Agents '97

 Agents '97 full schedule and online proceedings table of contents, edited by Jörg Müller — every paper session, panel and poster with authors and affiliations.
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Autonomous Agents '97 - Schedule
Online Proceedings
Jörg Müller, Editor
For questions or problems with the online version of the proceedings,
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PAPER SESSION 1: SYNTHETIC AGENTS
Story-Making
with Improvisational Puppets
Barbara Hayes-Roth, Stanford University
Robert van Gent, Extempo Systems, Inc.
Progressive
Negotiation for Time-Constrained Autonomous Agents
Abdel-Illah Mouaddib
CRIL and IUT de LENS
Increasing
Believability in Animated Pedagogical Agents
James C. Lester and Brian A. Stone
North Carolina State University
Creatures:
Artificial Life Autonomous Software Agents for Home Entertainment
Stephen Grand, Millennium Interactive Ltd.
Dave Cliff, University of Sussex
Anil Malhotra, Millennium Interactive Ltd.
PAPER SESSION 2: KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION AND ACCUMULATION
Integrating
Pedagogical Capabilities in a Virtual Environment Agent
Jeff Rickel and W. Lewis Johnson
USC/Information Sciences Institute
A
Scalable Comparison-Shopping Agent for the World-Wide Web
Robert B. Doorenbos, Oren Etzioni, and Daniel S. Weld
University of Washington
Integrating
Communicative Action, Conversations and Decision Theory to Coordinate Agents
Mihai Barbuceanu and Mark Fox
University of Toronto
Ontology-based
Web Agents
Sean Luke, University of Maryland
Lee Spector, University of Maryland and Hampshire College
David Rager, University of Maryland
James Hendler, University of Maryland
PAPER SESSION 3: ACTION SELECTION AND PLANNING I
Knowledge
Difference and its Influence on a Search Agent
Yiming Ye and John K. Tsotsos
University of Toronto
A
Collaborative Dialogue Model Based on Interaction Between Reactivity and
Deliberation
Takaaki Hasegawa, Yukiko I. Nakano, and Tsuneaki Kato
NTT Information and Communication Systems Laboratories
Strategy
Diffusion in Autonomous Agent System: Detecting Key Agents for Wide Range
Consensus
Masakatsu Ohta and Toshiyuki Iida
NTT Communication Science Laboratories
Combined
Execution and Monitoring for Control of Autonomous Agents
Charles Earl and R. James Firby
University of Chicago
PAPER SESSION 4: MODELS OF PERSONALITY
Improvising
Linguistic Style: Social and Affective Bases of Agent Personality
Marilyn A. Walker, AT&T Labs Research
Janet E. Cahn, MIT Media Lab
Stephen J. Whittaker, AT&T Labs Research
Personality-Rich
Believable Agents That Use Language
A. Bryan Loyall and Joseph Bates
Carnegie Mellon University
A
Methodology for Building Believable Social Agents
W. Scott Neal Reilly
Carnegie Mellon University
Entertaining
Agents: A Sociological Case Study
Leonard N. Foner
MIT Media Lab
PAPER SESSION 5: SENSING AND PERCEPTION
