AAMAS 2005: Utrecht, The Netherlands
Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, Sven Koenig, Sarit Kraus, Munindar P. Singh, Michael Wooldridge (Eds.): 4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2005), July 25-29, 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands. ACM 2005 ISBN 1-59593-094-9
Milind Tambe, Emma Bowring, Hyuckchul Jung, Gal A. Kaminka, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Janusz Marecki, Pragnesh Jay Modi, Ranjit Nair, Stephen Okamoto, Jonathan P. Pearce, Praveen Paruchuri, David V. Pynadath, Paul Scerri, Nathan Schurr, Pradeep Varakantham: Conflicts in teamwork: hybrids to the rescue. 3-10
Embodied, Emotional and Believable Agents I
Karthi Selvarajah, Debbie Richards: The use of emotions to create believable agents in a virtual environment. 13-20
Mei Si, Stacy Marsella, David V. Pynadath: Thespian: using multi-agent fitting to craft interactive drama. 21-28
Patrick Gebhard: ALMA: a layered model of affect. 29-36
Learning
Shana Watters, Tim Miller, Praveen Balachandran, William Schuler, Richard M. Voyles: Exploiting a sensed environment to improve human-agent communication. 44-50
Matthew E. Taylor, Peter Stone: Behavior transfer for value-function-based reinforcement learning. 53-59
Steven Jensen, Daniel Boley, Maria L. Gini, Paul R. Schrater: Rapid on-line temporal sequence prediction by an adaptive agent. 67-73

ACL and Protocols
Shamimabi Paurobally, Jim Cunningham, Nicholas R. Jennings: A formal framework for agent interaction semantics. 91-98
Pinar Yolum: Towards design tools for protocol development. 99-105
Felix A. Fischer, Michael Rovatsos, Gerhard Weiß: Acquiring and adapting probabilistic models of agent conversation. 106-113
Robert C. Kremer, Roberto A. Flores: Using a performative subsumption lattice to support commitment-based conversations. 114-121
Demos
Tadashi Araragi: Fault tolerance for internet agent systems: in cases of stop failure and byzantine failure. 123-124
Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, Arshad Ali, Sarmad Malik, Muazzam Mugal, M. Omair Shafiq, Amina Tariq, Amna Basharat: Scalable fault tolerant Agent Grooming Environment: SAGE. 125-126
Steven Willmott, Martin D. Beer, Richard Hill, Dominic A. P. Greenwood, Monique Calisti, Ian D. Mathieson, Lin Padgham, Christine Reese, Kolja Lehmann, Thorsten Scholz, M. Omair Shafiq: NETDEMO: openNet networked agents demonstration. 129-130
Simone A. Ludwig, Omer F. Rana, William Naylor, Julian A. Padget: Mathematical matchmaker for numeric and symbolic services. 133-134
Xuan Thang Nguyen: Demonstration of WS2JADE. 135-136
M. Omair Shafiq, Arshad Ali, Amina Tariq, Amna Basharat, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, Fawad Nazir: A distributed services based conference planner application using software agents, grid services and web services. 137-138
Ashok U. Mallya, Nirmit Desai, Amit K. Chopra, Munindar P. Singh: OWL-P: OWL for protocol and processes. 139-140
Albert J. N. van Breemen, Xue Yan, Bernt Meerbeek: iCat: an animated user-interface robot with personality. 143-144
Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth André, Michael Wissner: Gamble v2.0: social interactions with multiple users. 145-146
Nathan Schurr, Janusz Marecki, Milind Tambe, Paul Scerri: Demonstration of DEFACTO: training tool for incident commanders. 147-148
Karen Fullam, Tomas B. Klos, Guillaume Muller, Jordi Sabater, Zvi Topol, K. Suzanne Barber, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, Laurent Vercouter: A demonstration of the Agent Reputation and Trust (ART): testbed for experimentation and competition. 151-152
Fernando Koch: 3APL-M platform for deliberative agents in mobile devices. 153-154
K. Suzanne Barber, Nishit Gujral, Jaesuk Ahn, David DeAngelis, Karen Fullam, David C. Han, Dung N. Lam, Jisun Park: Design, runtime, and analysis of multi-agent systems. 157-158
Jonathan Himoff: Magenta Logistics i-Scheduler. 159-160
Pablo Suau Pérez, Maria Del Mar Pujol López, Ramón Rizo Aldeguer, Simon Caton, Omer F. Rana, Bruce G. Batchelor, Francisco Antonio Pujol López: Agent-based recognition of facial expressions. 161-162
Daniel Tran, Steve A. Chien, Rob Sherwood, Rebecca Castaño, Benjamin Cichy, Ashley Davies, Gregg Rabideau: DEMO: the autonomous sciencecraft experiment onboard the EO-1 spacecraft. 163-164
Logical Foundations I
Birna van Riemsdijk, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Ch. Meyer: Semantics of declarative goals in agent programming. 133-140
Hans P. van Ditmarsch, Wiebe van der Hoek, Barteld P. Kooi: Dynamic epistemic logic with assignment. 141-148
Kaile Su, Abdul Sattar, Guido Governatori, Qingliang Chen: A computationally grounded logic of knowledge, belief and certainty. 149-156
Bozena Wozna, Alessio Lomuscio, Wojciech Penczek: Bounded model checking for knowledge and real time. 165-172
Collective and Emergent Behavior
John K. Debenham: A multiagent system manages collaboration in emergent processes. 175-182
Daniel Yamins: Towards a theory of "local to global" in distributed multi-agent systems (I). 183-190
Daniel Yamins: Towards a theory of "local to global" in distributed multi-agent systems (II). 191-198
Paul Guyot, Alexis Drogoul, Christian Lemaître: Using emergence in participatory simulations to design multi-agent systems. 199-203
Cooperation I
Kosuke Sekiyama, Yukihisa Okade: Formation of cooperation structure by interaction network in directed multi-agent. 207-213
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Hyuckchul Jung, Shriniwas Kulkarni, Matthew Johnson, Paul J. Feltovich, James F. Allen, Larry Bunch, Nathanael Chambers, Lucian Galescu, Renia Jeffers, Niranjan Suri, William Taysom, Andrzej Uszok: Kaa: policy-based explorations of a richer model for adjustable autonomy. 214-221
Terrence Harvey, Keith S. Decker, Sandra Carberry: Multi-agent decision support via user-modeling. 222-229
AOSE I


