AAMAS 07




May 14-18, 2007
Honolulu, Hawai'i







Accepted Papers   

* "Aborting Goals and Plans in BDI Agents", James Harland, David Morley, John Thangarajah, Neil Yorke-Smith   
* "Towards Using Multiple Cues for Robust Object Recognition", Sarah Aboutalib, Manuela Veloso
* "An Incentive Mechanism for Message Relaying in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems", Cuihong Li, Bin Yu, Katia Sycara   
* "A Multilateral Multi-issue Negotiation Protocol", Miniar Hemaissia, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Christophe Labreuche, Juliette Mattioli   
* "On the Relevance of Utterances in Formal Inter-agent Dialogues", Simon Parsons, Peter McBurney, Elizabeth Sklar, Michael Wooldridge   
* "SMILE : Sound Multi-agent Incremental LEarning ;-)", Gauvain Bourgne, Henry Soldano, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni   
* "Letting loose a SPIDER on a network of POMDPs: Generating quality guaranteed policies", Pradeep Varakantham, Janusz Marecki, Milind Tambe, Makoto Yokoo   
* '"What can I do with this?" - Finding possible interactions between characters and objects', Pedro Sequeira, Marco Vala, Ana Paiva   
* "Transfer via Inter-Task Mappings in Policy Search Reinforcement Learning", Matthew Taylor, Shimon Whiteson, Peter Stone   
* "Scaling-Up Shopbots - a Dynamic Allocation-Based Approach", David Sarne, Sarit Kraus, Takayuki Ito
* "Negotiation by abduction and relaxation", Chiaki Sakama, Katsumi Inoue   
* "A Formal Model for Situated Semantic Alignment", Manuel Atencia, Marco Schorlemmer   
* "Sequential Decision Making in Parallel Two-Sided Economic Search", David Sarne, Teijo Arponen
* "Unifying Distributed Constraint Algorithms in a BDI Negotiation Framework", Bao Chau Le Dinh, Kiam Tian Seow   
* "An Adversarial Environment Model for Bounded Rational Agents in Zero-Sum Interactions", Inon Zuckerman, Sarit Kraus, Jeffrey Rosenschein, Gal Kaminka   
* "Interactions between market barriers and communication networks in marketing systems", Ian Durbach, Jan Hofmeyr   
* "A Formal Road from Institutional Norms to Organizational Structures", Davide Grossi, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Meyer   
* "Interactive Learning from Demonstration using Gaussian Mixture Models", Sonia Chernova, Manuela Veloso   
* "Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis of the TAC Supply Chain Game", Patrick Jordan, Christopher Kiekintveld, Michael Wellman   
* "Determining Confidence When Integrating Contributions from Multiple Agents", Raphen Becker, Dan Corkill   
* "Information Searching and Sharing in Large-Scale Dynamic Networks", George Vouros   
* "Cognitive and Social Simulation of Criminal Behaviour", Tibor Bosse, Charlotte Gerritsen, Jan Treur   
* "Arguing and explaining classifications", Leila Amgoud, Mathieu Serrurier   
* "Automatic Feature Extraction for Autonomous General Game Playing Agents", David Kaiser   
* "A Temporal Epistemic Logic with a Reset Operation", Bozena Wozna, Alessio Lomuscio   
* "A Multi-Agent System for Building Dynamic Ontologies", Kévin Ottens, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Pierre Glize   
* "Evaluating a Conversation-Centered Interactive drama", Manish Mehta, Steven Dow, Michael Mateas, Blair MacIntyre   
* "An operational model of social interactions", Juan Manuel Serrano, Sergio Saugar   
* "Regret Based Dynamics: Convergence in Weakly Acyclic Games", Jason Marden, Gurdal Arslan, Jeff Shamma   
* "Solving Large TAEMS Problems Efficiently by Selective Exploration and Decomposition", Jianhui Wu, Edmund Durfee   