Real-time
Control of Attention and Behavior in a Logical Framework
Ian Horswill
Northwestern University
Learning
View Graphs for Robot Navigation
Matthias O. Franz, Bernhard Schölkopf, Philipp Georg, Hanspeter
A. Mallot, and Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik
Modeling
Motivations and Emotions as a Basis for Intelligent Behavior
Dolores Cañamero
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Agent-Based
Expert Assistance for Visual Problem Solving
Erika Rogers, Clark Atlanta University
Robin R. Murphy, Colorado School of Mines
Barb Ericson, Clark Atlanta University
PAPER SESSION 6: MODELING THE ENVIRONMENT
Generation
of Unknown Environment Maps by Cooperative Low-Cost Robots
R. López de Màntaras, IIIA - Artificial Intelligence
Research Institute, CSIC
J. Amat, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
F. Esteva, IIIA - Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC
M. López, IIIA - Artificial Intelligence Research Institute,
CSIC
C. Sierra, IIIA - Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC
Neo:
Learning Conceptual Knowledge by Sensorimotor Interaction with an Environment
Paul R. Cohen, Marc S. Atkin, Tim Oates, and Carole R. Beal
University of Massachusetts
Modeling
an Environment: Agents in Character Feature Extraction
Lijia Zhou and Stan Franklin
University of Memphis
Integrating
Range and Object Data for Robot Navigation
David Franklin and R. James Firby
University of Chicago
PAPER SESSION 7: LEARNING
A
Control Architecture for an Autonomous Mobile Robot
Maria C. Neves, Polytechnic Institute of Porto
Eugénio Oliveira, University of Porto
Autonomous
Document Classification for Business
Chris Clack, Jonny Farringdon, Peter Lidwell, and Tina Yu
University College London
Ant-like
Agents for Load Balancing in Telecommunications Networks
Ruud Schoonderwoerd, Hewlett-Packard Labs Bristol and Delft University
of Technology
Owen Holland, University of the West of England
Janet Bruten, Hewlett-Packard Labs Bristol
Learning
to Sense Selectively in Physical Domains
Pat Langley
Stanford University
PAPER SESSION 8: ACTION SELECTION AND PLANNING II
Transportable
Information Agents
Daniela Rus, Robert Gray, and David Kotz
Dartmouth College
Adaptable
Local Level Arbitration of Behaviors
Mohamed Salah Hamdi and Karl Kaiser
Universitaet Hamburg
A
Layered Architecture for Office Delivery Robots
Reid Simmons, Richard Goodwin, Karen Zita Haigh, Sven Koenig, and Joseph
O'Sullivan
Carnegie Mellon University
An
Autonomous Spacecraft Agent Prototype
Barney Pell, Caelum Research, NASA Ames Research Center
Douglas E. Bernard, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute
of Technology
Steve A. Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute
of Techn ology
Erann Gat, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Nicola Muscettola, Recom Technologies, NASA Ames Research Center
