There will be a overhead projector, a slide projector, an LCD projector, and a screen in each room. The LCD projector can be used for laptops and videotapes. There will be a speaker ready room with a full set of AVs for people to try their presentations.
9.00am-12.30pm TUTORIALS & WORKSHOPS
W2: Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies
Location: Greenway Ballroom F
W4: Artificial Societies and Computational Markets
Location: Greenway Ballroom J
12.30pm-2.00pm LUNCH BREAK
2.00pm-5.30pm TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS
T1: Agents in Electronic Markets
Location: Greenway Ballroom G
T3: Agent Architectures for Autonomous Control Systems
Location: Skyway A/B
T5: Applying Agent Technology
Location: Greenway Ballroom H/I
W2: Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies (continued)
Location: Greenway Ballroom F
W4: Artificial Societies and Computational Markets (continued)
Location: Greenway Ballroom J
9.00am-12.30pm TUTORIALS & WORKSHOPS
T6: Agent Communication Languages
Location: Skyway A/B
W1: Agents in Interaction
Location: Greenway Ballroom G
W3: Agent Mediated Electronic Trading
Location: Greenway Ballroom H/I
W5: Agent-based manufacturing
Location: Greenway Ballroom J
12.30pm-2.00pm LUNCH BREAK
2.00pm-5.30pm TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS
T2: Information Filtering and Classification
Location: Skyway A/B
T4: Autonomous Virtual Humans in Virtual Environments
Location: Greenway Ballroom F
W1: Agents in Interaction (continued)
Location: Greenway Ballroom G
W3: Agent Mediated Electronic Trading (continued)
Location: Greenway Ballroom H/I
W5: Agent-based manufacturing (continued)
Location: Greenway Ballroom J
8.30am-9.00am OPENING REMARKS
Location: xxx
9.00am-10.00am INVITED TALK
Chair: Katia Sycara
Location: Nicollet B/C
10.00am-10.30am BREAK
10.30am-12.30pm PAPER SESSION 1: AGENTS AT THE INTERFACE
Chair: W. Lewis Johnson
Location: Regency Room
"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
"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
" Real-Time Decision Making in Multimodal Face-to-Face Communication"
Thorisson, Kristinn R.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Do the Thing Right: An Architecture for Action-Expression"
Sengers, Phoebe: Carnegie Mellon University
10.30am-12.30pm PAPER SESSION 2: ROBOTICS
Chair: Barney Pell
Location: Skyway A/B
"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
"Multi-Robot Path-Planning Based on Implicit Cooperation in a Robotic
Swarm"
Beslon, Guillaume: PRISMa, INSA-IF & IIUF-PAI
Biennier, Frederique: PRISMa, INSA-IF
Hirsbrunner, Beat: IIUF-PAI
"Frontier-Based Exploration Using Multiple Robots"
Yamauchi, Brian: Naval Research Laboratory
"Reconfigurable Physical Agent"
Fujita, Masahiro: Sony Corporation
Hiroaki, Kitano: Sony Corporation
Kageyama, Koji: Sony Corporation
10.30am-12.30pm PAPER SESSION 3: COORDINATION & COOPERATION
Chair: Afsaneh Haddadi
Location: Nicollet D1
"Coordinating with Obligations"
Barbuceanu, Mihai: University of Toronto
Gray, Tom: Mitel Corporation
Mankovski, Serge: Mitel Corporation
"Markov Tracking for Agent Coordination"
Washington, Richard M.: Caelum/NASA Ames Research Center
"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
"Using Decision Tree Confidence Factors for Multiagent Control"
Stone, Peter: Carnegie Mellon University
Veloso, Manuela: Carnegie Mellon University
12.30pm-2.00pm LUNCH BREAK
12.30pm-2.00pm SIGART ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETINGLocation: Lake Superior B
2.00pm-3.30pm PAPER SESSION 4: ENGINEERING AGENT SYSTEMS I
Chair: Jeff Rosenschein
Location: Skyway A/B
"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
"JAFMAS: A Multiagent Application Development System"
Chauhan, Deepika: University of Cincinnati
Baker, Albert D.: University of Cincinnati
"Agent Design Patterns: Elements of Agent Application Design"
Aridor, Yariv: IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory
Lange, Danny B.: General Magic Inc.
