Accepted Papers

"Integrating Reactive and Scripted Behaviors in a Life-Like Presentation Agent"
Andre, Elisabeth: DFKI GmbH
Rist, Thomas: DFKI GmbH
Mueller, Jochen: DFKI GmbH

"From Theory to Practice - The UTEP robot in the AAAI 96 and AAAI 97 robot contests"
Baral, Chitta: University of Texas at El Paso
Floriano L.: University of Texas at El Paso
Hardesty A.: University of Texas at El Paso
Morales, D.: University of Texas at El Paso
Nogueira, M.: University of Texas at El Paso
Son, T.C.: University of Texas at El Paso

"Coordinating with Obligations"
Barbuceanu, Mihai: University of Toronto
Gray, Tom: Mitel Corporation
Mankovski, Serge: Mitel Corporation

"Multi-Robot Path-Planning Based on Implicit Cooperation"
Beslon, Guillaume: PRISMa, INSA-IF & IIUF-PAI
Biennier, Frederique: PRISMa, INSA-IF
Hirsbrunner, Beat: IIUF-PAI

"Animated Autonomous Personal Representatives"
Bickmore, Timothy W.: FX Palo Alto Laboratory
Cook, Linda K.: FX Palo Alto Laboratory
Churchill, Elizabeth F.: FX Palo Alto Laboratory

"CiteSeer: An Autonomous Web Agent for Automatic Retrieval and Identification of Interesting Publications"
Bollacker, Kurt D.: NEC Research Institute
Lawrence, Steve: NEC Research Institute
Giles, C. Lee: NEC Research Institute

"Concept Features in Re:Agent, an Intelligent Email Agent"
Boone, Gary: Georgia Institute of Technology

"Using Explicit Requirements and Metrics for Interface Agent User Model Correction"
Brown, Scott M.: Air Force Institute of Technology
Santos Jr., Eugene: University of Connecticut
Banks, Sheila B.: Air Force Institute of Technology
Oxley, Mark: Air Force Insitute of Technology

"Query Restart Strategies for Web Agents"
Chalasani, Prasad: Carnegie Mellon University
Somesh, Jha: Carnegie Mellon University
Onn, Shehory: Carnegie Mellon University
Sycara, Katia: Carnegie Mellon University

"SANI: A Seamless and Non-Intrusive Framework and Agent for Creating Interactive Homes"
Chatterjee, Sandeep: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 

"JAFMAS: A Multiagent Application Development System"
Chauhan, Deepika: University of Cincinnati
Baker, Albert D.: University of Cincinnati

"WebMate : A Personal Agent for Browsing and Searching"
Chen, Liren: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Sycara, Katia: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
 

"A Web-based Information System that Reasons with Structured Collections of Text"
Cohen, William W.: AT&T Labs-Research

"A Market Architecture for Multi-Agent Contracting"
Collins, John E.: University of Minnesota
Youngdahl, Ben: University of Minnesota
Jamison, Scott: University of Minnesota
Mobasher, Bamshad: University of Minnesota

"Increasing Agent Autonomy in Dynamic Environments"
Das, Subrata: Charles River Analytics
Caglayan, Alper: Charles River Analytics
Gonsalves, Paul: Charles River Analytics

"Action Selection in an Autonomous Agent with a Hierarchical Distributed Reactive Planning Architecture"
Decugis, Vincent: Groupe d'Etudes Sous-Marine de l'Atlantique
Ferber, Jacques: Robotique et Microelectronique de Montpellier

"A Social-Psychological Model for Synthetic Actors"
Rousseau, Daniel: Knowledge Systems Laboratory
Hayes-Roth, Barbara: Knowledge Systems Laboratory

"Agents in Annotated Worlds"
Doyle, Patrick: Stanford University
Hayes-Roth, Barbara: Stanford University
 

"Story-morphing in the Affective Reasoning paradigm: Generating stories automatically for use with ``emotionally intelligent'' multimedia agents"
Elliott, Clark: DePaul University
Brzezinski, Jacek: DePaul University
Sheth, Sanjay: DePaul University
Salvatoriello, Robert: DePaul University

"SHOPPER'S EYE: Using Location-based Filtering for a Shopping Agent in the Physical World"
Fano, Andrew: Andersen Consulting
 

"Reconfigurable Physical Agent"
Fujita, Masahiro: Sony Corporation
Hiroaki, Kitano: Sony Corporation
Kageyama, Koji: Sony Corporation

"WebACE: A Web Agent for Document Categorization and Exploration"
Han, Eui-Hong (Sam): University of Minnesota
Boley, Daniel: University of Minnesota
Gini, Maria: University of Minnesota
Gross, Robert: University of Minnesota
Hastings, Kyle: University of Minnesota
Karypis, George: University of Minnesota
Kumar, Vipin: University of Minnesota
Mobasher, Bamshad: University of Minnesota
Moore, Jerome: University of Minnesota

