4. EUMAS 2006: Lisbon, Portugal

Invited Talk

• Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo:
  A Service-Oriented Infrastructure for Adaptive Systems based on Specification-Carrying Code.
  

Session I.1: Logical Models and Learning

• Daria Barteneva, Nuno Lau, Luís Paulo Reis:
  Implementation of Emotional Behaviours in Multi-agent System Using Fuzzy Logic and Temperamental Decision Mechanism.
  
• Wojciech Jamroga, Jürgen Dix:
  Model Checking Abilities under Incomplete Information Is Indeed Delta2-complete.
  
• Ann Nowé, Katja Verbeeck, Maarten Peeters:
  Learning Automata as a Basis for Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning.
  
• Denise de Oliveira, Ana L. C. Bazzan, Bruno Castro da Silva, Eduardo W. Basso, Luís Nunes:
  Reinforcement Learning based Control of Traffic Lights in Non-stationary Environments: A Case Study in a Microscopic Simulator.
  

Session I.2: Methodologies

• Brian Henderson-Sellers:
  Creating a Comprehensive Agent-oriented Methodology.
  
• Ghassan Beydoun, Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, Brian Henderson-Sellers, Graham Low:
  Developing and Evaluating a Generic Metamodel for MAS Work Products.
  
• Danny Weyns, Andrea Omicini, James Odell:
  Environent as a First-Class Abstraction in Multiagent Systems.
  
• Vito Morreale, Giuseppe Francaviglia, Fabio Centineo, Michele Puccio, Massimo Cossentino:
  Goal-Oriented Agent Patterns with the PRACTIONIST Framework.
  

Session I.3: Trust, Reputation and Economic Models

• Ramón Hermoso, Holger Billhardt, Roberto Centeno, Sascha Ossowski:
  Effective Use of Organisational Abstractions for Confidence Models.
  
• Virginia Fuentes, Nayat Sánchez Pi, Javier Carbó, José Manuel Molina:
  Reputation in User Profiling for a Context-aware MultiAgent System.
  
• Adrian Perreau de Pinninck, Carles Sierra, W. Marco Schorlemmer:
  Friends No More: Ostracism in Multi-Agent Systems.
  
• Jesús Cerquides, Ulle Endriss, Andrea Giovannucci, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar:
  Bidding Languages and Winner Determination for Mixed Multi-unit Combinatorial Auctions.
  

Session II.1: Institutions and Norms

• Andrés García-Camino, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra, Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos:
  Norm-Oriented Programming of Electronic Institutions: A Rule-based Approach.
  
• Nicoletta Fornara, Marco Colombetti:
  Specifying and Enforcing Norms in Artificial Institutions.
  
• Benjamin Gâteau:
  Using a Normative Organisational Model to Specify and Manage an Institution for Multi-agent Systems.
  
• Francesco Viganò:
  A Metamodel for Verifying Institutions.
  

Session II.2: Software Engineering

• Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John Mylopoulos:
  Agent Capability: Automating the Design to Code Process.
  
• Giancarlo Fortino, Giuseppe Di Fatta:
  A Customizable Multi-Agent System for Distributed Data Mining.
  
• Nora Faci, Zahia Guessoum, Olivier Marin:
  DimaX: A Fault-Tolerant Multi-Agent Platform.
  
• Massimo Cossentino, Luca Sabatucci, Valeria Seidita, Salvatore Gaglio:
  An Agent Oriented Tool for Method Engineering.
  

Session II.3: E-commerce and Auctions

• Terry R. Payne, Esther David, Nicholas R. Jennings, Matthew Sharifi:
  Auction Mechanisms for Efficient Advertisement Selection on Public Displays.
  
• Enrico Gerding, Rajdeep K. Dash, David C. K. Yuen, Nicholas R. Jennings:
  Optimal Strategies for Bidding on Perfect Substitutes in Simultaneous Vickrey Auctions.
  
• Enrico Gerding, Alex Rogers, Rajdeep K. Dash, Nicholas R. Jennings:
  Sellers Competing for Buyers in Online Markets: Reserve Prices, Shill Bids, and Auction Fees.
  
• Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Dave Cliff, Nicholas R. Jennings:
  Evolutionary Stability of Behavioural Types in the Continuous Double Auction.
  

Session III.1: Agent Architectures

• Nikolaos I. Spanoudakis, Pavlos Moraitis:
  Agent-based Architecture in An Ambient Intelligence Context.
  
• José Cascalho, Helder Coelho:
  Tuning Behaviours Using Attributes Embedded in an Agents Architecture.
  
