AAMAS 2008

Demonstrations

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AAMAS-2008 will include a demonstration session. Demonstration submissions are invited for three different categories: INDUSTRIAL SOFTWARE, ACADEMIC SOFTWARE, and ROBOTICS. Winners will be chosen separately for each category, by public vote.

Demonstrators are expected to present a live interactive demo at assigned time slots during the conference. Developers of software or robotic system based on autonomous agents or multi-agent techniques, especially those showing novel technology, are welcome to submit a demo paper. Examples of demos include but are not limited to:

Multi-agent software systems
Industrial and military applications (including prototypes)
Agent-based games
Agent platforms and development environments
Open-source software tools
Robotic systems (single and multi-agent)
Virtual agents and interactive virtual environments
Simulation environments

The demonstration sessions will be held as part of the AAMAS main conference. The goal of the AAMAS demonstrations is to give participants, from industry and academia alike, an opportunity to present their latest developments on software and/or robotic system. Authors of accepted papers to the main conference or any of the special tracks with a demonstrable system are strongly encouraged to apply.

Submissions accepted for the demonstration session will be advertised on the AAMAS website and in the conference booklet, which will contain abstracts of all available demos. Each demo submission should describe the system to be demonstrated in a 1- or 2-page paper. Accepted demos will have these short papers included in the AAMAS proceedings.

Submissions

Please submit all demonstration proposals at:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/demo.aamas2008/myreview/

Any questions regarding submissions to AAMAS08 Demos should be sent to:
exhibits@aamas2008.org

Submission Instructions

Please include the following information in a plain text file.

1. Demonstration title

2. Authors (name, affiliation, email, address, phone fax)

3. Abstract (max. 250 words)

4. Keywords

5. URL (if available)

6. Paper ID (if there is a related paper at the main conference)

7. Equipment you will bring (e.g., laptop, robot)

8. Equipment you will need (e.g., table, poster board, power sockets)

9. Special requirements (e.g., space for robot and if so how much, video projector)

10. Discuss the present state of your demo (e.g., ready to demonstrate now, but if not, include a realistic estimate for conclusion and what remains to be done before you have a demonstrable software/robotic system).

You also need to submit a PDF file with a 1- or 2-page paper using the AAMAS style (follow the instructions at
http://www.aamas2008.org/paper_submission.html). The paper should describe your demonstration including the application domain/problem/scenario, the technology used, the agent/multi-agent techniques involved, the innovations of the system, its live and interactive aspects, etc.

Submission Deadline: Friday 2008-01-25, 23:59UTC

Submissions received after this date will NOT be considered for review.

Selection Process

The submission and selection processes for the AAMAS08 Demos will be separate from that of the main conference. Each submission will be assessed by the Demo co-chairs and at least one external advisor. Normally, no feedback is given when notifications are sent.

The main evaluation critera are:

Relevance to AAMAS
Quality and soundness of the underlying technology
Novelty of the application domain
Maturity of the (deployed) system
Potential for public interaction

Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be sent to the first author (or corresponding author) by February 13, 2008. Note that at least one author of each accepted demonstration is required to register and to attend the conference to give the demonstrations.

Important Dates

- Paper submission deadline: January 25, 2008.
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: February 13, 2008.
- Camera-ready paper: February 18, 2008.

Contact Information

For more information, contact the demos co-chairs:
exhibits@aamas2008.org

AAMAS-2008 Demo & Exhibits Co-Chairs

Joelle Pineau	McGill University, Canada
Rafael H. Bordini	University of Durham, UK

