1. ICMAS 1995: San Francisco, CA, USA
Victor R. Lesser, Les Gasser (Eds.): Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multiagent Systems, June 12-14, 1995, San Francisco, California, USA. The MIT Press 1995 ISBN 0-262-62102-9
Papers
Sivaram Balasubramanian, Douglas H. Norrie: A Multi-Agent Intelligent Design System Integrating Manufacturing and Shop-Floor Control. 3-9
Tucker R. Balch, Ronald C. Arkin: Motor Schema-Based Formation Control for Multiagent Robot Teams. 10-24
Mihai Barbuceanu, Mark S. Fox: COOL: A Language for Describing Coordination in Multi Agent Systems. 17-24
Frances M. T. Brazier, Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Nick R. Jennings, Jan Treur: Formal Specification of Multi-Agent Systems: A Real-World Case. 25-32
Norman Carver, Victor R. Lesser: The DRESUN Testbed for Research in FA/C Distributed Situation Assessment: Extensions to the Model of External Evidence. 33-40
Cristiano Castelfranchi: Commitments: From Individual Intentions to Groups and Organizations. 41-48
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Sandra Carberry: Communication for Conflict Resolution in Multi-Agent Collaborative Planning. 49-56
Alessandro Cimatti, Luciano Serafini: Multiagent Reasoning with Belief Contexts II: Elaboration Tolerance. 57-64

Jörg Denzinger: Knowledge-Based Distributed Search Using Teamwork. 81-88
Love Ekenberg, Magnus Boman, Mats Danielson: A Tool for Coordinating Autonomous Agents with Conflicting Goals. 89-93
Eithan Ephrati, Martha E. Pollack, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein: A Tractable Heuristic that Maximizes Global Utility through Local Plan Combination. 94-101
Maier Fenster, Sarit Kraus, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein: Coordination without Communication: Experimental Validation of Focal Point Techniques. 102-108
Klaus Fischer, Jörg P. Müller, Markus Pischel, Darius Schier: A Model for Cooperative Transportation Scheduling. 109-116
Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz, Edmund H. Durfee: A Rigorous, Operational Formalization of Recursive Modeling. 125-132
Afsaneh Haddadi: Towards a Pragmatic Theory of Interactions. 133-139
Kôiti Hasida, Katashi Nagao, Takashi Miyata: A Game-Theoretic Account of Collaboration in Communication. 140-147
Barbara Hayes-Roth, Lee Brownston, Robert van Gent: Multiagent Collaboration in Directed Improvisation. 148-154
Marcus J. Huber, Edmund H. Durfee: Deciding When to Commit to Action During Observation-Based Coordination. 163-170
Bernardo A. Huberman, Scott H. Clearwater: A Multi-Agent System for Controlling Building Environments. 171-176
Matthew M. Huntbach, Nick R. Jennings, Graem A. Ringwood: How Agents Do It in Stream Logic Programming. 177-184
Toru Ishida: Two is Not Always Better than One: Experiences in Real-Time Bidirectional Search. 185-192
Hideki Isozaki: Reasoning about Belief Based on Common Knowledge of Observability of Actions. 193-200
Akira Ito, Hiroyuki Yano: The Emergence of Cooperation in a Society of Autonomous Agents - The Prisoner's Dilemma Game under the Disclosure of Contract Histories. 201-208
Tatsuaki Itoh, Takashi Watanabe, Takahira Yamaguchi: Self Organizational Approach for Integration of Distributed Expert Systems. 209-216
Froduald Kabanza: Synchronizing Multiagent Plans Using Temporal Logic Specifications. 217-224
Alois Knoll, Jens Meinköhn: Hierarchical and Lateral Coordination in MAS: An Analysis of Message Traffic Flow. 225-232
Michael Kolb: A Cooperation Language. 233-238
Jyi-Shane Liu, Katia P. Sycara: Exploiting Problem Structure for Distributed Constraint Optimization. 246-253



