AAMAS 07




May 14-18, 2007
Honolulu, Hawai'i






Program Committee

Senior Program Committee
Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Federico Bergenti, CNIT; University of Parma, Italy
Rafael Bordini, University of Durham, UK
Luis Botelho, ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal
Helder Coelho, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Marie DesJardins, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Virginia Dignum, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Mark D'Inverno, Westminster University, UK
Tim Finin, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Klaus Fischer, DFKI, Germany
Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy
Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, Japan
Nick Jennings, University of Southampton, UK
Lewis Johnson, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
Catholijn Jonker, Technical University Delft, Netherlands
Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany
Sven Koenig, University of Southern California, USA
Manolis Koubarakis, National University of Athens, Greece
Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London, UK
Michael Luck, University of Southampton, UK
Shaul Markovitch, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Peter McBurney, University of Liverpool, UK
John-Jules Meyer, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
Joerg Müller, Siemens Corporation, Germany
Lin Padgham, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
Van Parunak, NewVectors LLC, USA
Michal Pechoucek, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Chris Preist, HP Laboratories, UK
David Pynadath, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
Stephen Smith, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Liz Sonenberg, University of Melbourne, Australia
Peter Stone, University of Texas, USA
Jose Vidal, University of South Carolina, USA
Thomas Wagner, DARPA, USA
Gerhard Weiss, Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH, Austria
Michael Winikoff, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
Mike Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, UK
Pinar Yolum, Bogazici University, Turkey
Franco Zambonelli, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Shlomo Zilberstein, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Program Committee
Adrian Agogino, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen, Norway
H. Levent Akin, Bogazici University, Turkey
Samir Aknine, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
David Allsopp, QinetiQ Ltd, UK
Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Leila Amgoud, IRIT - CNRS, France
Luis Antunes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, UK
João Balsa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Bikramjit Banerjee, Tulane University, USA
Mike Barley, Auckland University, New Zealand
Bernhard Bauer, Universitaet Augsburg, Germany
Michael Beetz, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Sven Behnke, Universitaet Freiburg, Germany
Michael Berger, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Germany
Douglas Blank, Bryn Mawr College, USA
Vicent Botti, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Felix Brandt, University of Munich, Germany
Jan Broersen, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Sven Brueckner, Altarum Institute, USA
Scott Buffett, Canadian National Research Council, Canada
Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt Universitaet, Berlin, Germany
Giacomo Cabri, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Stefano Carpin, International University Bremen, Germany
Todd Carrico, DARPA, USA
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences & Technology, Italy
Jose Castro-Caldas, ISCTE Lisbon, Portugal
Marc Cavazza, University of Teesside, UK
Lawrence Cavedon, RMIT University, Australia
Brahim Chaib-draa, Laval University, Canada
Stephan Chalup, University of Newcastle, Australia
Xiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Sonia Chernova, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Carlos Chesnevar, University of Lleida, Spain
Yann Chevaleyre, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France
Adam Cheyer, SRI International, USA
Bradley Clement, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Robin Cohen, University of Waterloo, Canada
John Collins, University of Minnesota, USA
Vincent Conitzer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Dan Corkill, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Massimo Cossentino, Italian National Research Council, Italy
Jacob Crandall, Brigham Young University, USA
Stephen Cranefield, University of Otago, New Zealand
Elisabeth Crawford, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Torbjorn Dahl, University of Wales, UK
Jiangbo Dang, Siemens Corp., USA
Mehdi Dastani, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Paul Davidsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Fiorella de Rosis, University of Bari, Italy
John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Keith Decker, University of Delaware, USA
Yves Demazeau, Laboratoire Leibniz, Institut IMAG, France
Joerg Denzinger, University of Calgary, Canada
Giovanna Di Marzo, University of Geneva, Switzerland
M. Bernardine Dias, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Ian Dickinson, HP Research Labs, UK
Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Jürgen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Prasant Doshi, University of Georgia, USA
Kurt Dresner, University of Texas, USA
Paul Dunne, University of Liverpool, UK
Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, LIP6 - UMR, France
Ulle Endriss, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tara Estlin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Rino Falcone, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Boi Faltings, EPFL, Switzerland
Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UK
Shaheen Fatima, Univesity of Liverpool, UK
Felix Fischer, University of Munich, Germany
Nicoletta Fornara, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Claude Frasson, University of Montreal, Canada
Aram Galstyan, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
Alessandro Garcia, Lancaster University, UK
Andrew Garland, Epana Networks, USA
Leonardo Garrido, Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), Mexico
Matthew Gaston, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Chiara Ghidini, ITC-IRST, Italy
Andrew Gilpin, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
Marie Pierre Gleizes, IRIT - CNRS, France
Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Llu Godo, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, CSIC, Spain
Daniela Godoy, ISISTAN - UNICEN, Argentina
Steve Goschnick, University of Melbourne, Australia
Jon Gratch, University of Southern California, USA
Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc., USA
Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland
Salima Hassas, Universite de Lyon 1, France
Ahlem Ben Hassine, Natl. Inst. Info. & Communications Tech., Japan
Brian Henderson-Sellers, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Andreas Herzig, IRIT - CNRS, France
Benjamin Hirsch, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Martin Hofmann, Lockheed Martin, USA
Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research, USA
Jingshan Huang, University of South Carolina, USA
Son Nguyen Hung, Warsaw University, Poland
Luke Hunsberger, Vassar College, USA
Ullrich Hustadt, University of Liverpool, UK
Luca Iocchi, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Charles Isbell, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Mitsuru Ishizuka, University of Tokyo, Japan
Nobuhiro Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Takayuki Ito, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Wojciech Jamroga, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Sverker Janson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Odest Jenkins, Brown University, USA
Christopher Jones, iRobot, USA
Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Gal Kaminka, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Kamal Karlapalem, IIIT Hyderabad, India
Hidenori Kawamura, Hokkaido University, Japan
Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Thomas J. Watson, USA
Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Warsaw University, Poland
Stefan Kirn, Universitaet Hohenheim, Germany
Manuel Kolp, University of Louvain, Belgium
Stefan Kopp, Universitaet Bielefeld, Germany
Gerhard Kraetzschmar, Fraunhofer AIS, Germany
Sarit Kraus, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Daniel Kudenko, University of York, UK
Satoshi Kurihara, Osaka University, Japan
Yoshitaka Kuwata, NTT Data, Japan
Han La Poutre, CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jerome Lang, IRIT, Univ. Paul Sabatier, France
Nuno Lau, University of Aveiro, Portugal
James Lawton, US Air Force Research Lab, USA
Jaeho Lee, University of Seoul, Korea
Christian Lemaitre, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Kristina Lerman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
Yves Lesperance, York University, Canada
Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts, USA
James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA
Kevin Leyton-Brown, University of British Columbia, Canada
Churn-Jung Liau, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Jyi-shane Liu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Yaxin Liu, University of Texas, USA
Dickson Lukose, DL Informatique, Malaysia
Roger Mailler, SRI International, USA
Marco Mamei, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
David Martin, SRI International, USA
Nicolas Maudet, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France
Andre Meyer, TNO Defence, Security & Safety, Netherlands
Pavlos Moraitis, University René Descartes, France
Haris Mouratidis, University of East London, UK
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Kyoto University, Japan
Yukiko Nakano, RISTEX-JST, Japan
Hidey Nakashima, Future University - Hakodate, Japan
Tomoharu Nakashima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Daniele Nardi, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Nanjangud Narendra, IBM Research Lab, India
Matthias Nickles, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Monica Nicolescu, University of Nevada Reno, USA
Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Itsuki Noda, Natl Inst. Advanced Industrial Science & Tech, Japan
Pablo Noriega, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, CSIC, Spain
Timothy Norman, University of Aberdeen, UK
Masayuki Numao, Osaka University, Japan
Oliver Obst, Universitaet Koblenz, Germany
James Odell, James Odell Associates, USA
Keith O'Hara, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Akihiko Ohsuga, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Masayuki Ohta, National Institute of AIST, Japan
Eugenio Oliviera, University of Porto, Portugal
Andrea Omicini, DEIS, Italy
Charlie Ortiz, SRI International, USA
Sascha Ossowski, University Rey Jaun Carlos, Spain
Eric Pacuit, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ana Paiva, INESC-ID, Portugal
Sebastien Paquet, Laval University, Canada
Sunju Park, Yonsei University, Korea
Simon Parsons, City University of New York, USA
Marc Pauly, Stanford University, USA
Shamimabi Paurobally, University of Liverpool, UK
Adrian Pearce, University of Melbourne, Australia
Catherine Pelachaud, IUT de Montreuil University of Paris 8, France
Wojciech Penczek, Institute of Computer Science, PAS, Poland
Anna Perini, ITC-IRST, Italy
