AAMAS 2006: Hakodate, Japan
Hideyuki Nakashima, Michael P. Wellman, Gerhard Weiss, Peter Stone (Eds.): 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006), Hakodate, Japan, May 8-12, 2006. ACM 2006 ISBN 1-59593-303-4
Simulation and modeling
Yang Xiang, Kun Zhang: Agent interface enhancement: making multiagent graphical models accessible. 19-26
Paul Guyot, Alexis Drogoul, Shinichi Honiden: Power and negotiation: lessons from agent-based participatory simulations. 27-33
Xiaocong Fan, Bingjun Sun, Shuang Sun, Michael D. McNeese, John Yen: RPD-enabled agents teaming with humans for multi-context decision making. 34-41
Michael Beetz, Nico von Hoyningen-Huene, Jan Bandouch, Bernhard Kirchlechner, Suat Gedikli, Alexis Maldonado: Camera-based observation of football games for analyzing multi-agent activities. 42-49
Jean-Daniel Kant, Samuel Thiriot: Modeling one human decision maker with a multi-agent system: the CODAGE approach. 50-57
Nachi Gupta, Adrian K. Agogino, Kagan Tumer: Efficient agent-based models for non-genomic evolution. 58-64
Bruno Gonçalves, António Lopes, Sofia Esteves, Luís Miguel Botelho: Cognitive agents based simulation for decisions regarding human team composition. 65-72
Yasushi Ando, Yoshiaki Fukazawa, Osamu Masutani, Hirotoshi Iwasaki, Shinichi Honiden: Performance of pheromone model for predicting traffic congestion. 73-80
Daisuke Torii, Toru Ishida, François Bousquet: Modeling agents and interactions in agricultural economics. 81-88
Toni Conde, Daniel Thalmann: Learnable behavioural model for autonomous virtual agents: low-level learning. 89-96
André M. C. Campos, Emanuel B. Santos, Anne M. P. Canuto, Rodrigo G. Soares, João Carlos Alchieri: A flexible framework for representing personality in agents. 97-104
Julia Fix, Christian von Scheve, Daniel Moldt: Emotion-based norm enforcement and maintenance in multi-agent systems: foundations and petri net modeling. 105-107
Marcelo C. Toyama, Ana L. C. Bazzan, Roberto da Silva: An agent-based simulation of pedestrian dynamics: from lane formation to auditorium evacuation. 108-110
Juan Martínez-Miranda, Arantza Aldea, René Bañares-Alcántara, Matías Alvarado: TEAKS: simulation of human performance at work to support team configuration. 114-116
Tibor Bosse, Jan Treur: Modelling dynamics of cognitive agents by higher-order potentialities. 117-119
Manuel Fehler, Franziska Klügl, Frank Puppe: Approaches for resolving the dilemma between model structure refinement and parameter calibration in agent-based simulations. 120-122
Toru Ishida: Multiagent simulation meets the real world. 123-125
Ana L. C. Bazzan, Robert Junges: Congestion tolls as utility alignment between agent and system optimum. 126-128
Thierry Moyaux, Brahim Chaib-draa, Sophie D'Amours: Study of social consciousness in stochastic agent based simulations: application to supply chains. 132-134
Logics for agent systems
Carsten Lutz: Complexity and succinctness of public announcement logic. 137-143
Alessio Lomuscio, Bozena Wozna: A complete and decidable security-specialised logic and its application to the TESLA protocol. 145-152
Alessio Lomuscio, Franco Raimondi: Model checking knowledge, strategies, and games in multi-agent systems. 161-168
Beata Konikowska, Wojciech Penczek: Model checking for multivalued logic of knowledge and time. 169-176
Thomas Ågotnes, Wiebe van der Hoek, Michael Wooldridge: Temporal qualitative coalitional games. 177-184
Luigi Sauro, Jelle Gerbrandy, Wiebe van der Hoek, Michael Wooldridge: Reasoning about action and cooperation. 185-192
Jelle Gerbrandy: Logics of propositional control. 193-200
Wiebe van der Hoek, Alessio Lomuscio, Michael Wooldridge: On the complexity of practical ATL model checking. 201-208
Natasha Alechina, Mark Jago, Piergiorgio Bertoli, Brian Logan, Chiara Ghidini, Luciano Serafini: Verifying space and time requirements for resource-bounded agents. 217-219
Kaile Su, Xiangyu Luo, Abdul Sattar, Mehmet A. Orgun: The interpreted system model of knowledge, belief, desire and intention. 220-222
Huib Aldewereld, Frank Dignum, Andrés García-Camino, Pablo Noriega, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra: Operationalisation of norms for usage in electronic institutions. 223-225
