Agents'99 Draft Programme

Michael Mauldin (Virtual Personalities)
VERBOTS: Putting a face on natural language

Session chair: Gene Ball

Technical Papers:

Carlos Martinho, Ana Paiva
Pathematic Agents

Magy Seif El-Nasr, Thomas Ioerger, John Yen
PETEEI: A PET with Evolving Emotional Intelligence

Sonu Chopra, Norman Badler
Where To Look? Automating Attending Behaviors of Virtual Human Characters

James Lester, Luke Zettlemoyer, Gregoire Joel, William Bares
Explanatory Lifelike Avatars: Performing User-Designed Tasks in 3D Learning Environments

Poster Adverts:

Elsa Schweiss, Soraia Musse, Garat Fabien, Daniel Thalmann
An Architecture to Guide Crowds using a Rule-Based Behaviour System

Mathew Yap, Wee-Keong Ng
Are Life-like Characteristics Useful for Autonomous Agents? 

Ruth Aylett, Anthony Horrobin, John O'Hare, Ashraf Osman, Mikail Polshaw
Virtual Teletubbies: reapplying a robot architecture to virtual agents 

Jiming Liu, Hong Qin
Organizing Synthetic Agent Behaviors Based on a Motif Architecture

Barbara Rosario, Nuria Oliver, Alex Pentland
A Synthetic Agent System for Bayesian Modeling of Human Interactions

Session chair: Katya Sycara

Technical Papers:

Claudia Goldman, Jeffrey Rosenschein
Partitioned Multiagent Systems in Information Oriented Domains

Kate Larson, Tuomas Sandholm
Anytime Coalition Structure Generation: An Average Case Study

Jiming Liu, Jianbing Wu
Evolutionary Group Robots for Collective World Modeling

Shih-Hung Wu, Von-Wun Soo
Game Theoretic Reasoning in Multi-agent Coordination by Negotiation with a Trusted Third Party

Poster Adverts:

Ron Sun, Chad Sessions
Bidding in Reinforcement Learning: A Paradigm for Multi-Agent Systems 

K. Suzanne Barber, Tse Hsin Liu, Anuj Goel, Cheryl E. Martin
Conflict Representation and Classification in a Domain-Independent Conflict Management Framework 

Mihai Barbuceanu, Tom Gray, Serge Mankovski
A Negotiation Engine

John Collins, Maksim Tsvetovat, Sundaresvara Rashmi, Joshua van Tonder, Maria Gini
Evaluating Risk: Flexibility and Feasibility in Multi-Agent Contracting 

Anish Biswas, Sandip Sen
Influence of perspectives on help-giving behaviors

Session chair: Craig Knoblock

Technical Papers:

Mark Klein, Chrysanthos Dellarocas
Exception Handling in Agent Systems

Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas Jennings, David Kinny
A Methodology for Agent-oriented Analysis and Design

David Wolpert, Kevin Wheeler, Kagan Tumer
General Principles of Learning-Based Multi-Agent Systems

Poster Adverts:

Brian Guarraci
Using Polymorphism to Create Complex Agents 

Frances Brazier, Catholijn Jonker, Jan Treur, Niek Wijngaards
Deliberate Evolution in Multi-Agent Systems 

R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng
Jackal: A Java-based Tool for Agent Development 

Hyacinth Nwana, Divine Ndumu, Lee Lyndon, Jaron Collis
ZEUS: A Toolkit and Approach for Building Distributed Multi-Agent Systems

Session chair: Wei-Min Shen

Technical Papers:

Robert Ghanea-Hercock, David Barnes
Disturbed Behaviour in Co-operating Autonomous robots

Tucker Balch
The Impact of Diversity on Performance in Multi-robot Foraging

Dani Goldberg, Maja Mataric
Coordinating Mobile Robot Group Behavior Using a Model of Interaction Dynamics

Poster Adverts:

Fumio Mizoguchi, Hayato Ohwada, Nishiyama Hiroyuki, Hironori Hiraishi
Collaboration between robotic agents at the smart office 

Robin Murphy, Michelle Ausmus, Bugajska Magda, Tanya Ellis Johnson
Marsupial-like Mobile Robot Societies 

Session chair: Joerg P. Mueller

Technical Papers:

Simone Strippgen, Kornelia Peters
`The other way round!' Collaborative Communication with Agents

Henry Lieberman, Bonnie Nardi, David Wright 
Training Agents to Recognize Text by Example

