Autonomous Agents'99

Saturday, May 1 1999

 
 

09:00 - 10:30	Workshop W1: Agent-Based High Performance Computing  [Cottonwood Room]    Workshop W2: Mobile Agents in the Context of Competition and Cooperation  [Larch Room]    Workshop W3: Agent-Oriented Information Systems  [Balsam Room]    Workshop W4: Agent based Decision-Support for Managing the Internet-Enabled  Supply-Chain  [Regency A Room]    Workshop W5: Emotion-Based Agent Architectures  [Juniper Room]    Workshop W6: Communicative Agents  [Hemlock Room]    Workshop W7: Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies  [Madrona Room]    Workshop W8: Specifying and Implementing Conversation Policies  [Regency B Room]    Workshop W9: Autonomy Control Software  [Laurel Room]
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break  [Regency Foyer & 4th Floor Foyer]
11:00 - 12:30	Workshops W1 - W9 cont.
12:30 - 14:00	Workshops W1, W2, W4 - W9 cont.
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break  [Regency Foyer & 4th Floor Foyer]
16:00 - 17:30	Workshops W1, W2, W4 - W9 cont. (Workshops W4 and W8 finish 17:00 !!)

Note: Room assignments are subject to change. Please check up-to-date information near the registration desk.

Sunday, May 2 1999

 
 

09:00 - 10:30	Tutorial F1: Robotic Soccer  [Juniper Room]        Peter Stone,Carnegie Mellon University,         Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University.     Tutorial F2: Agents in Electronic Markets  [Laurel Room]        Tuomas Sandholm, Washington University.     Tutorial F3: Autonomous Virtual Humans in Virtual Environments  [Hemlock Room]        Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, University of Geneva,         Daniel Thalmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.     Tutorial M1: Understanding Code Mobility  [Regency A Room]        Gian Pietro Picco, Washington University in St. Louis,         Giovanni Vigna, University of California Santa Barbara.     Tutorial M2: Behavior-Based Robotics  [Madrona Room]        Maja Mataric, University of Southern California,         Ronald Arkin, Georgia Institute of Technology.
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break  [Regency Foyer & 4th Floor Foyer]
11:00 - 12:30	Tutorials F1, F2, F3, M1, M2 cont.
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:30	Tutorials F1, F2, F3 cont.  Tutorial A1: Autonomous Systems  [Regency A Room]        Andreas Birk, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.      Tutorial A2: Information Filtering and Classification  [Regency B Room]        Michael J. Pazzani, University of California, Irvine.     Tutorial A3: Creating Social Agent Desktop Applications  [Madrona Room]       Dana Moore, AT&T Labs.
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break  [Regency Foyer & 4th Floor Foyer]
16:00 - 17:30	Tutorials F1, F2, F3, A1, A2, A3 cont.

 

Monday, May 3 1999

 
 

08:00 - 08:30	Continental Breakfast [Grand Foyer]
08:30 - 09:00	Opening remarks  [Grand Ballroom]
09:00 - 10:00	Invited Presentation I1   [Grand Ballroom]  Session chair: Oren Etzioni    Michael Mauldin (Virtual Personalities, Inc.)  VERBOTS: Putting a face on natural language
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee break  [Winter garden]
10:00 - 12:30	Paper Session S1:  SYNTHETIC AGENTS   [Grand Ballroom Section DEFG]  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
10:00 - 12:30	Paper Session S2: MULTIAGENT COOPERATION AND COORDINATION   [Grand Ballroom Section ABC]  Session chair: Katia 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
10:00 - 16:00	Exhibitions [Winter garden]
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
12:30 - 14:00	ACM SIGART Business Meeting [Executive Boardroom]
14:00 - 15:30	Paper Session S3:  DESIGNING AGENT SYSTEMS  [Grand Ballroom Section DEFG]  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
14:00 - 15:30	Paper Session S4: COOPERATING ROBOTS  [Grand Ballroom Section ABC]  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
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break  [Winter garden]
16:00 - 17:30	Paper Session S5:  COLLABORATION AND COMMUNICATION  [Grand Ballroom Section ABC]  Session chair:  Mike Wooldridge    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
16:00 - 17:30	Paper Session S6: ELECTRONIC COMMERCE  [Grand Ballroom Section DEFG]  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
17:45 - 18:45	Invited Presentation I2   [Grand Ballroom]  Session chair: Jörg P. Müller   Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI  Personalized Interface Agents for Virtual Webpages
19:00 - 22:00	Robot Party  [Regency Ballroom]