Laurent Perrussel, Jean-Marc Thévenin, Thomas Andreas Meyer: Mutual enrichment through nested belief change. 226-228
Guido Boella, Leendert W. N. van der Torre: An architecture of a normative system: counts-as conditionals, obligations and permissions. 229-231
Duc Quang Pham, James Harland: Flexible agent protocols via temporal and resource-based reasoning. 235-237
Nardine Osman, David Robertson, Christopher Walton: Run-time model checking of interaction and deontic models for multi-agent systems. 238-240
Alexei Lapouchnian, Yves Lespérance: Modeling mental states in the analysis of multiagent systems requirements. 241-243
Agent planning and search
Gerardo I. Simari, Amy Sliva, Dana S. Nau, V. S. Subrahmanian: A stochastic language for modelling opponent agents. 244-246
Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Geoffrey J. Gordon, Nikos A. Vlassis: Decentralized planning under uncertainty for teams of communicating agents. 249-256
Efrat Manisterski, David Sarne, Sarit Kraus: Integrating parallel interactions into cooperative search. 257-264
Aliaksandr Birukou, Enrico Blanzieri, Paolo Giorgini: A multi-agent system that facilitates scientific publications search. 265-272
Praveen Paruchuri, Milind Tambe, Fernando Ordóñez, Sarit Kraus: Security in multiagent systems by policy randomization. 273-280
Pradeep Varakantham, Ranjit Nair, Milind Tambe, Makoto Yokoo: Winning back the CUP for distributed POMDPs: planning over continuous belief spaces. 289-296
Dmitri A. Dolgov, Edmund H. Durfee: Resource allocation among agents with preferences induced by factored MDPs. 297-304
Haizheng Zhang, Victor R. Lesser: Multi-agent based peer-to-peer information retrieval systems with concurrent search sessions. 305-312
Carlos Diuk, Alexander L. Strehl, Michael L. Littman: A hierarchical approach to efficient reinforcement learning in deterministic domains. 313-319
Bruno Bouchard, Abdenour Bouzouane, Sylvain Giroux: A smart home agent for plan recognition. 320-322
Daniel Massaguer, Chien-Liang Fok, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Gruia-Catalin Roman, Chenyang Lu: Exploring sensor networks using mobile agents. 323-325



David L. Roberts, Sooraj Bhat, Charles Lee Isbell Jr., Brian F. Cooper, Jeffrey S. Pierce: A decision-theoretic approach to file consistency in constrained peer-to-peer device networks. 338-340
Christopher Amato, Daniel S. Bernstein, Shlomo Zilberstein: Solving POMDPs using quadratically constrained linear programs. 341-343
Argumentation and negotiation


Yann Chevaleyre, Ulle Endriss, Nicolas Maudet: Tractable negotiation in tree-structured domains. 362-369
Peter Harvey, Chee Fon Chang, Aditya Ghose: Support-based distributed search: a new approach for multiagent constraint processing. 377-383
Ulle Endriss: Monotonic concession protocols for multilateral negotiation. 392-399
Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Carles Sierra, Lluis Godo, Nicholas R. Jennings: Negotiating using rewards. 400-407
Tom Wanyama, Behrouz Homayoun Far: Negotiation coalitions in group-choice multi-agent systems. 408-410

D. J. A. Somefun, Johannes A. La Poutré: A scalable method for online learning of non-linear preferences based on anonymous negotiation data. 417-419
Michal Pechoucek, Jan Tozicka, Martin Rehák: Towards formal model of adversarial action in multi-agent systems. 420-422
Nishan C. Karunatillake, Nicholas R. Jennings, Iyad Rahwan, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn: Managing social influences through argumentation-based negotiation. 426-428
Miguel A. López-Carmona, Juan R. Velasco: An expressive approach to fuzzy constraint based agent purchase negotiation. 429-431
Takayuki Ito, Mark Klein: A multi-issue negotiation protocol among competitive agents and its extension to a nonlinear utility negotiation protocol. 435-437
Robotics

Yang Gu, Manuela M. Veloso: Multi-model motion tracking under multiple team member actuators. 449-456
Andraz Bezek, Matjaz Gams, Ivan Bratko: Multi-agent strategic modeling in a robotic soccer domain. 457-464
Zinovi Rabinovich, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein: On the response of EMT-based control to interacting targets and models. 465-470
