4. Agents 2000: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

• Wei-Min Shen, Yimin Lu, Peter M. Will:
  Hormone-based control for self-reconfigurable robots. 1-8
  
• Paul E. Rybski, Sascha Stoeter, Michael D. Erickson, Maria L. Gini, Dean F. Hougen, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos:
  A team of robotic agents for surveillance. 9-16
  
• Hiroaki Kitano, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Iris Fermin, Theo Sabisch, Yukiko Nakagawa, Tatsuya Matsui:
  Designing a humanoid head for RoboCup challenge. 17-18
  
• Michael Beetz:
  Runtime plan adaptation in structured reactive controllers. 19-20
  
• Barry Brian Werger, Maja J. Mataric:
  Broadcast of local eligibility: behavior-based control for strongly cooperative robot teams. 21-22
  
• Michael R. Benjamin:
  Virtues and limitations of multifusion based action selection. 23-24
  
• Stergios I. Roumeliotis, Paolo Pirjanian, Maja J. Mataric:
  Ant-inspired navigation in unknown environments. 25-26
  
• Luis F. Lago-Fernández, Manuel A. Sánchez-Montañés, Sergio López-Buedo:
  A biologically inspired autonomous robot that learns approach-avoidance behaviors. 27-28
  
• Bin Xu, Danny Z. Chen, Robert J. Szczerba:
  Determining optimal paths in a weighted and dynamic 2D environment using framed-octrees. 29-30
  
• Randall W. Hill Jr., Jonathan Gratch, Paul S. Rosenbloom:
  Flexible group behavior: virtual commanders for synthetic battlespaces. 31-38
  
• Helen McBreen, Paul Shade, Mervyn A. Jack, Peter J. Wyard:
  Experimental assessment of the effectiveness of synthetic personae for multi-modal e-retail applications. 39-45
  
• Christopher Kline, Bruce Blumberg:
  Observation-based expectation generation and response for believable reactive agents. 46-47
  
• Anthony Guye-Vuillème, Daniel Thalmann:
  Requirements for an architecture for believable social agents. 48-49
  
• Ralf Dörner, Paul Grimm, Christian Seiler:
  Agents and virtual environments for communication and decision training for emergencies. 50-51
  
• Soraia Raupp Musse, Daniel Thalmann:
  From one virtual actor to virtual crowds: requirements and constraints. 52-53
  
• Rachel Price, Craig Douther, Mervyn A. Jack:
  An investigation of the effectiveness of choreography for the portrayal of mood in virtual environments. 54-55
  
• Omer F. Rana, Kate Stout:
  What is scalability in multi-agent systems?. 56-63
  
• M. Brian Blake, Prasanta K. Bose:
  An agent approach to alleviating packaging mismatch. 64-69
  
• Gaku Yamamoto, Hideki Tai:
  Architecture of an agent server capable of hosting tens of thousands of agents. 70-71
  
• Anthony J. Hirst:
  Reverse engineering of Soar agents. 72-73
  
• Agostino Poggi, Giovanni Rimassa:
  An agent model platform for realizing efficient and reusable agent software. 74-75
  
• Kutluhan Erol, Jun Lang, Renato Levy:
  Designing agents from reusable components. 76-77
  
• Olivier Gutknecht, Jacques Ferber:
  MadKit: a generic multi-agent platform. 78-79
  
• Ladislau Bölöni, Dan C. Marinescu:
  A multi-plane state machine agent model. 80-81
  
• Ralph Depke, Reiko Heckel, Jochen Malte Küster:
  Integrating visual modeling of agent-based and object-oriented systems. 82-83
  
• Anita Raja, Victor R. Lesser, Thomas Wagner:
  Toward robust agent control in open environments. 84-91
  
• Dani Goldberg, Maja J. Mataric:
  Reward maximization in a non-stationary mobile robot environment. 92-99
  
