AAMAS 2008: Estoril, Portugal

Award papers

• Yoav Shoham:
  Computer science and game theory. 3
  
• Radu Jurca:
  Truthful reputation mechanisms for online systems: IFAAMAS-07 Victor Lesser distinguished dissertation award. 5
  

Invited talk papers

• Randal W. Beard:
  Cooperative control of small and micro air vehicles. 9
  
• Moshe Tennenholtz:
  Game-theoretic recommendations: some progress in an uphill battle. 10-16
  
• Demetri Terzopoulos:
  Autonomous virtual humans and lower animals: from biomechanics to intelligence. 17-20
  

Multi-robotics track

• Kian Hsiang Low, John M. Dolan, Pradeep K. Khosla:
  Adaptive multi-robot wide-area exploration and mapping. 23-30
  
• Giuseppe Paolo Settembre, Paul Scerri, Alessandro Farinelli, Katia P. Sycara, Daniele Nardi:
  A decentralized approach to cooperative situation assessment in multi-robot systems. 31-38
  
• Ali Emre Turgut, Hande Çelikkanat, Fatih Gökçe, Erol Sahin:
  Self-organized flocking with a mobile robot swarm. 39-46
  
• James Neufeld, Michael Sokolsky, Jason Roberts, Adam Milstein, Stephen Walsh, Michael H. Bowling:
  Autonomous geocaching: navigation and goal finding in outdoor domains. 47-54
  
• Noa Agmon, Vladimir Sadov, Gal A. Kaminka, Sarit Kraus:
  The impact of adversarial knowledge on adversarial planning in perimeter patrol. 55-62
  
• Yehuda Elmaliach, Asaf Shiloni, Gal A. Kaminka:
  A realistic model of frequency-based multi-robot polyline patrolling. 63-70
  
• Chih-Han Yu, Radhika Nagpal:
  Sensing-based shape formation on modular multi-robot systems: a theoretical study. 71-78
  
• Vittorio A. Ziparo, Luca Iocchi, Daniele Nardi, Pier Francesco Palamara, Hugo Costelha:
  Petri net plans: a formal model for representation and execution of multi-robot plans. 79-86
  

Virtual agents track

• Magalie Ochs, Catherine Pelachaud, David Sadek:
  An empathic virtual dialog agent to improve human-machine interaction. 89-96
  
• Martin Strauss, Michael Kipp:
  ERIC: a generic rule-based framework for an affective embodied commentary agent. 97-104
  
• Daniel Schulman, Mayur Sharma, Timothy W. Bickmore:
  The identification of users by relational agents. 105-111
  
• François L. A. Knoppel, Almer S. Tigelaar, Danny Oude Bos, Thijs Alofs, Zsófia Ruttkay:
  Trackside DEIRA: a dynamic engaging intelligent reporter agent. 112-119
  
• Sin-Hwa Kang, Jonathan Gratch, Ning Wang, James H. Watt:
  Does the contingency of agents' nonverbal feedback affect users' social anxiety? 120-127
  
• Hung-Hsuan Huang, Toyoaki Nishida, Aleksandra Cerekovic, Igor S. Pandzic, Yukiko I. Nakano:
  The design of a generic framework for integrating ECA components. 128-135
  
• Nuria Pelechano, Catherine Stocker, Jan M. Allbeck, Norman I. Badler:
  Being a part of the crowd: towards validating VR crowds using presence. 136-142
  
• Alejandra García-Rojas, Mario Gutiérrez, Daniel Thalmann:
  Simulation of individual spontaneous reactive behavior. 143-150
  
• Marcus Thiébaux, Stacy Marsella, Andrew N. Marshall, Marcelo Kallmann:
  SmartBody: behavior realization for embodied conversational agents. 151-158
  
• Maurizio Mancini, Catherine Pelachaud:
  Distinctiveness in multimodal behaviors. 159-166
  
• Scott W. McQuiggan, Jennifer L. Robison, Robert Phillips, James C. Lester:
  Modeling parallel and reactive empathy in virtual agents: an inductive approach. 167-174
  
• Luís Morgado, Graça Gaspar:
  Towards background emotion modeling for embodied virtual agents. 175-182
  
• Francisco Grimaldo, Miguel Lozano, Fernando Barber:
  MADeM: a multi-modal decision making for social MAS. 183-190
  
• Boris Brandherm, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka:
  Dynamic Bayesian network based interest estimation for visual attentive presentation agents. 191-198
  
• Brent J. Lance, Stacy Marsella:
  A model of gaze for the purpose of emotional expression in virtual embodied agents. 199-206
  
• Markus de Jong, Mariët Theune, Dennis Hofs:
  Politeness and alignment in dialogues with a virtual guide. 207-214
  

Agent-based system development

• Khanh Hoa Dam, Michael Winikoff:
  Cost-based BDI plan selection for change propagation. 217-224
  
• Alessandro Ricci, Michele Piunti, Daghan L. Acay, Rafael H. Bordini, Jomi Fred Hübner, Mehdi Dastani:
  Integrating heterogeneous agent programming platforms within artifact-based environments. 225-232
  
• Christian Hahn:
  A domain specific modeling language for multiagent systems. 233-240
  