Prithviraj Dasgupta: Distributed automatic target recognition using multi-agent UAV swarms. 479-481
Freek Stulp, Michael Beetz: Action awareness: enabling agents to optimize, transform, and coordinate plans. 482-484
Matthias Scheutz, James F. Kramer: RADIC: a generic component for the integration of existing reactive and deliberative layers. 488-490
Mary Koes, Katia P. Sycara, Illah R. Nourbakhsh: A constraint optimization framework for fractured robot teams. 491-493
Computational complexity in agent systems
Ariel D. Procaccia, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein: Junta distributions and the average-case complexity of manipulating elections. 497-504
Ariel D. Procaccia, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein: The communication complexity of coalition formation among autonomous agents. 505-512
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm: Failures of the VCG mechanism in combinatorial auctions and exchanges. 521-528
Jiaying Shen, Raphen Becker, Victor R. Lesser: Agent interaction in distributed POMDPs and its implications on complexity. 529-536
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm: A technique for reducing normal-form games to compute a Nash equilibrium. 537-544
Alessio Lomuscio, Franco Raimondi: The complexity of model checking concurrent programs against CTLK specifications. 548-550
Cooperation and coordination
Arnon Gilboa, Amnon Meisels, Ariel Felner: Distributed navigation in an unknown physical environment. 553-560
Tsz-Chiu Au, Dana S. Nau: Accident or intention: that is the question (in the Noisy Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma). 561-568
Stefan J. Johansson: On using multi-agent systems in playing board games. 569-576
Jonathan P. Pearce, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Milind Tambe: Solution sets for DCOPs and graphical games. 577-584
Tino Schlegel, Peter Braun, Ryszard Kowalczyk: Towards autonomous mobile agents with emergent migration behaviour. 585-592
Cédric Dinont, Philippe Mathieu, Emmanuel Druon, Patrick Taillibert: Artifacts for time-aware agents. 593-600
Toshiharu Sugawara, Satoshi Kurihara, Toshio Hirotsu, Kensuke Fukuda, Shin-ya Sato, Osamu Akashi: Total performance by local agent selection strategies in multi-agent systems. 601-608
Stéphane Airiau, Sandip Sen, Prithviraj Dasgupta: Effect of joining decisions on peer clusters. 609-615
Jiaying Shen, Victor R. Lesser: Communication management using abstraction in distributed Bayesian networks. 622-629
Steven Okamoto, Paul Scerri, Katia P. Sycara: Toward an understanding of the impact of software personal assistants on human organizations. 630-637
Gita Sukthankar, Katia P. Sycara: Robust recognition of physical team behaviors using spatio-temporal models. 638-645
Xiao-Feng Xie, Jiming Liu: How autonomy oriented computing (AOC) tackles a computationally hard optimization problem. 646-653
Paul W. Schermerhorn, Matthias Scheutz: Social coordination without communication in multi-agent territory exploration tasks. 654-661
Wei Chen, Keith S. Decker: Analyzing characteristics of task structures to develop GPGP coordination mechanisms. 662-669
Andrés García-Camino, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra, Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos: Norm-oriented programming of electronic institutions. 670-672
Ariel D. Procaccia, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein: Learning to identify winning coalitions in the PAC model. 673-675
Geoff James, David Cohen, Robert Dodier, Glenn Platt, Doug Palmer: A deployed multi-agent framework for distributed energy applications. 676-678
Amit Shabtay, Zinovi Rabinovich, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein: Behaviosites: a novel paradigm for affecting distributed behavior. 679-681
Satoshi Kurihara, Shin-ya Sato, Kensuke Fukuda, Toshiharu Sugawara: How can agent know the global information without close coordination? 682-684
Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Venable, Toby Walsh: Strategic voting when aggregating partially ordered preferences. 685-687
