AAMAS 2004: New York, NY, USA
3rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2004), 19-23 August 2004, New York, NY, USA. IEEE Computer Society 2004 ISBN 1-58113-864-4 [ contents ]
Architectures and Applications (II)
Elizabeth Sklar, Mathew Davies, Min San Tan Co: SimEd: Simulating Education as a Multi Agent System. 998-1005
Claudia V. Goldman, Martin Allen, Shlomo Zilberstein: Decentralized Language Learning through Acting. 1006-1013
Virgil Andronache, Matthias Scheutz: Integrating Theory and Practice: The Agent Architecture Framework APOC and Its Development Environment ADE. 1014-1021
Michael Beetz, Alexandra Kirsch, Armin Müller: RPLLEARN: Extending an Autonomous Robot Control Language to Perform. 1022-1029
Cynthia Breazeal, Guy Hoffman, Andrea Lockerd: Teaching and Working with Robots as a Collaboration. 1030-1037
Negotiation (II)

Catholijn M. Jonker, Valentin Robu: Automated Multi-Attribute Negotiation with Efficient Use of Incomplete Preference Information. 1056-1063
Pinata Winoto, Gordon I. McCalla, Julita Vassileva: Non-Monotonic-Offers Bargaining Protocol. 1072-1079
S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings: Optimal Negotiation of Multiple Issues in Incomplete Information Settings. 1080-1087
Learning
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Craig Boutilier: Bayesian Reinforcement Learning for Coalition Formation under Uncertainty. 1090-1097
Ranjit Nair, Milind Tambe, Maayan Roth, Makoto Yokoo: Communication for Improving Policy Computation in Distributed POMDPs. 1098-1105
Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Sridhar Mahadevan: Learning to Communicate and Act Using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning. 1114-1121
Hugo Santana, Geber Ramalho, Vincent Corruble, Bohdana Ratitch: Multi-Agent Patrolling with Reinforcement Learning. 1122-1129
Agent-Based Deployed Applications
Ahlem Ben Hassine, Xavier Défago, Tu Bao Ho: Agent-Based Approach to Dynamic Meeting Scheduling Problems. 1132-1139
Thomas Wagner, John Phelps, Valerie Guralnik, Ryan VanRiper: COORDINATORS: Coordination Managers for First Responders. 1140-1147
Yutao Guo, Jörg P. Müller: Multiagent Collaborative Learning for Distributed Business Systems. 1156-1163
Yutao Guo, Jörg P. Müller, Bernhard Bauer: A Multiagent Approach for Logistics Performance Prediction Using Historical and Context Information. 1164-1171
Simulation and Modeling
Michael Benisch, Amy Greenwald, Ioanna Grypari, Reeva M. Lederman, Victor Naroditskiy, Michael Carl Tschantz: Botticelli: A Supply Chain Management Agent. 1174-1181
Philipp W. Keller, Felix-Olivier Duguay, Doina Precup: RedAgent-2003: An Autonomous Market-Based Supply-Chain Management Agent. 1182-1189
David V. Pynadath, Stacy Marsella: Fitting and Compilation of Multiagent Models through Piecewise Linear Functions. 1197-1204
Jianhui Wu, Edmund H. Durfee: The Impact of Communication Costs and Limitations on Price Wars in an Information Economy. 1205-1212
Software Demonstrations
Gustave Anderson, Andrew Burnheimer, Vincent A. Cicirello, David J. Dorsey, Saturnino Garcia, Moshe Kam, Joseph Kopena, Kris Malfettone, Andrew Mroczkowski, Gaurav Naik, Maxim Peysakhov, William C. Regli, Joshua Shaffer, Evan Sultanik, Kenneth Tsang, Leonardo Urbano, Kyle Usbeck, Jacob Warren: Demonstration of the Secure Wireless Agent Testbed (SWAT). 1214-1215
Daniel Tran, Steve A. Chien, Rob Sherwood, Rebecca Castaño, Benjamin Cichy, Ashley Davies, Gregg Rabideau: The Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment Onboard the EO-1 Spacecraft. 1216-1217
Pieter Jan't Hoen, Girish Redekar, Valentin Robu, Johannes A. La Poutré: Simulation and Visualization of a Market-Based Model for Logistics Management in Transportation. 1218-1219
Complex Systems
Prasanna Lokuge, Damminda Alahakoon: Hybrid BDI Agents with ANFIS in Identifying Goal Success Factor in a Container Terminal Application. 1222-1223
Dung N. Lam, K. Suzanne Barber: Verifying and Explaining Agent Behavior in an Implemented Agent System. 1226-1227
