Tuesday Dec. 14, 1999
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Wednesday Dec. 15, 1999
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Thursday Dec. 16, 1999
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Friday Dec. 17, 1999
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Workshop and Tutorial Registration 08:10-08:30
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Conference Registration 08:30-09:00
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Invited Talk 08:45-09:45 Robot-Discoverer: A Role Model for Any Intelligent AgentJan M. Zytkow
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Panel: Trends and Prospects of IAT 10:00-10:50Chair: Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
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Opening Remarks 08:30-08:35
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Opening Ceremony 09:00-09:15
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Best WAEC Paper Award Presentation 08:35-08:50
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Reception 09:15-09:30
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WAEC Workshop 08:50-12:40Tutorial 1: Intelligent Pattern Recognition and Applications 10:40-12:40
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Invited Talk 09:30-10:30How Can AI Systems Deal with Large and Complex Problems? Setsuo Ohsuga
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Session 1 10:35-11:35 Agent Architectures (I)
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Session 2 10:35-11:35 Multiagent Cooperation (I)
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Session 9 09:50-11:10 Agent-Supported Enterprise (I)
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Session 10 09:50-11:10 Personalized Web Agents (I)
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Coffee Break 11:35-11:50
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Coffee Break 11:10-11:25
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Coffee Break 10:50-11:05
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Session 3 11:50-12:50 Agent Architectures (II)
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Session 4 11:50-12:50 Software Agents (I)
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Session 11 11:25-13:05 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Agents
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Session 12 11:25-12:45 Formal Agent Theories (II)
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Session 13 11:05-12:45 Personalized Web Agents (II)
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Session 14 11:05-12:45 Agent- Supported Enterprise (II)
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Lunch 12:40-13:50
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Lunch 12:50-14:00
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Lunch 13:05-14:15
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Lunch 12:45-14:00
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WAEC Workshop 13:50-18:10Tutorial 2: Linguistic Geometry: Winning Strategies for Multiagent Systems 14:00-16:00
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Invited Talk 14:00-15:00 Steps Toward the Permanent Colonization of CyberspaceJeffrey M. Bradshaw
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Agent Exhibition Show Time (Best IAT Demo Award Presentation) 14:15-15:45
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Invited Talk 14:00-15:00 Intelligent Agents: Embodied and DisembodiedDaniel T. Ling
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Session 5 15:05-16:05 Multiagent Cooperation (II)
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Session 6 15:05-16:05 Mobile Agents (I)
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IAT'99 Pre -Conference Registration 16:00-18:00
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Coffee Break 16:05-16:20
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Sightseeing Tour 15:45-19:45
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Coffee Break 15:00-15:15
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Session 7 16:20-18:00 Distributed Intelligence
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Session 8 16:20-18:00 Formal Agent Theories (I)
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Cruise and Banquet Party (Best IAT Paper Award Presentation) 20:00-23:00
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Session 15 15:15-16:15 Software Agents (II)
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Session 16 15:15-16:15 Mobile Agents (II)
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08:30-09:00
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Registration [Conference Centre Lobby]
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09:00-09:15
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Opening Ceremony [Room A/WLB 204]
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09:15-09:30
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Reception [Room A/WLB 204]
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09:30-10:30
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Invited Talk [Room A/WLB 204] Chair: Ernest LamHow Can AI Systems Deal with Large and Complex Problems? Setsuo Ohsuga (Waseda University, Japan)
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10:35-11:35
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Session 1 Agent Architectures (I) [Room A/WLB 204] Chair: K. Suzanne Barber
- A Framework for Multi-Agent Systems Development