• Sebastian Rodriguez, Nicolas Gaud, Vincent Hilaire, Abder Koukam:
  Modeling Holonic Systems with an Organizational approach.
  

Session III.2: Semantic Web and service oriented computing

• Rossella Rubino, Ambra Molesini, Enrico Denti:
  OWL-S for Describing Artifacts.
  
• Alberto Fernández, Matteo Vasirani, César Cáceres, Sascha Ossowski:
  Role-based Service Description and Discovery.
  
• Sebastian Stein, Nicholas R. Jennings, Terry R. Payne:
  Flexible Provisioning of Service Workflows.
  

Session III.3: Teamwork and Coalitions

• Carlos Mérida-Campos, Steven Willmott:
  The Effect of Heterogeneity on Coalition Formation in Iterated Request for Proposal Scenarios.
  
• Talal Rahwan, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Viet Dung Dang, Nicholas R. Jennings:
  Near-Optimal Anytime Coalition Structure Generation.
  
• Daniel Moura, Eugenio Oliveira:
  Fighting Fire with Agents.
  

Invited Talk

• John-Jules Ch. Meyer:
  Going beyond BDI: Programming 'BDI+' Agents.
  

Session IV.1: Argumentation, Negotiation and Planning

• Loredana Laera, Valentina A. M. Tamma, Jérôme Euzenat, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Terry R. Payne:
  Agents Arguing over Ontology Alignments.
  
• Cássia Trojahn dos Santos, Márcia Cristina Moraes, Paulo Quaresma, Renata Vieira:
  Using Cooperative Agent Negotiation for Ontology Mapping.
  
• Leila Amgoud, Nabil Hameurlain:
  An Argumentation-based Approach for Dialog Move Selection.
  
• Önder Gürcan, Geylani Kardas, Özgür Gümüs, Erdem Eser Ekinci, Oguz Dikenelli:
  A Planner for Implementing Semantic Service Agents based on Semantic Web Services Initiative Architecture.
  

Session IV.2: Coordination and Organisations

• Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum:
  Coordinating Tasks in Agent Organizations.
  
• Manuel Atencia, W. Marco Schorlemmer:
  Situated Semantic Alignment.
  
• Tom Holvoet, Paul Valckenaers:
  Exploiting the Environment for Coordinating Agent Intentions.
  
• Sergio Saugar, Juan Manuel Serrano:
  The Semantic Core of Multi-agent Interactions: an Operational Model.
  

Session IV.3: Agent-based simulation

• Nuno David, Jaime Simão Sichman, Helder Coelho:
  Simulation as Formal and Generative Social Science: The Very Idea.
  
• André Restivo, Luís Paulo Reis:
  Clustering Agent Optimization Results in Dynamic Scenarios.
  
• Luis Antunes, Helder Coelho, João Balsa:
  E*plore-ing the Simulation Design Space.
  
• Arnaud Doniec, Stéphane Espié, René Mandiau, Sylvain Piechowiak:
  Multi-agent Coordination and Anticipation Model to Design a Road Traffic Simulation Tool.
  

Session V.1: Applications

• Paul Valckenaers, John A. Sauter, Carles Sierra, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar:
  Applications and Environments for Multi-agent Systems.
  
• Paritosh Padhy, Rajdeep K. Dash, Kirk Martinez, Nicholas R. Jennings:
  A Utility-Based Sensing and Communication Model for a Glacial Sensor Network.
  
• Jason Mahdjoub, Zahia Guessoum, Fabien Michel, Michel Herbin:
  A Multi-agent Approach for the Edge Detection in Image Processings.
  

Session V.2: Self-organisation and Complex systems

• Mirko Viroli, Matteo Casadei, Luca Gardelli:
  A Case of Self-Organising Environment for MAS: the Collective Sort Problem.
  
• David Cabanillas, Steven Willmott:
  Self-Organization Amongst Non-Altruistic Agents for Distribution of Goods: Comparing Bartering and Currency Based Exchange.
  
• Jean-Baptiste Welcomme, Marie Pierre Gleizes, Romaric Redon:
  Self-regulating Multi-agent System for Multi-disciplinary Optimisation Process.
  
• Juan Pavón, Candelaria Sansores, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz:
  Agent based Modeling of Social Systems.
  

Session V.3: Protocols

• Christian Anhalt, Stefan Kirn:
  Towards Payment Systems for Mobile Agents.
  
• Danny Weyns, Nelis Boucké, Tom Holvoet, Kurt Schelfthout:
  DynCNET: A Protocol for Flexible Task Assignment Applied in an AGV Transportation System.
  
• Martijn Warnier, David de Groot, Frances M. T. Brazier:
  Organized Anonymity in Agent Systems.