Guido Boella, Rossana Damiano, Joris Hulstijn, Leendert W. N. van der Torre: Role-based semantics for agent communication: embedding of the 'mental attitudes' and 'social commitments' semantics. 688-690
Learning and evolution
Ron Katz, Sarit Kraus: Efficient agents for cliff-edge environments with a large set of decision options. 697-704
Steve Phelps, Marek Marcinkiewicz, Simon Parsons: A novel method for automatic strategy acquisition in N-player non-zero-sum games. 705-712
Fernando Fernández, Manuela M. Veloso: Probabilistic policy reuse in a reinforcement learning agent. 720-727
Pieter Jan't Hoen, Sander M. Bohte, Johannes A. La Poutré: Learning from induced changes in opponent (re)actions in multi-agent games. 728-735
Sébastien Paquet, Brahim Chaib-draa: Learning the required number of agents for complex tasks. 736-743

Liviu Panait, Sean Luke: Selecting informative actions improves cooperative multiagent learning. 760-766
Mark J. Nelson, David L. Roberts, Charles Lee Isbell Jr., Michael Mateas: Reinforcement learning for declarative optimization-based drama management. 775-782
Jose Enrique Munoz de Cote, Alessandro Lazaric, Marcello Restelli: Learning to cooperate in multi-agent social dilemmas. 783-785
Anh Nguyen, Wayne Wobcke: An adaptive plan-based dialogue agent: integrating learning into a BDI architecture. 786-788
Takaki Makino, Kazuyuki Aihara: Multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm to handle beliefs of other agents' policies and embedded beliefs. 789-791
Andrew Guillory, Hai Nguyen, Tucker R. Balch, Charles Lee Isbell Jr.: Learning executable agent behaviors from observation. 795-797
Bikramjit Banerjee, Jing Peng: RVsigma(t): a unifying approach to performance and convergence in online multiagent learning. 798-800
Liviu Panait, Keith Sullivan, Sean Luke: Lenient learners in cooperative multiagent systems. 801-803
Keith Sullivan, Liviu Panait, Gabriel Catalin Balan, Sean Luke: Can good learners always compensate for poor learners? 804-806
Filipo Studzinski Perotto, Luis Otávio Alvares: Learning regularities with a constructivist agent. 807-809
Bruno Castro da Silva, Eduardo W. Basso, Filipo Studzinski Perotto, Ana L. C. Bazzan, Paulo Martins Engel: Improving reinforcement learning with context detection. 810-812
Task and resource allocation
Itai Ashlagi, Dov Monderer, Moshe Tennenholtz: Resource selection games with unknown number of players. 819-825
Partha Sarathi Dutta, Nicholas R. Jennings, Luc Moreau: Adaptive distributed resource allocation and diagnostics using cooperative information-sharing strategies. 826-833
Efrat Manisterski, Esther David, Sarit Kraus, Nicholas R. Jennings: Forming efficient agent groups for completing complex tasks. 834-841
Danny Weyns, Nelis Boucké, Tom Holvoet: Gradient field-based task assignment in an AGV transportation system. 842-849
David N. Morley, Karen L. Myers, Neil Yorke-Smith: Continuous refinement of agent resource estimates. 858-865
Sylvia Estivie, Yann Chevaleyre, Ulle Endriss, Nicolas Maudet: How equitable is rational negotiation? 866-873
Jianhui Wu, Edmund H. Durfee: Mathematical programming for deliberation scheduling in time-limited domains. 874-881
Ruggiero Cavallo: Optimal decision-making with minimal waste: strategyproof redistribution of VCG payments. 882-889
Katsutoshi Hirayama: Distributed Lagrangean relaxation protocol for the generalized mutual assignment problem. 890-892
Andrea Giovannucci, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Jesús Cerquides: Auctioning transformable goods. 893-895
Ontologies and web services
Jurriaan van Diggelen, Robbert-Jan Beun, Frank Dignum, Rogier M. van Eijk, John-Jules Ch. Meyer: ANEMONE: an effective minimal ontology negotiation environment. 899-906
Alessandro Negri, Agostino Poggi, Michele Tomaiuolo, Paola Turci: Agents for e-business applications. 907-914
Matthias Klusch, Benedikt Fries, Katia P. Sycara: Automated semantic web service discovery with OWLS-MX. 915-922
Mohsen Afsharchi, Behrouz H. Far, Jörg Denzinger: Ontology-guided learning to improve communication between groups of agents. 923-930
Steve Goschnick, Sandrine Balbo, Leon Sterling, Christine Sun: TANDEM - a design method for integrating web services into multi-agent systems. 939-941
