Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents, May 28 - June 1, 2001, Montreal, Canada. ACM, 2001

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  Liming Chen, Kamal Bechkoum, Gordon Clapworthy: A logical approach to high-level agent control. 1-8
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  Jan Broersen, Mehdi Dastani, Joris Hulstijn, Zhisheng Huang, Leendert W. N. van der Torre: The BOID architecture: conflicts between beliefs, obligations, intentions and desires. 9-16
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  Thomas Wagner, Victor R. Lesser: Evolving real-time agent control for large-scale MAS. 17-18
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  Michael Beetz, Thorsten Belker: Learning structured reactive navigation plans from executing MDP navigation policies. 19-20
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  Lucian Vlad Lita, Jamieson Schulte, Sebastian Thrun: A system for multi-agent coordination in uncertain environments. 21-22
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  Partha Sarathi Dutta, Sandip Sen: Identifying partners and sustenance of stable, effective coalitions. 23-24
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  Javier Carbo Rubiera, José M. Molina López, Jorge Dávila Muro: A fuzzy model of reputation in multi-agent systems. 25-26
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  Pinar Yolum, Munindar P. Singh: Designing and executing protocols using the event calculus. 27-28
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  Esben Hallundbæk Østergaard, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Maja J. Mataric: Emergent bucket brigading: a simple mechanisms for improving performance in multi-robot constrained-space foraging tasks. 29-30
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  Olivier Buffet, Alain Dutech, François Charpillet: Incremental reinforcement learning for designing multi-agent systems. 31-32
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  Brett Browning: Using rat navigation models to learn orientation from visual input on a mobile robot. 33-34
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  Masahiro Fujita, Gabriel Costa, Rika Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi Takagi, Jun Yokono, Hideki Shimomura: Architecture and preliminary experimental results for emotionally grounded symbol acquisition. 35-36
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  Pragnesh Jay Modi, Wei-Min Shen: Collaborative multiagent learning for classification tasks. 37-38
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  Yoichiro Matsuno, Tatsuya Yamazaki, Shin Ishii: A multi-agent reinforcement learning method for a partially-observable competitive game. 39-40
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  Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur, Wieke de Vries: External attribution of intentional notions to explain and predict agent behaviour. 41-42
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  David C. Parkes, Lyle H. Ungar: An auction-based method for decentralized train scheduling. 43-50
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  Daniel M. Reeves, Michael P. Wellman, Benjamin N. Grosof: Automated negotiation from declarative contract descriptions. 51-58
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  Partha Sarathi Dutta, Sandip Debnath, Sandip Sen: A shopper's assistant. 59-60
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  Minghua He, Ho-fung Leung: An agent bidding strategy based on fuzzy logic in a continuous double auction. 61-62
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  Jaeyoung Yang, Heekyoung Seo, Joongmin Choi: MORPHEUS: a more scalable comparison-shopping agent. 63-64
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  Daniel Veit, Jörg P. Müller, Martin Schneider II, Björn Fiehn: Matchmaking for autonomous agents in electronic marketplaces. 65-66
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  I. N. Wang, N. J. Fiddian, W. A. Gray: Market-based agent allocation in global information systems. 67-68
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  Aneurin M. Easwaran, Jeremy Pitt: Simultaneous optimization of multiple criteria for efficient agent service brokering. 69-70
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  Felix Brandt, Gerhard Weiß: Vicious strategies for Vickrey auctions. 71-72
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  Andreas Gerber, Matthias Klusch, Christian Ruß, Ingo Zinnikus: Holonic agents for the coordination of supply webs. 73-74
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  Michael Schillo, Hans-Jürgen Bürckert, Klaus Fischer, Matthias Klusch: Towards a definition of robustness for market-style open multi-agent systems. 75-76
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  Sergi Robles, Joan Borrell, John Bigham, Laurissa Tokarchuk, Laurie G. Cuthbert: Design of a trust model for a secure multi-agent marketplace. 77-78
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  Gregg Economou, Maksim Tsvetovat, Katia P. Sycara, Massimo Paolucci: Interaction without commitments: an initial approach. 79-80
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  John Collins, Maria L. Gini: Exploring decision processes in multi-agent automated contracting. 81-82
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  Hiromitsu Hattori, Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sakurai, Toramatsu Shintani: Determining bidding strategies in sequential auctions: quasi-linear utility and budget constraints. 83-84
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  Michael Schroeder, Penny Noy: Multi-agent visualisation based on multivariate data. 85-91
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  K. Suzanne Barber, Ryan McKay, Matthew T. MacMahon, Cheryl E. Martin, Dung N. Lam, Anuj Goel, David C. Han, Joonee Kim: Sensible agents: an implemented multi-agent system and testbed. 92-99
