THE AGENTS 98 TECHNICAL PROGRAM

AUDIO/VISUAL EQUIPMENT

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.

SATURDAY May 9, 1998

9.00am-12.30pm TUTORIALS & WORKSHOPS

    W2: Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies

    W4: Artificial Societies and Computational Markets

12.30pm-2.00pm LUNCH BREAK

2.00pm-5.30pm TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

    T1: Agents in Electronic Markets

    T3: Agent Architectures for Autonomous Control Systems

    T5: Applying Agent Technology

    W2: Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies (continued)

    W4: Artificial Societies and Computational Markets (continued)


SUNDAY May 10, 1998

9.00am-12.30pm TUTORIALS & WORKSHOPS

    T6: Agent Communication Languages

    W1: Agents in Interaction

    W3: Agent Mediated Electronic Trading

    W5: Agent-based manufacturing

12.30pm-2.00pm LUNCH BREAK

2.00pm-5.30pm TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

    T2: Information Filtering and Classification

    T4: Autonomous Virtual Humans in Virtual Environments

    W1: Agents in Interaction (continued)

    W3: Agent Mediated Electronic Trading (continued)

W5: Agent-based manufacturing (continued)


MONDAY May 11, 1998

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 MEETING

Location: 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

5.30pm CLOSE OF TECHNICAL SESSION FOR DAY 1 6:00pm-8:00pm RECEPTION AND ROBOTICS DEMONSTRATIONS

Location: Nicollet B/C/D


TUESDAY May 12, 1998

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


WEDNESDAY May 13, 1998

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

1.30pm-3.00pm POSTER SESSION

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