Scott A. Wallace: S-assess: a library for behavioral self-assessment. 256-263
Noria Foukia: IDReAM: intrusion detection and response executed with agent mobility architecture and implementation. 264-270
Negotiation and Agreement I
Jakub Brzostowski, Ryszard Kowalczyk: On possibilistic case-based reasoning for selecting partners for multi-attribute agent negotiation. 273-279
Valentin Robu, D. J. A. Somefun, Johannes A. La Poutré: Modeling complex multi-issue negotiations using utility graphs. 280-287
Dongmo Zhang: Negotiation mechanism for TAC SCM component market. 288-295
Yann Chevaleyre, Ulle Endriss, Jérôme Lang, Nicolas Maudet: Negotiating over small bundles of resources. 296-302
Learning and Emergent Behavior
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, John A. Sauter, Robert S. Matthews: Global convergence of local agent behaviors. 305-312
Roberto da Silva, Ana L. C. Bazzan, Alexandre Tavares Baraviera, Silvio R. Dahmen: Emerging collective behavior in a simple artificial financial market. 313-319
Prashant Doshi, Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz: Approximating state estimation in multiagent settings using particle filters. 320-327
Cooperation II
Jianhui Wu, Edmund H. Durfee: Automated resource-driven mission phasing techniques for constrained agents. 331-338
David Ben-Ami, Onn Shehory: A comparative evaluation of agent location mechanisms in large scale MAS. 339-346
Voting


Jeremy V. Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Marek J. Sergot, Alexander Artikis: Formalization of a voting protocol for virtual organizations. 373-380
Negotiation and Agreement II
Shavit Talman, Meirav Hadad, Ya'akov Gal, Sarit Kraus: Adapting to agents' personalities in negotiation. 383-389
Pragnesh Jay Modi, Manuela M. Veloso: Bumping strategies for the multiagent agreement problem. 390-396
Sabyasachi Saha, Anish Biswas, Sandip Sen: Modeling opponent decision in repeated one-shot negotiations. 397-403
Coordination and Planning
Yang Xu, Paul Scerri, Bin Yu, Steven Okamoto, Michael Lewis, Katia P. Sycara: An integrated token-based algorithm for scalable coordination. 407-414
Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli: Programming stigmergic coordination with the TOTA middleware. 415-422
Zinovi Rabinovich, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein: Multiagent coordination by Extended Markov Tracking. 431-438
Mehdi Dastani, Farhad Arbab, Frank S. de Boer: Coordination and composition in multi-agent systems. 439-446
Agent Applications