• Steve A. Chien, Anthony Barrett, Tara A. Estlin, Gregg Rabideau:
  A comparison of coordinated planning methods for cooperating rovers. 100-101
  
• Gerhard Weiß:
  Planning and learning together. 102-103
  
• Sachiyo Arai, Katia P. Sycara:
  Multi-agent reinforcement learning for planning and conflict resolution in a dynamic domain. 104-105
  
• K. Suzanne Barber, Tse-Hsin Liu:
  Conflict detection during plan integration based on E-PERT diagrams. 106-107
  
• Joseph P. Bigus:
  The agent building and learning environment. 108-109
  
• Tim Oates, Matthew D. Schmill, Paul R. Cohen:
  Identifying qualitatively different outcomes of actions: gaining autonomy through learning. 110-111
  
• Michael Van Wie:
  A probabilistic method for team plan formation without communication. 112-113
  
• Seiji Yamada, Yukio Ohsawa:
  Navigation planning to guide concept understanding in the World Wide Web. 114-115
  
• Weixiong Zhang, Randal W. Hill Jr.:
  A template-based and pattern-driven approach to situation awareness and assessment in virtual humans. 116-123
  
• Yuval Marom, Gillian Hayes:
  Perception of change for a socially enhanced robot imitator. 124-131
  
• Manuela M. Veloso, Tucker R. Balch, Scott Lenser:
  Integrating information, planning, and execution monitoring agents. 132-133
  
• Marco Ramoni, Paola Sebastiani, Paul R. Cohen:
  Unsupervised clustering of robot activities: a Bayesian approach. 134-135
  
• Stefan Weber, Maja J. Mataric, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins:
  Experiments in imitation using perceptuo-motor primitives. 136-137
  
• Greg Barish, Dan DiPasquo, Craig A. Knoblock, Steven Minton:
  Dataflow plan execution for software agents. 138-139
  
• Madhur Kohli, Jorge Lobo:
  Distributed action plans in an agent based network management system. 140-141
  
• Paul Scerri, Nancy E. Reed:
  Creating complex actors with EASE. 142-143
  
• John F. Meech, Katherine Baker, Edith Law, Ramiro Liscano:
  A multi-agent system for personal messaging. 144-145
  
• Liliana Ardissono, Anna Goy, Giovanna Petrone, Marino Segnan:
  Configurability within a multi-agent Web store shell. 146-147
  
• Omer F. Rana:
  Performance management of mobile agent systems. 148-155
  
• Sandip Sen, Karina Hernandez:
  A buyer's agent. 156-162
  
• Niranjan Suri, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Maggie R. Breedy, Paul T. Groth, Gregory A. Hill, Renia Jeffers, Timothy S. Mitrovich, Brian R. Pouliot, David S. Smith:
  NOMADS: toward a strong and safe mobile agent system. 163-164
  
• Marcelo G. Rubinstein, Otto Carlos Muniz Bandeira Duarte, Guy Pujolle:
  Improving management performance by using multiple mobile agents. 165-166
  
• Jau-Shien Chang, Chih-Yuan Chang:
  A visual mobile agent system with itinerary scheduling. 167-168
  
• Monique Calisti, Boi Faltings:
  A multi-agent simulator for service demand allocation problems (extended abstract). 169-170
  
• José-Luis Marzo, Pere Vilà, Ramón Fabregat:
  ATM network management based on distributed artificial intelligence architecture. 171-172
  
• Antonella Di Stefano, Corrado Santoro:
  The coordination infrastructure of the ARCA framework. 173-174
  
• Ralph Deters:
  Developing and deploying a multi agent system. 175-176
  
• Marius-Calin Silaghi, Djamila Sam-Haroud, Boi Faltings:
  Distributed asynchronous search with private constraints (extended abstract). 177-178
  
• Joseph A. Giampapa, Massimo Paolucci, Katia P. Sycara:
  Agent interoperation across multiagent system boundaries. 179-186
  
• Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Støy, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Maja J. Mataric:
  Whistling in the dark: cooperative trail following in uncertain localization space. 187-194
  
• David V. Pynadath, Milind Tambe, Nicolas Chauvat:
  Building dynamic organizations of distributed, heterogenous agents. 195-196
  
• Amir Langer, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein:
  Using distributed problem solving to search the Web. 197-198
  
• Onn Shehory, Katia P. Sycara:
  The RETSINA communicator. 199-200
  
• Anthony R. Cassandra, Damith Chandrasekara, Marian H. Nodine:
  Capability-based agent matchmaking. 201-202
  
• Brian P. Gerkey, Maja J. Mataric:
  Murdoch: publish/subscribe task allocation for heterogeneous agents. 203-204
  
• Stefan Haustein, Sascha Lüdecke, Christian Schwering:
  The knowledge agency. 205-206
  
• Elise H. Turner, John Phelps:
  Determining the usefulness of information from its use during problem solving. 207-208
  
• Martijn C. Schut, Michael Wooldridge:
  Intention reconsideration in complex environments. 209-216
  
• Alyssa Glass, Barbara J. Grosz:
  Socially conscious decision-making. 217-224
  
• Peter Stone, Patrick Riley, Manuela M. Veloso:
  Layered disclosure: why is the agent doing what it's doing? 225-226
  
• Tim Oates, Zachary Eyler-Walker, Paul R. Cohen:
  Toward natural language interfaces for robotic agents: grounding linguistic meaning in sensors. 227-228
  
• Renee Elio, Afsaneh Haddadi, Ajit Singh:
  Abstract task specifications for conversation policies. 229-230
  
• Aldo Franco Dragoni, Paolo Giorgini, Luciano Serafini:
  Updating mental states from informative communication. 231-232
  
• Fuhua Lin, Douglas H. Norrie, Robert C. Kremer, R. A. Flores-Mendez:
  Enabling effective and emergent agent conversations. 233-234
  
• Jean-Sébastien Monzani, Daniel Thalmann:
  Verbal communication: using approximate sound propagation to design an inter-agents communication language. 235-236
  
• Henry Hexmoor, Tim Heng:
  Air traffic control and alert agent. 237-238
  
• Mihai Barbuceanu, Wai-Kau Lo:
  A multi-attribute utility theoretic negotiation architecture for electronic commerce. 239-246
  
• John Collins, Corey Bilot, Maria L. Gini:
  Mixed-initiative decision support in agent-based automated contracting. 247-254
  
• Qiming Chen, Meichun Hsu, Umeshwar Dayal, Martin L. Griss:
  Multi-agent cooperation, dynamic workflow and XML for e-commerce automation. 255-256
  
• Anthony H. W. Chan, Tsz Yeung Wong, Caris K. M. Wong, Michael R. Lyu:
  SIAS: a secure shopping information agent system. 257-258
  
• Michael Schroeder, Julie A. McCann, Dan Haynes:
  Rough traders and intelligent clients. 259-260
  
• Bikramjit Banerjee, Sandip Sen:
  Selecting partners. 261-262
  
• Maksim Tsvetovat, Katia P. Sycara:
  Customer coalitions in the electronic marketplace. 263-264
  
• Von-Wun Soo:
  Agent negotiation in trusted third party mediated uncertain games. 265-266
  
• Federico Bergenti, Agostino Poggi:
  An agent-based approach to manage negotiation protocols in flexible CSCW systems. 267-268
  
• Jeremy Pitt, Frank Guerin, Christos Stergiou:
  Protocols and intentional specifications of multi-party agent conversions for brokerage and auctions. 269-276
  
• Mark H. Burstein, Drew V. McDermott, Douglas R. Smith:
  Derivation of glue code for agent interoperation. 277-284
  
• Hidekazu Kubota, Toyoaki Nishida, Tomoko Koda:
  Exchanging tacit community knowledge by talking-virtualized-egos. 285-292
  
