| | International Conference on Autonomous Agents archiveProceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents 2000, Barcelona, Spain June 03 - 07, 2000 | | | Table of Contents | | | | Hormone-based control for self-reconfigurable robots Wei-Min Shen, Yimin Lu, Peter Will Pages: 1 - 8 Full text available: Pdf(873 KB) | | | | A team of robotic agents for surveillance Paul E. Rybski, Sascha A. Stoeter, Michael D. Erickson, Maria Gini, Dean F. Hougen, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos Pages: 9 - 16 Full text available: Pdf(1.47 MB) | | | | Designing a humanoid head for RoboCup challenge Hiroaki Kitano, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Iris Fermin, Theo Sabisch, Yukiko Nakagawa, Tatsuya Matsui Pages: 17 - 18 Full text available: Pdf(336 KB) | | | | Runtime plan adaptation in structured reactive controllers Michael Beetz Pages: 19 - 20 Full text available: Pdf(307 KB) | | | | Broadcast of local eligibility: behavior-based control for strongly cooperative robot teams Barry Brian Werger, Maja J. Mataric Pages: 21 - 22 Full text available: Pdf(260 KB) | | | | Virtues and limitations of multifusion based action selection Michael R. Benjamin Pages: 23 - 24 Full text available: Pdf(214 KB) | | | | Ant-inspired navigation in unknown environments Stergios I. Roumeliotis, Paolo Pirjanian, Maja J. Matarić Pages: 25 - 26 Full text available: Pdf(243 KB) | | | | A biologically inspired autonomous robot that learns approach-avoidance behaviors Luis F. Lago-Fernández, M. A. Sánchez-Montañés, Sergio López-Buedo Pages: 27 - 28 Full text available: Pdf(217 KB) | | | | Determining optimal paths in a weighted and dynamic 2D environment using framed-octrees Bin Xu, Danny Z. Chen, Robert J. Szczerba Pages: 29 - 30 Full text available: Pdf(219 KB) | | | | Flexible group behavior: virtual commanders for synthetic battlespaces Randall Hill, Jonathan Gratch, Paul Rosenbloom Pages: 31 - 38 Full text available: Pdf(972 KB) | | | | Experimental assessment of the effectiveness of synthetic personae for multi-modal e-retail applications Helen McBreen, Paul Shade, Mervyn Jack, Peter Wyard Pages: 39 - 45 Full text available: Pdf(804 KB) | | | | Observation-based expectation generation and response for believable reactive agents Christopher Kline, Bruce Blumberg Pages: 46 - 47 Full text available: Pdf(230 KB) | | | | Requirements for an architecture for believable social agents Anthony Guye-Vuilléme, Daniel Thalmann Pages: 48 - 49 Full text available: Pdf(210 KB) | | | | Agents and virtual environments for communication and decision training for emergencies Ralf Dörner, Paul Grimm, Christian Seiler Pages: 50 - 51 Full text available: Pdf(223 KB) | | | | From one virtual actor to virtual crowds: requirements and constraints Soraia Raupp Musse, Daniel Thalmann Pages: 52 - 53 Full text available: Pdf(285 KB) | | | | An investigation of the effectiveness of choreography for the portrayal of mood in virtual environments Rachel Price, Craig Douther, Mervyn A. Jack Pages: 54 - 55 Full text available: Pdf(217 KB) | | | | What is scalability in multi-agent systems? Omer F. Rana, Kate Stout Pages: 56 - 63 Full text available: Pdf(918 KB) | | | | An agent approach to alleviating packaging mismatch Brian Blake, Prasanta Bose Pages: 64 - 69 Full text available: Pdf(611 KB) | | | | Architecture of an agent server capable of hosting tens of thousands of agents Gaku Yamamoto, Hideki Tai Pages: 70 - 71 Full text available: Pdf(244 KB) | | | | Reverse engineering of Soar agents Anthony J. Hirst Pages: 72 - 73 Full text available: Pdf(223 KB) | | | | An agent model platform for realizing efficient and reusable agent software Agostino Poggi, Giovanni Rimassa Pages: 74 - 