Sylvain Damiani, Gérard Verfaillie, Marie-Claire Charmeau: An earth watching satellite constellation: how to manage a team of watching agents with limited communications. 455-462
Denise de Oliveira, Ana L. C. Bazzan, Victor R. Lesser: Using cooperative mediation to coordinate traffic lights: a case study. 463-470
Kurt M. Dresner, Peter Stone: Multiagent traffic management: an improved intersection control mechanism. 471-477
Tomohisa Yamashita, Kiyoshi Izumi, Koichi Kurumatani, Hideyuki Nakashima: Smooth traffic flow with a cooperative car navigation system. 478-485
Trust and Reputation I
Nathan Griffiths: Task delegation using experience-based multi-dimensional trust. 489-496

Karen Fullam, Tomas B. Klos, Guillaume Muller, Jordi Sabater, Andreas Schlosser, Zvi Topol, K. Suzanne Barber, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, Laurent Vercouter, Marco Voss: A specification of the Agent Reputation and Trust (ART) testbed: experimentation and competition for trust in agent societies. 512-518
E. Michael Maximilien, Munindar P. Singh: Agent-based trust model involving multiple qualities. 519-526
Argumentation and Dialog
Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade: Formal handling of threats and rewards in a negotiation dialogue. 529-536
Leila Amgoud, Sihem Belabbes, Henri Prade: Towards a formal framework for the search of a consensus between autonomous agents. 537-543


AOSE II
Derek Messie, Jae C. Oh: Polymorphic self-* agents for stigmergic fault mitigation in large-scale real-time embedded systems. 571-577
Haralambos Mouratidis, Manuel Kolp, Stéphane Faulkner, Paolo Giorgini: A secure architectural description language for agent systems. 578-585
Viviane Torres da Silva, Ricardo Choren, Carlos José Pereira de Lucena: Using the UML 2.0 activity diagram to model agent plans and actions. 594-600
Information Agents, Brokering and Matchmaking

David Lambert, David Robertson: Matchmaking multi-party interactions using historical performance data. 611-617
Aliaksandr Birukou, Enrico Blanzieri, Paolo Giorgini: Implicit: an agent-based recommendation system for web search. 618-624
Till Christopher Lech, Leendert W. M. Wienhofen: AmbieAgents: a scalable infrastructure for mobile and context-aware information services. 625-631
Auctions and Mechanism Design
S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings: Sequential auctions for objects with common and private values. 635-642
Shigeo Matsubara: Auction in dynamic environments: incorporating the cost caused by re-allocation. 643-649
Dmitri A. Dolgov, Edmund H. Durfee: Computationally-efficient combinatorial auctions for resource allocation in weakly-coupled MDPs. 657-664
Norms, Social Laws and Social Structures
Andrés García-Camino, Pablo Noriega, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar: Implementing norms in electronic institutions. 667-673

Davide Grossi, Frank Dignum, Mehdi Dastani, Lambèr M. M. Royakkers: Foundations of organizational structures in multiagent systems. 690-697
Logical Foundations II
Wiebe van der Hoek, Michael Wooldridge: On the dynamics of delegation, cooperation, and control: a logical account. 701-708
Bogdan Stroe, V. S. Subrahmanian, Sudeshna Dasgupta: Optimal status sets of heterogeneous agent programs. 709-715
Task and Resource Allocation I
Sherief Abdallah, Victor R. Lesser: Modeling task allocation using a decision theoretic model. 719-726
Paul Scerri, Alessandro Farinelli, Steven Okamoto, Milind Tambe: Allocating tasks in extreme teams. 727-734
Ontologies
W. Marco Schorlemmer, Yannis Kalfoglou: Progressive ontology alignment for meaning coordination: an information-theoretic foundation. 737-744
Leen-Kiat Soh, Chao Chen: Balancing ontological and operational factors in refining multiagent neighborhoods. 745-752
Argumentation and Dialog