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  H. Van Dyke Parunak, James Odell: Representing social structures in UML. 100-101
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  Scott A. DeLoach: Specifying agent behavior as concurrent tasks. 102-103
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  Bernhard Bauer: UML classes diagrams and agent-based systems. 104-105
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  Martin D. Beer, Iain Anderson, Wei Huang: Using agents to build a practical implementation of the INCA (intelligent community alarm) system. 106-107
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  Chihiro Ono, Boyd C. Paulson Jr., Dai Kanetomo, Mark R. Cutkosky, Keesoo Kim, Charles J. Petrie: Trust-based facilitator for e-partnerships. 108-109
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  Yolanda Gil, Surya Ramachandran: PHOSPHORUS: a task-based agent matchmaker. 110-111
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  Michael Schroeder, Luke Boro, Julie A. McCann: Efficiency improvements for interactions of web-agents. 112-113
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  Rajatish Mukherjee, Gerður Jónsdóttir, Sandip Sen, Partha Sarathi Dutta: MOVIES2GO: an online voting based movie recommender system. 114-115
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  Josep Lluís Arcos, Enric Plaza: Exploiting context awareness in information agents. 116-117
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  Lik Mui, Peter Szolovits, Cheewee Ang: Collaborative sanctioning: applications in restaurant recommendations based on reputation. 118-119
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  Jin-Wook Baek, Gyu-Tae Kim, Heon Young Yeom: Timed mobile agent planning for distributed information retrieval. 120-121
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  Adelinde Uhrmacher, Bernd G. Kullick: Interacting multi-agent and simulation systems: an exploration into mole and james. 122-123
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  H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner: Entropy and self-organization in multi-agent systems. 124-130
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  Cora B. Excelente-Toledo, Rachel A. Bourne, Nicholas R. Jennings: Reasoning about commitments and penalties for coordination between autonomous agents. 131-138
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  Markus Hannebauer, Sebastian Müller: Distributed constraint optimization for medical appointment scheduling. 139-140
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  Esfir Freitsis, Sarit Kraus: Market-mechanisms to reduce pollution. 141-142
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  Mark Klein: A repository of knowledge about handling exceptions in multi-agent systems. 143-144
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  Sanguk Noh, Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz: Identifying the scope of modeling in multi-agent settings. 145-146
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  André Luís Vasconcelos Coelho, Daniel Weingaertner: Evolving coordination strategies in simulated robot soccer. 147-148
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  Jeffrey S. Cox, Bradley J. Clement, Pradeep M. Pappachan, Edmund H. Durfee: Integrating multiagent coordination with reactive plan execution. 149-150
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  Pradeep M. Pappachan, Edmund H. Durfee: A satisficing multiagent plan coordinating algorithm for dynamic domains. 151-152
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  Paul E. Rybski, Sascha Stoeter, Maria L. Gini, Dean F. Hougen, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos: Dynamic scheduling of a fixed bandwidth communications channel for controlling multiple robots. 153-154
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  Patrick Riley, Manuela M. Veloso: Coaching a simulated soccer team by opponent model recognition. 155-156
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  J. Colby Johnson, Thomas R. Ioerger: A formal model of responsibilities in agent-based teams. 157-158
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  Rong Xie, Daniela Rus, Clifford Stein: Scheduling multi-task multi-agent systems. 159-160
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  David Franklin, Kristian J. Hammond: The intelligent classroom: providing competent assistance. 161-168
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  Glenn S. Wasson, James P. Gunderson, Sean Graves, Robin A. Felder: An assistive robotic agent for pedestrian mobility. 169-173
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  James H. Kaufman, Joann Ruvolo, Daniel Alexander Ford: Tempus fight and the need for an e-social contract. 174-175
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  Yiming Ye, Stephen J. Boies, Paul Huang, John K. Tsotsos: Smart distance and WWWaware: a multi-agent approach. 176-177
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  Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons: A formal framework for inter-agent dialogues. 178-179
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  Mehdi Dastani, Joris Hulstijn, Leendert W. N. van der Torre: Negotiation protocols and dialogue games. 180-181
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  Katherine Isbister, David Young: SageTalk: designing a tool for designing successful web-based social agents. 182-183
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  François Michaud: Teaching a robot how to read symbols. 184-185
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  Catherine Pelachaud, Isabella Poggi, Berardina De Carolis, Fiorella de Rosis: A reflexive, not impulsive agent. 186-187
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  François Michaud, Jonathan Audet: Using motives and artificial emotions for long-term activity of an autonomous robot. 188-189
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  Patrick De Causmaecker, Peter Demeester, Ph. De Pauw-Waterschoot, Greet Vanden Berghe: Sympathetic agents assist route in route planning. 190-191
