurney
-
Argumentation-based dialogues for deliberation
Yuqing Tang, Simon Parsons
-
On the Meta-Logic of Arguments
Michael Wooldridge, Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons
SESSION
5a: AOSE II
(Thursday,
July 28 14:00-15:30)
- Polymorphic
Self-* Agents for Stigmergic Fault Mitigation in
Large-Scale Real-Time Embedded Systems
Derek Messie, Jae C. Oh
- A
Secure Architectural Description Language for Agent
Systems
Haralambos Mouratidis, Manuel Kolp, Stephane Faulkner,
Paolo Giorgini
-
Comprehending Agent Software
Dung Lam, K. Suzanne Barber
-
Using the UML 2.0 Activity Diagram to Model Agent
Plans and Actions
Viviane Silva, Ricardo Choren, Carlos Lucena
SESSION
5b: information agents, brokering and matchmaking
(Thursday,
July 28 14:00-15:30)
- Personalisation
for User Agents
Joshua Cole, Matt Gray, John Lloyd, Kee Siong Ng
- Matchmaking
MultiParty Interactions Using Historical Performance
Data
David Lambert, David Robertson
-
Implicit: An Agent-Based Recommendation System for
Web Search
Alexander Birukov, Enrico Blanzieri, Paolo Giorgini
-
AmbieAgents: A Scalable Infrastructure for Mobile
and Context-Aware Information Services
Till Lech, Leendert Wienhofen
SESSION
5c: auctions and mechanism design
(Thursday,
July 28 14:00-15:30)
- Sequential
Auctions for Objects with Common and Private Values
Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas Jennings
- Auction
in dynamic environments: incorporating the cost
caused by re-allocation
Shigeo Matsubara
-
Mechanism Design and Deliberative Agents
Kate Larson, Tuomas Sandholm
-
Computationally-Efficient Combinatorial Auctions
for
Resource Allocation in Weakly-Coupled MDPs
Dmitri Dolgov, Edmund Durfee
SESSION
5d: norms, social laws and social structures
(Thursday, July 28 14:00-15:30)
- Implementing
Norms in Electronic Institutions
Andrés García Camino, Juan Rodriguez-Aguilar
- Knowledge
and Social Laws
Wiebe van der Hoek, Mark Roberts, Michael Wooldridge
-
Enforceable social laws
Guido Boella, Leon van der Torre
-
Foundations of Organizational Structures in Multi-Agent
Systems
Davide Grossi, Frank Dignum, Lamber Royakkers, Mehdi
Dastani
SESSION
6a: logical foundations II
(Thursday, July 28 16:00-17:00)
- On
the Dynamics of Delegation, Cooperation, and Control:
A Logical Account
Michael Wooldridge, Wiebe van der Hoek
- Optimal
Status Sets of Heterogeneous Agent Programs
Bogdan Stroe, Venkatramanan Subrahmanian, Sudeshna
Dasgupta
SESSION
6b: task and resource allocation I
(Thursday, July 28 16:00-17:00)
- Modeling
Task Allocation Using a Decision Theoretic Model
Sherief Abdallah, Victor Lesser
- Allocating
Tasks in Extreme Teams
Paul Scerri, Alessandro Farinelli, Steven Okamoto,
Milind Tambe
SESSION
6c: ontologies
(Thursday,
July 28 16:00-17:00)
- Progressive
Ontology Alignment for Meaning Coordination: An
Information-Theoretic Foundation
Marco Schorlemmer, Yannis Kalfoglou
- Balancing
Ontological and Operational Factors in Refining
Multiagent Neighborhoods
Leen-Kiat Soh, Chao Chen
SESSION
7a: argumentation and dialog
(Friday,
July 29 10:30-12:30)
- A
Commitment-based Communicative Act Library
Mario Verdicchio, Marco Colombetti
- ECASL
: A Model of Rational Agency for Communicating Agents
Shakil Khan, Yves Lesperance
-
Formalizing and Achieving Multiparty Agreements
via Commitments
Feng Wan, Munindar P. Singh
-
IOM/T: An Interaction Description Language for Multi-Agent
Systems
Takuo Doi, Yasuyuki Tahara, Shinichi Honiden, Nobukazu
Yoshioka
-
Reasoning About Joint Beliefs for Execution-Time
Communication Decisions
Roth Maayan, Reid Simmons, Manuela M. Veloso
SESSION
7b: multi-agent plans and planning
(Friday,
July 29 10:30-12:30)
- From
Team Plan to Individual Plans: a Petri Net-based
Approach
Olivier Bonnet-Torrès, Catherine Tessier
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Diagnosis of Single and Multi-Agent Plans
Cees Witteveen, Nico Roos, Roman van der Krogt,
Mathijs de Weerdt
-
Predicting Possible Conflicts in Hierarchical planning
for Multi-Agent Systems
Toshiharu Sugawara, Satoshi Kurihara, Toshio Hirotsu,
Kensuke Fukuda, Toshihiro Takada
-
An Efficient Algorithm for Multiagent Plan Coordination
Jeffrey Cox, Edmund Durfee
-
A Distributed Framework for Solving the Multiagent
Plan Coordination Problem
Jeffrey Cox, Edmund Durfee, Thomas Bartold
SESSION
7c: task and resource allocation II
(Friday,
July 29 10:30-12:30)
- Adaptive
Sharing of Large Resources in P2P Networks
Prithviraj Dasgupta
- A
Probabilistic Approach to Resource Allocation in