75 Full text available: Pdf(206 KB) | | | | Designing agents from reusable components Kutluhan Erol, Jun Lang, Renato Levy Pages: 76 - 77 Full text available: Pdf(237 KB) | | | | MadKit: a generic multi-agent platform Olivier Gutknecht, Jacques Ferber Pages: 78 - 79 Full text available: Pdf(273 KB) | | | | A multi-plane state machine agent model Ladislau Bööni, Dan C. Marinescu Pages: 80 - 81 Full text available: Pdf(233 KB) | | | | Integrating visual modeling of agent-based and object-oriented systems Ralph Depke, Reiko Heckel, Jochen Malte Küster Pages: 82 - 83 Full text available: Pdf(216 KB) | | | | Toward robust agent control in open environments Anita Raja, Victor Lesser, Thomas Wagner Pages: 84 - 91 Full text available: Pdf(948 KB) | | | | Reward maximization in a non-stationary mobile robot environment Dani Goldberg, Maja J. Matarić Pages: 92 - 99 Full text available: Pdf(993 KB) | | | | A comparison of coordinated planning methods for cooperating rovers Steve Chien, Anthony Barrett, Tara Estlin, Gregg Rabideau Pages: 100 - 101 Full text available: Pdf(234 KB) | | | | Planning and learning together Gerhard Weiß Pages: 102 - 103 Full text available: Pdf(216 KB) | | | | Multi-agent reinforcement learning for planning and conflict resolution in a dynamic domain Sachiyo Arai, Katia Sycara Pages: 104 - 105 Full text available: Pdf(210 KB) | | | | Conflict detection during plan integration based on E-PERT diagrams K. S. Barber, T. H. Liu Pages: 106 - 107 Full text available: Pdf(209 KB) | | | | The agent building and learning environment Joseph P. Bigus Pages: 108 - 109 Full text available: Pdf(213 KB) | | | | Identifying qualitatively different outcomes of actions: gaining autonomy through learning Tim Oates, Matthew D. Schmill, Paul R. Cohen Pages: 110 - 111 Full text available: Pdf(210 KB) | | | | A probabilistic method for team plan formation without communication Michael Van Wie Pages: 112 - 113 Full text available: Pdf(137 KB) | | | | Navigation planning to guide concept understanding in the World Wide Web Seiji Yamada, Yukio Ohsawa Pages: 114 - 115 Full text available: Pdf(245 KB) | | | | A template-based and pattern-driven approach to situation awareness and assessment in virtual humans Weixiong Zhang, Randal W. Hill, Jr. Pages: 116 - 123 Full text available: Pdf(1.20 MB) | | | | Perception of change for a socially enhanced robot imitator Yuval Marom, Gillian R. Hayes Pages: 124 - 131 Full text available: Pdf(858 KB) | | | | Integrating information, planning, and execution monitoring agents Manuela Veloso, Tucker Balch, Scott Lenser Pages: 132 - 133 Full text available: Pdf(217 KB) | | | | Unsupervised clustering of robot activities: a Bayesian approach Marco Ramoni, Paola Sebastiani, Paul Cohen Pages: 134 - 135 Full text available: Pdf(218 KB) | | | | Experiments in imitation using perceptuo-motor primitives Stefan Weber, Maja J. Matarić, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins Pages: 136 - 137 Full text available: Pdf(341 KB) | | | | Dataflow plan execution for software agents Greg Barish, Daniel DiPasquo, Craig A. Knoblock, Steven Minton Pages: 138 - 139 Full text available: Pdf(253 KB) | | | | Distributed action plans in an agent based network management system Madhur Kohli, Jorge Lobo Pages: 140 - 141 Full text available: Pdf(211 KB) | | | | Creating complex actors with EASE Paul Scerri, Nancy E. Reed Pages: 142 - 143 Full text available: Pdf(243 KB) | | | | A multi-agent system for personal messaging John F. Meech, Katherine Baker, Edith Law, Ramiro Liscano Pages: 144 - 145 Full text available: Pdf(219 KB) | | | | Configurability within a multi-agent Web store shell L. Ardissono, A. Goy, G. Petrone, M. Segnan Pages: 146 - 147 Full