• Rama Bindiganavale, William Schuler, Jan M. Allbeck, Norman I. Badler, Aravind K. Joshi, Martha Stone Palmer:
  Dynamically altering agent behaviors using natural language instructions. 293-300
  
• Stacy Marsella, W. Lewis Johnson, Catherine LaBore:
  Interactive pedagogical drama. 301-308
  
• Belinda Thom:
  BoB: an interactive improvisational music companion. 309-316
  
• Bill Tomlinson, Bruce Blumberg, Delphine Nain:
  Expressive autonomous cinematography for interactive virtual environments. 317-324
  
• Jonathan Gratch:
  Émile: Marshalling passions in training and education. 325-332
  
• Xiao Feng Wang, Shichao Zhang, Pradeep K. Khosla, Han Kiliççöte:
  Anytime algorithm for agent-mediated merchant information gathering. 333-340
  
• Tuomas Sandholm:
  eMediator: a next generation electronic commerce server. 341-348
  
• Jonathan Bredin, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Çagri Imer, Tamer Basar, David Kotz, Daniela Rus:
  A game-theoretic formulation of multi-agent resource allocation. 349-356
  
• Jorge Núñez-Suárez, Donie O'Sullivan, Henri Brouchoud, Patrice Cros, Clair Moore, Ciara Byrne:
  Experiences in the use of FIPA agent technologies for the development of a personal travel application. 357-364
  
• Song-Yee Yoon, Bruce Blumberg, Gerald E. Schneider:
  Motivation driven learning for interactive synthetic characters. 365-372
  
• Aude Billard, Maja J. Mataric:
  A biologically inspired robotic model for learning by imitation. 373-380
  
• Young-Woo Seo, Byoung-Tak Zhang:
  Learning user's preferences by analyzing Web-browsing behaviors. 381-387
  
• Edmund S. Yu, Ping C. Koo, Elizabeth D. Liddy:
  Evolving intelligent text-based agents. 388-395
  
• David Wolpert, Sergey Kirshner, Christopher J. Merz, Kagan Tumer:
  Adaptivity in agent-based routing for data networks. 396-403
  
• Mark D. Pendrith:
  Distributed reinforcement learning for a traffic engineering application. 404-411
  
• Terry R. Payne, Katia P. Sycara, Michael Lewis:
  Varying the user interaction within multi-agent systems. 412-418
  
• Taylor Raines, Milind Tambe, Stacy Marsella:
  Automated assistants to aid humans in understanding team behaviors. 419-426
  
• Jianwen Yin, Michael S. Miller, Thomas R. Ioerger, John Yen, Richard A. Volz:
  A knowledge-based approach for designing intelligent team training systems. 427-434
  
• Carey Heckman, Jacob O. Wobbrock:
  Put your best face forward: anthropomorphic agents, e-commerce consumers, and the law. 435-442
  
• Subrata Kumar Das, Dan L. Grecu:
  COGENT: cognitive agent to amplify human perception and cognition. 443-450
  
• Christian Geiger, Markus Latzel:
  Prototyping of complex plan based behavior for 3D actors. 451-458
  
• Sanjeev Kumar, Philip R. Cohen:
  Towards a fault-tolerant multi-agent system architecture. 459-466
  
• H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner:
  Ant-like missionaries and cannibals: synthetic pheromones for distributed motion control. 467-474
  
• Ignacio Soto, Mercedes Garijo, Carlos Angel Iglesias, Manuel Ramos:
  An agent architecture to fulfill real-time requirements. 475-482
  
• Robert St. Amant, Luke S. Zettlemoyer:
  The user interface as an agent environment. 483-490
  
• Alexander Artikis, Jeremy Pitt, Christos Stergiou:
  Agent communication transfer protocol. 491-498
  
• Teresa Alsinet, Ramón Béjar, Cèsar Fernández, Felip Manyà:
  A Multi-agent system architecture for monitoring medical protocols. 499-505