Sanguk Noh, Piotr Gmytrasiewicz
Implementation and Evaluation of Rational Communicative Behavior in Coordinated Defence

Poster Adverts:

Heather Holmback, Mark Greaves, Jeffrey Bradshaw 
A Pragmatic Principle in Agent Communication 

Shigeo Matsubara, Takeshi Ohguro, Hattori Fumio
CommunityBoard 2: Mediating between Speakers and an Audience in Computer Network Discussions 

Wu Wen, Fumio Mizoguchi
Analysis and Verification of Multi-Agent Interaction Protocol 

Session chair: Tuomas Sandholm

Technical Papers:

Chris Preist 
Commodity Trading Using An Agent-Based Iterated Double Auction

Joerg P. Mueller, Markus  Pischel
Doing business in the information marketplace: A case study

Sunju Park, Edmund Durfee, William Birmingham
An Adaptive Agent Strategy based on Stochastic Modeling for Multiagent Auctions

Poster Adverts:

Fredrik Ygge, Hans Akkermans, Arne Andersson 
Predictive Power Load Management as a Multi-Commodity Market 

Mark Nissen, Anshu Mehra
Intelligent Software Supply Chain Agents 

Catholijn Jonker, Jan Treur
Re-usable Broker Agent Architecture with Dynamic Maintenance Capabilities 

Jeffrey Kephart, Amy Greenwald
Shopbot Economics 

Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI
Personalized Interface Agents for Virtual Webpages

Brian Williams, M.I.T.
Model-based Autonomous Systems in Deep Space

Session chair: Maria Gini

Technical Papers:

Fang Wang, Eric McKenzie
Multi-agents based Evolutionary Artificial Neural Network for General Navigation in Unknown Environments

François Michaud, Minh Tuan Vu
Managing robot autonomy and interactivity using motives and visual communication

Larry Pyeatt, Adele Howe
Integrating POMDP and Reinforcement Learning for a Two Layer Simulated Robot Architecture

Poster Adverts:

Maite Lopez-Sanchez, Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, Carles Sierra 
Map Generation by means of Autonomous Robots and  Possibility Propagation Techniques 

David Barnes, Javan Wardle
Robust gait generation for hexapodal robot locomotion 

William Gribble
Field of view control for closed-loop visually-guided motion 

Daniel Shapiro, Pat Langley
Controlling Physical Agents Through Reactive Logic Programming

Session chair: Henry Lieberman

Technical Papers:

Nicholas Kushmerick
Learning to remove Internet advertisements

Liliana Ardissono, Cristina Barbero, Anna Goy, Giovanna Petrone
An agent architecture for personalized  Web stores

Ion Muslea, Steve Minton, Craig Knoblock 
A Hierarchical Approach to Wrapper Induction

Poster Adverts:

Juergen Lind, Christoph Jung, Christian Gerber
Adaptivity and Learning in Intelligent Real-Time Systems 

Daniel Boley, Vivian Borst
Unsupervised Updating of a Classification Tree in a Dynamic Environment

Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Kurt Bollacker 
Autonomous Citation Matching 

Session chair: Rob Kremer

Technical Papers:

Seth Rogers, Claude-Nicholas Fiechter
An Adaptive Interactive Agent for Route Advice

Peter Stone, Manuela Veloso
Team-Partitioned, Opaque-Transition Reinforcement Learning

Poster Adverts:

Michael Pazzani, Daniel  Billsus
Adaptive Web Site Agents 

Anish  Biswas, Sandip  Sen
Learning to model behaviors from boolean responses 

Session chair: Carles Sierra

Technical Papers:

Gal Kaminka, Milind Tambe
Iím OK, Youíre OK, Weíre OK: Experiments in Distributed and Centralized Relational Execution Monitoring

Stacy Marsella, Jafar Adibi, Yaser Al-Onaizan, Gal Kaminka, Ion Muslea, and Milind Tambe
On being a teammate: Experiences acquired in the design of RoboCup teams

Poster Adverts:

Robert Ghanea-Hercock, Jaron Collis, Divine Ndumu
Co-operating Mobile Agents for Distributed Parallel Processing 

Zhun Qiu, Milind Tambe, and  Hyuckchul Jung
Towards Flexible Negotiation in Teamwork

Novel applications

Jide Odubiyi, George Meekins, Huang Song, Tracy Yin
Proteus - Adaptive Polling System for Proactive Management of ATM Networks Using Collaborative Intelligent Agents 

Patricia Charlton, Yasmine Arafa, Fehin Pat, Ray MsGuigan, Ray Richardson
Deployment of a Multi-agent System for Public Service Access 

