1. AT 2012: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Sascha Ossowski, Francesca Toni, George A. Vouros (Eds.): Proceedings of the First International Conference on Agreement Technologies, AT 2012, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 15-16, 2012. CEUR-WS.org 2012 CEUR Workshop Proceedings 918
Session I: Invited Papers
Carles Sierra: Negotiation and Search. 1
SINTELNET Panel on Social Intelligence
Pablo Noriega: Engineering Good-Enough Social Interaction. 2
Enric Plaza: Social Intelligence and Emergent Rationality. 3
Andrew J. I. Jones, Alexander Artikis, Jeremy Pitt: The Design of Intelligent Socio-Technical Systems. 4-11
Session II: Multi-Agent Systems
Emilia Garcia, Adriana Giret, Vicente J. Botti: Developing Regulated Open Multi-agent Systems. 12-26
Ramón Hermoso, Henrique Lopes Cardoso: Dynamic Discovery and Maintenance of Role-based Performance Standards. 27-41
Miguel Rebollo, Alberto Palomares, Carlos Carrascosa: Towards Building Agreement Spaces using Consensus Networks. 42-56
Matteo Vasirani, Sascha Ossowski: A Collaborative Model for Participatory Load Management in the Smart Grid. 57-70
Ignasi Gómez-Sebastià, Sergio Álvarez-Napagao, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Luis Oliva Felipe: Towards Runtime Support for Norm Change from a Monitoring Perspective. 71-85
Michal Drozdowicz, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki, Pawel Szmeja, Katarzyna Wasielewska: OntoPlay - A Flexible User-Interface for Ontology-based Systems. 86-100
Position Papers
Moser Silva Fagundes, Sascha Ossowski, Michael Luck, Simon Miles: Representing and Evaluating Electronic Contracts with Normative Markov Decision Processes. 101-102
Luis Oliva Felipe, Sergio Álvarez-Napagao, Javier Vázquez-Salceda: Towards a Framework for the Analysis of Regulative Norm Performance in Complex Networks. 103-104
J. Santiago Pérez-Sotelo, Carlos E. Cuesta, Sascha Ossowski: Adapting Agent Organisations with Agreement Technologies. 105-106
Johannes Westhuis, Ralf Bruns, Jürgen Dunkel: Using CEP-based Blackboards for Coordinating Mobile RFID Agents. 107-108
Guido Boella, Patrice Caire, Leendert W. N. van der Torre, Serena Villata: Dependence Networks for Agreement Technologies. 109-110
Ivo Buljevic, Ivana Pranjic, Marija Mijic, Jurica Babic, Ana Petric, Vedran Podobnik: The CrocodileAgent 2012: Reaching Agreements in a Simulation of a Smart Grid Wholesale Market. 111-112
Session III: Argumentation and Negotiation
Cristian Gratie, Adina Magda Florea, John-Jules Ch. Meyer: General Directionality and the Local Behavior of Argumentation Semantics. 113-127
Valter Vasic, Miljenko Mikuc: Security Agility Solution Independent of the Underlaying Protocol Architecture. 128-137
Tjitze Rienstra: Towards a Probabilistic Dung-style Argumentation System. 138-152
Leila Amgoud, Roberto Confalonieri, Dave De Jonge, Mark d'Inverno, Katina Hazelden, Nardine Osman, Henri Prade, Carles Sierra, Matthew Yee-King: WeCurate: Designing For Synchronised Browsing And Social Negotiation. 168-179
Raiye Alemayehu, Takayuki Ito: Constraint Definition Rule to Achieve High Rate of Success in Negotiations. 180-194
Position Papers



Matthew Yee-King, Roberto Confalonieri, Dave De Jonge, Nardine Osman, Katina Hazelden, Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade, Carles Sierra, Mark d'Inverno: Towards Community Browsing for Shared Experiences: The WeBrowse System. 201-202
Sinisa Matetic, Jurica Babic, Marin Matijas, Ana Petric, Vedran Podobnik: The CrocodileAgent 2012: Negotiating Agreements in Smart Grid Tariff Market. 203-204
Session IV: Foundations of Agreement Technologies