Shakil M. Khan, Yves Lespérance: ECASL: a model of rational agency for communicating agents. 762-769
Feng Wan, Munindar P. Singh: Formalizing and achieving multiparty agreements via commitments. 770-777
Takuo Doi, Yasuyuki Tahara, Shinichi Honiden: IOM/T: an interaction description language for multi-agent systems. 778-785
Maayan Roth, Reid G. Simmons, Manuela M. Veloso: Reasoning about joint beliefs for execution-time communication decisions. 786-793
Multi-Agent Plans and Planning
Olivier Bonnet-Torrés, Catherine Tessier: From team plan to individual plans: a petri net-based approach. 797-804
Cees Witteveen, Nico Roos, Roman van der Krogt, Mathijs de Weerdt: Diagnosis of single and multi-agent plans. 805-812
Toshiharu Sugawara, Satoshi Kurihara, Toshio Hirotsu, Kensuke Fukuda, Toshihiro Takada: Predicting possible conflicts in hierarchical planning for multi-agent systems. 813-820
Jeffrey S. Cox, Edmund H. Durfee, Thomas Bartold: A distributed framework for solving the Multiagent Plan Coordination Problem. 821-827
Task and Resource Allocation II
Prithviraj Dasgupta: Adaptive sharing of large resources in P2P networks. 839-845
Jan Nunnink, Gregor Pavlin: A probabilistic approach to resource allocation in distributed fusion systems. 846-852
Dipyaman Banerjee, Sabyasachi Saha, Sandip Sen, Prithviraj Dasgupta: Reciprocal resource sharing in P2P environments. 853-859
Charlie Ortiz, Régis Vincent, Benoit Morisset: Task inference and distributed task management in the Centibots robotic system. 860-867
Nadeem Jamali, Xinghui Zhao: A scalable approach to multi-agent resource acquisition and control. 868-875
Robotics
Tara A. Estlin, Daniel M. Gaines, Forest Fisher, Rebecca Castaño: Coordinating multiple rovers with interdependent science objectives. 879-886
Ram Meshulam, Ariel Felner, Sarit Kraus: Utility-based multi-agent system for performing repeated navigation tasks. 887-894
Damien Pellier, Humbert Fiorino: Coordinated exploration of unknown labyrinthine environments applied to the pursuit evasion problem. 895-902
John A. Sauter, Robert S. Matthews, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner: Performance of digital pheromones for swarming vehicle control. 903-910
Sean Luke, Keith Sullivan, Liviu Panait, Gabriel Catalin Balan: Tunably decentralized algorithms for cooperative target observation. 911-917
Embodied, Emotional and Believable Agents II