* "Distributed Norm Management in Regulated Multi-Agent Systems", Dorian Gaertner, Andres Garcia-Camino, Pablo Noriega, Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar, Wamberto Vasconcelos   
* "Modelling the Provenance of Data in Autonomous Systems", Simon Miles, Steve Munroe, Michael Luck, Luc Moreau   
* "Incentive Compatible Ranking Systems", Alon Altman, Moshe Tennenholtz   
* "A Unified and General Framework for Argumentation-based Negotiation", Leila Amgoud, Yannis Dimopoulos, Pavlos Moraiti   
* "On the Benefits of Cheating by Self-Interested Agents in Vehicular Networks", Raz Lin, Sarit Kraus, Yuval Shavitt   
* "Children in the forest: towards a canonical problem of spatio-temporal collaboration", Yi Luo, Ladislau Boloni   
* "Meta-Level Coordination for Solving Negotiation Chains in Semi-Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems", Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser   
* "Coalition Formation under Uncertainty: Bargaining Equilibria and the Bayesian Core Stability Concept", Georgios Chalkiadakis, Evangelos Markakis, Craig Boutilier   
* "Goals in the Context of BDI Plan Failure and Planning", Sebastian Sardina, Lin Padgham   
* "Resolving Conflict and Inconsistency in Norm-Regulated Virtual Organisations", Wamberto Vasconcelos, Martin Kollingbaum, Timothy Norman   
* "Normative System games", Thomas Ågotnes, Wiebe van der Hoek, Michael Wooldridge   
* "Dynamic Semantics for Agent Communication Languages", Michael Rovatsos   
* "Conditional Random Fields for Activity Recogntion", Douglas Vail, Manuela Veloso, John Lafferty   
* "Bidding Algorithms for a Distribuited Combinatorial Auction", Benito Mendoza, Jose Vidal   
* "An Agent-Based Approach for Privacy-Preserving Recommender Systems", Richard Cissee, Sahin Albayrak   
* "The LOGIC Negotiation Model", Carles Sierra, John Debenham   
* "Towards Self-organising Agent-based Resource Allocation in a Multi-Server Environment", Tino Schlegel, Ryzard Kowalczyk   
* "On the relation between Agent Specification and Agent Programming Languages", Mehdi Dastani, Birna M. van Riemsdijk, John-Jules Meyer   
* "Constraint Satisfaction Algorithms for Graphical Games", Vishal Soni, Satinder Singh, Michael Wellman   
* "Overlay Networks for Task Allocation and Coordination in Dynamic Large-scale Networks of Cooperative Agents", Christina Theocharopoulou, Ioannis Partsakoulakis, George Vouros, Konstantinos Stergiou   
* "Learning and Joint Deliberation through Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems", Santiago Ontanon, Enric Plaza   
* "On Opportunistic Techniques for Solving Decentralized MDPs with Temporal Constraints", Janusz Marecki, Sven Koenig, Milind Tambe   
* "A Randomized Method for the Shapley Value for the Voting Game", Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nick Jennings   
* "A Near-Optimal Strategy for a Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold'em Poker Tournament", Peter Bro Miltersen, Troels Sørenson   
* "A Computational Characterization of Multiagent Games with Fallacious Rewards", Ariel Procaccia, Jeffrey Rosenschein   
* "Effective Tag Mechanisms for Evolving Coordination", Sandip Sen, Matt Matlock   
* "Matrix-Based Representation for Coordination Fault Detection: A Formal Approach", Meir Kalech, Michael Lindner, Gal Kaminka   
* "Distributed Path Planning for Mobile Robots using a Swarm of Interacting Reinforcement Learners", Christopher Vigorito   
* "Searching for joint gains in automated negotiations based on multi-criteria decision making theory", Bao Vo, Lin Padgham   