Marin Lujak, Marija Slavkovik: Competitive Voters vs. Collaborative Bidders: Agreements in Dynamic Task Assignment. 205-219
Leila Amgoud, Mark d'Inverno, Nardine Osman, Henri Prade, Carles Sierra: Experiences - A Forgotten Component of Epistemic States. 220-230
Pere Pardo, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh: Backward Planning in the Logics of Communication and Change. 231-245
Position Papers
Estefania Argente, Olivier Boissier, Carlos Carrascosa, Nicoletta Fornara, Peter McBurney, Pablo Noriega, Alessandro Ricci, Jordi Sabater-Mir, Michael Ignaz Schumacher, Charalampos Tampitsikas, Kuldar Taveter, Giuseppe Vizzari, George A. Vouros: Environment and Agreement Technologies. 260-261
Diana Marosin, Henderik Alex Proper, Leendert van der Torre: Changing Agreements: Intention Reconsideration based on Assumptions and Reasons. 262-263
Stella Heras, Katie Atkinson, Floriana Grasso, Peter McBurney, Vicente J. Botti, Vicente Julián: Research Opportunities for Argumentation in Social Networks. 264-265
Session V: Semantics
George A. Vouros: Decentralized Semantic Coordination Via Belief Propagation. 266-280
Nicoletta Fornara, Charalampos Tampitsikas: Using OWL Artificial Institutions for dynamically creating Open Spaces of Interaction. 281-295
Position Papers
Alexandra-Madalina Zarafin, Antoine Zimmermann, Olivier Boissier: Integrating Semantic Web Technologies and Multi-Agent Systems: A Semantic Description of Multi-Agent Organizations. 296-297

Session VI: Trust and Reputation
Lea Kutvonen: Multi-Tier Agent Architecture for Open Service Ecosystems. 302-316
Yang Gao: A Reinforcement Learning Based Strategy for the Double-Game Prisoner's Dilemma. 317-331
Position Papers
Luca Biselli, Nicola Dragoni, Emanuela Goldoni, Pier Paolo Greco, Antonio Marraffa, Manuel Mazzara, Georgios Papageorgiou: Social Networks and Collective Intelligence - A Return to the Agora (with the Polidoxa Shift). 347-348
Eva Zupancic, Denis Trcek, Kuldar Taveter: Agent-oriented Engineering of Trust Management Systems. 349-350
Eugénio Oliveira: A Structured Environment to Facilitate Agreements. 351-352
Session VII: Agreement Technologies Applications
Radu-Casian Mihailescu, Matteo Vasirani, Sascha Ossowski: Detection of Collusive Behavior in Energy Markets. 353-365
Andrew Koster, Jordi Madrenas-Ciurana, Nardine Osman, W. Marco Schorlemmer, Jordi Sabater-Mir, Carles Sierra, Dave De Jonge, Angela Fabregues, Josep Puyol-Gruart, Pere Garcia-Calves: u-Help: Supporting Helpful Communities with Information Technology. 378-392
Stella Heras, Fernando de la Prieta, Sara Rodríguez, Javier Bajo, Vicente J. Botti, Vicente Julián: The Role of Argumentation on the Future Internet: Reaching agreements on Clouds. 393-407
Kathrin Grosse, Carlos Iván Chesñevar, Ana Gabriela Maguitman: An Argument-based Approach to Mining Opinions from Twitter. 408-422
Christian Johansson, Fredrik Wernstedt, Paul Davidsson: Distributed Thermal Storage Using Multi-Agent Systems. 423-437
Position Papers
Radu-Casian Mihailescu, Matteo Vasirani, Sascha Ossowski: Desiderata for Agent-Based Power Regulation Protocols in Smart Grids. 438-439
Jaume Jordán, Stella Heras, Vicente Julián: Argumentation Tool that Enables Agents to Argue. 440-441
Daniel Okouya, Nicoletta Fornara, Marco Colombetti: An Infrastructure for Open Interaction Systems. 442-443
Jose Miguel Castillo: Getting Experts Agreement in Strategic Planning. 444-445
Sascha Hornauer, Florian Frische, Andreas Lüdtke, Jürgen Sauer: Supervised Task Performance of an Autonomous UAV Swarm, Supporting and Implementing Fire-Fighting Procedures. 446-447