Distributed Fusion Systems
Jan Nunnink, Gregor Pavlin
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Reciprocal Resource Sharing in P2P Environments
Dipyaman Banerjee, Sabyasachi Saha, Sandip Sen,
Prithviraj Dasgupta
-
Task Inference and Distributed Task Management in
the Centibots Robotic System
Charles Ortiz, Regis Vincent, Benoit Morisset
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A Scalable Approach to Multi-Agent Resource Acquisition
and Control
Nadeem Jamali, Xinghui Zhao
SESSION
7d: robotics
(Friday,
July 29 10:30-12:30)
- Coordinating
Multiple Rovers with Interdependent Science Objectives
Tara Estlin, Daniel Gaines, Forest Fisher, Rebecca
Castano
- Utility-Based
Multi-Agent System for Performing Repeated Navigation
Tasks
Ram Meshulam, Ariel Felner, Sarit Kraus
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Coordinated exploration of unknown labyrinthine
environments applied to the Pursuit Evasion problem
Damien Pellier, Humbert Fiorino
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Performance of Digital Pheromones for Swarming Vehicle
Control
John Sauter, R. Matthews, Van Parunak, Sven Brueckner
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Tunably Decentralized Algorithms for Cooperative
Target Observation
Sean Luke, Keith Sullivan, Liviu Panait, Gabriel
Balan
SESSION
7e: embodied, emotional and believable agents II
(Friday,
July 29 10:30-12:30)
- Emotion
Based Adaptive Reasoning for Resource Bounded Agents
Luis Morgado, Graça Gaspar
- Designing
Multiparty Interaction Support in Elva, an Embodied
Tour Guide
Jun Zheng, Xiang Yuan, Yam San Chee
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Catch Me If You Can -- Exploring Lying Agents in
Social Settings
Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth Andre
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Extending the Recognition-Primed Decision Model
to Support Human-Agent Collaboration
Xiaocong Fan, Shuang Sun, Michael McNeese, John
Yen
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Multiagent Simulation of Learning Environments
Elizabeth Sklar, Mathew Davies
SESSION
8a: markov decision processes
(Friday,
July 29 14:00-15:00)
- A
Polynomial Algorithm for Decentralized Markov Decision
Processes with Temporal Constraints
Aurélie Beynier, Abdel-Illah Mouaddib
- An
Online POMDP Algorithm for Complex Multiagent Environments
Sébastien Paquet, Ludovic Tobin, Brahim Chaib-draa
- Exploiting
Belief Bounds: Practical POMDPs for Personal Assistant
Agents
Pradeep Varakantham, Rajiv Maheswaran, Milind Tambe
SESSION
8b: trust and reputation II
(Friday,
July 29 14:00-15:00)
- Trusted
Kernel-Based Coalition Formation
Bastian Blankenburg, Rajdeep Dash, Sarvapali Ramchurn,
Matthias Klusch, Nicholas Jennings
- Coping
with Inaccurate Reputation Sources: Experimental
Analysis of a Probabilistic Trust Model
Luke Teacy, Jigar Patel, Nicholas
Jennings, Michael Luck
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Trust Evaluation Through Relationship Analysis
Ronald Ashri, Sarvapali Ramchurn, Jordi Sabater,
Michael Luck, Nicholas Jennings
SESSION
8c: game theoretic foundations
(Friday,
July 29 14:00-15:00)
- The
Value of Privacy
Sieuwert van Otterloo
- Using
Tabu Best-Response Search to Find Pure Strategy
Nash Equilibria in Normal Form Games
Ashish Sureka, Peter Wurman
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Valuations of Possible States (VPS): A Quantitative
Framework for Analysis of Privacy Loss Among Collaborative
Personal Assistant Agents
Rajiv Maheswaran, Jonathan Pearce, Pradeep Varakantham,
Emma Bowring, Milind Tambe
SESSION
8d: distributed constraint processing
(Friday,
July 29 14:00-15:00)
- Preprocessing
Techniques for Accelerating the DCOP Algorithm ADOPT
Syed Muhammad Ali, Sven Koenig, Milind Tambe
- Comparing
Two Approaches to Dynamic, Distributed Constraint
Satisfaction
Roger Mailler
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Impact of Problem Centralization in Distributed
Constraint Optimization Algorithms
John Davin, Pragnesh Jay Modi
SESSION
8e: learning and cooperation
(Friday,
July 29 14:00-15:00)
- A
Cost Minimization Approach to Human Behavior Recognition
Gita Sukthankar, Katia Sycara
- Predicting
Agent Strategy Mix of Evolving Populations
Sabyasachi Saha, Sandip Sen
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A Cooperative Multi-Agent Approach to Free Flight
Jared Hill, Ryan Johnson, James Archibald, Richard
L. Frost, Wynn C. Stirling
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