Sterling Foster, Dana Moore, Nebesh Danko, Michael Flester
Control and Management in a Mobile Agent Workflow Architecture 

Samir Aknine 
Contribution of a Multi-agent Cooperation Model in a Hospital environment 

Evaluation and simulation of agent systems

Christian Gerber, Christian Russ, Gero Vierke
On the Suitability of Market-Based Mechanisms for Telematics Applications 

Ioan-Alfred Letia 
A TLA+ Specification for Agent Communication that Enables Proofs 

Multiagent coordination and collaboration

Sandra Hayden, Christina Carrick, Yang Qiang 
Architectural Design Patterns for Multiagent Coordination 

Aneurin  Easwaran, Jeremy Pitt, Poslad Stefan
The Agent Service Brokering Problem As A Generalised Travelling Salesman Problem

K. Suzanne Barber, Joonoo Kim
Constructing and Dynamically Maintaining Perspective-based Agent Models in a Multi-Agent Environment 

Randall Hill, Jr.
Perceptual Grouping and Attention in a Multi-Agent World 

Invited Presentation I4

Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems
Java and JINI: Toward a Network of Objects and Agents

Agents'99 Best Paper Award

Daniel T. Ling, Microsoft
Agents: Brains, Faces and Bodies

Session chair: Oren Etzioni

Technical Papers:

Michael Beetz
Structured Reactive Controllers --- Controlling Robots that Perform Everyday Activity

Marcus Huber
JAM: A BDI-theoretic Mobile Agent

Ella Atkins, Tarek Abdelzaher, Shin Kang, Edmund  Durfee
Planning and Resource Allocation for Hard Real-Time, Fault-Tolerant Plan Execution

Bradley Clement, Edmund  Durfee
Top-Down Search for Coordinating the Hierarchical Plans of Multiple Agents

Poster Adverts:

Illah Nourbakhsh 
Swapping Decisions: a strategy for agents with conflicting goals 

Paul Scerri, Nancy Reed 
Adapting an Agent to a Similar Environment 

Subrata Das, Raffi Krikorian, Walt Truszkowski
Distributed Planning and Scheduling for Enhancing Spacecraft Autonomy 

Yiming Ye, John Tsotsos
Knowledge Granularity for Task Oriented Agents 

Luiz Goncalves, Roderic Grupen, Antonio Oliveira
Multi-modal Stereognosis

Session chair: Elisabeth Andre

Technical Papers:

Mathias Bauer, Dietmar Dengler
TrIAs: Trainable Information Assistants for Cooperative Problem Solving

Daniel  Billsus, Michael Pazzani
A Personal News Agent that Talks, Learns and Explains

Richard Segal, Jeffrey Kephart
MailCat: An Intelligent Assistant for Organizing E-Mail

Erin Shaw, W. Lewis Johnson, Ganeshan Rajaram
Pedagogical Agents on the Web

Poster Adverts:

Brendan Berney, Elaine  Ferneley
Agent-Based Multimedia Information Retrieval: CASMIR - A Community of Software Agents Collaborating in order to Retrieve Multimedia Data 

Yasmine Arafa, Patricia  Charlton, Abe Mamdani
Supporting Personality in Personal Service Assistants, from Metaphor to Implementation 

Hui-Lung Wang , Wei-Kuan Shih, Chunnan Hsu , Yi-Shiou Chen, Yu-Lin Wang, Wen-Lian Hsu
Personal Navigating Agent 

Sumit Ghosh, Manisha Mundhe, Karina Hernandez, Sandip  Sen
Voting for movies: the anatomy of a recommender system

Session chair: Keith Golden

Technical Papers:

Victor Lesser, Michael Atighetchi, Bryan Horling,  Brett Benyo, Anita Raja
The UMASS Intelligent Home Project

Carey Heckman, Alexander Roetter
Designing Government Agents for Constitutional Compliance

Onn Shehory, Katia Sycara, Sukthankar Gita, Vick Mukherjee
Agent aided aircraft maintenance

Session chair: Mark Greaves

Technical Papers:

Michael Schroeder 
Using Singular Value Decomposition to Visualise Relations within Multi-Agent Systems

Gaku Yamamoto, Yuhichi Nakamura
Architecture and Performance Evaluation of a Massive Multi-Agent System

Divine  Ndumu, Hyacinth Nwana, Lee Lyndon, Jaron Collis
Visualising and Debugging Distributed Multi-Agent Systems

Graham Glass
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