text available: Pdf(258 KB) | | | | Performance management of mobile agent systems Omer F. Rana Pages: 148 - 155 Full text available: Pdf(856 KB) | | | | A buyer's agent Sandip Sen, Karina Hernandez Pages: 156 - 162 Full text available: Pdf(1.01 MB) | | | | NOMADS: toward a strong and safe mobile agent system Niranjan Suri, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Maggie R. Breedy, Paul T. Groth, Gregory A. Hill, Renia Jeffers, Timothy S. Mitrovich, Brian R. Pouliot, David S. Smith Pages: 163 - 164 Full text available: Pdf(237 KB) | | | | Improving management performance by using multiple mobile agents Marcelo Gonçalves Rubinstein, Otto Carlos Muniz Bandeira Duarte, Guy Pujolle Pages: 165 - 166 Full text available: Pdf(204 KB) | | | | A visual mobile agent system with itinerary scheduling Jau-Shien Chang, Chih-Yuan Chang Pages: 167 - 168 Full text available: Pdf(265 KB) | | | | A multi-agent simulator for service demand allocation problems (extended abstract) Monique Calisti, Boi Faltings Pages: 169 - 170 Full text available: Pdf(215 KB) | | | | ATM network management based on distributed artificial intelligence architecture José-Luis Marzo, Pere Vilà, Ramón Fabregat Pages: 171 - 172 Full text available: Pdf(208 KB) | | | | The coordination infrastructure of the ARCA framework Antonella Di Stefano, Corrado Santoro Pages: 173 - 174 Full text available: Pdf(225 KB) | | | | Developing and deploying a multi agent system Ralph Deters Pages: 175 - 176 Full text available: Pdf(235 KB) | | | | Distributed asynchronous search with private constraints (extended abstract) Marius C. Silaghi, Djamila Sam-Haroud, Boi Faltings Pages: 177 - 178 Full text available: Pdf(249 KB) | | | | Agent interoperation across multiagent system boundaries Joseph A. Giampapa, Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara Pages: 179 - 186 Full text available: Pdf(1.46 MB) | | | | Whistling in the dark: cooperative trail following in uncertain localization space Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Støy, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Maja J. Matarić Pages: 187 - 194 Full text available: Pdf(723 KB) | | | | Building dynamic organizations of distributed, heterogenous agents David V. Pynadath, Milind Tambe, Nicolas Chauvat Pages: 195 - 196 Full text available: Pdf(225 KB) | | | | Using distributed problem solving to search the Web Amir Langer, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein Pages: 197 - 198 Full text available: Pdf(246 KB) | | | | The RETSINA communicator Onn Shehory, Katia Sycara Pages: 199 - 200 Full text available: Pdf(247 KB) | | | | Capability-based agent matchmaking Anthony Cassandra, Damith Chandrasekara, Marian Nodine Pages: 201 - 202 Full text available: Pdf(191 KB) | | | | Murdoch: publish/subscribe task allocation for heterogeneous agents Brian P. Gerkey, Maja J. Matarić Pages: 203 - 204 Full text available: Pdf(240 KB) | | | | The knowledge agency Stefan Haustein, Sascha Lüdecke, Christian Schwering Pages: 205 - 206 Full text available: Pdf(151 KB) | | | | Determining the usefulness of information from its use during problem solving Elise H. Turner, John Phelps Pages: 207 - 208 Full text available: Pdf(225 KB) | | | | Intention reconsideration in complex environments Martijn Schut, Michael Wooldridge Pages: 209 - 216 Full text available: Pdf(894 KB) | | | | Socially conscious decision-making Alyssa Glass, Barbara Grosz Pages: 217 - 224 Full text available: Pdf(871 KB) | | | | Layered disclosure: why is the agent doing what it's doing? Peter Stone, Patrick Riley, Manuela Veloso Pages: 225 - 226 Full text available: Pdf(225 KB) | | | | Toward natural language interfaces for robotic agents: grounding linguistic