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  Alexander Artikis, Jeremy Pitt: A formal model of open agent societies. 192-193
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  Jordi Sabater, Carles Sierra: REGRET: reputation in gregarious societies. 194-195
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  Alberto Finzi, Fiora Pirri, Marco Pirrone, Massimo Romano, Milko Vaccaro: Autonomous mobile manipulators managing perception and failures. 196-203
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  Scott Lenser, James Bruce, Manuela M. Veloso: CMPack: a complete software system for autonomous legged soccer robots. 204-211
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  Edgar Weippl: Building secure knowledge bases: combining Java agents and DBagents. 212-213
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  Liliana Ardissono, Anna Goy, Giovanna Petrone, Marino Segnan: Software architecture of SETA, an adaptive Web store shell. 214-215
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  Fabio Bellifemine, Agostino Poggi, Giovanni Rimassa: JADE: a FIPA2000 compliant agent development environment. 216-217
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  Ralf Sesseler: Building agents for service provisioning out of components. 218-219
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  Christos Stergiou, Geert Arys: Policy based agent management using conversation patterns. 220-221
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  Walter Binder, Jarle Hulaas, Alex Villazón: Portable resource control in the J-SEAL2 mobile agent system. 222-223
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  Suhayya Abu-Hakima, Connie McFarland, John F. Meech: An agent-based system for email highlighting. 224-225
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  Marshall Brinn, Todd M. Carrico, Nathan Combs: Every agent a web server, every agent community an intranet... 226-227
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  James J. Nolan, Robert Simon, Arun K. Sood: An agent-based approach to imagery and geospatial computing. 228-229
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  Joseph A. Giampapa, Octavio H. Juarez-Espinosa, Katia P. Sycara: Configuration management for multi-agent systems. 230-231
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  Delbert Hart, Mihail Eduard Tudoreanu, Eileen Kraemer: Mobile agents for monitoring distributed systems. 232-233
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  Mariusz Nowostawski, Martin K. Purvis, Stephen Cranefield: Modelling and visualizing agent conversations. 234-235
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  Patricia Charlton, David Bonnefoy, Nicolas Lhuillier: Dealing with interoperability for agent-based services. 236-237
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  Peter Stone, Michael L. Littman, Satinder P. Singh, Michael J. Kearns: ATTac-2000: an adaptive autonomous bidding agent. 238-245
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  Rajbala Makar, Sridhar Mahadevan, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh: Hierarchical multi-agent reinforcement learning. 246-253
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  Daniel G. Shapiro, Pat Langley, Ross D. Shachter: Using background knowledge to speed reinforcement learning in physical agents. 254-261
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  Gabriel Somlo, Adele E. Howe: Incremental clustering for profile maintenance in information gathering web agents. 262-269
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  Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka: Social role awareness in animated agents. 270-277
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  Jonathan Gratch, Stacy Marsella: Tears and fears: modeling emotions and emotional behaviors in synthetic agents. 278-285
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  Talal Al-Shihabi, Ronald R. Mourant: A framework for modeling human-like driving behaviors for autonomous vehicles in driving simulators. 286-291
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  Ana L. C. Bazzan, Rafael H. Bordini: A framework for the simulation of agents with emotions. 292-299
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  Paul Scerri, David V. Pynadath, Milind Tambe: Adjustable autonomy in real-world multi-agent environments. 300-307
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  Gal A. Kaminka, David V. Pynadath, Milind Tambe: Monitoring deployed agent teams. 308-315
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  Peter Stone, David A. McAllester: An architecture for action selection in robotic soccer. 316-323
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  Hyuckchul Jung, Milind Tambe, Shriniwas Kulkarni: Argumentation as distributed constraint satisfaction: applications and results. 324-331
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  Yun Ding, Rainer Malaka, Christian Kray, Michael Schillo: RAJA: a resource-adaptive Java agent infrastructure. 332-339
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  Martijn C. Schut, Michael Wooldridge: Principles of intention reconsideration. 340-347
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  Juichi Kosakaya, Katsunori Yamaoka: Cooperative multi-agent intelligent field terminals. 348-354
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  Régis Vincent, Bryan Horling, Victor R. Lesser, Thomas Wagner: Implementing soft real-time agent control. 355-362
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  Gaku Yamamoto, Hideki Tai: Performance evaluation of an agent server capable of hosting large numbers of agents. 363-369
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  Isabel Machado, Ana Paiva, Rui Prada: Is the wolf angry or ... just hungry? 370-376
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  Charles Lee Isbell Jr., Christian R. Shelton, Michael J. Kearns, Satinder P. Singh, Peter Stone: A social reinforcement learning agent. 377-384
