Preface

Conference Organization

Invited Talks

How Can AI Systems Deal with Large and Complex Problems? - Model Building as Problem Solving

Setsuo Ohsuga

Steps Toward the Permanent Colonization of Cyberspace

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw

Robot-Discoverer: A Role Model for Any Intelligent Agent

Jan M. Zytkow

Intelligent Agents: Embodied and Disembodied

Daniel T. Ling

Agent Architectures

A framework for Multi-Agent Systems Development

David kinny

A Reactive Scheduling Agent Architecture for Coordinating Autonomous Assistants

Wayne Wobcke

Arash Sichanie

Evaluating the FIPA Standards on the Field: An Audio Video Entertainment Application

R. Cattoni

A. Potrich

P. Charlton

E. Mamdani

A Multi-Agent Approach to Self-Organizing Vision Systems

Thorsten Graf

Alois Knoll

Robot Media Communication: A Real-World Guide Agent to Construct Transparent Knowledge Boundaries between Real and Virtual Spaces

Noriko Etani

Gate Growth: Grammar Encoded Evolutionary Design for Autonomous Agent

Kensuke Takita

Yukinori Kakazu

Multi-Agent Cooperation

Facilitate Agreement in Cooperative Design by Detecting Irrational Claims in Negotiation

T. Yoshida

T. Teduka

S. Nishida

Mutual Valuations between Agents and their Coalitions

Stefan J. Johanson

Reinforcement Learning with Bidding for Automatic Segmentation

Ron Sun

Chad Sessions

How to Cooperate in Iterated Chicken Game and Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma

Bengt Carlsson

An Argument-Based Agent System with the Contract Net Protocol

Shinya Maeda

Chunyang Guan

Hajime Sawamura

Design and Implementation of Multi-Agent Coordination

David Ramamonjisoa

Issam A. Hamid

Distributed Intelligence

From A Life Agents to a Kingdom of N Queens *

Han Jing

Jiming Liu

Cai Qingsheng

Soap Bubbles and the Dynamical Behavior of Multi-Agent Systems

W. K. Lor

P. De Wilde

The Motivation for Dynamic Adaptive Autonomy in Agent-Based Systems *

K. Suzanne Barber

Anuj Goel

Cheryl E. Martin

A Team Model in a Dynamic Fire World

M. Goyal

N. Parameswaran

How Flexible Should Agent Behaviour Languages Be?

B. Mayoh

T. Krink

E.G. Werk

Du Junping

Formal Agent Theories

Knowledge Granularity Spectrum, Action Pyramid, and the Scaling Problem

Yiming Ye

John K. Tsotsos

Embodied Ontologies: Ontologies for Real Agents

Hiroshi Tsukimoto

Recipe Structure for Dynamic Worlds *

S. Au

N. Parameswaran

Dynamic Planning Model for Agent's Preferences Satisfaction: First Results *

Pavlos Moraitis

Alexis Tsoukias

Belief-Goal-Role Agents: From Conception to Specification

Walid Chainbi

Modeling Sociality in the BDI Framework

Pietro Panzarasa

Timothy J. Norman

Nicholas R. Jennings

Modeling Agents as Reflective Intentional Systems

Maria Fasli

Circumscribed-Polyhedron Approximation for Maximum Hypersphere Search

Hiroshi Watanabe

Einoshin Suzuki

An Agent System in Stratums Theory

Luis Carlos Molina Acevedo

Towards Situation-Specific Agent Theories

Paul Davidsson

Bertil Ekdahl

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Agents

Integration of Multiple Heterogeneous Databases Using a Client-Side Meta Search Agent

Taehee Kim

Seonho Kim

Sun-Hwa Hahn

Jin-Hyung Kim

Active User Interfaces for Building Decision-Theoretic Systems

Scott M. Brown

Eugene Santos Jr.

