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