Doctoral Mentoring Program Schedule
Date: May 9, 2010Location: Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Conference D and E
09.00 - 9.05 Welcome (Gita Sukthankar, John Thangarajah)
09.05 - 10.00 The Academic Job Experience (Paul Scerri, Carnegie Mellon University)
10.00 - 10.30 Break
10.30 - 11.30 Student Talks (parallel session)
Session 1
Pooyan Fazli, On Multi-Robot Area Coverage
Viliam Lisy, Adversarial Planning for Large Multi-agent Simulations
Reid Kerr, Coalition Detection and Identification
Session 2
Sven Seuken, Hidden Market Design
Taki Todo, Characterization of False-name-proof Social Choice Mechanisms
Sofia Ceppi, Designing Sponsored Search Auctions for Federated Domain-Specific Search Engines
11.30 - 1.00 Lunch
1.00 - 2.00 The Industrial Job Experience (Nathan Schurr, Aptima)
2.00 - 3.00 Student Talks (parallel session)
Session 3
Prasanna Velagupdi, Information Sharing for Distributed Planning
Kennard Laviers, Multi-Agent Plan Adaptation using Coordination Patterns in Team Adversarial Games
Stella Heras, Strategic Argumentation in Open Multi-agent Societies
Session 4
Scott Langevin, Knowledge Representation, Communication, and Update in Probability-Based Multiagent Systems
Minyi Li, On Efficient Mediation Approach to Multi-issue Negotiation with Optimal and Fair Outcomes
Shakil Khan, Rational Agents: Prioritized Goals, Goal Dynamics, and Agent Programming Languages with Declarative Goals
3.00 - 3.30 Break
3.30 - 4.30 Poster Session
4.30 - 5.30 Panel: Directions in Autonomous Agent and Multi-agent Systems Research (Frank Dignum, Nathan Schurr, Sandip Sen, Neil Yorke-Smith)
6.00 Student Volunteer Meeting
After: Drinks at Traders (Sheraton lobby)