IAT / WI 2009: Milan, Italy

WI'09 and IAT'09 Joint Invited Talks

• Stefano Ceri:
  Search Computing. 1
  
• Marco Dorigo:
  Swarm-Bots and Swarmanoid: Two Experiments in Embodied Swarm Intelligence. 2-3
  
• Katia P. Sycara:
  Agent Based Aiding of Human Teams. 4-5
  
• Bhavani M. Thuraisingham:
  Data Mining for Malicious Code Detection and Security Applications. 6-7
  
• Ronald R. Yager:
  Intelligent Social Network Modeling. 8
  
• Chengqi Zhang:
  Developing Actionable Trading Strategies for Trading Agents. 9
  

WIC Feature Talk

• Yulin Qin:
  Various Levels from Brain Informatics to Web Intelligence. 10-11
  

Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC): Regular Papers

• Marco Turchi, Tijl De Bie, Nello Cristianini:
  An Intelligent Agent That Autonomously Learns How to Translate. 12-19
  
• Célia da Costa Pereira, Alessia Mauri, Andrea Tettamanzi:
  Cognitive-Agent-Based Modeling of a Financial Market. 20-27
  
• Dominik Dahlem, William Harrison:
  Globally Optimal Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Parameters in Distributed Task Assignment. 28-35
  
• Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio C. Oliveira:
  Adaptive Deterrence Sanctions in a Normative Framework. 36-43
  
• Christian Russ, Alexander Walz:
  MACSIMA: Simulating the Co-evolution of Negotiation Strategies in Agent-Based Supply Networks. 44-51
  

Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC): Short Papers

• Yotam Elor, Alfred M. Bruckstein:
  Multi-a(ge)nt Graph Patrolling and Partitioning. 52-57
  
• Antoine Nongaillard, Philippe Mathieu:
  A Multi-agent Resource Negotiation for Social Welfare. 58-61
  
• Cuiyun Hu, Xinjun Mao, Hong Ning:
  Integrating Model Transformation in Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. 62-65
  
• Mariachiara Puviani, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Regina Frei, Giacomo Cabri:
  Methodologies for Self-Organising Systems: A SPEM Approach. 66-69
  
• Philippe Caillou, Corentin Curchod, Tiago Baptista:
  Simulation of the Rungis Wholesale Market: Lessons on the Calibration, Validation and Usage of a Cognitive Agent-Based Simulation. 70-73
  
• Sharmila Savarimuthu, Maryam Purvis, Martin K. Purvis:
  Self-Organization of Peers in Agent Societies. 74-77
  
• Alexis Morris, Paolo Giorgini, Sameh Abdel-Naby:
  Simulating BDI-Based Wireless Sensor Networks. 78-81
  
• Eduard Semsch, Michal Jakob, Dusan Pavlícek, Michal Pechoucek:
  Autonomous UAV Surveillance in Complex Urban Environments. 82-85
  
• Scott J. Harmon, Scott A. DeLoach, Robby:
  Abstract Requirement Analysis in Multiagent System Design. 86-91
  
• Bob van der Vecht, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Ch. Meyer:
  Autonomy and Coordination: Controlling External Influences on Decision Making. 92-95
  
• Viji R. Avali, Michael N. Huhns:
  A Formalization of Continuous Commitments among Multiple Agents. 96-99
  
• Jiming Liu, Chao Gao, Ning Zhong:
  An Autonomy-Oriented Paradigm for Self-Organized Computing. 100-103
  
• Jan Sudeikat, Wolfgang Renz:
  DeCoMAS: An Architecture for Supplementing MAS with Systemic Models of Decentralized Agent Coordination. 104-107
  

Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents: Regular Papers

• Tatsuya Nomura, Kazuma Saeki:
  Effects of Polite Behaviors Expressed by Robots: A Case Study in Japan. 108-114
  
• Wilbert van Norden, Catholijn Jonker:
  User Insisted Redistribution of Belief in Hierarchical Classification Spaces. 115-122
  
• Tammar Shrot, Avi Rosenfeld, Sarit Kraus:
  Leveraging Users for Efficient Interruption Management in Agent-User Systems. 123-130
  

Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents: Short Papers

• Wilbert van Norden, Catholijn Jonker:
  Confusion and Distance Metrics as Performance Criteria for Hierarchical Classification Spaces. 131-136
  