David Kinny (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- A Reactive Scheduling Agent Architecture for Coordinating Assistants
Wayne Wobcke (BT laboratories, UK)
Arash Sichanie (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK)
- Evaluating the FIPA Standards on the Field: An Audio Video Entertainment Application
R. Cattoni and A. Potrich (ITC-irst, Centro per la Ricerca
Scientifica e Tecnologica SSI Division, Italy)
P. Charlton and E. Mamdani
(Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK)
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10:35-11:35
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Session 2 Multiagent Cooperation (I) [Room B/WLB 304] Chair: Issam A. Hamid
- Facilitate Agreement in Cooperative Design by Detecting Irrational Claims in Negotiation
T. Yoshida, T. Teduka and S. Nishida (Osaka University, Japan)
- Mutual Valuations between Agents and Their Coalitions
Stefan J. Johansson (University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden)
- Reinforcement Learning with Bidding for Automatic Segmentation
Ron Sun (University of Missouri, USA)
Chad Sessions (University of Alabama, USA)
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11:35-11:50
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Coffee Break
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11:50-12:50
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Session 3 Agent Architectures (II) [Room A/WLB 204] Chair: P. Charlton
- A Multi-Agent Approach to Self-Organizing Vision Systems
Thorsten Graf and Alois Knoll (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
- Robot Media Communication: A Real-World Guide Agent to Construct Transparent Knowledge Boundaries between Real and Virtual Spaces
Noriko Etani (Nara Institute Of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Gate Growth: Grammar Encoded Evolutionary Design for Autonomous Agent
Kensuke Takita (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Yukinori Kakazu (Hokkaido University, Japan)
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11:50-12:50
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Session 4 Software Agents (I) [Room B/WLB 304] Chair: Alexis Tsoukias
- Training Intelligent Agents Using Human Internet Data
Elizabeth Sklar (Brandis University, USA)
Alan D. Blair (University of Queensland, Australia)
Pablo Funes and Jordan Pollack (Brandeis University, USA)
- Goodinator: Quick and Prudent Meeting Coordination with a Multi-Agent System
Koji Kida, Kenji Yoshifu, Takayoshi Asakura and Toshiaki
Miyashita (NEC Corporation, Japan)
- Natural Language Processing in Multi-Agent Systems
Jingye Zhou (Xiangtan University, China)
Jianwen Yin, Jianer Chen and John Yen (Texas A&M University, USA)
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12:50-14:00
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Lunch
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14:00-15:00
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Invited Talk [Room A/WLB 204] Chair: Setsuo OhsugaSteps Toward the Permanent Colonization of Cyberspace Jeffrey M. Bradshaw (The Boeing Company, USA)
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15:05-16:05
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Session 5 Multiagent Cooperation (II) [Room A/WLB 204] Chair: T. Yoshida
- How to Cooperate in Iterated Chicken Game and Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma?
Bengt Carlsson (University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden)
- An Argument-Based Agent System with the Contract Net Protocol
Shinya Maeda, Chunyang Guan and Hajime Sawamura
(Niigata University, Japan)
- Design and Implementation of Multi-Agent Coordination
David Ramamonjisoa and Issam A. Hamid
(Iwate Prefectural University, Japan)
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15:05-16:05
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Session 6 Mobile Agents (I) [Room B/WLB 304] Chair: Nong Ye
- Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Route Tracing by Use of Mobile Agents
Midori Asaka (Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA), Japan)
Takefumi Onabuta (The Japan Research Institute, Ltd. Japan)
Shinichi Nakasuka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
- Intention Spreading: An Extensible Theme to Protect Mobile Agents from Read Attack Hoisted by Malicious Hosts
Sau-Koon Ng and Kwok-Wai Cheung
(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)
- DBMAS: A Multi-Agent System for Databases
Jianrong Chen, Sue Greenwood and John Nealon
(Oxford Brookes University, UK)
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16:05-16:20
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Coffee Break
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16:20-18:00
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Session 7 Distributed Intelligence [Room A/WLB 204] Chair: Ron Sun
- From A-Life Agents to a Kingdom of N Queens
Han Jing (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, HK)
Cai Qingsheng (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
- Soap Bubbles and the Dynamical Behavior of Multi-Agent Systems
W. K. F. Lor and P. De Wilde
(Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK)
- The Motivation for Dynamic Adaptive Autonomy in Agent-Based Systems
K. Suzanne Barber, Anuj Goel and Cheryl E. Martin
(The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
- A Team Model in a Dynamic Fire World
M. Goyal and N. Parameswaran (University of New South Wales, Australia)
- How Flexible Should Agent Behaviour Languages Be?