meaning in sensors Tim Oates, Zachary Eyler-Walker, Paul R. Cohen Pages: 227 - 228 Full text available: Pdf(211 KB) | | | | Abstract task specifications for conversation policies Renée Elio, Afsaneh Haddadi, Ajit Singh Pages: 229 - 230 Full text available: Pdf(258 KB) | | | | Updating mental states from informative communication Aldo Franco Dragoni, Paolo Giorgini, Luciano Serafini Pages: 231 - 232 Full text available: Pdf(223 KB) | | | | Enabling effective and emergent agent conversations Fuhua Lin, Douglas H. Norrie, Rob Kremer, R. A. Flores-Mendez Pages: 233 - 234 Full text available: Pdf(257 KB) | | | | Verbal communication: using approximate sound propagation to design an inter-agents communication language Jean-Sébastien Monzani, Daniel Thalmann Pages: 235 - 236 Full text available: Pdf(364 KB) | | | | Air traffic control and alert agent Henry Hexmoor, Tim Heng Pages: 237 - 238 Full text available: Pdf(475 KB) | | | | A multi-attribute utility theoretic negotiation architecture for electronic commerce Mihai Barbuceanu, Wai-Kau Lo Pages: 239 - 246 Full text available: Pdf(1.10 MB) | | | | Mixed-initiative decision support in agent-based automated contracting John Collins, Corey Bilot, Maria Gini Pages: 247 - 254 Full text available: Pdf(906 KB) | | | | Multi-agent cooperation, dynamic workflow and XML for e-commerce automation Qiming Chen, Meichun Hsu, Umeshwar Dayal, Martin Griss Pages: 255 - 256 Full text available: Pdf(217 KB) | | | | SIAS: a secure shopping information agent system Anthony H. W. Chan, T. Y. Wong, Caris K. M. Wong, Michael R. Lyu Pages: 257 - 258 Full text available: Pdf(204 KB) | | | | Rough traders and intelligent clients Michael Schroeder, Julie McCann, Dan Haynes Pages: 259 - 260 Full text available: Pdf(251 KB) | | | | Selecting partners Bikramjit Banerjee, Sandip Sen Pages: 261 - 262 Full text available: Pdf(191 KB) | | | | Customer coalitions in the electronic marketplace Maksim Tsvetovat, Katia Sycara Pages: 263 - 264 Full text available: Pdf(207 KB) | | | | Agent negotiation in trusted third party mediated uncertain games Von-Wun Soo Pages: 265 - 266 Full text available: Pdf(207 KB) | | | | An agent-based approach to manage negotiation protocols in flexible CSCW systems Federico Bergenti, Agostino Poggi Pages: 267 - 268 Full text available: Pdf(219 KB) | | | | Protocols and intentional specifications of multi-party agent conversions for brokerage and auctions Jeremy Pitt, Frank Guerin, Chris Stergiou Pages: 269 - 276 Full text available: Pdf(989 KB) | | | | Derivation of glue code for agent interoperation Mark Burstein, Drew McDermott, Douglas R. Smith Pages: 277 - 284 Full text available: Pdf(660 KB) | | | | Exchanging tacit community knowledge by talking-virtualized-egos Hidekazu Kubota, Toyoaki Nishida, Tomoko Koda Pages: 285 - 292 Full text available: Pdf(855 KB) | | | | Dynamically altering agent behaviors using natural language instructions Rama Bindiganavale, William Schuler, Jan M. Allbeck, Norman I. Badler, Aravind K. Joshi, Martha Palmer Pages: 293 - 300 Full text available: Pdf(1.05 MB) | | | | Interactive pedagogical drama Stacy C. Marsella, W. Lewis Johnson, Catherine LaBore Pages: 301 - 308 Full text available: Pdf(1.08 MB) | | | | BoB: an interactive improvisational music companion Belinda Thom Pages: 309 - 316 Full text available: Pdf(864 KB) | | | | Expressive autonomous cinematography for interactive virtual environments Bill Tomlinson, Bruce Blumberg, Delphine Nain Pages: 317 - 324 Full text available: Pdf(1.02 MB) | | | | Émile: Marshalling passions in training and education Jonathan Gratch Pages: 325 - 332 Full text available: Pdf(1.28 MB) | | | | Anytime algorithm for agent-mediated merchant information