• Xiaoping Chen, Jiehui Jiang, Jianmin Ji, Guoqiang Jin, Feng Wang:
  Integrating NLP with Reasoning about Actions for Autonomous Agents Communicating with Humans. 137-140
  
• Andrea Corradini, Manish Mehta, Santi Ontañón:
  Evaluating a Drama Management Approach in an Interactive Fiction Game. 141-144
  

Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology: Regular Papers

• Nick A. M. Tinnemeier, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Leendert W. N. van der Torre:
  Programming Normative Artifacts with Declarative Obligations and Prohibitions. 145-152
  
• Loris Penserini, Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, Huib Aldewereld, Davide Grossi:
  Evaluating Organizational Configurations. 153-160
  
• Mostafa Z. Ali, Robert G. Reynolds:
  An Intelligent Social Fabric Influence Component in Cultural Algorithms for Knowledge Learning in Dynamic Environments. 161-168
  
• Cheng Wu, Waleed Meleis:
  Adaptive Fuzzy Function Approximation for Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning. 169-176
  
• Reyhan Aydogan, Pinar Yolum:
  Ontology-Based Learning for Negotiation. 177-184
  
• Pim van Leeuwen, Cees Witteveen:
  Temporal Decoupling and Determining Resource Needs of Autonomous Agents in the Airport Turnaround Process. 185-192
  
• Hala Mostafa, Victor R. Lesser:
  Offline Planning for Communication by Exploiting Structured Interactions in Decentralized MDPs. 193-200
  
• Sam Devlin, Marek Grzes, Daniel Kudenko:
  Reinforcement Learning in RoboCup KeepAway with Partial Observability. 201-208
  
• François Bouchet, Jean-Paul Sansonnet:
  Subjectivity and Cognitive Biases Modeling for a Realistic and Efficient Assisting Conversational Agent. 209-216
  
• Maaike Harbers, Karel van den Bosch, John-Jules Ch. Meyer:
  Modeling Agents with a Theory of Mind. 217-224
  
• John S. Kinnebrew, Gautam Biswas:
  Efficient Allocation of Hierarchically-Decomposable Tasks in a Sensor Web Contract Net. 225-232
  
• Daniel Villatoro, Sandip Sen, Jordi Sabater-Mir:
  Topology and Memory Effect on Convention Emergence. 233-240
  
• Jun Wu, Chong-Jun Wang, Xiaosong Tu, Junyuan Xie:
  On the Logic of Cellular Reactive Systems. 241-248
  

Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology: Short Papers

• Jason R. Chen:
  Symbol Statistics for Concept Formation in AI Agents. 249-254
  
• John K. Debenham, Carles Sierra:
  An Agent Supports Constructivist and Ecological Rationality. 255-258
  
• Guido Boella, Leendert van der Torre, Serena Villata:
  On the Acceptability of Meta-arguments. 259-262
  
• Hazaël Jones, Julien Saunier, Domitile Lourdeaux:
  Personality, Emotions and Physiology in a BDI Agent Architecture: The PEP ->> BDI Model. 263-266
  
• Yuki Iwanari, Makoto Tasaki, Makoto Yokoo, Atsushi Iwasaki, Yuko Sakurai:
  Introducing Communication in Dis-POMDPs with Finite State Machines. 267-270
  
• Huiliang Zhang, Zhiqi Shen, Chunyan Miao:
  Enabling Goal Oriented Action Planning with Goal Net. 271-274
  
• Linbo Luo, Suiping Zhou, Wentong Cai, Malcolm Yoke-Hean Low, Michael Lees:
  Toward a Generic Framework for Modeling Human Behaviors in Crowd Simulation. 275-278
  
• Matthijs Pontier, Ghazanfar F. Siddiqui:
  Silicon Coppélia: Integrating Three Affect-Related Models for Establishing Richer Agent Interaction. 279-284
  
• Christophe Garion, Stéphanie Roussel, Laurence Cholvy:
  How to Complete Regulations in Multi-agent Systems. 285-288
  
• Jean-François Bonnefon, Dominique Longin, Manh-Hung Nguyen:
  Relation of Trust and Social Emotions: A Logical Approach. 289-292
  
• Katia Potiron, Patrick Taillibert, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni:
  Autonomous Agents: When the Mailbox Remains Empty. 293-296
  