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  John E. Laird: It knows what you're going to do: adding anticipation to a Quakebot. 385-392
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  Yasuyuki Sumi, Kenji Mase: AgentSalon: facilitating face-to-face knowledge exchange through conversations among personal agents. 393-400
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  Stéphane Donikian: HPTS: a behaviour modelling language for autonomous agents. 401-408
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  Randall W. Hill Jr., Jonathan Gratch, W. Lewis Johnson, Chris Kyriakakis, Catherine LaBore, Richard Lindheim, Stacy Marsella, David Miraglia, Ben Moore, Jackie Morie, Jeff Rickel, Marcus Thiébaux, Larry Tuch, Richard Whitney, Jay Douglas, William R. Swartout: Toward the holodeck: integrating graphics, sound, character and story. 409-416
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  Bryan Horling, Régis Vincent, Roger Mailler, Jiaying Shen, Raphen Becker, Kyle Rawlins, Victor R. Lesser: Distributed sensor network for real time tracking. 417-424
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  Marc S. Atkin, Gary W. King, David L. Westbrook, Brent Heeringa, Paul R. Cohen: Hierarchical agent control: a framework for defining agent behavior. 425-432
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  Keith Decker, Xiaojing Zheng, Carl J. Schmidt: A multi-agent system for automated genomic annotation. 433-440
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  Olivier Gutknecht, Jacques Ferber, Fabien Michel: Integrating tools and infrastructures for generic multi-agent systems. 441-448
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  Edmund S. Yu: Evolving and messaging decision-making agents. 449-456
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  Silviu Minut, Sridhar Mahadevan: A reinforcement learning model of selective visual attention. 457-464
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  Andrew B. Williams, Zijian Ren: Agents teaching agents to share meaning. 465-472
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  Vincent A. Cicirello, Stephen F. Smith: Wasp nests for self-configurable factories. 473-480
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  Jeremy Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Alexander Artikis: Interaction patterns and observable commitments in a multi-agent trading scenario. 481-488
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  Yuh-Jong Hu: Some thoughts on agent trust and delegation. 489-496
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  Frank Guerin, Jeremy Pitt: Denotational semantics for agent communication language. 497-504
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  Don Cruickshank, Luc Moreau, David De Roure: Architectural design of a multi-agent system for handling metadata streams. 505-512
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  K. Suzanne Barber, Cheryl E. Martin: Dynamic reorganization of decision-making groups. 513-520
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  Tucker R. Balch, Zia Khan, Manuela M. Veloso: Automatically tracking and analyzing the behavior of live insect colonies. 521-528
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  Bryan Horling, Brett Benyo, Victor R. Lesser: Using self-diagnosis to adapt organizational structures. 529-536
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  S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge: Adaptive task resources allocation in multi-agent systems. 537-544
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  Chris Preist, Andrew Byde, Claudio Bartolini: Economic dynamics of agents in multiple auctions. 545-551
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  Yasuo Matsumoto, Satoru Fujita: An auction agent for bidding on combinations of items. 552-559
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  Amy Greenwald, Jeffrey O. Kephart: Probabilistic pricebots. 560-567
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  Samuel P. M. Choi, Jiming Liu: A dynamic mechanism for time-constrained trading. 568-575
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  Junichi Yamamoto, Katia P. Sycara: A stable and efficient buyer coalition formation scheme for e-marketplaces. 576-583
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  Kam-Chuen Jim, C. Lee Giles: How communication can improve the performance of multi-agent systems. 584-591
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  Nikos I. Karacapilidis, Pavlos Moraitis: Intelligent agents for an artificial market system. 592-599
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  Sven Koenig, Yaxin Liu: Terrain coverage with ant robots: a simulation study. 600-607
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  Elth Ogston, Stamatis Vassiliadis: Matchmaking among minimal agents without a facilitator. 608-615
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  Ping Xuan, Victor R. Lesser, Shlomo Zilberstein: Communication decisions in multi-agent cooperation: model and experiments. 616-623
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  Onn Shehory, Arnon Sturm: Evaluation of modeling techniques for agent-based systems. 624-631
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  Federico Bergenti, Agostino Poggi: A development toolkit to realize autonomous and interoperable agents. 632-639
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  Ralph Depke, Reiko Heckel, Jochen Malte Küster: Improving the agent-oriented modeling process by roles. 640-647
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  Paolo Bresciani, Anna Perini, Paolo Giorgini, Fausto Giunchiglia, John Mylopoulos: A knowledge level software engineering methodology for agent oriented programming. 648-655
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  Yasuyuki Tahara, Akihiko Ohsuga, Shinichi Honiden: Mobile agent security with the IPEditor development tool and the mobile UNITY language. 656-662