2. Agents 1998: St. Paul, Minnepolis

Paper Session 1: Agents at the Interface

• Scott M. Brown, Eugene Santos Jr., Sheila B. Banks, Mark E. Oxley:
  Using Explicit Requirements and Metrics for Interface Agent User Model Correction. 1-7
  
• Timothy W. Bickmore, Linda K. Cook, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Joseph W. Sullivan:
  Animated Autonomous Personal Representatives. 8-15
  
• Kristinn R. Thórisson:
  Real-Time Decision Making in Multimodal Face-to-Face Communication. 16-23
  
• Phoebe Sengers:
  Do the Thing Right: An Architecture for Action-Expression. 24-31
  

Paper Session 2: Robotics

• Chitta Baral, Luis Floriano, Aaron Hardesty, David Morales, Monica Nogueira, Tran Cao Son:
  From Theory to Practice: The UTEP Robot in the AAAI 96 AAAI 97 Robot Contests. 32-38
  
• Guillaume Beslon, Frédérique Biennier, Béat Hirsbrunner:
  Multi-Robot Path-Planning Based on Implicit Cooperation in a Robotic Swarm. 39-46
  
• Brian Yamauchi:
  Frontier-Based Exploration Using Multiple Robots. 47-53
  
• Masahiro Fujita, Hiroaki Kitano, Koji Kageyama:
  Reconfigurable Physical Agents. 54-61
  

Paper Session 3: Coordination & Cooperation

• Mihai Barbuceanu, Tom Gray, Serge Mankovski:
  Coordinating with Obligations. 62-69
  
• Richard Washington:
  Markov Tracking for Agent Coordination. 70-77
  
• Manuela M. Veloso, Peter Stone, Kwun Han:
  The CMUnited-97 Robotic Socccer Team: Perception and Multiagent Control. 78-85
  
• Peter Stone, Manuela M. Veloso:
  Using Decision Tree Confidence Factors for Multi-Agent Control. 86-91
  

Paper Session 4: Engineering Agent Systems I

• Elizabeth A. Kendall, P. V. Murali Krishna, Chirag V. Pathak, C. B. Suresh:
  Patterns of Intelligent and Mobile Agents. 92-99
  
• Deepika Chauhan, Albert D. Baker:
  JAFMAS: A Multiagent Application Development System. 100-107
  
• Yariv Aridor, Danny B. Lange:
  Agent Design Patterns: Elements of Agent Application Design. 108-115
  

Paper Session 5: WWW Agents I

• Kurt D. Bollacker, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles:
  CiteSeer: An Autonous Web Agent for Automatic Retrieval and Identification of Interesting Publications. 116-123
  
• Prasad Chalasani, Somesh Jha, Onn Shehory, Katia P. Sycara:
  Query Restart Strategies for Web Agent. 124-131
  
• Liren Chen, Katia P. Sycara:
  WebMate: A Personal Agent for Browsing and Searching. 132-139
  

Panel: Autonomous Agents in Entertainment

Paper Session 6: Agents for Information Management I

• Gary Boone:
  Concept Feature in Re: Agent, an Intelligent Email Agent. 141-148
  
• David M. Hilbert, David F. Redmiles:
  Agents for Collecting Application Usage Data Over the Internet. 149-156
  
• Filippo Menczer, Richard K. Belew:
  Adaptive Information Agents in Distributed Textual Environments. 157-164
  

Paper Session 7: Synthetic Agents

• Daniel Rousseau, Barbara Hayes-Roth:
  A Social-Psychological Model for Synthetic Actors. 165-172
  
• Patrick Doyle, Barbara Hayes-Roth:
  Agents in Annotated Worlds. 173-180
  
• Clark Elliott, Jacek Brzezinski, Sanjay Sheth, Robert Salvatoriello:
  Story-Morphing in the Affective Reasoning Paradigm: Generating Stories Semi-Automatically for Use with "Emotionally Intelligent" Multimedia Agents. 181-188
  

Panel

• Hyacinth S. Nwana, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, Tuomas Sandholm, Carles Sierra, Pattie Maes, Robert H. Guttman:
  Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: Issues, Challenges and Some Viewpoints. 189-196
  