Jun Zheng, Xiang Yuan, Yam San Chee: Designing multiparty interaction support in Elva, an embodied tour guide. 929-936
Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth André: Catch me if you can: exploring lying agents in social settings. 937-944
Xiaocong Fan, Shuang Sun, Michael D. McNeese, John Yen: Extending the recognition-primed decision model to support human-agent collaboration. 945-952
Markov Decision Processes
Aurélie Beynier, Abdel-Illah Mouaddib: A polynomial algorithm for decentralized Markov decision processes with temporal constraints. 963-969
Sébastien Paquet, Ludovic Tobin, Brahim Chaib-draa: An online POMDP algorithm for complex multiagent environments. 970-977
Pradeep Varakantham, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Milind Tambe: Exploiting belief bounds: practical POMDPs for personal assistant agents. 978-985
Trust and Reputation II
Bastian Blankenburg, Rajdeep K. Dash, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Matthias Klusch, Nicholas R. Jennings: Trusted kernel-based coalition formation. 989-996
W. T. Luke Teacy, Jigar Patel, Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Luck: Coping with inaccurate reputation sources: experimental analysis of a probabilistic trust model. 997-1004
Ronald Ashri, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Jordi Sabater, Michael Luck, Nicholas R. Jennings: Trust evaluation through relationship analysis. 1005-1011
Game Theoretic Foundations
Sieuwert van Otterloo: The value of privacy: optimal strategies for privacy minded agents. 1015-1022
Ashish Sureka, Peter R. Wurman: Using tabu best-response search to find pure strategy nash equilibria in normal form games. 1023-1029
Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Jonathan P. Pearce, Pradeep Varakantham, Emma Bowring, Milind Tambe: Valuations of Possible States (VPS): a quantitative framework for analysis of privacy loss among collaborative personal assistant agents. 1030-1037
Distributed Constraint Processing
Syed Muhammad Ali, Sven Koenig, Milind Tambe: Preprocessing techniques for accelerating the DCOP algorithm ADOPT. 1041-1048
Roger Mailler: Comparing two approaches to dynamic, distributed constraint satisfaction. 1049-1056
John Davin, Pragnesh Jay Modi: Impact of problem centralization in distributed constraint optimization algorithms. 1057-1063
Learning and Cooperation
Gita Sukthankar, Katia P. Sycara: A cost minimization approach to human behavior recognition. 1067-1074
Jared C. Hill, F. Ryan Johnson, James K. Archibald, Richard L. Frost, Wynn C. Stirling: A cooperative multi-agent approach to free flight. 1083-1090
Posters: Embodied, Emotional and Believable Agents I
Anton Bogdanovych, Helmut Berger, Carles Sierra, Simeon J. Simoff: Humans and agents in 3D electronic institutions. 1093-1094
Björn Hartmann, Maurizio Mancini, Stéphanie Buisine, Catherine Pelachaud: Design and evaluation of expressive gesture synthesis for embodied conversational agents. 1095-1096
Youngjun Kim, Randall W. Hill Jr., David R. Traum: Controlling the focus of perceptual attention in embodied conversational agents. 1097-1098
Helmut Prendinger, Chunling Ma, Jin Yingzi, Kushida Kazutaka, Mitsuru Ishizuka: Evaluating the interaction with synthetic agents using attention and affect tracking. 1099-1100
Posters: Learning
Isabelle Jars, Nadia Kabachi, Michel Lamure: Adaptive agent's integration in a new environment: interactions as a source of learning. 1103-1104
Katja Verbeeck, Ann Nowé, Karl Tuyls: Coordinated exploration in multi-agent reinforcement learning: an application to load-balancing. 1105-1106
Partha Sarathi Dutta, Nicholas R. Jennings, R. Jennings, Luc Moreau: Sharing information for Q-learning-based network bandwidth estimation and network failure detection. 1107-1108
Fabien Flacher, Olivier Sigaud: GACS, an evolutionary approach to the spatial coordination of agents. 1109-1110
Gustavo Andrade, Geber Ramalho, Hugo Santana, Vincent Corruble: Automatic computer game balancing: a reinforcement learning approach. 1111-1112
Posters: ACL and Protocols
Jiaying Shen, Victor R. Lesser: Communication management using abstraction in distributed bayesian networks. 1115-1116
Madieyna Lamine Fall, Sylvain Delisle: A software tool for the development of MAS communication protocols based on conversations. 1117-1118
Stephen Cranefield: Reliable group communication and institutional action in a multi-agent trading scenario. 1119-1120
Christopher Cheong, Michael Winikoff: Hermes: a methodology for goal oriented agent interactions. 1121-1122
Michael Rovatsos, Felix A. Fischer, Gerhard Weiß: An integrated framework for adaptive reasoning about conversation patterns. 1123-1124
Posters: Logical Foundations I
Ulle Endriss: Temporal logics for normative agent communication protocols. 1127-1128
Xiangyu Luo, Kaile Su, Abdul Sattar, Qingliang Chen, Guanfeng Lv: Bounded model checking knowledge and branching time in synchronous multi-agent systems. 1129-1130
Robert Demolombe, Ana María Otermin Fernandez: Recognition of the intention to perform a procedure: a method based on probabilities. 1133-1134
Thomas Ågotnes, Michal Walicki: A logic of reasoning, communication and cooperation with syntactic knowledge. 1135-1136
Posters: Collective and Emergent Behavior
Jean-Pierre Georgé, Marie Pierre Gleizes: Emergent programming feasibility study using self-organizing instruction-agents. 1139-1140
Anthony R. Cassandra, Marian H. Nodine, Shilpa Bondale, Steve Ford, David L. Wells: Using decision-theoretic models to enhance agent system survivability. 1141-1142
Maxim Peysakhov, Robert N. Lass, William C. Regli: Stability and control of agent ecosystems. 1143-1144
Posters: Cooperation I