"Learning Situation-Dependent Costs: Improving Planning from Probabilistic Robot Execution"
Haigh, Karen Zita: Carnegie Mellon University
Veloso, Manuela M.: Carnegie Mellon University

"Personal Security Agent: KQML-based Public Key Infrastructure"
He, Qi: Carnegie Mellon University
Sycara, Katia P.: Carnegie Mellon University
Finin, Timothy W.: University of Maryland

"Liability for Autonomous Agent Design"
Heckman, Carey: Stanford Law School
Wobbrock, Jacob O.: Stanford University
 

"Agents for Collecting Application Usage Data Over the Internet"
Hilbert, David M.: University of California, Irvine
Redmiles, David F.: University of California, Irvine

"Mobile Agents on the Digital Battlefield"
Hofmann, Martin O.: Lockheed Martin ATL
McGovern, Amy: University of Massachusetts
Whitebread, Kenneth R.: Lockheed Martin ATL

"Learning about other agents in dynamic multiagent system"
Hu, Junling: University of Michigan
Wellman, Michael P.: University of Michigan

"The ATL Postmaster: A System for Agent Collaboration and Information Dissemination"
Kay, Jennifer S.: Lockheed Martin ATL
Etzl, Julius M.: Lockheed Martin ATL
Rao, Goutham P.: Lockheed Martin ATL
Thies, Jon N.: Lockheed Martin ATL

"Patterns of Intelligent and Mobile Agents"
Kendall, Elizabeth A.: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Krishna, Murali P.V.: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Pathak, Chirag V.: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Suresh, C.B.: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
 

"Agent Design Patterns: Elements of Agent Application Design"
Aridor, Yariv: IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory
Lange, Danny B.: General Magic Inc.

"Reactive Agents for Adaptive Image Analysis"
Liu, Jiming: Baptist University

"Behavioural Self-organization in Lifelike Agents"
Liu, Jiming: Baptist University
Qin, Hong: Baptist University

"Movement Control Methods for Complex, Dynamically Simulated Agents: Adonis Dances the Macarena"
Mataric, Maja J.: University of Southern California
Zordan, Victor B.: Georgia Institute of Technology
Mason, Zach: Brandeis University

"Adaptive Information Agents in Distributed Textual Environments"
Menczer, Filippo: University of California, San Diego
Belew, Richard K.: University of California, San Diego

"A history-based approach for adaptive robot behavior in dynamic environments"
Michaud, Francois: University of Sherbrooke
Mataric, Maja J.: University of Southern California

"Issues in Temporal Reasoning for Autonomous Control Systems"
Muscettola, Nicola: NASA Ames Research Center
Morris, Paul: NASA Ames Research Center
Pell, Barney: NASA Ames Research Center
Smith, Ben: California Institute of Technology

"Contemplations on a Secure Marketplace for Mobile Agents"
Neuenhofen, Kay Alexander: Sun Microsystems
Thompson, Matthew: Sun Microsystems

"A Hybrid Procedural/Deductive Executive For AutonomousSpacecraft"
Pell, Barney D.: Caelum/NASA Ames Research Center
Gamble, Edward: JPL
Gat, Erann: JPL
Keesing, Ron: Caelum/NASA Ames Reseach Center

"Competitive Scenarios for Heterogeneous Trading Agents"
Rodriguez-Aguilar, Juan A.: Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
Martin, Francisco J.: Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
Noriega, Pablo: Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
Garcia, Pere: Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
Sierra, Carles: Artificial Intelligence Research Institute

"Market-based Resource Control for Mobile Agents"
Bredin, Jonathan: Dartmouth College
Kotz, David: Dartmouth College
Rus, Daniela: Dartmouth College

"Mobile Agents for Enabling Mobile User Aware Applications"
Sahai, Akhil: INRIA-IRISA
Morin, Christine: INRIA-IRISA

"Learning what is relevant to the effects of actions for a mobile robot"
Schmill, Matthew D.: University of Massachusetts
Rosenstein, Michael T.: University of Massachusetts
Cohen, Paul R.: University of Massachusetts
Utgoff, Paul: University of Massachusetts

"Effects of misconception on reciprocative agents"
Sen, Sandip: The University of Tulsa
Biswas, Anish: The University of Tulsa

"Do the Thing Right: An Architecture for Action-Expression"
Sengers, Phoebe: Carnegie Mellon University

"Using Decision Tree Confidence Factors for Multiagent Control"
Stone, Peter: Carnegie Mellon University
Veloso, Manuela: Carnegie Mellon University

"Decision Making in Multimodal Real-Time Face-to-Face Communication"
Thorisson, Kristinn R.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"The CMUnited-97 Robotic Soccer Team: Perception and Multiagent Control"
Veloso, Manuela: Carnegie Mellon University
Stone, Peter: Carnegie Mellon University
Han, Kwun: Carnegie Mellon University

"BodyChat: Autonomous Communicative Behaviors in Avatars"
Vilhjalmsson, Hannes Hogni: MIT Media Laboratory
Cassell, Justine: MIT Media Laboratory

"Markov Tracking for Agent Coordination"
Washington, Richard M.: Caelum/NASA Ames Research Center

"Integrating Active Perception with an Autonomous Robot Architecture"
Wasson, Glenn: University of Virgina
Kortenkamp, David: Metrica, Inc.
Huber, Eric: Metrica, Inc.

