3. Agents 1999: Seattle, WA, USA

AGENTS '99. Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Autonomous Agents, May 1-5, 1999, Seattle, WA, USA. ACM, 1999

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 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

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