3. Agents 1999: Seattle, WA, USA

Synthetic Agents

• Carlos Martinho, Ana Paiva:
  Pathematic Agents: Rapid Development of Believable Emotional Agents in Intelligent Virtual Environments. 1-8
  
• Magy Seif El-Nasr, Thomas R. Ioerger, John Yen:
  PETEEI: A PET With Evolving Emotional Intelligence. 9-15
  
• Sonu Chopra-Khullar, Norman I. Badler:
  Where to Look? Automating Attending Behaviors of Virtual Human Characters. 16-23
  
• James C. Lester, Luke S. Zettlemoyer, Joël P. Grégoire, William H. Bares:
  Explanatory Lifelike Evatars: Performing User-Centered Tasks in 3D Learning Environments. 24-31
  

Multiagent Cooperation and Coordination

• Claudia V. Goldman, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein:
  Partitioned Multiagent Systems in Information Oriented Domains. 32-39
  
• Kate Larson, Tuomas Sandholm:
  Anytime Coalition Structure Generation: An Average Case Study. 40-47
  
• Jiming Liu, Jian-Bing Wu:
  Evolutionary Group Robots for Collective World Modeling. 48-55
  
• Shih-Hung Wu, Von-Wun Soo:
  Game Theoretic Reasoning in Multi-Agent Coordination by Negotiation with a Trusted Third Party. 56-61
  

Designing Agent Systems

• Mark Klein, Chrysanthos Dellarocas:
  Exception Handling in Agent Systems. 62-68
  
• Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings, David Kinny:
  A Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design. 69-76
  
• David Wolpert, Kevin R. Wheeler, Kagan Tumer:
  General Principles of Learning-Based Multi-Agent Systems. 77-83
  

Cooperating Robots

• Robert A. Ghanea-Hercock, David P. Barnes:
  Disturbed Behavior in Co-Operating Autonomous Robot. 84-91
  
• Tucker R. Balch:
  The Impact of Diversity on Performance in Multi-Robot Foraging. 92-99
  
• Dani Goldberg, Maja J. Mataric:
  Coordinating Mobile Robot Group Behavior Using a Model of Interaction Dynamics. 100-107
  

Collaboration and Communication

• Simone Strippgen, Kornelia Peters:
  ``The Other Way Round!'': Collaborative Communication with Agents. 108-115
  
• Henry Lieberman, Bonnie A. Nardi, David J. Wright:
  Training Agents to Recognize Text by Example. 116-122
  
• Sanguk Noh, Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz:
  Implementation and Evaluation of Rational Communicative Behavior in Coordinated Defense. 123-130
  

Electronic Commerce

• Chris Preist:
  Commodity Trading Using an Agent-Based Iterated Double Auction. 131-138
  
• Jörg P. Müller, Markus Pischel:
  Doing Business in the Information Marketplace: A Case Study. 139-146
  
• Sunju Park, Edmund H. Durfee, William P. Birmingham:
  An Adaptive Agent Bidding Strategy Based on Stochastic Modeling. 147-153
  

Autonomous Robots

• Fang Wang, Eric McKenzie:
  A Multi-Agent Based Evolutionary Artificial Neural Network for General Navigation in Unknown Environments. 154-159
  
• François Michaud, Minh Tuan Yu:
  Managing Robot Autonomy and Interactivity Using Motives and Visual Communication. 160-167
  
• Larry D. Pyeatt, Adele E. Howe:
  Integrating POMDP and Reinforcement Learning for a Two Layer Simulated Robot Architecture. 168-174
  

Learning Agents on the WWW

• Nicholas Kushmerick:
  Learning to Remove Internet Advertisements. 175-181
  
• Liliana Ardissono, C. Barbero, Anna Goy, Giovanna Petrone:
  An Agent Architecture for Personalized Web Stores. 182-189
  
• Ion Muslea, Steven Minton, Craig A. Knoblock:
  A Hierarchical Approach to Wrapper Induction. 190-197
  

Adaptive Agents

• Seth Rogers, Claude-Nicolas Fiechter, Pat Langley:
  An Adaptive Interactive Agent for Route Advice. 198-205
  
• Peter Stone, Manuela M. Veloso:
  Team-Partitioned, Opaque-Transition Reinforcement Learning. 206-212
  

Multiagent Teams

• Gal A. Kaminka, Milind Tambe:
  I'm OK, you're OK, we're OK: Experiments in Distributed and Centralized Socially Attentive Monitoring. 213-220
  
• Stacy Marsella, Jafar Adibi, Yaser Al-Onaizan, Gal A. Kaminka, Ion Muslea, Milind Tambe:
  On Being a Teammate: Experiences Acquired in the design of RoboCup Teams. 221-227
  

Action Selection and Planning

• Michael Beetz:
  Structured Reactive Controllers: Controlling Robots That Perform Everyday Activity. 228-235
  
• Marcus J. Huber:
  JAM: A BDI-Theoretic Mobile Agent Architecture. 236-243
  
• Ella M. Atkins, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Kang G. Shin, Edmund H. Durfee:
  Planning and Resource Allocation for Hard Real-Time, Fault-Tolerant Plan Execution. 244-251
  