Tracy Mullen, Michael P. Wellman: A Simple Computational Market for Network Information Services. 283-289
Chisato Numaoka: Introducing the Blind Hunger Dilemma: Agents' Properties and Performance. 290-296
Eiichi Osawa: A Metalevel Coordination Strategy for Reactive Cooperative Planning. 297-303
Yongyuth Permpoontanalarp, John Yuejun Jiang: Generalised Proof-Theory for Multi-Agent Autoepistemic Reasoning. 304-311
J. Alfredo Sánchez, Flávio S. Azevedo, John J. Leggett: PARAgente: Exploring the Issues in Agent-Based User Interfaces. 320-327
Tuomas Sandholm, Victor R. Lesser: Issues in Automated Negotiation and Electronic Commerce: Extending the Contract Net Framework. 328-335
Sandip Sen, Edmund H. Durfee: Unsupervised Surrogate Agents and Search Bias Change in Flexible Distributed Scheduling. 336-343
Jaime Simão Sichman, Yves Demazeau: Exploiting Social Reasoning to Deal with Agency Level Inconsistency. 352-359
Toshiharu Sugawara: Reusing Past Plans in Distributed Planning. 360-367
Milind Tambe: Recursive Agent and Agent-Group Tracking in a Real-Time Dynamic Environment. 368-375
Adam Walker, Michael Wooldridge: Understanding the Emergence of Conventions in Multi-Agent Systems. 384-389
Y. Xiang: Distributed Scheduling of Multiagent Communication. 390-397
Invited Speaker Talks
Edmund H. Durfee: Blissful Ignorance: Knowing Just Enough to Coordinate Well. 406-413
Les Gasser: Computational Organization Research. 414-415
Toru Ishida: Parallel, Distributed and Multi-Agent Production Systems - A Research Foundation for Distributed Artificial Intelligence. 416-422
Nicholas R. Jennings, Jose Manuel Corera, Iñaki Laresgoiti: Developing Industrial Multi-Agent Systems. 423-430
Jeffrey S. Rosenschein: Multiagent Planning as a Social Process: Voting, Privacy, and Manipulation. 431-431
Katia P. Sycara: Coordination of Multiple Intelligent Agents in the Infosphere. 432-433
Posters
Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz: Knowledge and Behavior in Multiagent Systems. 434
Matthew Anderton, Jim Cunningham, Jeremy Pitt: A Multi-Agent Framework for Inter-Organizational Applications. 435
Sachiyo Arai: Rational Balancing of Planning and Communication in the Dynamic Multi-Agents World. 436
Pierre Azéma, François Vernadat, Jean Luc Albacete: A Communication Protocol for Conflict Resolution. 437
Ana L. C. Bazan: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Distributed Control of Traffic Signals. 439
Raghu R. Bhat: An Agent Approach for Case Adaptation. 440
Rafael H. Bordini, Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa, Jomi Fred Hübner, Rosa Maria Viccari: Linguistic Support for Agent Migration. 441
Thouraya Daouas, Khaled Ghédira, Jean-Pierre Müller: Distributed Flow Shop Scheduling Problem - Global versus Local Optimization. 443
William B. Day: The Consensus Scheduling Model: Negotiation among Peers. 444
Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Anna Radzikowska: Actions with Typical Effects: Epistemic Characterization of Scenarios. 445
Klaus Fischer, Jörg P. Müller, Markus Pischel: Unifying Control in a Layered Agent Architecture. 446
Enrico Giunchiglia, Fausto Giunchiglia, Luciano Serafini: Agents as Reasoners, Observers, or Arbitrary Believers. 448

Rajiv Khosla, Tharam S. Dillon: Distributed Symbolic-SubSymbolic Agent Architecture for Configuring Power Network Faults. 451
Alexander Kick: An Agent Algebra for the Formal Description and Verification of Multi Agent Systems. 452
Matthias Klusch: Coalition-Based Cooperation between Intelligent Agents for a Contextual Recognition of Interdatabase Dependencies. 453
Satoshi Kurihara, Michio Okada: Self-Organization Based on Coordinated Actions of Autonomous Agents. 454
Kazuhiro Kuwabara, Toru Ishida, Nobuyasu Osato: AgenTalk: Coordination Protocol Description for Multiagent Systems. 455
John E. Laird, Randolph M. Jones, Paul E. Nielsen: Multiagent Coordination in Distributed Interactive Battlefield Simulations. 456
Jaeho Lee, Edmund H. Durfee: A Microeconomic Approach to Intelligent Resource Sharing in Multiagent Systems. 457
Judith Masthoff, Rudy Van Hoe: A View on the Architecture and Design of Highly Autonomous and Situated Agents. 458
Carla Simone, Monica Divitini, Kjeld Schmidt, Peter Carstersen: A Multi-Agent Approach to the Design of Coordination Mechanisms. 460
Lorenzo Sommaruga, Nadia Catenazzi: Some Principles in Designing Cooperative Architectures of Autonomous Agents. 461
Toshiharu Sugawara, Victor R. Lesser: Learning Coordination Plans in Distributed Problem-Solving Environments. 462
Walt Truszkowski, Jidé B. Odubiyi, Ed Ruberton: An Agent Model in a Multiagent System Architecture for Automating Distributed Systems. 463
Elpida Tzafestas: Beyond Cooperation-ism and Competition-ism (Exploring Social Phenomena with a Generalized Tit-For-Tat Model). 464
Ipke Wachsmuth, Britta Lenzmann, Yong Cao: VIENA: A Multiagent Interface to a Virtual Environment. 465
Ronald R. Yager: Automated Multiagent Preference Aggregation Using Fuzzy Quantifiers. 466
Makoto Yokoo: Asynchronous Weak-Commitment Search for Solving Large-Scale Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems. 467