Paper Session 8: Mobile Software Agents

• Jonathan Bredin, David Kotz, Daniela Rus:
  Market-Based Resource Control for Mobile Agents. 197-204
  
• Akhil Sahai, Christine Morin:
  Mobile Agents for Enabling Mobile User Aware Applications. 205-211
  
• Kay Neuenhofen, Matthew Thompson:
  A Secure Marketplace for Mobile Java Agents. 212-218
  
• Martin O. Hofmann, Amy McGovern, Kenneth R. Whitebread:
  Mobile Agents on the Digital Battlefield. 219-225
  

Paper Session 9: Learning and Adaptation I

• Gerhard Weiß:
  A Multiagent Perspective of Parallel and Distributed Machine Learning. 226-230
  
• Karen Zita Haigh, Manuela M. Veloso:
  Learning Situation-Dependent Costs: Improving Planning from Probabilistic Robot Execution. 231-238
  
• Junling Hu, Michael P. Wellman:
  Online Learning about Other Agents in a Dynamic Multiagent System. 239-246
  
• Matthew D. Schmill, Michael T. Rosenstein, Paul R. Cohen, Paul E. Utgoff:
  Learning What Is Relevant to the Effects of Actions for a Mobile Robot. 247-253
  

Paper Session 10: Lifelike Agents

• Jiming Liu, Hong Qin:
  Behavioral Self-Organization in Lifelike Agents. 254-260
  
• Elisabeth André, Thomas Rist, Jochen Müller:
  Integrating Reactive and Scripted Behaviors in a Life-Like Presentation Agent. 261-268
  
• Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson, Justine Cassell:
  BodyChat: Autonomous Commumicative Behaviors in Avators. 269-276
  
• Arthur Allen:
  Actor-Based Computing: Vision Forestalled, Vision Fulfilled. 277-284
  

Paper Session 11: Computational Market Systems

• John Collins, Ben Youngdahl, Scott Jamison, Bamshad Mobasher, Maria L. Gini:
  A Market Architecture for Multi-Agent Contracting. 285-292
  
• Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Francisco J. Martín, Pablo Noriega, Pere Garcia, Carles Sierra:
  Competitive Scenarios for Heterogeneous Trading Agents. 293-300
  
• Peter R. Wurman, Michael P. Wellman, William E. Walsh:
  The Michigan Internet AcutionBot: A Configuarable Auction Server for Human and Software Agents. 301-308
  

Paper Session 12: Agent Control Architectures I

• Subrata Kumar Das, Alper K. Caglayan, Paul Gonsalves:
  Increasing Agent Autonomy in Dynamic Environments. 309-316
  
• Maja J. Mataric, Victor B. Zordan, Zachary Mason:
  Movement Control Methods for Complex, Dynamically Simulated Agents: Adonis dance the Macarena. 317-324
  
• Glenn S. Wasson, David Kortenkamp, Eric Huber:
  Integrating Active Perception with an Autonomous Robot Architecture. 325-331
  

Video Session I

• Jeff Rickel, W. Lewis Johnson:
  STEVE: A Pedagogical Agent for Virtual Reality. 332-333
  
• Andrew Stern, Adam Frank, Ben Resner:
  Virtual Petz: A Hybrid Approach to Creating Autonomous, Lifelike Dogz and Catz. 334-335
  
• Srikanth Bandi, Daniel Thalmann:
  The Use of Space Discretization for Autonomous Virtual Humans. 336-337
  

Paper Session 13: Agents for Information Management II

• Jennifer Kay, Julius Etzl, Goutham Rao, Jon Thies:
  The ATL Postmaster: A System for Agent Collaboration and Information Dissemination. 338-342
  
• Stéphane Zrehen, Michael A. Arbib:
  Understanding Jokes: A Neural Approach to Content-Based Information Retrieval. 343-349
  

Video Session II

• Katia P. Sycara, Anandeep Pannu:
  The RETSINA Multiagnet System: Towards Integrating Planning, Execution and Information Gathering. 350-351
  
• Kenneth R. Whitebread, Harley J. Stein: Domain-Adaptive Information Systems (DAIS). 352-353