Sheila B. Banks

System Expansion and Integration with Agents in HSTAT

Xiaocheng Luan

Maureen Prettyman

Robert Antonucci

An Agent-Based Architecture in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

T.B. Ho

T.D. Nguyen

N.B. Nguyen

Learning Novel Concepts through Natural Language

Jingye Zhou

Jianwen Yin

Jianer Chen

John Yen

An Efficient K-Means-Based Clustering Algorithm

D.L. Yang

J.H. Chang

M.C. Hong

J.S. Liu

Design of Robust, Survivable Intrusion Detection Agent

Sourav Bhattacharya

Nong Ye

A Bayesian Alarm Network as Independent Intrusion Detection System

Dusan Bulatovic

Dusan Velasevic

Personalized Web Agents

A Personalized Web Agent with Implicit Feedback and Hybrid Filtering Strategy

Junggee Han

Juntae Kim

User Profile Based Personalized Web Agent

Young Jun So

Hae Jung Baek

Young Tack Park

Multi-Agent Based Approach for Information Retrieval in the WWW

Tarek Helmy

Babak Hodjat

Makoto Amamiya

Information Filtering on the Web: A Hybrid Case-Based Approach *

G.L. Gentili

M. Marinilli

A. Micarelli

F. Sciarrone

Distributed Information Retrieval Agent JMAT

Zhongzhi Shi

Wei Li

Hu Cao

Xiaoli Li

Engineering Information Discovery and Monitoring Systems along the Dimensions of Agency and Ontology

Kwang Mong Sim

Pui Tak Wong

Intelligent Information Discovery with Self-Training Autonomous Agents

D. Fragoudis

S.D. Likothanassis

More Efficient Web Searching by Modeling Users' Long-Term Goals

Dimitre Dimitrov

James Warren

Information Retrieval Agents Based on Evolutionary Computation to Reflect User Preference

Jee-Haeng Lee

Sung-Bae Cho

Software Agents

Training Intelligent Agents Using Human Internet Data *

Elizabeth Sklar

Alan D. Blair

Pablo Funes

Jordan Pollack

Goodinator: Quick and Prudent Meeting Coordination with a Multi-Agent System

Koji Kida

Kenji Yoshifu

Takayoshi Asakura

Toshiaki Miyashita

An Adaptive Meeting Scheduling Agent

J. William Murdock

Ashok K. Goel

Microsoft Agent, A Multi-Client Programming Interface for Interactive Computer Characters

Tandy Trower

Natural Language Processing in Multi-Agent Systems

Jingye Zhou

Jianwen Yin

Jianer Chen

John Yen

Software Interface Agents

Yong Jin Cho

Dong Hyun Roh

Hyun S. Yang

Mobile Agents

Instrusion Detection and Intrusion Route Tracing by Use of Mobile Agents

Midori Asaka

Takefumi Onabuta

Shinchi Nakasuka

Intention Spreading: An Extensible Theme to Protect Mobile Agents from Read Attack Hoisted by Malicious Hosts

Sau-Koon Ng

Kwok-Wai Cheung

Learning Improves Mobile Agent Efficiency

Sam Joseph

Masanori Hattori

Naoki Kase

DBMAS: A Multi-Agent System for Databases

Jianrong Chen

Sue Greenwood

John Nealon

Increasing the Dependability in a Multi-Agent System

Ralph Deters

An Efficient Fault-Tolerant Protocol for Mobile Agents

Ting On Lee

Kam W. Ng

Agent-Supported Enterprise

Improving Telecom Service Access Convergence Using Software Agents

Marko Palola

Marko Heikkinen

Rauli Kaksonen

Allocative Auctions: An Application Context for CSCW and Intelligent Agents

Helen Meng

Yuk Chi Li

Ka Kit Lau

Yun Wing Lee

Supporting Coordination: A Multi-Agent Approach

Monica Divitini

Supporting Collaborative Building Design: A Multi-Agent Approach

W. Dai

R. Drogemuller

J. Mashford

M. Rahilly

K.K. Yum

Self-Adaptation and Reconfiguration of an Agent-Based Production System: Virtual Factory

Yingjiu Liu

Pierre Massotte

Pierre Couturier

Agent-Based Information Gathering System for Life Cycle Costs

Tiemei Irene Zhang

Elizabeth Kendall

Applying Market Based Agent to Fuzzy Decision Support System

P.W. Lei

M.I. Heywood

C.R. Chatwin

Virtual Enterprise Information System

Li Yu

Huang Biqing

Wu Cheng

A Virtual Shop Navigation System Based on the Multi-Agent Technology

N. Bensaid

Ph. Mathieu

Author Index