 

Tuesday, May 4 1999

 
 

08:00 - 08:30	Continental Breakfast [Grand Foyer]
08:30 - 09:30	Invited Presentation I3   [Grand Ballroom ]  Session chair: Nick Jennings    Brian Williams, M.I.T.  Model-based Autonomous Systems in Deep Space
09:30 - 10:00	Coffee break  [Winter garden]
09:30 - 13:30	Exhibitions  [Winter garden]
10:00 - 11:30	Paper session S7:  AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS   [Grand Ballroom Section ABC]  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
10:00 - 11:30	Paper session S8: LEARNING AGENTS ON THE WWW   [Grand Ballroom Section DEFG]  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
10:00 - 12:30	Software demos  Part 1  [Regency B Room]
10:00 - 12:30	Poster Exhibits Part 1  (*)  [Larch Room (for sessions S1, S3), Laurel Room (S2, S6), Madrona (S4, S5)]
11:30 - 12:30	Paper session S9:  ADAPTIVE AGENTS  [Grand Ballroom Section DEFG]  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
11:30 - 12:30	Paper session S10: MULTIAGENT TEAMS  [Grand Ballroom Section ABC]  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
11:30 - 12:30	Poster Advertising Session P1  [Regency A Room]  Session chair: Frank Dignum    P1.1: 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       P1.2: 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       P1.3: 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
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:00 - 18:00	Visit Boeing plant (Free time for others)
19:00 - 22:30	Conference banquet   [Grand Ballroom ]    Invited Presentation I4  Session chair: Jeff Bradshaw    Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems  Java and JINI: Toward a Network of Objects and Agents
	ACM student paper awards    Agents'99 Best Paper Award

(*) Posters will be up (unmanned) from Monday until Tuesday afternoon

Wednesday, May 5, 1999

 
 

08:30 - 09:00	Continental Breakfast [Grand Foyer]
09:00 - 10:00	Invited presentation I4  [Grand Ballroom ]  Session chair: Gene Ball    Daniel T. Ling, Microsoft  Agents: Brains, Faces and Bodies
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee break  [Winter garden]
10:00 - 15:30	Exhibitions  [Winter garden]
10:30 - 12:30	Paper session S11:  ACTION SELECTION AND PLANNING  [Grand Ballroom Section DEFG]  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
10:30 - 12:30	Paper session S12:  USER INTERFACE AGENTS AND PERSONALIZED ASSISTANTS  [Grand Ballroom Section ABC]  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
10:30 - 12:30	Software Demos Part 2  [Regency B Room]
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 15:00	Paper Session S13: NOVEL APPLICATIONS  [Grand Ballroom Section DEFG]  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
13:30 - 15:00	Paper Session S14:  EVALUATION AND SIMULATION OF AGENT SYSTEMS  [Grand Ballroom Section ABC]  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
13:30 - 15:30	Poster Exhibits Part 2 (**)  [Larch Room (for sessions S8, S11, P1.1), Laurel Room (S7, S10, P1.3), Madrona Room (S9, S12, P1.2)]
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee break  [Winter garden]
15:30 - 17:00	Invited Presentation  I5    [Grand Ballroom]  Session chair: Jeff Bradshaw   Graham Glass, ObjectSpace Inc.  Agents and Internet Component Technology

 (**) Posters will be accessible (unmanned) from Tuesday afternnon until end of Wednesday poster exhibition

 
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