Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2002
General Co-chairs
Maria Gini,
University of Minnesota, USA
Toru Ishida,
Kyoto University, Japan
Program Co-chairs
Cristiano Castelfranchi,
CNR and Università di Siena, Italy
W. Lewis Johnson,
University of Southern California, USA
Local Organization Co-Chairs,
Treasurers
Andrea Omicini,
Università di Bologna / Cesena, Italy
Franco Zambonelli,
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Finance Co-Chairs
Jeffrey Bradshaw,
University of West Florida, USA
Michael Huhns,
University of South Carolina, USA
Publicity Chair
Evangelos E. Milios,
Dalhousie University, Canada
Tutorials Chair
Chris Dellarocas,
MIT, USA
Workshops Chair
Keith Decker,
University of Delaware, USA
Exhibits Chair
Anna Ciampolini,
Università di Bologna, Italy
Software Demonstration Chair
Paolo Ciancarini,
Università di Bologna, Italy
Robotics Demonstration Co-Chairs
Gerhard Kraetzschmar,
Universität Ulm, Germany
Enrico Pagello,
Università di Padova, Italy
Mentoring Doctoral Students Chair
Michael Luck,
University of Southampton, UK
Sponsorship Chairs
Mike Wooldridge,
University of Liverpool, UK (Europe / Africa)
Van Parunak,
ERIM, USA (Americas)
Chengqi Zhang,
Deakin University Geelong, Australia (Asia/Pacific)
Registration Chair
Enrico Denti,
Università di Bologna, Italy
Regional Liaisons
Kazuhiro Kuwabara,
NTT, Japan (Asia/Pacific)
Anna Reali Costa,
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (Americas)
---- Committees ----
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2002
SENIOR PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Elisabeth André, Universität Augsburg, Germany
Justine Cassell, MIT Media Laboratory, USA
Phil Cohen, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
Yves Demazeau, Institut IMAG, France
Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Alexis Drogoul, Université de Paris VI, France
Ed Durfee, University of Michigan, USA
Tim Finin, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, USA
Nick Jennings, University of Southampton, UK
Hiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Japan
Sarit Kraus, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and University of Maryland, USA
Yves Lesperance, York University, Canada
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Maja Mataric´, University of Southern California, USA
John-Jules Meyer, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
Hidey Nakashima, AIST, Japan
Gian Pietro Picco, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Sandip Sen, University of Tulsa, USA
Jaime Simão Sichman, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Candace Sidner, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, USA
Carles Sierra, IIIA-CSIC, Catalonia, Spain
Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
Liz Sonenberg, University of Melbourne, Australia
Von-Wun Soo, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Milind Tambe, University of Southern California, USA
Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Mike Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, USA
Makoto Yokoo, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
Chengqi Zhang, Deakin University Geelong, Australia
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
James Allen, University of Rochester, USA
Analia Amandi, UNICEN, Argentina
Geoff Arnold, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA
Norman Badler, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Tucker Balch, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA
K. Suzanne Barber, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Timothy Bickmore, MIT Media Lab, USA
Guilherme Bittencourt, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Olivier Boissier, Ecole de Mines de Saint Etienne, France
Magnus Boman, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Cynthia Breazeal, MIT Media Lab, USA
Bernard Burg, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, USA
Brahim Chaib-draa, Université Laval, Canada
Keith Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Shu-Heng Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Su-Shing Chen, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Korea
Paolo Ciancarini, Università di Bologna, Italy
Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Marco Colombetti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Diane Cook, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Stephen Cranefield, University of Otago, New Zealand
Rajarshi Das, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Giuseppe De Giacomo, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Keith Decker, University of Delaware, USA
Marie desJardins, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Gianni Di Caro, ATR, Japan
Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Juergen Dix, University of Manchester, UK
Asuman Dogaç, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University, Poland
Laila Dybkjær, Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, Odense, Denmark
Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, LIPN, University of Paris 13, France
Rino Falcone, IP-CNR, Italy
Boi Faltings, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland
Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool, UK
Dario Floreano, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Luca Maria Gambardella, IDSIA, Switzerland
Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Les Gasser, University of Illinois, USA
Michael Georgeff, Agentis International Inc, USA
Khaled Ghedira, URIASIS/ ISG/Université Tunis, Tunisie
Fausto Giunchiglia, IRST and University of Trento, Italy
Marie-Pierre Gleizes, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France
Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Claudia Goldman, The Hebrew University, Israel
Vladimir Gorodetski, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Simon Goss, Air Operations Division, DSTO, Australia
Jon Gratch, University of Southern California ICT, USA
Barbara Grosz, Harvard University, USA
Rune Gustavsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Koiti Hasida, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Heikki Helin, Sonera Corporation, Finland
Andreas Herzig, IRIT, Toulouse, France
Henry Hexmoor, University of Arkansas, USA
Katsutoshi Hirayama, Kobe University of Mercantile Marine, Japan
Beth Ann Hockey, USRA/NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Owen Holland, University of Essex, UK