• Bradley J. Clement, Edmund H. Durfee:
  Top-Down Search for Coordinating the Hierarchical Plans of Multiple Agents. 252-259
  

User Interface Agents and Personalized Assistants

• Mathias Bauer, Dietmar Dengler:
  TrIAs: Trainable Information Assistants for Cooperative Problem Solving. 260-267
  
• Daniel Billsus, Michael J. Pazzani:
  A Personal News Agent That Talks, Learns and Explains. 268-275
  
• Richard Segal, Jeffrey O. Kephart:
  MailCat: An Intelligent Assistant for Organizing E-Mail. 276-282
  
• Erin Shaw, W. Lewis Johnson, Rajaram Ganeshan:
  Pedagogical Agents on the Web. 283-290
  

Novel Applications

• Victor R. Lesser, Michael Atighetchi, Brett Benyo, Bryan Horling, Anita Raja, Régis Vincent, Thomas Wagner, Ping Xuan, Xiaoqin Zhang:
  The UMASS Intelligent Home Project. 291-298
  
• Carey Heckman, Alex Roetter:
  Designing Government Agents for Constitutional Compliance. 299-305
  
• Onn Shehory, Katia P. Sycara, Gita Sukthankar, Vick Mukherjee:
  Agent Aided Aircraft Maintenance. 306-312
  

Evaluation and Simulation of Agent Systems

• Michael Schroeder:
  Using Singular Value Decomposition to Visualise Relations Within Multi-Agent Systems. 313-318
  
• Gaku Yamamoto, Yuhichi Nakamura:
  Architecture and Performance Evaluation of a Massive Multi-Agent System. 319-325
  
• Divine T. Ndumu, Hyacinth S. Nwana, Lyndon C. Lee, Jaron C. Collis:
  Visualising and Debugging Distributed Multi-Agent Systems. 326-333
  

Posters: Synthetic Agents

• Elsa Schweiss, Soraia Raupp Musse, Fabien Garat, Daniel Thalmann:
  An Architecture to Guide Crowds Using a Rule-Based Behavior System. 334-335
  
• Mathew Yap, Wee Keong Ng:
  Are Life-Like Characteristics Useful for Autonomous Agents? 336-337
  
• Ruth Aylett:
  Virtual Teletubbies: Reapplying a Robot Architecture to Virtual Agents. 338-339
  
• Jiming Liu, Hong Qin:
  Organizing Synthetic Agent Behaviors Based on a Motif Architecture. 340-341
  
• Barbara Rosario, Nuria Oliver, Alex Pentland:
  A Synthetic Agent System for Bayesian Modeling Human Interactions. 342-343
  

Posters: Multiagent Cooperation and Coordination

• Ron Sun, Chad Sessions:
  Bidding in Reinforcement Learning: A Paradigm for Multi-Agent Systems. 344-345
  
• K. Suzanne Barber, Tse-Hsin Liu, Anuj Goel, Cheryl E. Martin:
  Conflict Representation and Classification in a Domain-Independent Conflict Management Framework. 346-347
  
• Mihai Barbuceanu:
  A Negotiation Shell. 348-349
  
• John Collins, Maksim Tsvetovat, Rashmi Sundareswara, Joshua van Tonder, Maria L. Gini, Bamshad Mobasher:
  Evaluating Risk: Flexibility and Feasibility in Multi-Agent Contracting. 350-351
  
• Anish Biswas, Sandip Sen:
  Influence of Perspectives on Help-Giving Behaviors. 352-353
  

Designing Agent Systems

• Brian Guarraci:
  Using Polymorphism to Create Complex Agents. 354-355
  
• Frances M. T. Brazier, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur, Niek J. E. Wijngaards:
  Deliberate Evolution in Multi-Agent Systems (extended abstract). 356-357
  
• R. Scott Cost, Timothy W. Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff, James Mayfield, Akram Boughannam:
  Agent Development with Jackal. 358-359
  
• Hyacinth S. Nwana, Divine T. Ndumu, Lyndon C. Lee, Jaron C. Collis:
  ZEUS: A Toolkit and Approach for Building Distributed Multi-Agent Systems. 360-361
  

Posters: Cooperating Robots

• Fumio Mizoguchi, Hayato Ohwada, Hiroyuki Nishiyama, Hironori Hiraishi:
  Collaboration Between Robotic Agents at the Smart Office. 362-363
  
• Robin R. Murphy, Michelle Ausmus, Magdalena D. Bugajska, Tanya Ellis, Tonia Johnson, Nia Kelley, Jodi Kiefer, Lisa Pollock:
  Marsupial-Like Mobile Robot Societies. 364-365
  
• Kerstin Dautenhahn, Aude Billard:
  Bringing Up Robots or - The Psychology of Socially Intelligent Robots: From Theory to Implementation. 366-367
  

Posters: Collaboration and Communication

• Heather Holmback, Mark Greaves, Jeffrey Bradshaw:
  A Pragmatic Principle for Agent Communication. 368-369
  
• Shigeo Matsubara, Takeshi Ohguro, Fumio Hattori:
  CommunityBoard 2: Mediating between Speakers and an Audience in Computer Network Discussions. 370-371
  