Kendall Lister, Leon Sterling, Kuldar Taveter: Reconciling ontological differences by assistant agents. 943-945
Ching-man Au Yeung, Ho-fung Leung: Formalizing typicality of objects and context-sensitivity in ontologies. 946-948
Fuyuki Ishikawa, Nobukazu Yoshioka, Shinichi Honiden: Service-oriented and autonomous distribution and provision of multimedia contents. 949-951
Arturo Nakasone, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka: Web presentation system using RST events. 955-957
Believable agents
Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. Lester: Learning empathy: a data-driven framework for modeling empathetic companion agents. 961-968
Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: U-director: a decision-theoretic narrative planning architecture for storytelling environments. 977-984
Wenji Mao, Jonathan Gratch: Evaluating a computational model of social causality and responsibility. 985-992
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Robert Bisson, Sven Brueckner, Robert S. Matthews, John A. Sauter: A model of emotions for situated agents. 993-995
Dan Fielding, Brian Logan, Steve Benford: Balancing the needs of players and spectators in agent-based commentary systems. 996-998
Architectures: BDI and MDPs
Sebastian Sardiña, Lavindra de Silva, Lin Padgham: Hierarchical planning in BDI agent programming languages: a formal approach. 1001-1008

Bharaneedharan Rathnasabapathy, Prashant Doshi, Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz: Exact solutions of interactive POMDPs using behavioral equivalence. 1025-1032
Gerardo I. Simari, Simon Parsons: On the relationship between MDPs and the BDI architecture. 1041-1048
John Thangarajah, Lin Padgham, Sebastian Sardiña: Modelling situations in intelligent agents. 1049-1051
Timothy William Cleaver, Abdul Sattar, Raihana Ferdous: User defined monitoring strategies for BDI agent programs. 1055-1057
Jianhui Wu, Edmund H. Durfee: Mixed-integer linear programming for transition-independent decentralized MDPs. 1058-1060
Scalability, security, and performance analysis
Rafal Leszczyna, Janusz Górski: Performance analysis of untraceability protocols for mobile agents using an adaptable framework. 1063-1070
Bin Yu, Paul Scerri, Katia P. Sycara, Yang Xu, Michael Lewis: Scalable and reliable data delivery in mobile ad hoc sensor networks. 1071-1078
Eugene Hung, Joseph Pasquale: ReAgents: behavior-based remote agents and their performance. 1087-1094
Ram Meshulam, Shulamit Reches, Aner Yarden, Sarit Kraus: MLBP: MAS for large-scale biometric pattern recognition. 1095-1097

Maxim Peysakhov, Christopher Dugan, Pragnesh Jay Modi, William C. Regli: Quorum sensing on mobile ad-hoc networks. 1104-1106
Luis Mulet, Jose M. Such, Juan M. Alberola: Performance evaluation of open-source multiagent platforms. 1107-1109
Davide Grossi, Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, Mehdi Dastani, Lambèr M. M. Royakkers: Structural evaluation of agent organizations. 1110-1112
Yang Xu, Paul Scerri, Katia P. Sycara, Michael Lewis: Comparing market and token-based coordination. 1113-1115
Kagan Tumer: Coordinating simple and unreliable agents. 1119-1121
Daniel Yamins: The emergence of global properties from local interactions: static properties and one-dimensional patterns. 1122-1124
Auctions and electronic markets
Tuomas Sandholm, Andrew Gilpin: Sequences of take-it-or-leave-it offers: near-optimal auctions without full valuation revelation. 1127-1134
Makoto Yokoo, Toshihiro Matsutani, Atsushi Iwasaki: False-name-proof combinatorial auction protocol: Groves Mechanism with SubModular Approximation. 1135-1142
Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Elizabeth Sklar: Reducing price fluctuation in continuous double auctions through pricing policy and shout improvement. 1143-1150
Takayuki Ito, David C. Parkes: Instantiating the contingent bids model of truthful interdependent value auctions. 1151-1158
Minghua He, Alex Rogers, Xudong Luo, Nicholas R. Jennings: Designing a successful trading agent for supply chain management. 1159-1166
