IJCAI'01 Proceedings, Section on Multi-Agent Systems: ===================================================== Multi-Agent Games: ------------------ - Rational and Convergent Learning in Stochastic Games (by Michael Bowling and and Manuela Veloso), p. 1021-1026 - Multi-Agent Influence Diagrams for Representing and Solving Games (Daphne Koller and Brian Milch), p. 1027-1034 Cooperative Behaviour: ---------------------- - Rational Competitive Analysis (by Moshe Tennenholtz), p. 1067-1072 Multi-agent Systems: -------------------- -Multiagent Coordination by Probabilistic Cellular Automata (by T. D. Barfoot and G. M. T. D`Eleuterio), p. 1037-1042 - Identifying the Scope of Modeling for Time-Critical Multiagent Decision-Making (by Sanguk Noh and Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz), p. 1043-1048 - Fair Imposition (by Yoav Shoham and Moshe Tennenholtz), p. 1083-1088 - CABOB: A Fast Optimal Algorithm for Combinatorial Auctions (by Tuomas Sandholm, Subhash Suri, Andrew Gilpin, and David Levi), p. 1102-1108 - Stable Strategies for Sharing Information among Agents (by Rina Azoulay-Schwartz and Sarit Kraus), p. 1128-1134 - Achieving Budget-Balance with Vickrey-Based Payment Schemes in Exchanges (by David C. Parkes, Jayant Kalagnanam, and Marta Eso), p. 1161-1168 - Bidding Languages for Combinatorial Auctions (by Craig Boutilier and Holger H. Hoos), p. 1211-1217 - Partitioning Activities for Agents (by Fatma Ozcan and V.S. Subrahmanian), p. 1218-1223 Lifelike Characters: -------------------- - A Layered Brain Architecture for Synthetic Characters (by Damian Isla, Robert Burke, Marc Downie, and Bruce Blumberg), p. 1051-1058 - Behavior Planning for a Reflexive Agent (by Berardina De Carolis, Catherine Pelachaud, Isabella Poggi, and Fiorella de Rosis), p. 1059-1064 Market Mechanisms: ------------------ - Market Clearability (by Tuomas Sandholm and Subhash Suri), p. 1145-1151 - On Market-Inspired Approaches to Propositional Satisfiability (by William E. Walsh, Makoto Yokoo, Katsutoshi Hirayama, and Michael P. Wellman), p. 1152-1158 Multi-Agent Systems Applications: --------------------------------- - An Agent Architecture for Multi-Attribute Negotiation (by Catholijn M. Jonker and Jan Treur), p. 1195-1201 - A Multiagent System for Helping Urban Traffic Management (by L.A. Garcia and F. Toledo), p. 1202-1207 =============================================================================== Readings in Agents: =================== 2.1 Enterprises: ---------------- - Global Information Management via Local Autonomous Agents (by Michael N. Huhns, Munindar P. Singh, and Tomasz Ksiezyk), p. 36-45 - The Redux' Server (by Charles Petrie), p. 56-65 2.2 Internet and Information Access ----------------------------------- - Matchmaking for Information Agents (by Daniel Kuokka and Larry Harada), p. 91-97 2.3 Personal Assistants ----------------------- - COLLAGEN: When Agents Collaborate with People (by Charles Rich and Candace L. Sidner), p. 117-124 2.4 Other Applications ---------------------- - Multiagent Coordination in Tightly Coupled Task Scheduling (by Jyi-Shane Liu and Katia P. Sycara), p. 164- 171 3.1 Architectures ----------------- - An Open Agent Architecture (by Philip R. Cohen, Adam Cheyer, Michelle Wang, and Soon Cheol Baeg), p. 197-204 - A Pragmatic BDI Architecture (by Klaus Fischer, Jörg P. Müller, and Markus Pischel), p. 217-224 3.2 Communications and Knowledge Sharing ---------------------------------------- - Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language (by Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin), p. 235-242 4.1 Rational Agency: Logical ---------------------------- - Modeling Rational Agents within a BDI-Architecture (by Anand S. Rao and Michael P. Georgeff), p. 317-328 - Agent-Oriented Programming (by Yoav Shoham), p. 329-349 4.2 Rational Agency: Economic ----------------------------- - Designing Conventions for Automated Negotiation (by Jeffrey S. Rosenschein and Gilad Zlotkin), p. 353-370 - Coordination without Communication: Experimental Validation of Focal Point Techniques (by Maier Fenster, Sarit Kraus, and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein), p. 380-386 4.3 Social Agency ----------------- - Formalizing the Cooperative Problem Solving Process (by Michael Wooldridge and Nicholas R. Jennings), p. 430-440 4.4 Interactive Agency ---------------------- - Towards a Pragmatic Theory of Interactions (by Afsaneh Haddadi), p. 443-449 - Designing a Family of Coordination Algorithms (by Keith S. Decker and Victor R. Lesser), p. 450-457 - A Semantics for Speech Acts (by Munindar P. Singh), p. 458-470 - Understanding Cooperation: An Agent?s Perspective (by Andreas Lux and Donald Steiner), p. 471-478 4.5 Adaptive Agency ------------------- - Learning to Coordinate Actions in Multi-Agent Systems (by Gerhard Weiss), p. 481-486 - Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Independent vs. Cooperative Agents (by Ming Tan), p. 487-494 - Learning Policies for Partially Observable Environments: Scaling Up (by Michael L. Littman, Anthony R. Cassandra, and Leslie Pack Kaelbling), p. 495-503