Michael Y. K. Cheng, Robin Cohen: A hybrid transfer of control model for adjustable autonomy multiagent systems. 1149-1150
Jigar Patel, W. T. Luke Teacy, Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Luck, Stuart Chalmers, Nir Oren, Timothy J. Norman, Alun D. Preece, Peter M. D. Gray, Gareth Shercliff, Patrick J. Stockreisser, Jianhua Shao, W. A. Gray, N. J. Fiddian, Simon G. Thompson: Agent-based virtual organisations for the Grid. 1151-1152
Posters: AOSE I
Richard Hill, Simon Polovina, Martin D. Beer: From concepts to agents: towards a framework for multi-agent system modelling. 1155-1156
Lawrence Cabac, Michael Duvigneau, Daniel Moldt, Heiko Rölke: Multi-agent concepts as basis for dynamic plug-in software architectures. 1157-1158
Valentino Crespi, Aram Galstyan, Kristina Lerman: Comparative analysis of top-down and bottom-up methodologies for multi-agent system design. 1159-1160
Posters: Negotiation and Agreement I
Roberto Bianchi, Andrea Fontana, Federico Bergenti: A real-world approach to secure and trusted negotiation in MASs. 1163-1164
Jelle van Veenen, Henry Prakken: A verifiable protocol for arguing about rejections in negotiation. 1165-1166
Diemo Urbig, Kay Schröter: Negotiating agents: from full autonomy to dynamic degrees of delegation. 1167-1168
Posters: Learning and Emergent Behavior
Osamu Masutani, Hiroshi Sasaki, Hirotoshi Iwasaki, Yasushi Ando, Yoshiaki Fukazawa, Shinichi Honiden: Pheromone model: application to traffic congestion prediction. 1171-1172
Andreas Schlosser, Marco Voss: Simulating data dissemination techniques for local reputation systems. 1173-1174
Piraveenan Mahendra rajah, Mikhail Prokopenko, Peter Wang, Don Price: On Decentralised Clustering in self-monitoring networks. 1175-1176
Andraz Bezek: Discovering strategic multi-agent behavior in a robotic soccer domain. 1177-1178
Richard Tynan, David Marsh, Donal O'Kane, Gregory M. P. O'Hare: Intelligent agents for wireless sensor networks. 1179-1180
Posters: Cooperation II

Leila Amgoud: Towards a formal model for task allocation via coalition formation. 1185-1186
Guido Boella, Luigi Sauro, Leendert W. N. van der Torre: Reducing coalition structures via agreement specification. 1187-1188
Mirko Viroli, Alessandro Ricci, Andrea Omicini: An organisation infrastructure for Multi-Agent Systems based on Agent Coordination Contexts. 1189-1190
Luke Hunsberger: A framework for specifying group decision-making mechanisms. 1191-1192
Posters: Voting
Takayuki Suyama, Makoto Yokoo: Strategy/false-name proof protocols for combinatorial multi-attribute procurement auction: handling arbitrary utility of the buyer. 1195-1196
Raghav Aras, Alain Dutech, François Charpillet: Cooperation in stochastic games through communication. 1197-1198
Aviv Zohar, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein: Using tags to evolve trust and cooperation between groups. 1199-1200
S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings: An analysis of the shapley value and its uncertainty for the voting game. 1201-1202
Onn Shehory, Eran Dror: Optimizing auctioneer's revenues in expanding multi-unit auctions. 1203-1204
Timothy W. Rauenbusch, Stuart M. Shieber, Barbara J. Grosz: Computing the communication costs of item allocation. 1205-1206
Posters: Negotiation and Agreement II