Kate Larson: Reducing costly information acquisition in auctions. 1167-1174
Onn Shehory, Eran Dror: Computationally efficient and revenue optimized auctioneer's strategy for expanding auctions. 1175-1182
Tokuro Matsuo, Takayuki Ito, Robert W. Day, Toramatsu Shintani: A robust combinatorial auction mechanism against shill bidders. 1183-1190
Panos Toulis, Dionisis Kehagias, Pericles A. Mitkas: Mertacor: a successful autonomous trading agent. 1191-1198
Andrew Byde: A comparison between mechanisms for sequential compute resource auctions. 1199-1201
S. Shaheen Fatima: A comparative study of sequential and simultaneous auctions. 1205-1207
Enrico H. Gerding, Alex Rogers, Rajdeep K. Dash, Nicholas R. Jennings: Competing sellers in online markets: reserve prices, shill bidding, and auction fees. 1208-1210
Trust and reputation
Trung Dong Huynh, Nicholas R. Jennings, Nigel R. Shadbolt: Certified reputation: how an agent can trust a stranger. 1217-1224
Radu Jurca, Boi Faltings: Using CHI-scores to reward honest feedback from repeated interactions. 1233-1240
Karen Fullam, K. Suzanne Barber: Learning trust strategies in reputation exchange networks. 1241-1248
Xiaoqing Zheng, Zhaohui Wu, Huajun Chen, Yuxin Mao: Developing a composite trust model for multi-agent systems. 1257-1259
Jianshu Weng, Chunyan Miao, Angela Goh, Zhiqi Shen, Robert K. L. Gay: Trust-based agent community for collaborative recommendation. 1260-1262
Ikpeme Erete, Teddy Candale, Sandip Sen: Effect of deceptive referrals on system stability. 1266-1268
Agent programming
M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Frank S. de Boer: Goal-oriented modularity in agent programming. 1271-1278
M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Frank S. de Boer, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Ch. Meyer: Prototyping 3APL in the Maude term rewriting language. 1279-1281
Miguel Escrivá Gregori, Javier Palanca Cámara, Gustavo Aranda Bada: A jabber-based multi-agent system platform. 1282-1284
Mehdi Dastani, M. Birna van Riemsdijk, John-Jules Ch. Meyer: Goal types in agent programming. 1285-1287
Natasha Alechina, Rafael H. Bordini, Jomi Fred Hübner, Mark Jago, Brian Logan: Belief revision for AgentSpeak agents. 1288-1290
Jomi Fred Hübner, Rafael H. Bordini, Michael Wooldridge: Plan patterns for declarative goals in AgentSpeak. 1291-1293
Hervé Paulino, Luís M. B. Lopes: A service-oriented language for programming mobile agents. 1294-1296
YoungMin Kwon, Sameer Sundresh, Kirill Mechitov, Gul Agha: ActorNet: an actor platform for wireless sensor networks. 1297-1300
Agent-oriented engineering and methodologies
Rubén Fuentes, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz, Juan Pavón: Integrating agent-oriented methodologies with UML-AT. 1303-1310
Danny Weyns, Tom Holvoet, Kurt Schelfthout: Multiagent systems as software architecture: another perspective on software engineering with multiagent systems. 1314-1316
Tibor Bosse, Dung N. Lam, K. Suzanne Barber: Automated analysis and verification of agent behavior. 1317-1319
Annika Smit, Masja Kempen, Niek J. E. Wijngaards, André Meyer: The hidden dangers of experimenting in distributed AI. 1320-1322
Tsunenori Mine, Akihiro Kogo, Makoto Amamiya: Agent-community based peer-to-peer information retrieval: an evaluation. 1323-1325
Nirmit Desai, Amit K. Chopra, Munindar P. Singh: An overview of business process adaptations via protocols. 1326-1328
Youna Jung, Jungtae Lee, Minkoo Kim: Multi-agent based community computing system development with the model driven architecture. 1329-1331
Alessandro F. Garcia, Christina Chavez, Ricardo Choren: Enhancing agent-oriented models with aspects. 1332-1334
Agent communication


Paritosh Padhy, Rajdeep K. Dash, Kirk Martinez, Nicholas R. Jennings: A utility-based sensing and communication model for a glacial sensor network. 1353-1360
Ashok U. Mallya, Munindar P. Singh: Specifying and resolving preferences among agent interaction patterns. 1361-1368
Philippe Pasquier, Roberto A. Flores, Brahim Chaib-draa: An ontology of social control tools. 1369-1371
Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib-draa: Modelling the links between social commitments and individual intentions. 1372-1374