Accepted Demos

Academic Software

A1	GS3 and Tartanian: Game theory-based heads-up limit and no-limit Texas Hold'em poker-playing programs (Andrew Gilpin, Tuomas Sandholm, and Troels Bjerre Sorensen)
A2	JCAT: A Platform for the TAC Market Design Competition (Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Enrico Gerding, Peter McBurney, Thierry Moyaux, Steve Phelps, Dave Shield, and Simon Parsons)
A3	Agent-Based Coordination Technologies in Disaster Management (Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Alex Rogers, Kathryn Macarthur, Alessandro Farinelli, Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Ioannis Vetsikas, and Nicholas. R. Jennings)
A4	Evacuation Guide System based on Massively Multiagent System (Yuu Nakajima, Shohei Yamane, Hiromitsu Hattori, and Toru Ishida)
A5	An Agent-Based Electrical Power Market (Jaime Cerda Jacobo, David De Roure, and Enrico Gerding)
A6	Electronic Institutions Development Environment (Marc Esteva, Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar, Josep Lluis Arcos, Carles Sierra, Pablo Noriega, Bruno Rosell, and David de la Cruz)
A7	Multi-Agent Plan Diagnosis and Negotiated Repair (Huib Aldewereld, Pieter Buzing, Geert Jonker, Femke de Jonge, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Nico Roos, and Cees Witteveen)
A8	Colored Trails: A Multiagent System Testbed for Decision-Making Research (Sevan Ficici, Avi Pfeffer, Ya'akov Gal, Barbara Grosz, and Stuart Shieber)
A9	SecondLife as an Evaluation Platform for Multiagent Systems Featuring Social Interactions (Matthias Rehm and Peter Rosina)
A10	AGENTFLY: A Multi-Agent Airspace Test-bed (David Sislak, Premysl Volf, Stepan Kopriva, and Michal Pechoucek)
A11	DCOPolis: A Framework for Simulating and Deploying Distributed Constraint Reasoning Algorithms (Evan A. Sultanik, Robert N. Lass, and William C. Regli)
A12	eCAT: a Tool for Automating Test Cases Generation and Execution in Testing Multi-Agent Systems (Cu Duy Nguyen, Anna Perini, and Paolo Tonella)
A13	SEAGENT MAS Platform Development Environment (Oguz Dikenelli)
A14	Automated Unit Testing Intelligent Agents in PDT (Zhiyong Zhang, John Thangarajah, and Lin Padgham)
A15	INGENIAS Development Kit: a visual multi-agent system development environment (Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz, Ruben Fuentes , Juan Pav—n, and Ivan Garc’a-Magari–o)
A16	OperettA: A prototype tool for the design, analysis and development of multi-agent organizations (Daniel M. Okouya and Virginia Dignum)
A17	A Context-Aware Personal Desktop Assistant (H. H. Bui, F. Cesari, D. Elenius, D. N. Morley, S. Natarajan, S. Saadati, E. Yeh, and N. Yorke-Smith)
A18	Trackside DEIRA: A Dynamic Engaging Intelligent Reporter Agent (François L.A. Knoppel, Almer S. Tigelaar, Danny Oude Bos, Thijs Alofs, and Zsofia Ruttkay)
A19	Dynamic Scheduling of Multi-media Streams in Home Automation Systems (Koen Vangheluwe, Wouter Souffriau, Katja Verbeeck, and Patrick De Causmaecker)
A20	Urban Form-making through Biased Agent Interaction (Kaustuv De Biswas and Simon Kim)
A21	Demonstration of Multi-agent Potential Fields in Real-time Strategy Games (Johan HagelbŠck and Stefan J. Johansson)
A22	Simulation of Sensor-based Tracking in Second Life (Boris Brandherm, Sebastian Ullrich, and Helmut Prendinger)
A23	A Mobile Agent Approach to Opportunistic Harvesting in Wireless Sensor Networks (R. Tynan, C. Muldoon, M.J. O'Grady, and G.M.P. O'Hare)

Industrial Software

I1	Multi-Agent Approach to Network Intrusion Detection (Martin Rehak, Michal Pechoucek, Pavel Celeda, Vojtech Krmicek, Karel Bartos, and Martin Grill)
I2	Max-Sum Decentralised Coordination for Sensor Systems (W. T. L. Teacy, A. Farinelli, N. J. Grabham, P. Padhy, A. Rogers, and N. R. Jennings)
I3	A Multi-Agent Platform for Auction-Based Allocation of Loads in Transportation Logistics (Han Noot, Valentin Robu, Han La PoutrŽ, and Willem-Jan van Schijndel)
I4	LS/ABPM Ð An Agent-powered Suite for Goal-oriented Autonomic BPM (Giovanni Rimassa, Martin E. Kernland, and Roberto Ghizzioli)
I5	AERIAL : Hypothetical Trajectory Planning for Multi-UAVs Coordination and Control (Paul-Edouard Marson, Micha‘l Soulignac, and Patrick Taillibert)

Robotics

R1	Coordination in Ambiguity: Coordinated Active Localization for Multiple Robots (Shivudu Bhuvanagiri, Madhava Krishna, and Supreeth Achar)
R2	Coordination of AGVs in an Industrial Environment (David Herrero-PŽrez and Humberto Mart’nez-Barber‡)
R3	Multi-robot Petri Net Plans: A robotic soccer passing demo (P.F. Palamara, V. A. Ziparo, L. Iocchi, D. Nardi, P. Lima, and H. Costelha)
R4	An Embodied Conversational Agent as a Lifestyle Advisor (Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Zhang, Jaakko Hakulinen, Markku Turunen, and Marc Cavazza)
R5	GoGoBot: Group Collaboration, Multi-Agent Modeling, and Robots (William Rand, Paulo Blikstein, and Uri Wilensky)
R6	Engineering Self-Organizing Multi-Agent Systems (Radhika Nagpal, Chih-han Yu, and Daniel Yamins)