"A Multiagent Perspective of Parallel and Distributed Machine Learning"
Weiss, Gerhard: Technische Universitat Munchen

"Pitfalls of Agent-Oriented Development"
Wooldridge, Michael: Queen Mary & Westfield College
Jennings, Nicholas R.: Queen Mary & Westfield College

"The Michigan Internet AuctionBot: A Configurable Auction Server for Human and Software Agents"
Wurman, Peter R.: University of Michigan
Wellman, Michael P.: University of Michigan
Walsh, William E.: University of Michigan

"Frontier-Based Exploration Using Multiple Robots"
Yamauchi, Brian: Naval Research Laboratory

"Understanding Jokes: A Neural Approach to Content-Based Information Retrieval"
Zrehen, Stephane: USC Brain Project
Arbib, Michael A.: USC Brain Project
 

Accepted Posters

"Artificial autonomous agents with artificial emotions"
Botelho, Lucs M.: ISCTE
Coelho, Helder: University of Lisbon

"Mobility and Management Support for Mobile Agents"
Chen, Wen-Shyen E.: National Chung-Hsing University
Lien, Yao-Nan: NCCU

"Dynamic Software Agents for Business Intelligence Applications"
Chen, Qiming: HP Laboratories
Chundi, Parvathi: HP Laboratories
Dayal, Umeshwar: HP Laboratories
Hsu, Meichun: HP Laboratories

"RoboTA: An agent colony architecture for supporting education"
Forbus, Kenneth D.: Northwestern University
Kuehne, Sven E.: Northwestern University

"A Formal Treatment of Distributed Matchmaking"
Jha, Somesh: Robotics Institute, CMU
Sycara, Katia: Robotics Institue, CMU
Chalasani, Prasad: Robotics Institue, CMU
Shehory, Onn: Robotics Institue, CMU

"A Synergy of Agent Components: Social Comparison for Failure Detection"
Kaminka, Gal A.: USC/Information Sciences Institute
Milind, Tambe: USC/Information Sciences Institute

"Subjective Avatars"
Mateas, Michael: Carnegie Mellon University

"Caucus: a Robotic Community in which Social Behavior is emergent from the exchange of Linguistic Tokens."
Penny, Simon: Carnegie Mellon Univesity
Dautenhahn, Kerstin: University of Reading

"MASC: The Multi-Agent Schedule Calculator System"
Sankaranarayanan, Aruna S.: Fidelity Investments
Mataric, Maja: University of Southern California

"Ultima Ratio - Should Hamlet kill Claudius?"
Schroeder, Michael: University of Hannover
Plewe, Daniela A.: Franz-Kunstler
Raab, Andreas: University of Magdeburg

"Combining Mediation and Bidding Mechanisms for Agent-Based Manufacturing Scheduling"
Shen, Weiming: The University of Calgary
Norrie, Douglas H.: The Univesity of Calgary

"Cognition and Affect: Architectures and Tools"
Sloman, Aaron: University of Birmingham
Logan, Brian S.: University of Birmingham

"An Open Architecture for Emotion and Behavior Control of Autonomous Agents"
Velasquez, Juan D.: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Kitano, Hiroaki: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc.
Fujita, Masahiro: Sony Corporation

"The UMDL Service Market Society"
Vidal, Jose M.: University of Michigan
Mullen, Tracy: University of Michigan
Weinstein, Peter: University of Michigan
Durfee, Edmund H.: University of Michigan
 

Accepted Videos

"The use of Space Discretization for Autonomous Virtual Humans"
Bandi, Srikanth: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Thalmann, Daniel: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

"The RETSINA Multiagent System: Towards Integrating Planning, Execution and Information Gathering"
Sycara, Katia: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Pannu, Anandeep: The Robotics Institute, CMU

"STEVE: A Pedagogical Agent for Virtual Reality"
Rickel, Jeff: University of Southern California
Johnson, W. Lewis: University of Southern California

"Virtual Petz: A Hybrid Approach to Creating Autonomous, Lifelike Dogz and Catz"
Frank, Adam: PF.Magic
Stern, Andrew: PF.Magic
Ben Resner: PF.Magic

"Domain-Adaptive Information System (DAIS)"
Whitebread, Kenneth R.: Lockheed Martin ATL
Stein, Harley J.: Lockheed Martin ATL