2.00pm-3.30pm PAPER SESSION 5: WWW AGENTS I
Chair: Bamshad Mobasher
Location: Nicollet D1
"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
"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
"WebMate : A Personal Agent for Browsing and Searching"
Chen, Liren: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Sycara, Katia: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
2.00pm-3.30pm PANEL SESSION: AUTONOMOUS AGENTS IN ENTERTAINMENT
Chair: Andrew Stern (PF.Magic)
Location: Regency Room
3.30pm-4.00pm BREAK
4.00pm-5.30pm PAPER SESSION 6: AGENTS FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT I
Chair: Neal Lesh
Location: Skyway A/B
"Concept Features in Re:Agent, an Intelligent Email Agent"
Boone, Gary: Georgia Institute of Technology
"Agents for Collecting Application Usage Data Over the Internet"
Hilbert, David M.: University of California, Irvine
Redmiles, David F.: University of California, Irvine
"Adaptive Information Agents in Distributed Textual Environments"
Menczer, Filippo: University of California, San Diego
Belew, Richard K.: University of California, San Diego
4.00pm-5.30pm PAPER SESSION 7: SYNTHETIC AGENTS
Chair: Elisabeth Andre
Location: Nicollet D1
"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
4.00pm-5.30pm PANEL SESSION: ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
Chair: Hyacinth Nwana
Location: Regency Room
Location: Nicollet B/C/D
9.00am-10.00am INVITED PRESENTATION
Chair: Mike Wooldridge
Location: Nicollet B/C
10.00am-10.30am BREAK
10.30am-12.30pm PAPER SESSION 8: MOBILE SOFTWARE AGENTS
Chair: Jeff Bradshaw
Location: Skyway A/B
"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
"Contemplations on a Secure Marketplace for Mobile Agents"
Neuenhofen, Kay Alexander: Sun Microsystems
Thompson, Matthew: Sun Microsystems
"Mobile Agents on the Digital Battlefield"
Hofmann, Martin O.: Lockheed Martin ATL
McGovern, Amy: University of Massachusetts
Whitebread, Kenneth R.: Lockheed Martin ATL
10.30am-12.30pm PAPER SESSION 9: LEARNING AND ADAPTATION I
Chair: Maja Mataric
Location: Nicollet D1
"A Multiagent Perspective of Parallel and Distributed Machine Learning"
Weiss, Gerhard: Technische Universitat Munchen
"Learning Situation-Dependent Costs: Improving Planning from Probabilistic
Robot Execution"
Haigh, Karen Zita: Carnegie Mellon University
Veloso, Manuela M.: Carnegie Mellon University
"Learning about other agents in dynamic multiagent system"
Hu, Junling: University of Michigan
Wellman, Michael P.: University of Michigan
"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
10.30am-12.30pm PAPER SESSION 10: LIFELIKE AGENTS
Chair: James Lester
Location: Regency Room
"Behavioural Self-organization in Lifelike Agents"
Liu, Jiming: Baptist University
Qin, Hong: Baptist University
"Integrating Reactive and Scripted Behaviors in a Life-Like Presentation
Agent"
Andre, Elisabeth: DFKI GmbH
Rist, Thomas: DFKI GmbH
Mueller, Jochen: DFKI GmbH
"BodyChat: Autonomous Communicative Behaviors in Avatars"
Vilhjalmsson, Hannes Hogni: MIT Media Laboratory
Cassell, Justine: MIT Media Laboratory
"Actor-Based Computing: Vision Forestalled, Vision FulFilled"
Allen, Arthur: Charis Software Systems
12.30pm-2.00pm LUNCH BREAK
1.30pm-3.00pm TOUR TO UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (Details to be ann.)
2.00pm-3.30pm PAPER SESSION 11: COMPUTATIONAL MARKET SYSTEMS
Chair: Nick Jennings
Location: Regency Room
"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
Gini, Maria: University of Minnesota
"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
"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
2.00pm-3.30pm PAPER SESSION 12: AGENT CONTROL ARCHITECTURES I
Chair: Ian Horswill
Location: Nicollet D1
"Increasing Agent Autonomy in Dynamic Environments"
Das, Subrata: Charles River Analytics
Caglayan, Alper: Charles River Analytics
Gonsalves, Paul: Charles River Analytics
"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
"Integrating Active Perception with an Autonomous Robot Architecture"
Wasson, Glenn: University of Virgina
Kortenkamp, David: Metrica, Inc.
Huber, Eric: Metrica, Inc.
2.00pm-3.30pm VIDEO SESSION I
Chair: Mike Wooldridge
Location: Skyway A/B
"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
"The Use of Space Discretization for Autonomous Virtual Humans"
Bandi, Srikanth: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Thalmann, Daniel: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
3.30pm-4.00pm BREAK
4.00pm-5.00pm PAPER SESSION 13: AGENTS FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT II
Chair: Keith Decker
Location: Nicollet D1
"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
"Understanding Jokes: A Neural Approach to Content-Based
Information Retrieval"
Zrehen, Stephane: USC Brain Project
Arbib, Michael A.: USC Brain Project
4.00pm-5.30pm VIDEO SESSION II
Chair: Gerhard Weiss
Location: Skyway A/B
"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
"Domain-Adaptive Information System (DAIS)"
Whitebread, Kenneth R.: Lockheed Martin ATL
Stein, Harley J.: Lockheed Martin ATL
4.00pm-5.30pm SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS I
Chair: Henry Kautz
Location: Nicollet A
"The Intelligent Classroom"
David Franklin, University of Chicago
"Imp Character Web Guides"
Barbara Hayes-Roth and Keith Wescourt,
Extempo Systems, Inc.