Franziska Klügl, Ana L. C. Bazzan: A Case Study on the Role of Information For Implicit Coordination. 1228-1229
Stefan Bieniawski, David Wolpert: Adaptive, Distributed Control of Constrained Multi-Agent Systems. 1230-1231
Hans Akkermans, Jos Schreinemakers, Koen Kok: Emergence of Control in a Large-Scale Society of Economic Physical Agents. 1232-1234
Agent Communication Languages
Ariel Felner, Yaron Shoshani, Israel A. Wagner, Alfred M. Bruckstein: Multi-Agent Physical A* Using Large Pheromones. 1236-1237
Henk-Jan Lebbink, Cilia Witteman, John-Jules Ch. Meyer: A Dialogue Game to Offer an Agreement to Disagree. 1238-1239
Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons: Locutions for Argumentation in Agent Interaction Protocols. 1240-1241
Roberto A. Flores, Robert C. Kremer: A Pragmatic Approach to Build Conversation Protocols Using Social Commitments. 1242-1243
Marc-Philippe Huget, James Odell: Representing Agent Interaction Protocols with Agent UML. 1244-1245
Gery Gutnik, Gal A. Kaminka: A Scalable Petri Net Representation of Interaction Protocols for Overhearing. 1246-1247
Mechanism Design

Denise de Oliveira, Paulo Roberto Ferreira Jr., Ana L. C. Bazzan: A Swarm Based Approach for Task Allocation in Dynamic Agents Organizations. 1252-1253
Daniel Szer, François Charpillet: Coordination through Mutual Notification in Cooperative Multiagent Reinforcement Learning. 1254-1255
Nico Roos, Annette ten Teije, Cees Witteveen: Reaching Diagnostic Agreement in Multi-Agent Diagnosis. 1256-1257
Spiros Kapetanakis, Daniel Kudenko: Reinforcement Learning of Coordination in Heterogeneous Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems. 1258-1259
Tolga Eren, Brian D. O. Anderson, Walter Whiteley, A. Stephen Morse, Peter N. Belhumeur: Merging Globally Rigid Formations of Mobile Autonomous Agents. 1260-1261
Synthetic Agents (I)
Kevin B. Pratt: An Application of Heterogeneous Agents to Fabricate Large, Realistic Corporate Transaction Data Sets for Data Mining Tool Testing and Evaluation. 1264-1265
Adjamir M. Galvão, Flávia A. Barros, André M. M. Neves, Geber Ramalho: Persona-AIML: An Architecture Developing Chatterbots with Personality. 1266-1267
Sheryl Brahnam: Towards Smart Embodiment for Virtual Agents. 1268-1269
Martin Allen, Shlomo Zilberstein: Automated Conversion and Simplification of Plan Representations. 1272-1273
Juan Jim Tan, Stefan Poslad, Yanmin Xi: Policy Driven Systems for Dynamic Security Reconfiguration. 1274-1275
Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce
Don Perugini, Dale Lambert, Leon Sterling, Adrian R. Pearce: Agent-Based Global Transportation Scheduling in Military Logistics. 1278-1279
Terence Kelly: Combinatorial Auctions and Knapsack Problems. 1280-1281
Atsushi Iwasaki, Makoto Yokoo, Masafumi Matsuda: Stability of the Truth-Telling Strategy in Multi-Unit Option Allocation Auctions: Laboratory Experimentation. 1282-1283
Diemo Urbig, Kay Schröter: C-IPS Approach to Negotiating Agents: Specifying Dynamic Interdependencies between Issue, Partner, and Step. 1284-1285
Ioannis A. Vetsikas, Bart Selman: A Methodology and Equilibria for the Design Tradeoffs of Autonomous Trading Agents. 1286-1287
Coordination

Wynn C. Stirling: A Sociological Framework for Multiagent Systems. 1292-1293
Bryan Horling, Roger Mailler, Victor R. Lesser: A Case Study of Organizational Effects in a Distributed Sensor Network. 1294-1295
John Thangarajah, Lin Padgham: An Empirical Evaluation of Reasoning about Resource Conflicts. 1298-1299
Synthetic Agents (II)
Marco Vala, Ana Paiva, Rui Prada: From Motion Control to Emotion Influence: Controlling Autonomous Synthetic Characters in a Computer Game. 1302-1303
Carlos Delgado-Mata, Ruth Aylett: Emotion and Action Selection: Regulating the Collective Behaviour of Agents in Virtual Environments. 1304-1305
Vincent Maya, Myriam Lamolle, Catherine Pelachaud: Influences and Embodied Conversational Agents. 1306-1307
Anand Panangadan, Maja J. Mataric, Gaurav S. Sukhatme: Identifying Human Interactions in Indoor Environments. 1308-1309