* "Estimating Information Value in Collaborative Multi-Agent Planning Systems", David Sarne, Barbara Grosz   
* "Distributed Task Allocation in Social Networks", Mathijs de Weerdt, Yingqian Zhang, Tomas Klos   
* "Batch Reinforcement Learning in A Complex Domain", Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Peter Stone   
* "Commitment-Driven Distributed Joint Policy Search", Stefan Witwicki, Edmund Durfee   
* "Modular Interpreted Systems", Thomas Ågotnes, Wojtek Jamroga   
* "Selecting Trust Evidences: a generic approach based on presumptive reasoning, intuitive trust and domain analysis", Pierpaolo Dondio, Stephen Barrett   
* "Dynamically Learning Sources of Trust Information: Experience vs. Reputation", Karen Fullam, K. Suzanne Barber   
* "Commitment and Extortion", Paul Harrenstein, Felix Brandt, Felix Fischer   
* "Self-Organizing Social and Spatial Networks under What-if Scenarios", Il-Chul Moon, Kathleen Carley   
* "Policy Recognition for Multi-Player Tactical Scenarios", Gita Sukthankar, Katia Sycara   
* "Learning Consumer Preferences Using Semantic Similarity", Reyhan Aydogan, Pinar Yolum   
* "A Reinforcement Learning based Distributed Search Algorithm For Hierarchical Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Systems", Haizheng Zhang, Victor Lesser   
* "Hypotheses Refinement under Topological Communication Constraints", Gauvain Bourgne, Gael Hette, Nicolas Maudet, Suzanne Pinson   
* "Multiagent Learning in Adaptive Dynamic Systems", Andriy Burkov, Brahim Chaib-draa   
* "On the Winner Determination Problem in Mixed Multi-unit Combinatorial Auctions", Andrea Giovannucci, Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar, Jesus Cerquides, Ulle Endriss   
* "Agents, Beliefs, and Plausible Behavior in a Temporal Setting", Nils Bulling, Wojtek Jamroga   
* "Towards a Formal Framework for Multi-Objective Multi-Agent Planning", Mouaddib Abdel-Illah, Boussard Mattthieu, Bouzid Maroua   
* "Argumentation over Ontology Correspondences in MAS", Loredana Laera, Ian Blacoe, Valentina Tamma, Terry Payne, Jerome Euzenat, Trevor Bench-Capon    
* "Enacting Protocols by Commitment Concession", Pinar Yolum, Munindar Singh   
* "Temporal Linear Logic as a Basis for Flexible Agent Interactions", Duc Pham, James Harland   
* "Optimal On-line Scheduling in Stochastic Multi-Agent Systems in Continuous Space and Time", Wim Wiegerinck, Bart van den Broek, Hilbert Kappen   
* "Eliciting Single-Peaked Preferences Using Comparison Queries", Vincent Conitzer   
* "Implementing Commitment-Based Interactions", Michael Winikoff   
* "On the Robustness of Preference Aggregation in Noisy Environments", Ariel Procaccia, Jeffrey Rosenschein, Gal Kaminka   
* "Graphical Models for Online Solutions to Interactive POMDPs", Prashant Doshi, Yifeng Zeng, Qiongyu Chen   
* "Q-value functions for decentralized POMDPs", Frans Oliehoek, Nikos Vlassis   
* "Emergence of Global Network Property based on Multi-agent Voting Model", Kosuke Shinoda, Yutaka Matsuo, Hideyuki Nakashima   
* "An Advanced Bidding Agent for Advertisement Selection on Public Displays", Alex Rogers, Esther David, Terry Payne, Nick Jennings   
* "Sequential Resource Allocation in Multi-agent Systems with Uncertainties", Jianhui Wu, Edmund Durfee   
* "A Framework for Agent-Based Distributed Machine Learning and Data Mining", Jan Tozicka, Michael Rovatsos, Michal Pechoucek   
* "Robust coordination to sustain throughput of an unstable agent network", Rajesh Gautam, Kazuo Miyashita   
* "Model-Based Function Approximation in Reinforcement Learning", Nicholas Jong, Peter Stone   