gathering X. F. Wang, S. C. Zhang, P. K. Khosla H. Kiliccote Pages: 333 - 340 Full text available: Pdf(831 KB) | | | | eMediator: a next generation electronic commerce server Tuomas Sandholm Pages: 341 - 348 Full text available: Pdf(1.06 MB) | | | | A game-theoretic formulation of multi-agent resource allocation Jonathan Bredin, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Çagri Imer, Tamer Başar, David Kotz, Daniela Rus Pages: 349 - 356 Full text available: Pdf(736 KB) | | | | Experiences in the use of FIPA agent technologies for the development of a personal travel application Jorge Núñez-Suárez, Donie O'Sullivan, Henri Brouchoud, Patrice Cros, Clair Moore, Ciara Byrne Pages: 357 - 364 Full text available: Pdf(1.37 MB) | | | | Motivation driven learning for interactive synthetic characters Song-Yee Yoon, Bruce M. Blumberg, Gerald E. Schneider Pages: 365 - 372 Full text available: Pdf(1.09 MB) | | | | A biologically inspired robotic model for learning by imitation Aude Billard, Maja J. Matarić Pages: 373 - 380 Full text available: Pdf(848 KB) | | | | Learning user's preferences by analyzing Web-browsing behaviors Young-Woo Seo, Byoung-Tak Zhang Pages: 381 - 387 Full text available: Pdf(672 KB) | | | | Evolving intelligent text-based agents Edmund S. Yu, Ping C. Koo, Elizabeth D. Liddy Pages: 388 - 395 Full text available: Pdf(1.14 MB) | | | | Adaptivity in agent-based routing for data networks David H. Wolpert, Sergery Kirshner, Chris J. Merz, Kagan Tumer Pages: 396 - 403 Full text available: Pdf(841 KB) | | | | Distributed reinforcement learning for a traffic engineering application Mark D. Pendrith Pages: 404 - 411 Full text available: Pdf(715 KB) | | | | Varying the user interaction within multi-agent systems Terry R. Payne, Katia Sycara, Michael Lewis Pages: 412 - 418 Full text available: Pdf(934 KB) | | | | Automated assistants to aid humans in understanding team behaviors Taylor Raines, Milind Tambe, Stacy Marsella Pages: 419 - 426 Full text available: Pdf(1.09 MB) | | | | A knowledge-based approach for designing intelligent team training systems Jianwen Yin, Michael S. Miller, Thomas R. Ioerger, John Yen, Richard A. Volz Pages: 427 - 434 Full text available: Pdf(864 KB) | | | | Put your best face forward: anthropomorphic agents, e-commerce consumers, and the law Carey E. Heckman, Jacob O. Wobbrock Pages: 435 - 442 Full text available: Pdf(898 KB) | | | | COGENT: cognitive agent to amplify human perception and cognition Subrata Das, Dan Grecu Pages: 443 - 450 Full text available: Pdf(1.06 MB) | | | | Prototyping of complex plan based behavior for 3D actors C. Geiger, M. Latzel Pages: 451 - 458 Full text available: Pdf(1.21 MB) | | | | Towards a fault-tolerant multi-agent system architecture Sanjeev Kumar, Philip R. Cohen Pages: 459 - 466 Full text available: Pdf(970 KB) | | | | Ant-like missionaries and cannibals: synthetic pheromones for distributed motion control H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner Pages: 467 - 474 Full text available: Pdf(876 KB) | | | | An agent architecture to fulfill real-time requirements Ignacio Soto, Mercedes Garijo, Carlos A. Iglesias, Manuel Ramos Pages: 475 - 482 Full text available: Pdf(791 KB) | | | | The user interface as an agent environment Robert St. Amant, Luke S. Zettlemoyer Pages: 483 - 490 Full text available: Pdf(905 KB) | | | | Agent communication transfer protocol Alexander Artikis, Jeremy Pitt, Christos Stergiou Pages: 491 - 498 Full text available: Pdf(990 KB) | | | | A Multi-agent system architecture for monitoring medical protocols T. Alsinet, R. Béjar, C. Fernanadez, F. Manyà Pages: 499 - 505 Full text available: Pdf(678 KB) | |
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