Fernando Lopes, Augusto Q. Novais, Nuno J. Mamede, Helder Coelho: A negotiation model for autonomous agents: key features and comparison with existing models. 1211-1212
Nicola Gatti, Francesco Amigoni: A decentralized bargaining protocol on dependent continuous multi-issue for approximate pareto optimal outcomes. 1213-1214
Stephen J. Munroe, Michael Luck: Balancing conflict and cost in the selection of negotiation opponents. 1217-1218
Posters: Coordination and Planning
Matthias Klusch: Coordination of quantum internet agents. 1221-1222
Júlio de Lima do Rêgo Monteiro, Jaime Simão Sichman: A simulator for multi-agent partnership formation based on dependence graphs. 1223-1224
Ioannis Partsakoulakis, George A. Vouros: Individual beliefs and group acceptances within agent organizations. 1227-1228
Nathan Schurr, Janusz Marecki, Nikhil Kasinadhuni, Milind Tambe, John P. Lewis, Paul Scerri: The DEFACTO system for human omnipresence to coordinate agent teams: the future of disaster response. 1229-1230
Posters: Agent Applications

Glenn T. Jayaputera, Seng Wai Loke, Arkady B. Zaslavsky: Just in time mobile agent generation and management. 1237-1238
Peter Braun, Steffen Kern, Ingo Müller, Ryszard Kowalczyk: Attacking the migration bottleneck of mobile agents. 1239-1240
Irene Sygkouna, Miltiades E. Anagnostou: Efficient information retrieval using mobile agents. 1241-1242
Posters: Trust and Reputation I

Martin Rehák, Michal Pechoucek, Petr Benda: Fuzzy number approach to trust in coalition environment. 1247-1248
Tomas B. Klos, Floortje Alkemade: Trusted intermediating agents in electronic trade networks. 1249-1250
Michael J. Smith, Marie desJardins: A framework for decomposing reputation in MAS into competence and integrity. 1253-254
Posters: Argumentation and Dialog
Sylvie Doutre, Peter McBurney, Michael Wooldridge: Law-governed Linda as a semantics for agent dialogue protocols. 1257-1258
Gerard Vreeswijk: Liberalizing protocols for argumentation in multi-agent systems. 1259-1260
Katie Atkinson, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Peter McBurney: Generating intentions through argumentation. 1261-1262
Posters: AOSE II
Fuyuki Ishikawa, Yasuyuki Tahara, Nobukazu Yoshioka, Shinichi Honiden: Agent synthesis: partnership and agreement in cooperative mobile agents. 1267-1268
Giovanni Pezzulo, Gianguglielmo Calvi, Rino Falcone: Integrating a MAS and a Pandemonium: the open-source framework AKIRA. 1269-1270
Oguz Dikenelli, Riza Cenk Erdur, Özgür Gümüs: SEAGENT: a platform for developing semantic web based multi agent systems. 1271-1272
Posters: Information Agents, Brokering and Matchmaking
Klaus Stein, Christoph Schlieder: Handling information overload: a MAS architecture for distributed information brokering. 1275-1276
Simone A. Ludwig, Omer F. Rana, William Naylor, Julian A. Padget: Agent-based matchmaking of mathematical web services. 1277-1278
Posters: Auctions and Mechanism Design
Itsuki Noda, Masayuki Ohta, Yoichiro Kumada, Kousuke Shinoda, Hideyuki Nakashima: Usability of dial-a-ride systems. 1281-1282
Posters: Norms, Social Laws and Social Structures
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Renata S. S. Guizzardi, Marten van Sinderen: Agent-oriented context-aware platforms supporting communities of practice in health care. 1287-1288
Francesco Viganò, Nicoletta Fornara, Marco Colombetti: An operational approach to norms in artificial institutions. 1289-1290
Huib Aldewereld, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Ch. Meyer: Norm compliance of protocols in electronic institutions. 1291-1292
Posters: Logical Foundations II
Alexander Pokahr, Lars Braubach, Winfried Lamersdorf: A BDI architecture for goal deliberation. 1295-1296


Jonathan P. Pearce, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Milind Tambe: How local is that optimum? k-optimality for DCOP. 1303-1304
Posters: Task and Resource Allocation I
Anton Chechetka, Katia P. Sycara: A decentralized variable ordering method for distributed constraint optimization. 1307-1308
Sylvain Bouveret, Michel Lemaître, Hélène Fargier, Jérôme Lang: Allocation of indivisible goods: a general model and some complexity results. 1309-1310
Nathan Gnanasambandam, Seokcheon Lee, Soundar R. T. Kumara: An autonomous performance control framework for Distributed Multi-Agent Systems: a queueing theory based approach. 1313-1314
Posters: Ontologies