D. Paul Benjamin, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Damian M. Lyons: Integrating Perception, Language and Problem Solving in a Cognitive Agent for a Mobile Robot. 1310-1311
Agents and Networks
Aram Galstyan, Karl Czajkowski, Kristina Lerman: Resource Allocation in the Grid Using Reinforcement Learning. 1314-1315
Riza Cenk Erdur, Oguz Dikenelli, Inanç Seylan, Önder Gürcan: An Infrastructure for the Semantic Integration of FIPA Compliant Agent Platforms. 1316-1317
Steven Willmott, Simon G. Thompson, David Bonnefoy, Patricia Charlton, Ion Constantinescu, Jonathan Dale, Tianning Zhang: Agent Based Dynamic Service Synthesis in Large-Scale Open Environments: Experiences from the Agentcities Testbed. 1318-1319
Jan M. V. Misker, Cor J. Veenman, Léon J. M. Rothkrantz: Groups of Collaborating Users and Agents in Ambient Intelligent Environments. 1320-1321
Alex Rogers, Esther David, Nicholas R. Jennings: Selfish Sensors in Wireless Micro-Sensor Networks. 1322-1323
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner: Stigmergic Learning for Self-Organizing Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANET's). 1324-1325
Multi-Agent Issues and Learning
Michael Berger, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein: When to Apply the Fifth Commandment: The Effects of Parenting on Genetic and Learning Agents. 1328-132
Yoav Horman, Gal A. Kaminka: Improving Sequence Recognition for Learning the Behavior of Agents. 1332-1333
Felix A. Fischer, Michael Rovatsos, Gerhard Weiß: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning in Communication-Mediated Multiagent Coordination. 1334-1335
Yathiraj B. Udupi, Pinar Yolum, Munindar P. Singh: Agent-Based Peer-to-Peer Service Networks: A Study of Effectiveness and Structure Evolution. 1336-1337
Kagan Tumer, Adrian K. Agogino: Time-Extended Policies in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. 1338-1339
Coalitions

Alexander Kress, Craig Boutilier: A Study of Limited-Precision, Incremental Elicitation in Auctions. 1344-1345
Naveenkumar Muguda, Peter R. Wurman, R. Michael Young: Experiments with Planning and Markets in Multiagent Systems. 1346-1347
Onn Shehory, Gal A. Kaminka, Eran Shoham: Multi-Agent Team Re-Formation and League Ranking. 1348-1349
Kaye Mason, Jörg Denzinger, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale: Negotiating Gestalt: Artistic Expression and Coalition Formation in Multiagent Systems. 1350-1351
Sébastien Paquet, Nicolas Bernier, Brahim Chaib-draa: From Global Selective Perception to Local Selective Perception. 1352-1353
Logic and Formal methods
Yasuyuki Tahara, Akihiko Ohsuga, Shinichi Honiden: Pigeon: A Specification Language for Mobile Agent Applications. 1356-1357
Guido Boella, Luigi Sauro, Leendert W. N. van der Torre: Social Viewpoints on Multiagent Systems. 1358-1359

Ashok U. Mallya, Munindar P. Singh: A Semantic Approach for Designing Commitment Protocols. 1364-1365
Nadeem Jamali, Indratmo, Xinghui Zhao, Gul Agha: Decentralized Resource Control for Multi-Agent Systems. 1366-1367
Negotiation (I)
Michael Beetz, Thomas Stammeier, Sven Flossmann: Motion and Episode Models for (Simulated) Football Games: Acquisition, Representation, and Use. 1370-1371
Wolfgang Ketter, Elena Kryzhnyaya, Steven Damer, Colin McMillen, Amrudin Agovic, John Collins, Maria L. Gini: MinneTAC Sales Strategies for Supply Chain TAC. 1372-1373
Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz, Prashant Doshi: Interactive POMDPs: Properties and Preliminary Results. 1374-1375
Matthias Scheutz: The Utility of Adaptation vs. Signaling Action Tendencies in the Competition for Resources. 1378-1379
Agent Programming Languages
Vadim Gerasimov, Ying Guo, Geoff James, Geoff Poulton, Philip Valencia: Multiagent Self-Assembly Simulation Environment. 1382-1383
Alexandru Suna, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Christophe Fouqueré, Patrick Baillot: Mobile Multi-Agent Systems: A Programming Language and Its Semantics. 1386-1387
Jared Go, Brett Browning, Manuela M. Veloso: Accurate and Flexible Simulation for Dynamic, Vision-Centric Robot. 1388-1389
