Transcript AAMAS 2007 in HONOLULU, HAWAI`I

The Sixth International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Honolulu, Hawaii, May 14-18, 2007
AAMAS History
New York, USA (2004)
Utrecht, The Netherlands (2005)
Hakodate, Japan (2006)
Bologna, Italy (2002)
Honolulu, Hawaii (2007)
Melbourne, Australia (2003)
AAMAS-2007 Overview
(on-line registration only)
 473 main conference participants
• from 34 different countries/regions
• 270 regular
• 203 students
• 328 banquet attendees + guests
 33 tutorial/workshop only
AAMAS-2007 Events (I)
 Doctoral Mentoring: 17 students:
• Co-chairs: Kate Larson and Iyad Rahwan
 11 workshops
• Chair: Elizabeth Sklar
 8 tutorials
• Chair: Jaime Sichman
 Industry track: 10 papers
• Co-chairs: Monique Calisti and Shigeo
Matsubara
AAMAS-2007 Events (II)
 11 Demos:
• Co-chairs: Elizabeth Andre and Zili
Zhang
 Exhibition: Toshiba, 21st century
systems, Springer, IOS press
 Agent Reputation and Trust Testbed
Competition (ART)
Other Important Folks
 Local Organization Chair: Nancy Reed
 Finance Chair: Wiebe van der Hoek
 Student Scholarships co-Chairs:
Sandip Sen and Sascha Ossowski
 Sponsorships co-Chairs: Van Parunak,
Akihiko Ohsuga, Mehdi Dastani
 Publicity Chair: Chris Brooks
 Publications co-Chairs: Jay Modi,
Atsushi Iwasaki
In Memoriam to Jay Modi
AAMAS-2007 Sponsors
Whitestein Technologies
Conference Logistics
 Plenary sessions here
 Parallel sessions in rooms to the left and right as you
leave this room
 Breaks and Poster sessions in a pretty courtyard area
around the other side of this area
 Demonstrations and exhibits are in room 303A.
 Wireless access in the registration hallway and near
room 301. 301 has a few wired ports.
 For lunch, there are nearby places to eat in several
directions from here. A large food court downstairs in
the Ala Moana shopping center (right past the Ala
Moana Hotel).
 Enjoy the open areas in the Convention Center and
the warm weather during your walks around. But
come back from lunch for the poster session!
Convention Center Map
Now to overview the Technical Program
and to introduce our first invited speaker,
we turn the podium over to the AAMAS07
program co-chairs
Technical Program
Co-Chairs:
 Michael Huhns
University of South Carolina
 Onn Shehory
IBM
Best Paper Award Nominees
“A Bounded Q-decomposition RDTP Approach to Resource Allocation,”
Plamondon Pierrick and Brahim Chaib-draa
“Multiagent Reinforcement Learning and Self-organization in a Network of Agents,”
Sherief Abdallah and Victor Lesser
“Bidding Optimally in Concurrent Second-Price Auctions of Perfectly Substitutable Goods,”
Enrico Gerding, Rajdeep Dash, David Yuen, and Nick Jennings
“Outperforming the Competition in Multi-Unit Sealed Bid Auctions,”
Ioannis Vetsikas and Nick Jennings
“Better automated abstraction techniques for imperfect information games, with application to
Texas HoldEm Poker,”
Andrew Gilpin and Tuomas Sandholm
“Distributed Agent-Based Air Traffic Flow Management,”
Kagan Tumer and Adrian Agogino
“Theoretical Advantages of Lenient Q-learners: An Evolutionary Game Theory Perspective,”
Liviu Panait and Karl Tuyls
“Distributed Management of Flexible Times Schedules,”
Stephen Smith, Anthony Gallagher, Terry Zimmerman, Laura Barbulescu, and Zack Rubinstein
The Best Paper Is:
“Distributed Agent-Based Air Traffic
Flow Management”
by
Kagan Tumer and Adrian Agogino
Best Student Paper Award Nominees
“A Computational Characterization of Multiagent Games with Fallacious Rewards,”
Ariel Procaccia and Jeffrey Rosenschein
“Computing the Banzhaf Power Index in Network Flow Games,”
Yoram Bachrach and Jeffrey Rosenschein
“A Generative Inquiry Dialogue System,”
Elizabeth Black and Anthony Hunter
“Exploiting Factored Representations for Decentralized Execution in Multi-agent Teams,”
Maayan Roth, Reid Simmons, and Manuela Veloso
“Robust coordination to sustain throughput of an unstable agent network,”
Rajesh Gautam and Kazuo Miyashita
“Batch Reinforcement Learning in a Complex Domain,”
Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan and Peter Stone
“Organizational Self-Design in Semi-dynamic Environments,”
Sachin Kamboj and Keith Decker
“IFSA: Incremental Feature-Set Augmentation,”
Ahmadi Mazda, Matthew Taylor, and Peter Stone
The Best Student Paper Is:
“A Generative Inquiry Dialogue
System”
by
Elizabeth Black and Anthony
Hunter
Program Statistics
 531 papers submitted
 122 full papers accepted (23%)
 132 short papers (posters) accepted
(25%)
 3 reviews per paper
 43 Senior PC members,
295 PC members,
77 external reviewers
Presentation Guidelines
 There are 20 minutes for each paper,
including questions
 There is no dedicated computer for each
session, so please consider allowing
yours to be used by all of the speakers in
your session
 Please load your presentation onto
whichever computer is to be used before
the session begins
Poster Guidelines
 Please display your poster in Room
306A/B either first thing in the morning
or during the morning break
 Please use the display materials we
provide (tri-fold display board and clips
or push-pins)
 Try not to damage the boards, because
they will be reused for the later poster
sessions
Invited Lectures
 John Strassner, Motorola
 Jeff Kephart, IBM
 Sarit Kraus, Bar Ilan University
 Gal Kaminka, Bar Ilan University
 Vincent Conitzer, Duke University