Jun Wang, Les Gasser, Jim Houk: Convergence analysis for collective vocabulary development. 1378-1380
Samarth Swarup, Kiran Lakkaraju, Les Gasser: Learning a common language through an emergent interaction topology. 1381-1383
Stéphanie Combettes, Chihab Hanachi, Christophe Sibertin-Blanc: Organizational Petri Nets for protocol design and enactment. 1384-1386
Optimization and constraint processing
Marius-Calin Silaghi, Makoto Yokoo: Nogood based asynchronous distributed optimization (ADOPT ng). 1389-1396
Adrian Petcu, Boi Faltings, David C. Parkes: MDPOP: faithful distributed implementation of efficient social choice problems. 1397-1404
Emma Bowring, Milind Tambe, Makoto Yokoo: Multiply-constrained distributed constraint optimization. 1413-1420
Koenraad Mertens, Tom Holvoet, Yolande Berbers: The DynCOAA algorithm for dynamic constraint optimization problems. 1421-1423
Rachel Greenstadt, Jonathan P. Pearce, Emma Bowring, Milind Tambe: Experimental analysis of privacy loss in DCOP algorithms. 1424-1426
Anton Chechetka, Katia P. Sycara: No-commitment branch and bound search for distributed constraint optimization. 1427-1429
Yan Yang, Raman Paranjape, Luigi Benedicenti: An agent based general solution model for the course timetabling problem. 1430-1432
John Davin, Pragnesh Jay Modi: Hierarchical variable ordering for distributed constraint optimization. 1433-1435
Demonstration session
Franziska Klügl, Rainer Herrler, Manuel Fehler: SeSAm: implementation of agent-based simulation using visual programming. 1439-1440
Pedro A. Szekely, Marcel Becker, Stephen Fitzpatrick, Gergely Gati, Dávid Hanák, Jing Jin, Gabor Karsai, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Robert Neches, Craig Milo Rogers, Romeo Sanchez, Christopher P. van Buskirk: CSC: Criticality-Sensitive Coordination. 1441-1442
Sean Owens, Paul Scerri, Robin Glinton, Bin Yu, Katia P. Sycara: Synergistic integration of agent technologies for military simulation. 1443-1444
Nathaniel Gemelli, Robert Wright, James Lawton, Andrew Boes: Asynchronous chess competition. 1445-1446
David Sislák, Martin Rehák, Michal Pechoucek, Dusan Pavlícek: Deployment of A-globe multi-agent platform. 1447-1448
Paul Verstraete, Paul Valckenaers, Hendrik Van Brussel, Karuna Hadeli, Bart Saint Germain: Multi-agent coordination and control testbed for planning and scheduling strategies. 1451-1452
Andrew Gilpin, Tuomas Sandholm: A Texas Hold'em poker player based on automated abstraction and real-time equilibrium computation. 1453-1454
Jonathan Himoff: Decision-making support for maritime business. 1455-1456
Paulo Blikstein, William Rand, Uri Wilensky: Participatory, embodied, multi-agent simulation. 1457-1458
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. Alex Gray, N. J. Fiddian, Simon G. Thompson: CONOISE-G: agent-based virtual organisations. 1459-1460
Toshiko Wakaki, Takanori Mukai, Hiromitsu Miyashita, Hajime Sawamura, Kumiko Matsunaga, Taro Fukumoto, Katsumi Nitta: Automated argument system based on logic of multiple-valued argumentation. 1461-1462
Alex Rogers, Rajdeep K. Dash, Nicholas R. Jennings, Steven Reece, Stephen Roberts: Computational mechanism design for multi-sensor information fusion. 1463-1464
Gaya Buddhinath Jayatilleke, John Thangarajah, Lin Padgham, Michael Winikoff: Component Agent Framework for domain-Experts (CAFnE) toolkit. 1465-1466
Pauline M. Berry, Cory Albright, Emma Bowring, Ken Conley, Kenneth Nitz, Jonathan P. Pearce, Bart Peintner, Shahin Saadati, Milind Tambe, Tomás E. Uribe, Neil Yorke-Smith: Conflict negotiation among personal calendar agents. 1467-1468
Daniel Massaguer, Vidhya Balasubramanian, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian: Synthetic humans in emergency response drills. 1469-1470
Bruno Castro da Silva, Robert Junges, Denise de Oliveira, Ana L. C. Bazzan: ITSUMO: an Intelligent Transportation System for Urban Mobility. 1471-1472
Industry track
Minoru Asada: Towards emergence of communication: a cognitive developmental robotics approach. 3-9
Steve S. Benfield, Jim Hendrickson, Daniel Galanti: Making a strong business case for multiagent technology. 10-15
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