• Ingo Zinnikus, Christian Hahn, Klaus Fischer:
  A model-driven, agent-based approach for the integration of services into a collaborative business process. 241-248
  
• Sebastian Stein, Nicholas R. Jennings, Terry R. Payne:
  Flexible service provisioning with advance agreements. 249-256
  
• Alberto Fernández, Sascha Ossowski:
  Exploiting organisational information for service coordination in multiagent systems. 257-264
  
• Alessio Lomuscio, Hongyang Qu, Monika Solanki:
  Towards verifying compliance in agent-based web service compositions. 265-272
  
• Akin Günay, Pinar Yolum:
  Semantic matchmaking of web services using model checking. 273-280
  

Agent and multi-agent learning

• Matthew E. Taylor, Gregory Kuhlmann, Peter Stone:
  Autonomous transfer for reinforcement learning. 283-290
  
• Jan Hendrik Metzen, Mark Edgington, Yohannes Kassahun, Frank Kirchner:
  Analysis of an evolutionary reinforcement learning method in a multiagent domain. 291-298
  
• Nicholas K. Jong, Todd Hester, Peter Stone:
  The utility of temporal abstraction in reinforcement learning. 299-306
  
• Peter Vrancx, Karl Tuyls, Ronald L. Westra:
  Switching dynamics of multi-agent learning. 307-313
  
• Sevan G. Ficici, Avi Pfeffer:
  Modeling how humans reason about others with partial information. 315-322
  
• Sevan G. Ficici, Avi Pfeffer:
  Simultaneously modeling humans' preferences and their beliefs about others' preferences. 323-330
  
• Koen V. Hindriks, Dmytro Tykhonov:
  Opponent modelling in automated multi-issue negotiation using Bayesian learning. 331-338
  
• Jean Oh, Stephen F. Smith:
  A few good agents: multi-agent social learning. 339-346
  
• Georgios Chalkiadakis, Craig Boutilier:
  Sequential decision making in repeated coalition formation under uncertainty. 347-354
  
• Francisco S. Melo, M. Isabel Ribeiro:
  Emerging coordination in infinite team Markov games. 355-362
  
• Britton Wolfe, Michael R. James, Satinder P. Singh:
  Approximate predictive state representations. 363-370
  
• Doran Chakraborty, Sandip Sen:
  MB-AIM-FSI: a model based framework for exploiting gradient ascent multiagent learners in strategic interactions. 371-378
  
• Michael H. Bowling, Alborz Geramifard, David Wingate:
  Sigma point policy iteration. 379-386
  
• Ariel Adam, Zinovi Rabinovich, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein:
  Dynamics based control with PSRs. 387-394
  

Agent reasoning

• Célia da Costa Pereira, Andrea Tettamanzi:
  Goal generation with relevant and trusted beliefs. 397-404
  
• John Thangarajah, James Harland, David N. Morley, Neil Yorke-Smith:
  Suspending and resuming tasks in BDI agents. 405-412
  
• Yi Zhou, Leendert van der Torre, Yan Zhang:
  Partial goal satisfaction and goal change: weak and strong partial implication, logical properties, complexity. 413-420
  
• Patrick Krümpelmann, Matthias Thimm, Manuela Ritterskamp, Gabriele Kern-Isberner:
  Belief operations for motivated BDI agents. 421-428
  
• Leila Amgoud, Caroline Devred, Marie-Christine Lagasquie-Schiex:
  A constrained argumentation system for practical reasoning. 429-436
  
• Elizabeth Black, Anthony Hunter:
  Using enthymemes in an inquiry dialogue system. 437-444
  
• Yuqing Tang, Simon Parsons:
  A dialogue mechanism for public argumentation using conversation policies. 445-452
  
• Yaxin Liu, Sven Koenig:
  An exact algorithm for solving MDPs under risk-sensitive planning objectives with one-switch utility functions. 453-460
  
• George Alexander, Anita Raja, David J. Musliner:
  Controlling deliberation in a Markov decision process-based agent. 461-468
  
• Xiaoxun Sun, Sven Koenig, William Yeoh:
  Generalized Adaptive A*. 469-476
  
• Yves Lespérance, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Atalay Nafi Ozgovde:
  A model of contingent planning for agent programming languages. 477-484
  
• Janusz Marecki, Tapana Gupta, Pradeep Varakantham, Milind Tambe, Makoto Yokoo:
  Not all agents are equal: scaling up distributed POMDPs for agent networks. 485-492
  
• Finale Doshi, Nicholas Roy:
  The permutable POMDP: fast solutions to POMDPs for preference elicitation. 493-500
  
• Alan Carlin, Shlomo Zilberstein:
  Value-based observation compression for DEC-POMDPs. 501-508
  
• Jan-P. Calliess, Geoffrey J. Gordon:
  No-regret learning and a mechanism for distributed multiagent planning. 509-516
  
• Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Shimon Whiteson, Nikos A. Vlassis:
  Exploiting locality of interaction in factored Dec-POMDPs. 517-524
  
• Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Francisco S. Melo:
  Interaction-driven Markov games for decentralized multiagent planning under uncertainty. 525-532
  

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