• Wu Wen, Fumio Mizoguchi:
  Analysis and Verification of Multi-Agent Interaction Protocols. 372-373
  

Posters: Electronic Commerce

• Mark E. Nissen, Anshu Mehra:
  Some Intelligent Software Supply Chain Agents. 374-375
  
• Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur:
  A Re-Usable Broker Agent Architecture with Dynamic Maintenance Capabilities. 376-377
  
• Jeffrey O. Kephart, Amy R. Greenwald:
  Shopbot Economics. 378-379
  

Posters: Autonomous Robots

• Maite López-Sánchez, Ramon López de Mántaras, Carles Sierra:
  Map Generation by Means of Autonomous Robots and Possibility Propagation Techniques. 380-381
  
• David P. Barnes, Javan B. Wardle:
  Robust Gait Generation for Hexapodal Robot Locomotion. 382-383
  
• William S. Gribble:
  Field of View Control for Closed-Loop Visually-Guided Notion. 384-385
  
• Daniel G. Shapiro, Pat Langley:
  Controlling Physical Agents Through Reactive Logic Programming. 386-387
  

Posters: Learning Agents on the WWW

• Jürgen Lind, Christopher G. Jung, Christian Gerber:
  Adaptivity and Learning in Intelligent Real-Time Systems. 388-389
  
• Daniel Boley, Vivian Borst:
  Unsupervised Updating of a Classification Tree in a Dynamic Environment. 390-391
  
• Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Kurt D. Bollacker:
  Autonomous Citation Matching. 392-393
  

Posters: Adaptive Agents

• Michael J. Pazzani, Daniel Billsus:
  Adaptive Web Site Agents. 394-395
  
• Anish Biswas, Sandip Sen:
  Learning to Model Behaviors from Boolean Responses. 396-397
  

Posters: Multiagent Teams

• Robert A. Ghanea-Hercock, Jaron C. Collis, Divine T. Ndumu:
  Co-Operating Mobile Agents for Distributed Parallel Processing. 398-399
  
• Zhun Qiu, Milind Tambe, Hyuckchul Jung:
  Towards Flexible Negotiation in Teamwork. 400-401
  

Posters: Novel Applications

• Jidé B. Odubiyi, George Meekins, Song Huang, Tracy Yin:
  Proteus* - Adaptive Polling System for Proactive Management of ATM Networks Using Collaborative Intelligent Agents. 402-403
  
• Patricia Charlton, Yasmine Arafa, E. H. Mamdani:
  Development and Deployment of a Multi-Agent System for Public Service Access. 404-405
  
• Samir Aknine, Hamid Aknine:
  Contribution of a Multi-Agent Cooperation Model in a Hospital Environment. 406-407
  

Posters: Evaluation and Simulation of Agent Systems

• Christian Gerber, Christian Ruß, Gero Vierke:
  On the Suitability of Market-Based Mechanisms for Telematics Applications. 408-409
  
• Ioan Alfred Letia:
  A TLA+ Specification for Agent Communication that Enables Proofs. 410-411
  

Posters: Multiagent Coordination and Cooperation

• Sandra C. Hayden, Christina Carrick, Qiang Yang:
  A Catalog of Agent Coordination Patterns. 412-413
  
• Aneurin M. Easwaran, Jeremy Pitt, Stefan Poslad:
  The Agent Service Brokering Problem as a Generalised Travelling Salesman Problem. 414-415
  
• K. Suzanne Barber, Joonoo Kim:
  Constructing and Dynamically Maintaining Perspective-Based Agent Models in a Multi-Agent Environment. 416-417
  
• Randall W. Hill Jr.:
  Perceptual Grouping and Attention in a Multi-Agent World. 418-419
  

Posters: Action Selection and Planning

• Paul Scerri, Nancy E. Reed:
  Adapting an Agent to a Similar Environment. 420-421
  
• Subrata Kumar Das, Raffi Krikorian, Walt Truszkowski:
  Distributed Planning and Scheduling for Enhancing Spacecraft Autonomy. 422-423
  
• Yiming Ye, John K. Tsotsos:
  Knowledge Granularity for Task Oriented Agents. 424-425
  
• Luiz M. G. Gonçalves, Roderic A. Grupen, Antonio A. F. Oliveira:
  Multi-Modal Stereognosis. 426-427
  

Posters: User Interface Agents and Personalized Assistants

• Brendan Berney, Elaine Ferneley:
  CASMIR - A Community of Software Agents Collaborating in Order to Retrieve Multimedia Aata. 428-429
  
• Yasmine Arafa, Patricia Charlton, E. H. Mamdani:
  Supporting Personality in Personal Service Assistants from Metaphor to Implementation. 430-431
  
• H. L. Wang, W. K. Shih, C. N. Hsu, Y. S. Chen, Y. L. Wang, W. L. Hsu:
  Personal Navigating Agents. 432-433
  
• Sumit Ghosh, Manisha Mundhe, Karina Hernandez, Sandip Sen:
  Voting for Movies: The Anatomy of a Recommender System. 434-435