Third International Conference
on Autonomous Agents
May 1 - 5, 1999
Seattle, WA
Final Programme
Saturday, May 1 1999
09:00 – Workshop W1: Agent-Based
10:30
[Cottonwood Room]
High Performance Computing
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 – Coffee break
11:00
[Regency Foyer & 4th Floor Foyer]
11:00 – Workshops W1 - W9 cont.
12:30
12:30 – Workshops W1, W2, W4 - W9 cont.
14:00
15:30 – Coffee break
16:00
[Regency Foyer & 4th Floor Foyer]
16:00 – Workshops W1, W2, W4 - W9 cont. (Workshops W4 and W8 finish 17:00 !!)
17:30
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
11:00 –
12:30
12:30 –
14:00
14:00 –
15:30
Coffee break
[Regency Foyer & 4th Floor Foyer]
Tutorials F1, F2, F3, M1, M2 cont.
Lunch
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
16:00 –
17:30
Coffee break
[Regency Foyer & 4th Floor Foyer]
Tutorials F1, F2, F3, A1, A2, A3 cont.
Monday, May 3 1999
08:00 –
08:30
08:30 –
09:00
09:00 –
10:00
Continental Breakfast
[Grand Foyer]
Opening remarks
[Grand Ballroom]
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
10:00 –
12:30
Coffee break
[Winter garden]
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
12:30 –
14:00
12:30 –
14:00
14:00 –
15:30
Exhibitions
[Winter garden]
Lunch
ACM SIGART Business Meeting
[Executive Boardroom]
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
16:00 –
17:30
Coffee break
[Winter garden]
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
19:00 –
22:00
Invited Presentation I2
[Grand Ballroom]
Session chair: Jörg P. Müller
Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI
Personalized Interface Agents for Virtual Webpages
Robot Party
[Regency Ballroom]
Tuesday, May 4 1999
08:00 –
08:30
08:30 –
09:30
Continental Breakfast
[Grand Foyer]
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
09:30 –
13:30
10:00 –
11:30
Coffee break
[Winter garden]
Exhibitions
[Winter garden]
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
10:00 –
12:30
11:30 –
12:30
Software demos Part 1
[Regency B Room]
Poster Exhibits Part 1 (*)
[Larch Room (for sessions S1, S3), Laurel Room (S2, S6), Madrona (S4, S5)]
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
13:00 –
18:00
Lunch
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
09:00 –
10:00
Continental Breakfast
[Grand Foyer]
Invited presentation I4
[Grand Ballroom ]
Session chair: Gene Ball
Daniel T. Ling, Microsoft
Agents: Brains, Faces and Bodies
10:00 –
10:30
10:00 –
15:30
10:30 –
12:30
Coffee break
[Winter garden]
Exhibitions
[Winter garden]
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
12:30 –
13:30
13:30 –
15:00
Lunch
[Regency B Room]
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 (**)
15:00 –
15:30
15:30 –
17:00
Coffee break
[Larch Room (for sessions S8, S11, P1.1), Laurel Room (S7, S10, P1.3), Madrona Room (S9,
S12, P1.2)]
[Winter garden]
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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