Giuseppe Vizzari, Stefania Bandini: Coordinating change of agents' states in situated agents models. 1319-1320
Yu Zhang, Richard A. Volz, Thomas R. Ioerger: Observation-based proactive communication in team cooperation. 1321-1322
Roberto A. Flores, Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib-draa: Layered message semantics using social commitments. 1323-1324
Juan Manuel Serrano, Sascha Ossowski, Sergio Saugar: Engineering agent interactions from ACL-based reusable connectors. 1325-1326
Posters: Argumentation and Dialog
Jarred McGinnis, David Robertson, Christopher Walton: Protocol synthesis with dialogue structure theory. 1329-1330
Nishan C. Karunatillake, Nicholas R. Jennings, Iyad Rahwan, Timothy J. Norman: Argument-based negotiation in a social context. 1331-1332
Posters: Multi-Agent Plans and Planning
Norimichi Ukita: Real-time dense communication among agents for active tracking. 1335-1336
Roman van der Krogt, Nico Roos, Mathijs de Weerdt, Cees Witteveen: Multiagent planning through plan repair. 1337-1338
Joseph Kopena, Gaurav Naik, Maxim Peysakhov, Evan Sultanik, William C. Regli, Moshe Kam: Service-based computing for agents on disruption and delay prone networks. 1341-1342
Posters: Task and Resource Allocation II
Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Maryam Purvis, Martin K. Purvis, Stephen Cranefield: Agent-based integration of Web Services with Workflow Management Systems. 1345-1346
Tingting Wang, Jiming Liu: Evaluating the Minority Game strategy in agent role assignments. 1347-1348
Posters: Robotics
Olivier Simonin: Construction of numerical potential fields with reactive agents. 1351-1352
Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli: Physical deployment of digital pheromones through RFID technology. 1353-1354
Gal A. Kaminka, Inna Frenkel: Towards flexible teamwork in behavior-based robots: extended abstract. 1355-1356
Posters: Embodied, Emotional and Believable Agents II
Nuno David, Jaime Simão Sichman, Helder Coelho: Intentional adequacy of computer programs as the experimental reference of agent-based social simulation. 1359-1360
François Sempé, Minh Nguyen-Duc, Alain Boucher, Alexis Drogoul: An artificial maieutic approach for eliciting experts' knowledge in multi-agent simulations. 1361-1362
Willem A. van Doesburg, Annerieke Heuvelink, Egon L. van den Broek: TACOP: a cognitive agent for a naval training simulation environment. 1363-1364
Thomas Moncion, Guillaume Hutzler, Patrick Amar: Validation of an agent based system using Petri Nets. 1365-1366
Doctoral Mentoring Students
Nejla Amara-Hachmi: A framework for building adaptive mobile agents. 1369
Estefania Argente Villaplana: A proposal for an organizational MAS methodology. 1370
Bikramjit Banerjee: On the performance of on-line concurrent reinforcement learners. 1371
Olivier Bonnet-Torrés: Local replanning in a team of cooperative agents. 1372
Anarosa Brandão, Viviane Torres da Silva, Carlos José Pereira de Lucena: A knowledge-based approach to the specification and verification of MAS design. 1373
Rajdeep K. Dash: Engineering distributed protocols for multi-agent interactions using game theory. 1374
Adriana Giret: A multi agent methodology for holonic manufacturing systems. 1375
Nathan Gnanasambandam: Survivability of multi-agent systems. 1376
Gery Gutnik: Monitoring large-scale multi-agent systems using overhearing. 1377
Christian Guttmann: ETAPP: a framework of agent collaboration under conditions of uncertainty regarding team members. 1378
Derek Messie: Polymorphic self-* agents using game theory for large-scale complex systems. 1380
Nik Nailah Binti Abdullah: The induction of communication protocols. 1381
Liviu Panait: Learning team behaviors with adaptive heterogeneity. 1382
Valentin Robu: Market-based task allocation and control for distributed logistics. 1383
Sieuwert van Otterloo: Logic and game theory for social mechanisms. 1384
M. Birna van Riemsdijk: Cognitive agent programming. 1385
Shimon Whiteson: Improving reinforcement learning function approximators via neuroevolution. 1386
Yingqian Zhang: Towards fault tolerance for multiagent systems. 1387