"Virtual Petz: a Hybrid Approach to Creating
Autonomous, Lifelike"
Andrew Stern, Dogz and Catz PF Magic
"Interactive Characters with Emotion"
Hirohide Ushida. OMRON Corporation
"An Integrated Development Environment for
Distributed Multi-Agent Applications"
Anshu Mehra and Virgionio Chiodini, Gensym
"Demo #1: SWARM IMAGING: Reactive Agents for
Adaptive Image Analysis"
"Demo #2: Behavioral Self-organization (BSo) in
Lifelike Synthetic Agents"
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University
"The ZEUS Collaborative Agent Building Toolkit"
Jaron Collis and Hyacinth Nwana, BT Laboratories
"MADEsmart"
Krishna N. Jha, Boing Defense & Space Group
"ReferralWeb"
Henry Kautz, AT&T Labs
"3D Create"
Kevin Bromber, 3D Planet
"WebACE: A Web Agent for Document Categorization and Exploration"
Daniel Boley, Eui-Hong (Sam) Han, et al., University of Minnesota
"Kasbah@MIT: an Online Agent-Mediated Electronic Marketplace"
Keith D. Smith, MIT Media Laboratory
5.30pm CLOSE OF TECHNICAL SESSIONS FOR DAY 2
6.00pm-10.00pm BANQUET
Location: Nicollet B/C
9.00am-10.00am INVITED PRESENTATION
Chair: Tim Finin
Location: Nicollet B/C
Bernardo Huberman (Xerox PARC, CA)
10.00am-10.30am BREAK
10.30am-12.00pm PAPER SESSION 14: AGENT CONTROL ARCHITECTURES II
Chair: Henry Hexmoor
Location: Regency Room
"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
"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
"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
10.30am-12.00pm PAPER SESSION 15: ENGINEERING AGENT SYSTEMS II
Chair: Milind Tambe
Location: Skyway A/B
"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
"Pitfalls of Agent-Oriented Development"
Wooldridge, Michael: Queen Mary & Westfield College
Jennings, Nicholas R.: Queen Mary & Westfield College
"Liability for Autonomous Agent Design"
Heckman, Carey: Stanford Law School
Wobbrock, Jacob O.: Stanford University
10.30am-12.00pm PAPER SESSION 16: WWW AGENTS II
Chair: Yannis Labrou
Location: Nicollet D1
"A Web-based Information System that Reasons with Structured
Collections of Text"
Cohen, William W.: AT&T Labs-Research
"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
"SHOPPER'S EYE: Using Location-based Filtering for a Shopping Agent
in the
Physical World"
Fano, Andrew: Andersen Consulting
12.00pm-1.30pm LUNCH BREAK
1.30pm-2.30pm PAPER SESSION 17: LEARNING AND ADAPTATION II
Chair: Stephane Zrehen
Location: Regency Room
"A history-based approach for adaptive robot behavior in dynamic
environments"
Michaud, Francois: University of Sherbrooke
Mataric, Maja J.: University of Southern California
"Effects of misconception on reciprocative agents"
Sen, Sandip: The University of Tulsa
Biswas, Anish: The University of Tulsa
1.30pm-2.30pm PAPER SESSION 18: APPLICATIONS
Chair: Maria Gini
Location: Skyway A/B
"SANI: A Seamless and Non-Intrusive Framework and Agent for Creating
Interactive Homes"
Chatterjee, Sandeep: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Reactive Agents for Adaptive Image Analysis"
Liu, Jiming: Baptist University
Chair: Afsaneh Haddadi
Location: Greenway H/I
"Artificial autonomous agents with artificial emotions"
Botelho, Luis 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
1.30pm-3.00pm pm SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS II
Chair: Henry Kautz
Location: Nicollet A
"The Intelligent Classroom (repeat)"
David Franklin, University of Chicago
"Deep Space 1 Remote Agent"
James Kurien, NASA Ames
"SARA: Advanced C4I Technology for Personnel Recovery"
Kyle Nelson, Robin Penner, and Nelson Soken,
Honeywell Technology Center
"Via/Alva/Metabot"
Damien Miller, Kinetoscope Inc.
"Ultima Ratio"
Michael Schroeder, BT Laboratories
"AgentBuilder"
Mike Harrelson, Reticular Systems
"Product Realization Environment (PRE)"
Nina Berry and Carmen Pancerella,
Sandia National Laboratories
"Mobile Electronic Commerce Agents (MEC)"
Valtteri Halla, Nokia Research Center
"MAGNET, a Market Architecture for Multi-Agent Contracting"
John Collins et al., University of Minnesota
"CiteSeer"
Kurt D. Bollacker, NEC Research
"Agent Editor: A Tool for Creating Agents On-The-Fly"
Anandeep Pannu and Katia Sycara,
The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
"WebMate: a personal agent for browsing and searching"
Liren Chen and Katia Sycara, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
"Syskill & Webert: An Agent That Learns To Rate Web Pages"
Daniel Billsus and Michael Pazzani, UC Irvine
3.00pm-3.30pm BREAK
3.30pm-5.00pm PANEL SESSION: TRENDS IN AUTONOMOUS AGENTS
Chair: Katia P. Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University)
Location: Regency Room
5.00pm CONFERENCE ENDS