Sanjeev Kumar, Philip R. Cohen: STAPLE: An Agent Programming Language Based on the Joint Intention Theory. 1390-1391
Artificial Social Systems (I)
Rino Falcone, Giovanni Pezzulo, Cristiano Castelfranchi, Gianguglielmo Calvi: Why a Cognitive Trustier Performs Better: Simulating Trust-Based Contract Nets. 1394-1395
Marius-Calin Silaghi, Vaibhav Rajeshirke: The Effect of Policies for Selecting the Solution of a DisCSP on Privacy Loss. 1396-1397
Josiane Nzouonta, Marius-Calin Silaghi, Makoto Yokoo: Secure Computation for Combinatorial Auctions and Market Exchanges. 1398-1399
Dipyaman Banerjee, Sabyasachi Saha, Sandip Sen: Adapting Agent Expertise Based on Future Expectations. 1400-1401
Sabyasachi Saha: Reciprocity Based Cooperation in a Limited Resource Environment. 1402-1403
Social Reasoning
Matteo Vasirani, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli: Pattern Formation in Mobile Computational Particles with Minimal Capabilities. 1406-1407
Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur: Representational Content and the Reciprocal Interplay of Agent and Environment. 1408-1409
Kiyoshi Izumi, Tomohisa Yamashita, Koichi Kurumatani: Analysis of Efficiency and Accuracy of Learning in Minoriy Games. 1410-1411
Jörg Denzinger, Jasmine Hamdan: Improving Modeling of Other Agents Using Stereotypes and Compactification of Observations. 1414-1415
Argumentation
Anshul Kothari, Tuomas Sandholm, Subhash Suri: Solving Combinatorial Exchanges: Optimality via a Few Partial Bids. 1418-1419
Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons: Towards the Application of Argumentation-Based Dialogues for Education. 1420-1421
Hajime Sawamura, Edwin D. Mares: Logic of Argumentation based on Tetralemma with an Eastern Mind. 1422-1423
Robert J. Ross, Rem W. Collier, Gregory M. P. O'Hare: Demonstrating Social Error Recovery with AgentFactory. 1424-1425
Bin Yu, Cuihong Li, Munindar P. Singh, Katia P. Sycara: A Dynamic Pricing Mechanisms for P2P Referral Systems. 1426-1427
Auctions (II)
S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings: Revenue Maximising Agendas for Sequential English Auctions. 1432-1433
Antonis C. Kakas, Nicolas Maudet, Pavlos Moraitis: Flexible Agent Dialogue Strategies and Societal Communication Protocols. 1434-1435
Enrico Gerding, Koye Somefun, Johannes A. La Poutré: Bilateral Bargaining in a One-to-Many Bargaining Settin. 1438-1439
Linli He, Thomas R. Ioerger: Combining Bundle Search with Buyer Coalition Formation in Electronic Markets: A Distributed Approach through Negotiation. 1440-1441
David Pardoe, Peter Stone: Agent-Based Supply Chain Management: Bidding for Customer Orders. 1442-1443
Artificial Social Systems (II)
Tomohisa Yamashita, Kiyoshi Izumi, Koichi Kurumatani: Investigation of Reduction of Traffic Congestion with Route Information Sharing. 1446-1447
Filippo Neri: Representing and Simulating Consumers' Behavior in an Information Sensitive Market Place. 1448-1449
Vincent Thomas, Christine Bourjot, Vincent Chevrier: Interac-DEC-MDP: Towards the Use of Interactions in DEC-MDP. 1450-1451
Ronald Ashri, Michael Luck, Mark d'Inverno: Identifying Opportunities and Constraints for Goal Achievement through Relationship Analysis. 1452-1453
Benjamin Gâteau, Djamel Khadraoui, Olivier Boissier, Eric Dubois: Contract Model for Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce. 1454-1455
Juan C. García-Ojeda, José de Jesús Pérez Alcázar, Álvaro Enrique Arenas: Extending the Gaia Methodology with Agent-UML. 1456-1457
Ontologies

Joseph A. Giampapa, Katia Sycara-Cyranski, Austin Fath, Aaron Steinfeld, Daniel P. Siewiorek: A Multi-Agent System for Automatically Resolving Network Interoperability Problems. 1462-1463
Daniel Moldt, Jan Ortmann: A Conceptual and Practical Framework for Web-Based Processes in Multi-Agent Systems. 1464-1465
Ambroise Ncho, Esma Aïmeur: Building a Multi-Agent System for Automatic Negotiation in Web Service Applications. 1466-1467
