Program

Program overview

The full program is also available as a PDF. Locations are abbreviated. Registration during the conference takes place in the hall of Minderbroedersberg 4-6 (MBB). Sessions are taking place in the Karl Dittrich Zaal (KDZ) at Bonnefantenstraat 2, and in the Aula at Minderbroedersberg 4-6. Plenary talks are also scheduled in the Aula, while breaks and lunch take place in the Refter, which is also located at Minderbroedersberg 4-6.

Time Sunday, 13 November 2011
Activity Location
Colors indicate: plenary talks, breaks and social program, presentation sessions, demos
19.00 – 22.00 Welcome & Registration Kiwi

 

Time Monday, 14 November 2011
Activity Location
Colors indicate: plenary talks, breaks and social program, presentation sessions, demos
08.45 – 09.15 Registration MBB Hall
09.15 – 09.30 Opening Aula
09.30 – 10.30 Game Theory for Security: Lessons learned from deployed applications by Milind Tambe Aula
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break Refter
11.00 – 13.00 Presentation Session (6 slots) Aula, KDZ
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Refter
14.00 – 15.00 Agent-Based Models: What Are They For? by Peter McBurney Aula
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break Refter
15.30 – 16.50 Presentation Session (4 slots) Aula/KDZ
16.50 – 18.00
18.00 – 19.00 Reception Townhall
19.00 – 22.30 Dinner La Caverne de Geulhem

 

Time Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Activity Location
Colors indicate: plenary talks, breaks and social program, presentation sessions, demos
09.00 – 11.00 Presentation Session (6 slots) Aula, KDZ
11.00 – 12.00 Coffee break with demo session Refter
12.00 – 13.00 Self-Adaptive Complex Systems by Marie-Pierre Gleizes Aula
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Refter
14.00 – 15.20 Presentation Session (4 slots) Aula, KDZ
15.20 – 15.50 Coffee break Refter
15.50 – 16.50 Presentation Session (3 slots) Aula, KDZ
16.50 – 17.00 Closing Aula
evening Dinner for attendees of COST workshop (co-located with EUMAS)

 

Time Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Activity Location
09.00 – 17.00 6th Joint Working Group Workshops (COST Action IC0801)
(co-located with EUMAS)
KDZ

Presentation sessions

There are 10 presentation sessions scheduled in two parallel tracks within 5 time slots. Each presentation should take 15 minutes, followed by a 5 minute discussion. In addition, there is one demo session scheduled with an extended coffee break on Tuesday.

Monday #1 11:00-13:00
Emergence and Self-Organisation (Aula)

  • Jérôme Lacouture, Pierre Glize and Gleizes Marie-Pierre. Self-Organization and Self-allocation using cooperative AMAS agents for multi-robots systems
  • Iva Bojic and Mario Kusek. Bio-inspired Approach to Time Synchronization in Multi-Agent System
  • Miguel Rebollo, Elena Del Val and Vicent Botti. Self-Organized Service Management in Heterogeneous and Dynamic MAS
  • Phuong T. Nguyen, Volkmar Schau and Wilhelm R. Rossak. Towards an Adaptive Communication Model for Mobile Agents in Highly Dynamic Networks based on Swarming Behaviour
  • Elsy Kalioum, Jean-Pierre Georgé and Gleizes Marie-Pierre. Designing complex systems : population based emergence of parameters
  • Predrag Tosic and Naveen Kumar Reddy Ginne. Distributed Coalition Formation for Collaborative Multi-Agent Systems: A Performance Case Study on Random Graphs
Multi-Agent Planning and Search (KDZ)

  • Matthijs Spaan and Francisco S. Melo. A POMDP-based Model for Optimizing Communication in Multiagent Systems
  • Sam Devlin and Daniel Kudenko. Plan-Based Reward Shaping for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  • Filipo Perotto. Recognizing internal states of other agents to anticipate and coordinate interactions
  • Shaza Hanif, Rinde Van Lon, Ning Gui and Tom Holvoet. Delegate MAS for Large Scale and Dynamic PDP: a Case Study
  • Frans Oliehoek, Stefan Witwicki and Leslie Kaelbling. Heuristic Search of Multiagent Influence Space
Monday #2 15:30-16:50
Economics and Game Theory Approaches (Aula)

  • Vivien Delage, Christian Brandlhuber, Karl Tuyls and Gerhard Weiss. Multi-Agent based simulation of FOREX exchange market
  • Michael Gibson, Wamberto Vasconcelos and Nir Oren. Peers Playing Games: Time-Critical and Data-Intensive Games on Peer-to-Peer Networks
  • Radu-Casian Mihailescu, Matteo Vasirani and Sascha Ossowski. A game-theoretic coordination framework for energy-efficient demand-side management in the smart grid
  • Koji Hasebe and Ryuichiro Ishikawa. Belief Revision for Inductive Game Theory
Agent-Oriented Resource and Flow Management (KDZ)