* "A Complete Distributed Constraint Optimization Method For Non-Traditional Pseudotree Arrangements", James Atlas, Keith Decker   
* "A Winner Determination Algorithm for Auction-based Decentralized Scheduling", Chun Wang, Hamada Ghenniwa, Weiming Shen   
* "Graph based Multi-agent Replanning Algorithm", Jian Feng Zhang, Xuan Thang Nguyen, Ryszard Kowalczyk   
* "Collaboration among a satellite swarm", Grégory Bonnet, Catherine Tessier   
* "An Efficient Heuristic Approach for Security Against Multiple Adversaries", Praveen Paruchuri, Jonathan Pearce, Milind Tambe, Fernando Ordonez, Sarit Kraus   
* "Combinatorial Resource Scheduling for Multiagent MDPs", Dmitri Dolgov, Michael James, Michael Samples   
* "Rumours and Reputation: Evaluating Multi-Dimensional Trust within a Decentralised Reputation System", Steven Reece, Alex Rogers, Stephen Roberts, Nick Jennings   
* "Realistic Cognitive Load Modeling for Enhancing Shared Mental Models in Human-Agent Collaboration", Xiaocong Fan, John Yen   
* "Reasoning about Judgment Aggregation", Thomas Ågotnes, Wiebe van der Hoek, Michael Wooldridge   
* "IFSA: Incremental Feature-Set Augmentation", Ahmadi Mazda, Matthew Taylor, Peter Stone   
* "Factoring Games to Isolate Strategic Interactions", George Davis, Michael Benisch, Kathleen Carley, Norman Sadeh   
* "Sharing Experiences to Learn User Characteristics in Dynamic Environments with Sparse Data", David Sarne, Barbara Grosz   
* "Exploiting Factored Representations for Decentralized Execution in Multi-agent Teams", Maayan Roth, Reid Simmons, Manuela Veloso   
* "Organizational Self-Design in Semi-dynamic Environments", Sachin Kamboj, Keith Decker   
* "On Discovery and Learning of PSR Models for Agents with Continuous Actions and Observations", David Wingate, Satinder Singh   
* "Towards Collaborative Task & Team Maintenance", Gal Kaminka, Ari Yakir, Dan Erusalimchik, Nirom Cohen-Nov   
* "Distributed Management of Flexible Times Schedules", Stephen Smith, Anthony Gallagher, Terry Zimmerman, Laura Barbulescu, Zack Rubinstein   
* "Speeding up Moving-Target Search", Sven Koenig, Maxim Likhachev, Xiaoxun Sun   
* "Dynamics Based Control with an Application to Area-Sweeping Problems", Zinovi Rabinovich, Jeffrey Rosenschein, Gal Kaminka   
* "A Bounded Q-decomposition RDTP Approach to Resource Allocation", Plamondon Pierrick, Brahim Chaib-draa   
* "Bidding Optimally in Concurrent Second-Price Auctions of Perfectly Substitutable Goods", Enrico Gerding, Rajdeep Dash, David Yuen, Nick Jennings   
* "Multiagent Reinforcement Learning and Self-organization in a Network of Agents", Sherief Abdallah, Victor Lesser   
* "A Generative Inquiry Dialogue System", Elizabeth Black, Anthony Hunter   
* "Better automated abstraction techniques for imperfect information games, with application to Texas Hold'em poker", Andrew Gilpin, Tuomas Sandholm   
* "Computing the Banzhaf Power Index in Network Flow Games", Yoram Bachrach, Jeffrey Rosenschein   
* "Approximate and online multi-issue negotiation", Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nick Jennings   
* "Theoretical Advantages of Lenient Q-learners: An Evolutionary Game Theory Perspective", Liviu Panait, Karl Tuyls   
* "Outperforming the Competition in Multi-Unit Sealed Bid Auctions", Ioannis Vetsikas, Nick Jennings   
* "Distributed Agent-Based Air Traffic Flow Management", Kagan Tumer, Adrian Agogino   
* "Forecasting Market Prices in a Supply Chain Game", Jason Miller, Christopher Kiekintveld, Patrick Jordan, Michael Wellman   
* "A Globally Optimal Online Algorithm for TTD-MDPs", Sooraj Bhat, David Roberts, Mark Nelson, Charles Isbell, Michael Mateas