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Eleventh International Workshop CIA 2007 on
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Cooperative Information Agents
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September 19 - 21, 2007
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September 19, 2007, Wednesday
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8:15 Registration and Wake-Up Coffee Serving
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome
9:00 - 9:45 Invited Talk I:
Managing Sensors and Information Sources Using
Semantic Matchmaking and Argumentation
Alun Preece (U Aberdeen, UK)
9:45 - 12:30 Session I: Information Search and Processing
9:45 - 10:15
An Agent Architecture for Hybrid P2P Free-Text Search*
Avi Rosenfeld, Claudia Goldman, Gal Kaminka, Sarit Kraus (Jerusalem College/Bar-Ilan U/Samsung Research, Israel)
10:15 - 10:45
Multi-agent cooperative planning and information gathering.
Fariba Sadri (Imperial College London, UK)
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:45
Using Distributed Data Mining and Distributed Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Integration.
Ana Carolina de Paula, Braulio Avila, Edson Scalabrin, Fabricio Enembreck (Pontificia U, Brasil)
11:45 - 12:15
Quantifying the Expected Utility of Information in Multi-Agent Scheduling Tasks.
Avi Rosenfeld, Sarit Kraus, Charlie Ortiz (Bar-Ilan U, Israel)
12:15 - 12:30 Q & A (Discussion with the Presenters)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 Invited Talk II:
A Delegation Framework Applied to Aerial Robotic Scenarios.
John Jules Meyer (U Utrecht, The Netherlands)
14:45 - 17:00 Session II: Applications (1)
14:45 - 15:15
Agent-Based Traffic Control Using Auctions.
Heiko Schepperle, Klemens Boehm (U Karlsruhe, Germany)
15:15 - 15:45
High-Performance Agent System for Intrusion Detection in Backbone Networks.
Martin Rehak, Michal Pechoucek, Pavel Celeda, Vojtech Krmicek, Pavel Monicec,
David Medvigy (TU Prague/Masaryk U, Czech Republic)
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 - 16:45
A Multiagent System for Physically based Rendering Optimization.
Carlos Gonzalez-Morcillo, Gerhard Weiss, Luis Jimenez, David Vallejo, Javier Albusac (U Castilla-LaMancha, Spain; SCCH, Austria)
16:45 - 17:00 Q & A (Discussion with the Presenters)
17:00 - 18:30 Session III: Applications (2)
17:00 - 17:30
NN-Based Multiagent System for Simulation of Investing Strategies.
Darius Plikynas, Rimvydas Aleksiejunas (Vilnius Management Academy, Lithhuania)
17:30 - 18:00
Business Ecosystem Modelling: Combining Natural Ecosystems and Multi-Agent Systems.
Cesar Marin, Iain Stalker, Nikolay Mehandjiev (U Manchester, UK)
18:00 - 18:30
From Local Search To Global Behavior: Ad Hoc Network Example.
Osher Yadgar (SRI International, USA)
18:30 - 18:45 Q&A (Discussion with the Presenters)
19:00 - 20:30 >>> Welcome Reception <<< (at workshop venue)
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September 20, 2007, Thursday
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8:30 Wake-up Coffee Serving
9:00 - 9:45 Invited Talk III:
Analysis of Negotiation Dynamics.
Catholijn Jonker (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
9:45 - 11:00 Session IV: Rational Cooperation
9:45 - 10:15
A Generic Framework for Argumentation-Based Negotiation.
Markus Geipel, Gerhard Weiss (ETH Zurich, Switzerland; SCCH, Austria)
10:15 - 10:45
The Effect of Mediated Partnerships in Two-Sided Economic Search.
Philip Hendrix, David Sarne (Harvard U, USA)
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:45
Who Works Together in Agent Coalition Formation?
Vicki Allan, Kevin Westwood (Utah State U, USA)
11:45 - 12:00 Q & A (Discussion with the Presenters)
12:00 - 13:00 Session V: System Demonstrations
12:00 - 12:20
MAGARRO - Multi AGent ARchitecture for Rendering Optimization^
Presenter: Carlos Gonzalez-Morcillo (UCLM, Spain)
12:20 - 12:40
POEM - Physics-Oriented Emergent MANet^
Presenter: Osher Yadger (SRI International, USA)
12:40 - 13:00
Q & A: Discussion with the CIA 2007 System Award Nominees.
Public Voting on the Systems Presented.
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 23:00 >>> Social Program <<<
- Visit to the Vermeer Center
- Visit to the Royal Delft Factory
- Dinner at De Prinsenkelder
with CIA 2007 System Innovation Award Giving
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September 21, 2007, Friday
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9:00 Wake-up Coffee Serving
9:30 - 10:15 Invited Talk IV:
The Games Between Agents and Ants.
Jaap van den Herik (U Maastricht, The Netherlands)
10:15 - 11:45 Session VI: Interaction and Cooperation
10:15 - 10:45
Using Ant's Brood Sorting to Increase Fault Tolerance in Linda's Tuple Distribution Mechanism.
Matteo Casadei, Ronaldo Menezes, Mirko Viroli, Robert Tolksdorf (U Bologna/Florida Tech/FU Berlin, Italy/USA/Germany)
10:45 - 11:15
Agent Behavior Alignment: a Mechanism to Overcome Problems in Agent Interactions During Runtime.
Gerben Meyer, Nick Szirbik (U Groningen, Netherlands)
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:15
Methods for Coalition Formation in Adaptation-Based Social Networks.
Levi Barton, Vicki Allan (Utah State U, USA)
12:15 - 12:30 Q & A (Discussion with the Presenters)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:45 Session VII: Trust
14:00 - 14:30
Trust Modeling with Context Representation and Generalized Identities*
Martin Rehak, Michal Pechoucek (TU Prague, Czech Republic)
14:30 - 15:00
Learning Initial Trust among Interacting Agents.
Achim Rettinger, Matthias Nickles, Volker Tresp (TU Munich/Siemens ICT, Germany)
15:00 - 15:30
A Probabilistic Framework for Decentralized Management of Trust and Quality*
Le-Hung Vu, Karl Aberer (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Formal Analysis of Trust Dynamics in Human and Software Agent Experiments
Tibor Bosse, Catholijn Jonker, Jan Treur, Dmytro Tykhonov (VU Amsterdam/TU Delft, Netherlands)
16:30 - 16:45 Q & A (Discussion with the Presenters)
16:45 - 17:00 Session VIII: Closing
- CIA 2007 Best Paper Award Giving
- Closing of the CIA 2007 Workshop / Announcement of CIA 2008
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