Shinichi Honiden, National Insitute of Informatics, Japan
Ian Horswill, Northwestern University, USA
Andrew Howard, University of Southern California, USA
Chun-Nan Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Jane Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA
Guillaume Hutzler, Université Evry-Val d'Essonne, France
Sverker Janson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Dag Johansen, University of Tromsø, Norway
Michael Johnston, AT&T, USA
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, Finland
Catholijn Jonker, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Gal Kaminka, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kamal Karlapalem, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India
Jeff Kephart, IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center, USA
David Kinny, University of Melbourne, Australia
Yasuhiko Kitamura, Osaka City University, Japan
Matthias Klusch, DFKI GmbH, Germany
Yannis Labrou, Powermarket.com, USA
Katherine Larson, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Ora Lassila, Nokia Research Center, USA
Christian Lemaître León, LANIA, Mexico
Neal Lesh, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA
Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts, USA
James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA
Gabriela Lindemann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Dayou Liu, Jilin University, China
Jyi-shane Liu, National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan
Rey-Long Liu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College, UK
Ruqian Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Michael Luck, University of Southampton, UK
Sridhar Mahadevan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
E H Mamdani, Imperial College of Science Technology & Medicine, UK
Jianchang Mao, Verity Inc., USA
Stacy Marsella, University of Southern California, USA
Ruyuske Masuoka, Fujitsu, Japan
Shigeo Matsubara, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
Chris Melhuish, University of the West of England, UK
François Michaud, University de Sherbrooke, Canada
Scott Moss, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Jean-Pierre Müller, CIRAD-TERA, France
Jörg Müller, Siemens AG, Germany
Amy Murphy, University of Rochester, USA
Yukiko Nakano, MIT Media Lab, USA
Itsuki Noda, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Pablo Noriega, LANIA, Mexico
Tim Norman, University of Aberdeen, UK
Eugénio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugal
Andrea Omicini, Università di Bologna / Cesena, Italy
Ei-Ichi Osawa, Hakodate Future University, Japan
Sascha Ossowski, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK
Lin Padgham, RMIT University, Australia
Ana Paiva, INESC, Portugal
Sangkyu Park, Knowledge Processing Team, ETRI, Korea
David Parkes, Harvard University, USA
Simon Parsons, University of Liverpool, UK
Van Parunak, ERIM, USA
Catherine Pelachaud, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
David Pennock, NEC Research Institute, USA
John Perram, The Maersk Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College of Science Technology & Medicine, UK
Chris Preist, HP Research Labs, UK
David Pynadath, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
Geber Ramalho, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Anand Rao, Mitchell Madison Group, UK
Jeff Rickel, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
Thomas Rist, DFKI, Germany
Juan A. Rogriguez-Aguilar, iSOCO, Intelligent Software Components S.A., Spain
Jeff Rosenschein, Hebrew University, Israel
Alex Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Michael Sampels, IRIDIA, ULB, Belgium
Abdul Sattar, Griffith University, Australia
Paul Scerri, University of Southern California, USA
Marek Sergot, Imperial College, UK
Onn Shehory, IBM Research Lab in Haifa — the Tel-Aviv Site, Israel
Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Guillermo Ricardo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Luc Steels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Olga Stepankova, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Leon Sterling, University of Melbourne, Australia
Thomas Stuetzle, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland College Park, USA
Toshiharu Sugawara, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan
Gaurav Sukhatme, University of Southern California, USA
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Keiki Takadama, ATR International, Information Sciences Division, Japan
Hideaki Takeda, National Insitute of Informatics, Japan
Yao-Hua Tan, Erasmus University, Netherlands
Robert Trappl, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria
David Traum, University of Southern California ICT, USA
Jan Treur, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota, USA
Christian Tschudin, Uppsala University, Sweden
Wiebe van der Hoek, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Jose Vidal, University of South Carolina, USA
Giovanni Vigna, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Hannes Vilhjálmsson, MIT Media Lab, USA
Thomas Wagner, University of Maine, USA
Gerhard Weiss, Technische Universität München, Germany
Michael Wellman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Wayne Wobcke, University of Melbourne, Australia
Peter Wurman, North Carolina State University, Computer Science, USA
Hirofumi Yamaki, Kyoto University, Japan
Qiang Yang, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Yiming Ye, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
Xinghuo Yu, Central Queensland University, Australia
Soe-Tsyr Yuan, Fu-Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan, USA
Franco Zambonelli, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Jean-Daniel Zucker, LIP6 — CNRS/University of Paris, France
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Giacomo Cabri, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Giovanni Bravaccini, Università di Bologna, Italy
Marco Mamei, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Rocco Moretti, Università di Bologna, Italy
Gianluca Moro, Università di Bologna / Cesena, Italy
Alessandro Ricci, Università di Bologna / Cesena, Italy
Paolo Torroni, Università di Bologna, Italy
Mirko Viroli, Università di Bologna / Cesena, Italy
Laura Zavalloni, Università di Urbino, Italy
HOSTING ORGANIZATIONS
Università di Bologna
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