• Hoang Thi Thanh Ha, Michel Occello:
  Towards the Specification of Recursive Multi-agent Systems Using Type Theory. 297-300
  
• Azizi Ab Aziz, Michel C. A. Klein, Jan Treur:
  An Agent Model for a Human's Social Support Network Tie Preference during Depression. 301-306
  
• eva Kühn, Richard Mordinyi, Mario Lang, Adnan Selimovic:
  Towards Zero-Delay Recovery of Agents in Production Automation Systems. 307-310
  
• Martin Allen, Shlomo Zilberstein:
  Agent Influence and Intelligent Approximation in Multiagent Problems. 311-314
  

Distributed Problem Solving: Regular Papers

• Manh Tung Pham, Kiam Tian Seow:
  On-line Coordination: Event Interaction and State Communication between Cooperative Agents. 315-322
  
• Patrick de Oude, Gregor Pavlin:
  Efficient Distributed Bayesian Reasoning via Targeted Instantiation of Variables. 323-330
  
• Alan Carlin, Shlomo Zilberstein:
  Myopic and Non-myopic Communication under Partial Observability. 331-338
  
• Sankalp Khanna, Abdul Sattar, David Hansen, Bela Stantic:
  An Efficient Algorithm for Solving Dynamic Complex DCOP Problems. 339-346
  
• Roie Zivan, Robin Glinton, Katia P. Sycara:
  Distributed Constraint Optimization for Large Teams of Mobile Sensing Agents. 347-354
  
• Miguel Rebollo:
  Small World Model for Agent Searching. 355-362
  
• Yoonheui Kim, Victor R. Lesser, Deepak Ganesan, Ramesh Sitaraman:
  Cluster-Swap: A Distributed K-median Algorithm for Sensor Networks. 363-370
  

Distributed Problem Solving: Short Papers

• Maurício Paletta, Pilar Herrero:
  An Awareness-Based Simulated Annealing Method to Cover Dynamic Load-Balancing in Collaborative Distributed Environments. 371-374
  
• David Sislák, Premysl Volf, Michal Pechoucek, Niranjan Suri, David Nicholson, David Woodhouse:
  Optimization-Based Collision Avoidance for Cooperating Airplanes. 375-378
  
• David Lee, Inés Arana, Hatem Ahriz, Kit-Ying Hui:
  Multi-Hyb: A Hybrid Algorithm for Solving DisCSPs with Complex Local Problems. 379-382
  
• E. Gonzalez, E. Gerlein:
  BSA-CM: A Multi-robot Coverage Algorithm. 383-386
  

Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation: Regular Papers

• David Sarne:
  Competitive Comparison-Shopping Mediated Markets. 387-394
  
• Thomas Lukasiewicz, Azzurra Ragone:
  Combining Boolean Games with the Power of Ontologies for Automated Multi-attribute Negotiation in the Semantic Web. 395-402
  
• Bo An, Nicola Gatti, Victor R. Lesser:
  Bilateral Bargaining with One-Sided Two-Type Uncertainty. 403-410
  
• Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M. Donini:
  Computing Information Minimal Match Explanations for Logic-Based Matchmaking. 411-418
  

Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation: Short Papers

• Yuko Sakurai, Makoto Yokoo, Atsushi Iwasaki, Koutarou Suzuki:
  Secure Keyword Auction: Preserving Privacy of Bidding Prices and CTRs. 419-422
  
• Bo An, Nicola Gatti, Victor R. Lesser:
  Extending Alternating-Offers Bargaining in One-to-Many and Many-to-Many Settings. 423-426
  
• Katsuhide Fujita, Takayuki Ito, Mark Klein:
  A Secure and Fair Negotiation Protocol in Highly Complex Utility Space Based on Cone-Constraints. 427-430
  
• Yingqian Zhang, Mathijs de Weerdt:
  Creating Incentives to Prevent Intentional Execution Failures. 431-434
  
• Somanchi Sriram, Nittala Chaitanya, Yadati Narahari:
  A Novel Bid Optimizer for Sponsored Search Auctions Using Cooperative Game Theory. 435-438
  
• Koen V. Hindriks, Catholijn M. Jonker, Dmytro Tykhonov:
  The Benefits of Opponent Models in Negotiation. 439-444
  
• Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Hijaz Al-Ani:
  Meeting Scheduling Assembles Children in the Rectangular Forest. 445-449
  

Applications: Regular Papers

• Tibor Bosse, Rianne van Lambalgen, Peter-Paul van Maanen, Jan Treur:
  Attention Manipulation for Naval Tactical Picture Compilation. 450-457
  
• Mark Hoogendoorn, S. Waqar Jaffry, Jan Treur:
  An Adaptive Agent Model Estimating Human Trust in Information Sources. 458-465
  
• Shaikh Mostafa Al Masum, Helmut Prendinger, Keikichi Hirose, Mitsuru Ishizuka:
  Easy Living in the Virtual World: A Noble Approach to Integrate Real World Activities to Virtual Worlds. 466-473
  
• Allan Rodrigo Leite, Bruno Giacomet, Fabrício Enembreck:
  Railroad Driving Model Based on Distributed Constraint Optimization. 474-481
  

Applications: Short Papers

• Kalliopi Kravari, Efstratios Kontopoulos, Nick Bassiliades:
  Towards a Knowledge-Based Framework for Agents Interacting in the Semantic Web. 482-485
  
• Kutila Gunasekera, Seng Wai Loke, Arkady B. Zaslavsky, Shonali Krishnaswamy:
  Runtime Adaptation of Multiagent Systems for Ubiquitous Environments. 486-490
  
• Tibor Bosse, Charlotte Gerritsen:
  Comparing Crime Prevention Strategies by Agent-Based Simulation. 491-496
  
• Kresten Toftgaard Andersen, Yifeng Zeng, Dennis Dahl Christensen, Dung Tran:
  Tank War Using Online Reinforcement Learning. 497-500
  
• Jean-Paul Jamont, Michel Occello:
  A Multiagent Tool to Simulate Hybrid Real/Virtual Embedded Agent Societies. 501-504
  
• Tibor Bosse, Rob Duell, Zulfiqar A. Memon, Jan Treur, C. Natalie van der Wal:
  An Agent Model for Personal Development Support. 505-510
  

Autonomous Social Computing and Intelligence: Regular Papers

• Michele Piunti, Alessandro Ricci, Olivier Boissier, Jomi Fred Hübner:
  Embodying Organisations in Multi-agent Work Environments. 511-518
  

Autonomous Social Computing and Intelligence: Short Papers

• Pasquale De Meo, Giovanni Quattrone, Domenico Rosaci, Domenico Ursino:
  Dependable Recommendations in Social Internetworking. 519-522
  
• Maziar Gomrokchi, Jamal Bentahar, Babak Khosravifar:
  Reputation Cascade Model over Social Connections in Online Social Networks. 523-526
  
• Eric T. Matson:
  Transition Process Distinction in Multiagent Organization. 527-532
  

Others: Regular Papers

• Haifeng Wan, Yingpeng Zhang, Shengzhou Luo, Ruijie Liu, Wensheng Ye:
  The M2M Pathfinding Algorithm Based on the Idea of Granular Computing. 533-540
  
• Sofia Ceppi, Nicola Gatti, Nicola Basilico:
  Computing Bayes-Nash Equilibria through Support Enumeration Methods in Bayesian Two-Player Strategic-Form Games. 541-548
  
• Gauvain Bourgne, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Henry Soldano:
  Learning in a Fixed or Evolving Network of Agents. 549-556
  
• Nicola Basilico, Nicola Gatti, Thomas Rossi, Sofia Ceppi, Francesco Amigoni:
  Extending Algorithms for Mobile Robot Patrolling in the Presence of Adversaries to More Realistic Settings. 557-564
  
• Nicola Basilico, Nicola Gatti, Francesco Amigoni:
  Developing a Deterministic Patrolling Strategy for Security Agents. 565-572
  
• Nima Mirbakhsh, Arman Didandeh, Mohsen Afsharchi:
  Incremental Non-unanimous Concept Reformation through Queried Object Classification. 573-580
  

Others: Short Papers

• Mehdi Dastani, Bas R. Steunebrink:
  Modularity in BDI-Based Multi-agent Programming Languages. 581-584
  

Demo Track Papers

• Jian Tang, Zhi Jin:
  Requirement Driven Service Agent Collaboration and QoS Based Negotiation. 585-588