MAAMAW '96 - Workshop programme


Sunday, January 21, 1996

20:00 Registration and welcome reception Golden Tulip congress center


Monday, January 22, 1996

8:00 Registration

10:00 - 10:15 Opening Address

10:15 - 11:15Invited talk: Believable Autonomous AgentsJoseph Bates

11:15 - 11:45 Break (poster/system presentation)

11:45 - 12:15 Ideal and Real Belief about BeliefFausto Giunchiglia and Enrico Giunchiglia

12:15 - 12:45 Emotions as Commitments Operators : A Foundation for Control Structure in Multi-Agents Systems Michel Aubé and Alain Senteni

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 14:30 A Logical and Operational Model of Scalable Knowledge- and Perception-Based Agents Gerd Wagner

14:30 - 15:00 A Methodology and Modelling Technique for Systems of BDI AgentsDavid Kinny, Michael Georgeff and Anand Rao

15:00 - 15:30 Break (poster/system presentation)

15:30 - 16:00 Formalising the Contract Net as a Goal-Directed SystemMark d'Inverno and Michael Luck

16:00 - 16:30Analyzing the Social Behavior of Contract Net ProtocolCheng Gu and Toru Ishida

16:30 - 17:00 Break (poster/system presentation)

17:00 - 18:00 Commentator

20:00 Dinner congress center


Tuesday, January 23, 1996

9:00 - 10:00 Invited talk:Cooperation Strategies in Collective Intelligence Jacques Ferber

10:00 - 10:30Bacterial Evolution Algorithm for Rapid AdaptationChisato Numaoka

10:30 - 11:00 Break (poster/system presentation)

11:00 - 11:30Distributed Interaction with ComputonToru Ohira, Ryusuke Sawatari and Mario Tokoro

11:30 - 12:00SIGMA: Application of Multi-Agent Systems to Cartographic Generalization Christof Baeijs, Yves Demazeau and Luis Alvares

12:00 - 12:45 Commentator

12:45 - 14:00Lunch break

14:00 Excursion

20:00 Conference dinner


Wednesday, January 24, 1996

10:00 - 10:30Cooperating Agents Implementing Distributed Patient ManagementGiordano Lanzola, Sabina Falasconi and Mario Stefanelli

10:30 - 11:00 Break (poster/system presentation)

11:00 - 11:30A Coordination Algorithm for Multi-Agent PlanningAmal El Fallah-Seghrouchni and Serge Haddad

11:30 - 12:00A Decision-Theoretic Model for Cooperative Transportation SchedulingKlaus Fischer and Jörg Müller

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 - 13:30Modelling Approach and Tool for Designing Protocols for Automated Cooperation in a Multi-agent SystemsOmar Belakhdar and Jacqueline Ayel

13:30 - 14:00A Real-Time Agent Model in an Asynchronous-Object EnvironmentZahia Guessoum and M. Dojat

14:00 - 14:45 Commentator

14:45 - 15:15 Break (poster/system presentation)

15:15 - 18:15 Working Sessions

20:00 Dinnercongress center

Thursday, January 25, 1996

9:00 - 10:00 Invited talk: Software Agents: The MIT Approach Henry Liebermann

10:00 - 10:30 Coalition Formation Among Rational Information AgentsMatthias Klusch and Onn Shehory

10:30 - 11:00 Break (poster/system presentation)

11:00 - 11:30 AgentSpeak(L): BDI Agents Speak Out in a Logical Computable LanguageAnand S. Rao

11:30 - 12:00 Effects of Different Interaction Attitudes on a Multi-Agent System PerformanceAmedeo Cesta, Maria Miceli and Paola Rizzo

12:00 - 13:30 Commentator and closing discussion

13:30 Lunch

14:30 MAAMAW '96 Programme committee meeting

Closure of MAAMAW '96


Social events

The workshop commences on Sunday 21 January at 20:00 with a welcome reception in the GOLDEN TULIP Congress Center following registration. It will also be possible to register at the start of the scientific programme on Monday, January 22.

Excursion

The scientific program on Tuesday finishes after lunch, after which a bus will take us to the Institute for Perception Research where we have a guided tour of some interesting research projects.

Conference dinner

After the tour, we will travel by bus to the centre of Eindhoven, where we have arranged the conference dinner in a local restaurant. Guest-speaker for the conference dinner is R. Bourgonjon, director of the Information and Software Technology department of Philips Research Eindhoven.

The evening will end with a bus back to the conference center or instructions on how to get home for those wishing to remain and sample the bright lights of the city of light Eindhoven.

After MAAMAW?

For those wishing to stay an extra day or two to sample the attractions of the region, the conference administration will provide a package of tourist information and be only too happy to help with arranging the practical details.


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