B. Mayoh, T. Krink, E. G. Werk (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
Du Junping (Beijing Institute of Light Industry, China)
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16:20-18:00
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Session 8 Formal Agent Theories (I) [Room B/WLB 304] Chair: Paul Davidsson
- Knowledge Granularity Spectrum, Action Pyramid, and the Scaling Problem
Yiming Ye (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
John K. Tsotsos (University of Toronto, Canada)
- Embodied Ontologies: Ontologies for Real Agents
Hiroshi Tsukimoto (Toshiba Corporation, Japan)
- Recipe Structure for Dynamic Worlds
S. Au and N. Parameswaran (University of New South Wales, Australia)
- Dynamic Planning Model for Agent's Preference Satisfaction: First Results
Pavlos Moraitis (Technical University of Crete Greece, Greece)
Alexis Tsoukias (University of Paris-Dauphine France, France)
- Belief-Goal-Role Agents: From Conception to Specification
Walid Chainbi (FSEG-SFAX, Tunisia)
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08:45-09:45
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Invited Talk [Room A/WLB 204] Chair: Ning ZhongRobot-Discoverer: A Role Model for Any Intelligent Agent Jan M. Zytkow (University of North Carolina, USA)
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09:50-11:10
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Session 9 Agent-Supported Enterprise (I) [Room A/WLB 204] Chair: David Kinny
- Improving Telecom Service Access Convergence Using Software Agents
Marko Palola, Marko Heikkinen and Rauli Kaksonen
(VTT Electronics, Finland)
- Allocative Auctions: An Application Context for CSCW and Intelligent Agents
Helen Meng, Yuk Chi Li, Ka Kit Lau and Yun Wing Lee
(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)
- Self-Adaptation and Reconfiguration of an Agent-Based Production System: Virtual Factory
Yingjiu Liu, Pierre Massotte and Pierre Couturier
(Ales School of Mines, France)
- Supporting Collaborative Building Design: A Multi-Agent Approach
Wei Dai, R. Drogemuller, J. Mashford, M. Rahilly and K. K. Yum
(Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia)
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09:50-11:10
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Session 10 Personalized Web Agents (I) [Room B/WLB 304] Chair: Kelvin Wong
- A Personalized Web Agent with Implicit Feedback and Hybrid Filtering Strategy
Junggee Han and Juntae Kim (Dongguk University, Korea)
- User Profile Based Personalized Web Agent
Young Jun. So, Hae Jung Baek, and Young-Tack Park
(Soongsil University, Korea)
- Multi-Agent Based Approach for Information Retrieval in the WWW
Tarek Helmy, Babak Hodjat and Makoto Amamiya
(Kyushu University, Japan)
- Distributed Information Retrieval Agent JMAT
Zhongzhi Shi, Wei Li, Hu Cao and Xiaoli Li
(Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
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11:10-11:25
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Coffee Break
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11:25-13:05
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Session 11 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Agents [Room A/WLB 204] Chair: Eugene Santos Jr.
