I am happy to announce that participation in ATAL-97 is now opened to all
interested parties. The call for participation, a registration form, and hotel
info are available at
http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/mpsingh/activities/atal/
The ATAL-97 program includes
invited talks by Danny Lange, Les Gasser, and Kurt Konolige
20 long papers selected from 75 submissions
7 working reports on promising new research
2 panels, one on methodologies and one on agent programming languages.
The current program is appended below. Please watch the web-site for
additional details on the panels.
Best wishes,
Munindar Singh
(General Chair)
July 24
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7:50 Breakfast goodies
8:20 Plenary
8:30 INVITED TALK: Danny Lange (General Magic)
"Java - Just What Mobile Agents Need?"
9:30 Break
10:00 PAPER SESSION: METHODOLOGIES
: Schoppers and Shapiro
Designing embedded agents to optimize end-user objectives
: Joanna Bryson
Agent Architecture as Object Oriented Design
: Egon Verharen, Frank Dignum and Sander Bos
Implementation of a Cooperative Agent Architecture
based on the Language-Action Perspective
: Parunak and Sauter
Specification and design of industrial synthetic ecosystems
12:00 Lunch
13:30 REPORT
: Freuder
AAAI Workshop on Constraints
13:45 PAPER SESSION: ARCHITECTURES AND INFRASTRUCTURE
: Rina Schwartz and Sarit Kraus
Bidding Mechanisms for Data Allocation in Multi-Agent Environments
: Bansal, Rao, and Rao
Distributed Storage of Replicated Beliefs to
Facilitate Recovery of Distributed Intelligent Agents
: Munindar Singh
A Customizable Coordination Service for Autonomous Agents
: S. Coradeschi and L. Karlsson (SPECULATIVE)
A Behavior-Based Decision-Mechanism for Agents Coordinating Using Roles
15:30 Break
16:00 PAPER SESSION: COORDINATION PLANNING AND MONITORING
: Jaeho Lee and Edmund Durfee
A plan-based coordinated multiagent plan execution
: Kaminka and Tambe
Social comparison for failure detection and recovery
: Onn Shehory, Katia Sycara, Somesh Jha
Multi-Agent Coordination through Coalition Formation
17:30 Technical Program Adjourned (1 invited + 10 long + 2 short)
18:30 Reception
July 25
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8:00 Breakfast goodies
9:00 INVITED TALK: Les Gasser "Title TBA"
10:00 Break
10:30 PAPER SESSION: FORMAL METHODS
: Mark d'Inverno, David Kinny, Michael Luck, and M Wooldridge
A Formal Specification of dMARS
: Carles Sierra, Nick R. Jennings, Pablo Noriega, Simon Parsons
A Framework for Argumentation-Based Negotiation
: Marco Mulder, Jan Treur, and Michael Fisher
Agent Modelling in Concurrent {\sc MetateM} and DESIRE
: Catholijn Jonker, Jan Treur (WORKING REPORT/DEMO)
DESIRE
: Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin (WORKING REPORT)
Semantics for an agent communication language
12:30 Lunch
14:00 PAPER SESSION: THEORIES
: K. V. Hindriks, F. S. de Boer, W. van der Hoek, and J.-J. Ch. Meyer
Formal Semantics for an Abstract Agent Programming Language
: Frank Dignum and Rosaria Conte
Intentional Agents and Goal Formation: Extended Abstract
: Christoph G. Jung and Klaus Fischer
A Layered Agent Calculus with Concurrent, Continuous Processes
: Fr\'ed\'eric Koriche
Approximate Reasoning about Combined Knowledge
: Ho Ngoc Duc (SPECULATIVE)
On the Epistemic Foundations of Agent Theories
16:15 Break
16:45 PANEL SESSION: METHODOLOGIES (David Kinny, moderating)
18:15 Technical Program Adjourned (1 invited + 7 long + 3 short + 1 panel)
19:00 Dinner
July 26
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8:00 Breakfast goodies
9:00 INVITED TALK: Kurt Konolige (SRI)
"Connecting Software and Physical Agents"
10:00 Break
10:30 PAPER SESSION: ARCHITECTURES AND METHODOLOGIES
: Marian Nodine and Amy Unruh
Facilitating open communication in agent systems: the InfoSleuth infrastructure
: Walter Van de Welde, Sabine Geldhof, and Ronald Schrooten
Competition for Attention
: Carlos Iglesias, Mercedes Garijo, Jos\'e Gonz\'alez, and Juan Velasco
Analysis and Design of Multiagent Systems using AS-CommonKADS
: Rune Gustavsson (SPECULATIVE)
Multi-Agent Systems as Open Societies
: Cost, Soboroff, Lakhani, Finin, Miller, and Nicholas
Agent development support for Tcl (SPECULATIVE)
12:00 Lunch
13:30 PANEL SESSION: LANGUAGES (Anand Rao, moderating)
15:00 Closing speech, rapturous applause, etc.
Day total: (1 invited + 3 long + 2 short + 1 panel)
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TOTAL: 3 invited + 20 long + 7 short + 2 panels
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