P. Pandurang Nayak, Recom Technologies, NASA Ames Research Center
Michael D. Wagner, Fourth Planet
Brian C. Williams, Recom Technologies, NASA Ames Research Center
PAPER SESSION 9: EXPERT ASSISTANT ARCHITECTURE
Connection
Between Micro and Macro Aspects of Agent Modeling
B. Chaib-draa
Université Laval
Distributed
Diagnosis by Vivid Agents
Michael Schroeder, Univ. Hannover
Gerd Wagner, Univ. Leibzig
Decision
Making and Plan Management by Autonomous Agents: Theory, Implementation
and Applications
S. K. Das, Imperial College
J. Fox, Imperial Cancer Research Fund
D. Elsdon, Integral Solutions, Ltd.
P. Hammond, Brunel University
VIDEO SESSION
INSIGHT:
A Virtual Laboratory for Looking into Behavior-Based Autonomous Agents
Simone Strippgen
University of Bielefeld
Real-Time
Interactions with Virtual Agents Driven by Human Action Identification
Luc Emering, Ronan Boulic, Selim Balcisoy, and Daniel Thalmann
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
PAPER SESSION 10: USER MODELING
COLLAGEN:
When Agents Collaborate with People
Charles Rich, MERL--A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory
Candace L. Sidner, Lotus Development Corporation
SAIRE
- A Scalable Agent-based Information Retrieval Engine
Jidé B. Odubiyi, David J. Kocur, and Stuart M. Weinstein, Lockheed
Martin Space Mission Systems
Nagi Wakim, Sadanand Srivastava, Chris Gokey, and JoAnna Graham, Bowie
State University
Yenta:
A Multi-Agent, Referral-Based Matchmaking System
Leonard N. Foner
MIT Media Lab
An
Automated Meeting Scheduling System that Utilizes User Preferences
Thomas Haynes, Sandip Sen, Neeraj Arora, and Rajani Nadella
University of Tulsa
PAPER SESSION 11: MULTI-AGENT INTERACTION
Virtual
Actors That Can Perform Scripts and Improvise Roles
Peter Wavish, Philips Research Laboratories
David Connah, Institute for Perception Research
Challenger:
A Multi-agent System for Distributed Resource Allocation
Anthony Chavez, Alexandros Moukas, and Pattie Maes
MIT Media Lab
Multiple
Roles, Multiple Teams, Dynamic Environment: Autonomous Netrek Agents
Marcus J. Huber, University of Michigan
Tedd Hadley, University of California at Irvine
RoboCup:
The Robot World Cup Initiative
Hiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Laboratory
Minoru Asada, Osaka University
Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Electrotechnical Laboratory
Itsuki Noda, Electrotechnical Laboratory
Eiichi Osawa, Sony Computer Science Laboratory
PAPER SESSION 12: ACTION SELECTION AND PLANNING III
Integrated
Premission Planning and Execution for Unmanned Ground Vehicles
Edmund H. Durfee, Patrick G. Kenny, and Karl
C. Kluge
University of Michigan
Evaluation
of a Semi-Autonomous Assistant for Exploratory Data Analysis
Robert St. Amant, North Carolina State University
Paul R. Cohen, University of Massachusetts
High-Level
Planning and Low-Level Execution: Towards a Complete Robotic Agent
Karen Zita Haigh and Manuela M. Veloso
Carnegie Mellon University
Adaptation
and Learning in Animated Creatures
Jiming Liu, Hong Qin, Y. Y. Tang, and Y. T. Wu
Hong Kong Baptist University
PAPER SESSION 13: WORLD WIDE WEB AGENTS
An
Adaptive Web Page Recommendation Service
Marko Balabanovic
Stanford University
A
Multi-agent System "Test Bed" for Evaluating Autonomous Agents
J. M. Corchado and B. Lees, University of Paisley
N. Rees, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Evolving
a Multiagent Information Filtering Solution in Amalthaea
Alexandros Moukas and Giorgos Zacharia
MIT Media Lab
Designing
Behaviors for Information Agents
Keith Decker, University of Delaware
Anandeep Pannu, Katia Sycara, and Mike Williamson, Carnegie Mellon
University
PAPER SESSION 14: AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS
Many
Hands Make Light Work? An Investigation into Behaviourally Controlled Co-operant
Autonomous Mobile Robots
D. P. Barnes, R. A. Ghanea-Hercock, R. S. Aylett, and A. M. Coddington
UK Robotics Ltd.
Framing
Autonomy: A Visual Tracking Architecture
D. Guinea, F. Recio, and J. Vicente
Instituto de Automática Industrial
Basic
Agents for Visual/Motor Coordination of a Mobile Robot
Maria C. Garcia-Alegre and Felicidad Recio
Instituto de Automática Industrial
An
Open Architecture for Robot Entertainment
Masahiro Fujita and Koji Kageyama
Sony Corporation
PAPER SESSION 15: PEOPLE-AGENT INTERACTION
TAIPE:
Tactical Assistants for Interaction Planning and Execution
Edmund H. Durfee, University of Michigan
Jaeho Lee, Marcus Huber, and Michael Kurnow, Orincon Corporation
I
Picked Up Catapia and Other Stories: A Multimodal Approach to Expressivity
for "Emotionally Intelligent" Agents
Clark Elliott
DePaul University
An
Intelligent Assistant For Patient Health Care
Silvia Miksch, Kenneth Cheng, and Barbara Hayes-Roth
Stanford University
Software
Agents and User Autonomy
Batya Friedman, Colby College
Helen Nissenbaum, Princeton University
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