- An Agent-Based Architecture in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
T. B. Ho, T. D. Nguyen and N. B. Nguyen
(Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Integration of Multiple Heterogeneous Databases Using a Client-Side Meta Search Agent
Taehee Kim, Seonho Kim, Sun-Hwa Hahn and Jin-Hyung Kim
(Korea Research and Development Information Center, Korea)
- An Efficient K-Means-Based Clustering Algorithm
D. L. Yang, J. H. Chang, M. C. Hong and J. S. Liu
(Feng Chia University, Taiwan)
- Design of Robust, Survivable Intrusion Detection Agent
Sourav Bhattacharya and Nong Ye (Arizona State University, USA)
- Learning Novel Concepts through Natural Language
Jingye Zhou (Xiangtan Univeristy, China)
Jianwen Yin, Jianer Chen and John Yen (Texas A&M University, USA)
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11:25-12:45
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Session 12 Formal Agent Theories (II) [Room B/WLB 304] Chair: Wayne Wobcke
- Modeling Sociality in the BDI Framework
Pietro Panzarasa, Timothy J. Norman and Nicholas R. Jennings
(Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK)
- Modeling Agents as Reflective Intentional Systems
Maria Fasli (University of Essex, UK)
- Circumscribed-Polyhedron Approximation for Maximum Hypersphere Search
Hiroshi Watanabe and Einoshin Suzuki
(Yokohama National University, Japan)
- Towards Situation-Specific Agent Theories
Paul Davidsson and Bertil Ekdahl
(University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden)
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13:05-14:15
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Lunch
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14:15-15:45
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Agent Exhibition Show Time (Best IAT Demo Award Presentation) [Room C/NAB 209]
Chair: Jianchang Mao
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15:45-19:45
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Sightseeing Tour
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20:00-23:00
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Cruise and Banquet Party (Best IAT Paper Award Presentation)
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10:00-10:50
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Panel: Trends and Prospects of IAT [Room A/WLB 204]Chair: Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
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10:50-11:05
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Coffee Break
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11:05-12:45
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Session 13 Personalized Web Agents (II) [Room A/WLB 204] Chair: James Kwok
- Information Filtering on the Web: a Hybrid Case-Based Approach
G. L. Gentili, M. Marinilli, A. Micarelli and F. Sciarrone
(Universit di Roma Tre Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Italy)
- Engineering Information Discovery and Monitoring Systems along the Dimensions of Agency and Ontology
Kwang Mong Sim and Pui Tak Wong
(Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK)
- Intelligent Information Discovery with Self-Training Autonomous Agents
D. Fragoudis and S. D. Likothanassis (University of Patras, Greece)
- More Efficient Web Searching by Modeling Users' Long-Term Goals
Dimitre Dimitrov and James Warren
(University of South Australia, Australia)
- Information Retrieval Agents Based on Evolutionary Computation to Reflect User Preference
Jee-Haeng Lee and Sung-Bae Cho (Yonsei University, Korea)
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11:05-12:45
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Session 14 Agent-Supported Enterprise (II) [Room B/WLB 304] Chair: Yiming Ye
- Going Beyond the Dynamic Marketplaces: Challenges for Multi-agent Systems
(Ike Iqbal Singh, SoftEcom, USA)
- Agent-Based Information Gathering System for Life Cycle Costs
Tiemei Irene Zhang and Elizabeth Kendall
(Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
- Applying Market Based Agent to Fuzzy Decision Support System
P. W. Lei, M. I. Heywood and C.R. Chatwin
(University of Macao, Macao)
- Virtual Enterprise Information System
Li Yu, Huang Biqing and Wu Cheng (Tsinghua University, China)
- A Virtual Shop Navigation System Based on the Multi-Agent Technology
N. Bensaid and Ph. Mathieu (Universite de Lille I, France)
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12:45-14:00
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Lunch
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14:00-15:00
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Invited Talk [Room A/WLB 204] Chair: P. C. YuenIntelligent Agents: Embodied and Disembodied Daniel T. Ling (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
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15:00-15:15
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Coffee Break
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15:15-16:15
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Session 15 Software Agents (II) [Room A/WLB 204] Chair: Kensuke Takita
- Active User Interfaces for Building Decision-Theoretic Systems
Scott M. Brown (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
Eugene Santos Jr. (University of Connecticut, USA)
Sheila B. Banks (Calculated Insight, Orlando, USA)
- System Expansion and Integration with Agents in HSTAT
Xiaocheng Luan (AppNet Inc., USA)
Maureen Prettyman (National Library of Medicine, USA)
Robert Antonucci (AppNet Inc., USA)
- Software Interface Agents
Yong Jin Cho, Dong Hyun Roh and Hyun S. Yang
(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
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15:15-16:15
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Session 16 Mobile Agents (II) [Room B/WLB 304] Chair: Kwang Mong Sim
- Learning Improves Mobile Agent Efficiency
Sam Joseph, Masanori Hattori and Naoki Kase
(Toshiba Corporation, Japan)
- Increasing the Dependability in a Multi-Agent System
Ralph Deters (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
- An Efficient Fault-tolerant Protocol for Mobile Agents
Ting On Lee and Kam W. Ng
(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)
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