Paolo Petta, Austria Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Hanh Pham, State University of New York, USA
Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College, UK
Enric Plaza, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Pascal Poupart, University of Waterloo, Canada
Rui Prada, IST Lisbon, Portugal
Henry Prakken, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Bob Price, University of Alberta, Canada
Mikhail Prokopenko, CSIRO, Australia
Riccardo Pucella, Northeastern University, USA
Michael Quinlan, University of Newcastle, Australia
Zinovi Rabinovich, Hebrew University, Israel
Iyad Rahwan, British University Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Anita Raja, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Timothy Rauenbusch, SRI International, USA
Chris Reed, University of Dundee, UK
Daniel Reeves, University of Michigan, USA
Martin Rehak, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Luis Paulo Reis, LIACC - University of Porto, Portugal
Alessandro Ricci, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Debbie Richards, Macquarie University, Australia
Thomas Rist, University of Applied Sciences - Augsburg, Germany
Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Thomas Roefer, Universitaet Bremen, Germany
Raul Rojas, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Nico Roos, University Maastricht, Netherlands
Avi Rosenfeld, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Jeffrey Rosenschein, Hebrew University, Israel
Michael Rovatsos, School of Informatics, UK
Zachary Rubinstein, University of New Hampshire, USA
Matthew Rudary, University of Michigan, USA
Javier Ruiz-de-Solar, University of Chile, Chile
Zsofia Ruttkay, University of Twente, Netherlands
Alicia Ruvinsky, University of South Carolina, USA
Paul Rybski, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
David Sadek, France Telecom, France
Fariba Sadri, Imperial College, UK
Manuel Filipe Santos, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Sebastian Sardina, RMIT University, Australia
Alberto Sardinha, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Sanem Sariel, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
David Sarne, Harvard University, USA
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Paul Scerri, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Ute Schmid, Universitaet Bamberg, Germany
Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester, UK
Marco Schorlemmer, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
John Shepherdson, British Telecom, UK
Saeed Shiry, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
Marius Silaghi, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Reid Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Petr Skobelev, Magenta Technology, Russia
Von-Wun Soo, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Alvaro Soto, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Diana Spears, University of Wyoming, USA
Donald Steiner, Quantum Leap Innovations, USA
Leon Sterling, University of Melbourne, Australia
Ashley Stroupe, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Arnon Sturm, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Nathan Sturtevant, University of Alberta, Canada
Gita Sukthankar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Niranjan Suri, Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Yasutake Takahashi, Osaka University, Japan
Tomoichi Takahashi, Meijo University, Japan
Ikuo Takeuchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Brian Tanner, University of Alberta, Canada
Ahmed Tawfik, University of Windsor, Canada
Takao Terano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia
Simon Thompson, BT Group, UK
Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Francesca Toni, Imperial College, London, UK
Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy
Jan Treur, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kagan Tumer, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Paola Turci, University of Parma, Italy
Karl Tuyls, Institute for Knowledge and Agent Technology, Netherlands
Hans van Ditmarsch, University of Otago, New Zealand
Rogier van Eijk, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Laszlo Varga, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
Eloisa Vargiu, Università di Cagliari, Italy
Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, UK
Richard Vaughan, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Javier Vazquez-Salceda, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Katja Verbeeck, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
Rineke Verbrugge, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Mario Verdicchio, Universita di Bergamo, Italy
Bart Verheij, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Ioannis Vetsikas, University of Southampton, UK
Regis Vincent, SRI International, USA
Mirko Viroli, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Giuseppe Vizzari, Universita di Milano, Italy
Bao Vo, RMIT University, Australia
Alfredo Weitzenfeld, ITAM, Mexico
Michael Wellman, University of Michigan, USA
Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Shimon Whiteson, University of Texas, USA
Marco Wiering, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Andrew Williams, Spelman College, USA
Steven Wilmott, Universidad Politécnica de Catalunia, Spain
Cees Witteveen, Technical University Delft, Netherlands
Wayne Wobcke, University of New South Wales, Australia
Bozena Wozna, Jan Dlugosz University, Poland
Peter Wurman, North Carolina State University, USA
Tomohisa Yamashita, National Institute of AIST, Japan
R. Michael Young, North Carolina State University, USA
Laura Zavala, University of South Carolina, USA
Yingqian Zhang, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
Lina Zhou, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Martin Zinkevich, University of Alberta, Canada