  • Stijn Vandael, Klaas De Craemer, Nelis Boucke, Tom Holvoet and Geert Deconinck. Decentralized coordination of plug-in hybrid vehicles for imbalance reduction in a Smart Grid (AAMAS 2011)
  • Álvaro Carrera and Carlos A. Iglesias. A Modular Agent Architecture for Optimising Hypothesis confirmation cost in Network Diagnosis
  • Predrag Tosic and Philip Dasler. Iterated Traveler’s Dilemma: Analysis of Individual and Team Performances and Challenges Ahead
  • Marin Lujak, Stefano Giordani and Sascha Ossowski. Value of incomplete information in mobile target allocation
Tuesday #1 9:00-11:00
Argumentation and Negotiation (Aula)

  • Eric Kok, John-Jules Meyer, Herre Van Oostendorp, Henry Prakken and Gerard Vreeswijk. A Methodology for the Generation of Multi-Agent Argumentation Dialogue Scenarios
  • Yu Nambu and Kazuko Takahashi. An Argumentation Model with Queries
  • Chukwuemeka David Emele, Timothy J. Norman and Simon Parsons. Argumentation Strategies for Task Delegation
  • Cristian Gratie and Adina Magda Florea. Argumentation Semantics for Agents
  • Samy Sá and Joao Alcantara. Cooperative Dialogues with Conditional Arguments
  • Chukwuemeka David Emele, Timothy J. Norman, Murat Sensoy and Simon Parsons. On the benefit of ontological reasoning in collaborative problem-solving
Agent-oriented programming and software engineering (KDZ)

  • Steffen Kern and Wilhelm Rossak. TAMo: Simplify the Development and Usage of Mobile Agents
  • Yrleyjander Salmito Lopes, Enyo José Tavares Gonçalves, Mariela Inés Cortés and Emmanuel Sávio S. Freire. Extending JADE Framework to Support Different Internal Architectures of Agents
  • Peter M. Kruse. Test Sequence Generation from Classification Trees using Multi-agent Systems
  • Massimo Cossentino, Carmelo Lodato, Salvatore Lopes, Patrizia Ribino, Valeria Seidita and Antonio Chella. Designing MAS Organizations with the support of a UML CASE tool
  • Valeria Seidita, Massimo Cossentino and Antonio Chella. A Proposal of Process Fragment Definition and Documentation
  • Camille Persson, Gauthier Picard, Fano Ramparany and Olivier Boissier. A Multi-Agent Organization for the Governance of Machine-to-Machine Systems
Tuesday
11:00-12:00
Demo session (Refter)

  • Sjriek Alers, Daan Bloembergen, Daniel Hennes, Max Bügler and Karl Tuyls. MITRO: an augmented mobile telepresence robot with assisted control
  • Daniel Claes, Daniel Hennes and Karl Tuyls. Real-world multi-robot collision avoidance with localization uncertainty
  • Yuqing Tang, Kai Cai, Elizabeth Sklar and Simon Parsons. A prototype system for argumentation-based reasoning about trust
  • Raz Lin, Yehoshua Gev and Sarit Kraus. AniMed*: An Automated Animated Mediator for Facilitating Negotiation with People
Tuesday #2 14:00-15:20
Multi-Agent Simulation (Aula)

  • Robert Junges and Franziska Klügl. Behavior Modeling from Learning Agents: Sensitivity to Objective Function Details
  • Athanasia Louloudi and Franziska Klügl. Towards a Generic Connection Between Agent Behaviour and Visualisation
  • Takuya Sekiguchi. Coordination with conflicting preferences in finite populations: A simulation analysis of fixation probabilities and fixation times
  • Gillian Basso, Vincent Hilaire, Fabrice Lauri, Robin Roche and Massimo Cossentino. A MAS-based simulator for the prototyping of Smart Grids
Coordination and Trust (KDZ)

  • Tim Brys, Yann-Michael De Hauwere, Ann Nowe and Peter Vrancx. Coordination in Online Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems
  • Michael Schlaefli. Using Context-Dependant Trust in Team Formation
  • J. Santiago Pérez-Sotelo, Carlos E. Cuesta and Sascha Ossowski. Adaptation Patterns for Organisation-Based, Multi-Agent Architectures in Agreement Technologies
  • Reda Yaich, Olivier Boissier, Gauthier Picard and Philippe Jaillon. Social-Compliance in Trust Management within Virtual Communities
Tuesday #3 15:50-16:50
Robotic and web applications of agents (Aula)

  • Nicoletta Fornara, Marco Colombetti and Daniel Okouya. A Framework of Open Interactions based on Web Services and Semantic Web Technologies
  • Venkatesan D and Radhakrishnan V. A Novel Software Environment for Developing Services Standard Compliant, Formally Verifiable, Migrating Internet Applications
  • Daniel Claes, Daniel Hennes and Karl Tuyls. Real-world multi-robot collision avoidance with localization uncertainty
Adaptation and Learning (KDZ)

  • Arnaldo Ohno and Fabrício Enembreck. Detecting Concept Drifts by Learning Agents: A Social Approach
  • Haitham Bou Ammar, Matthew E. Taylor, Karl Tuyls and Gerhard Weiss. Reinforcement Learning Transfer using a Sparse Coded Inter-Task Mapping
  • Michael Kaisers and Karl Tuyls. Multi-agent learning and the reinforcement gradient