Gregory M. P. O'Hare, Conor Muldoon, Donnacha Phelan, Robin Strahan, Rem W. Collier: ACCESS: An Agent-Based Membrane for the Rapid Deployment of Context Sensitive Services. 1468-1469
Sascha Ossowski, Alberto Fernández, Juan Manuel Serrano, José-Luis Pérez-de-la-Cruz, María-Victoria Belmonte, Josefa Z. Hernández, Ana García-Serrano, José-Manuel Maseda: Designing Multiagent Decision Support System - The Case of Transportation Management. 1470-1471
Scalability and Performance

Dimitri Zarzhitsky, Diana F. Spears, William M. Spears, David R. Thayer: A Fluid Dynamics Approach to Multi-Robot Chemical Plume Tracing. 1476-1477
Todd Wright: Naming Services in Multi-Agent Systems: A Design for Agent-Based White Pages. 1478-1479
Simon Parsons, Mark Klein: Towards Robust Multi-Agent Systems: Handling Communication Exceptions in Double Auctions. 1482-1483
Tsunenori Mine, Daisuke Matsuno, Koichiro Takaki, Makoto Amamiya: Agent Community Based Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval. 1484-1485
John Page, Arkady B. Zaslavsky, Maria Indrawan: Countering Security Vulnerabilities in Agent Execution Using a Self Executing Security Examination. 1486-1487
Peter Weinstein, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Paul Chiusano, Sven Brueckner: Agents Swarming in Semantic Spaces to Corroborate Hypotheses. 1488-189
Franck Gechter, Vincent Chevrier, François Charpillet: Localizing and Tracking with a Reactive Multi-Agent System. 1490-1491
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
André M. C. Campos, Anne M. P. Canuto, Jorge H. C. Fernandes: Towards a Methodology for Developing Agent-Based Simulations: The MASim Methodology. 1494-1495
Sylvain Sauvage: Agent Oriented Design Patterns: A Case Study. 1496-1497
Virginia Dignum, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Frank Dignum: A Model of Almost Everything: Norms, Structure and Ontologies in Agent Organizations. 1498-1499
Kurt Schelfthout, Tom Holvoet: ObjectPlaces: An Environment for Situated Multi-Agent Systems. 1500-1501
Paul Scerri, Alessandro Farinelli, Stephen Okamoto, Milind Tambe: Allocating Roles in Extreme Teams. 1502-1503
Giacomo Cabri, Luca Ferrari, Letizia Leonardi, Franco Zambonelli: Role-Based Approaches for Agent Development. 1504-1505
Gauthier Picard, Carole Bernon, Marie Pierre Gleizes: Cooperative Agent Model within ADELFE Framework: An Application to a Timetabling Problem. 1506-1507
Davy Capera, Gauthier Picard, Marie Pierre Gleizes: Applying ADELFE Methodology to a Mechanism Design Problem. 1508-1509
Verena Kantere, Aris Tsois: Using ECA Rules to Implement Mobile Query Agents for Fast-Evolving Pure P2P Networks. 1510-1511
Agency and Autonomy
Felipe Rech Meneguzzi, Avelino F. Zorzo, Michael C. Móra: Mapping Mental States into Propositional Planning. 1514-1515
Martin Lauer, Martin Riedmiller: Reinforcement Learning for Stochastic Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems. 1516-1517
Matthias Klusch: Toward Intelligent Agents on Quantum Computers. 1518-1519
Stephen J. Munroe, Michael Luck, Mark d'Inverno: Motivation-Based Selection of Negotiation Partners. 1520-1521
Sebastian Sardiña, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Yves Lespérance, Hector J. Levesque: On Ability to Autonomously Execute Agent Programs with Sensing. 1522-1523
Yann Chevaleyre, François Sempé, Geber Ramalho: A Theoretical Analysis of Multi-Agent Patrolling Strategies. 1524-1525
Architectures and Applications II
William M. Spears, Rodney Heil, Diana F. Spears, Dimitri Zarzhitsky: Physicomimetics for Mobile Robot Formations. 1528-1529
Dan Fielding, Mike Fraser, Brian Logan, Steve Benford: Reporters, Editors and Presenters: Using Embodied Agents to Report on Online Computer Games. 1530-1531
Gal A. Kaminka, Yehuda Elmaliach: Towards Single-Operator Control of Tightly-Coordinated Robot Teams. 1534-1535
Avi Rosenfeld, Gal A. Kaminka, Sarit Kraus: A Study of Marginal Performance Properties in Robotic Groups. 1536-1537
Keith J. O'Hara, Tucker R. Balch: Distributed Path Planning for Robots in Dynamic Environments Using a Pervasive Embedded Network. 1538-1539