Paper Session 14: Agent Control Architectures II

• Vincent Decugis, Jacques Ferber:
  Action Selection in an Autonmous Agent with a Hierarchical Distributed Reactive Planning Architecture. 354-361
  
• Nicola Muscettola, Paul H. Morris, Barney Pell, Benjamin D. Smith:
  Issues in Temporal Reasoning for Autonomous Control Systems. 362-368
  
• Barney Pell, Edward B. Gamble, Erann Gat, Ron Keesing, James Kurien, William Millar, P. Pandurang Nayak, Christian Plaunt, Brian C. Williams:
  A Hybrid Procedural/Deductive Executive for Autonomous Spacecraft. 369-376
  

Paper Session 15: Engineering Agent Systems II

• Qi He, Katia P. Sycara, Timothy W. Finin:
  Personal Security Agent: KQML-Based PKI. 377-384
  
• Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings:
  Pitfalls of Agent-Oriented Development. 385-391
  
• Carey Heckman, Jacob O. Wobbrock:
  Liability for Autonomous Agent Design. 392-399
  

Paper Session 16: WWW Agents II

• William W. Cohen:
  A Web-Based Information System that Reasons with Structured Collections of Text. 400-407
  
• Eui-Hong Han, Daniel Boley, Maria L. Gini, Robert Gross, Kyle Hastings, George Karypis, Vipin Kumar, Bamshad Mobasher, Jerome Moore:
  WebACE: A Web Agent for Document Categorization and Exploration. 408-415
  
• Andrew E. Fano:
  Shopper's Eye: Using Location-Based Filtering for a Shopping Agent in the Physical World. 416-421
  

Paper Session 17: Learning and Adaptation II

• François Michaud, Maja J. Mataric:
  A History-Based Approach for Adaptive Robot Behavior in Dynamic. 422-429
  
• Sandip Sen, Anish Biswas:
  Effects of Misconception on Reciprocative Agents. 430-435
  

Paper Session 18: Applications

• Sandeep Chatterjee:
  SANI: A Seamless and Non-Intrustive Framework and Agent for Creatiang Intelligent Interactive Homes. 436-440
  
• Jiming Liu:
  Reactive Agents for Adaptive Image Analysis. 441-448
  

Poster Session

• Luís Miguel Botelho, Helder Coelho:
  Artificial Autonomous Agents with Artificial Emotions. 449-450
  
• Wen-Shyen E. Chen, S. T. Su, Yao-Nan Lien, H. T. Shu, Huiling Liu:
  Mobility and Management Support for Mobile Agents. 451-452
  
• Qiming Chen, Parvathi Chundi, Umeshwar Dayal, Meichun Hsu:
  Dynamic Software Agents for Business Intelligence Applications. 453-454
  
• Kenneth D. Forbus, Sven E. Kuehne:
  RoboTA: An Agent Colony Architecture for Supporting Education. 455-456
  
• Somesh Jha, Prasad Chalasani, Onn Shehory, Katia P. Sycara:
  A Formal Treatment of Distributed Matchmaking. 457-458
  
• Gal A. Kaminka, Milind Tambe:
  A Synergy of Agent Components: Social Comparison for Failure Detection. 459-460
  
• Michael Mateas:
  Subjective Avators. 461-462
  
• Simon Penny:
  Embodied Cultural Agents and Synthetic Sociology. 463-464
  
• Aruna Sankaranarayanan, Maja J. Mataric:
  The Multi-Agent-based Schedule Calculator (MASC) System. 465-466
  
• Michael Schroeder, Daniela Alina Plewe, Andreas Raab:
  Ultima Ratio: Should Hamlet kill Claudius? 467-468
  
• Weiming Shen, Douglas H. Norrie:
  Combining Mediation and Bidding Mechanisms for Agent-Based Manufacturing Scheduling. 469-470
  
• Aaron Sloman, Brian Logan:
  Cognition and Affect: Architectures and Tools. 471-472
  
• Juan D. Velásquez, Masahiro Fujita, Hiroaki Kitano:
  An Open Architecture of Remotion and Behavior Control of Autonomous Agents. 473-474
  
• José M. Vidal, Tracy Mullen, Peter Weinstein, Edmund H. Durfee:
  The University of Michigan Digital Library Service Market Society. 475-476