AAMAS 2002 Workshop on Teamwork and Coalition Formation

Workshop Programm

July 15, 2002

8:00-8:30 

Opening remarks

 

 

8:30-10:30 

Coalition Formation (Chair: Onn Shehory )

 

 

      8:30-9:00

DCF-S A Dynamic Coalition Formation Scheme for Rational Agents

Matthias Klusch, Andreas Gerber

 

 

      9:00-9:30

Using Overhearing for Local Group Formation

François Legras

 

 

      9:30-10:00

Allocation Algorithms in Dynamic Negotiation-Based Coalition Formation

Leen-Kiat Soh, Costas Tsatsoulis

 

 

     10:00-10:30

Societies Solve Social Dilemmas with Groups

Robert Axtell, Damon Centola

 

 

10:30-11:00   

Coffee break

 

 

11:00-12:30   

Teamwork Models I (Chair: Jeff Bradshaw)

 

 

     11:00-11:30

Team-Oriented Agent Coordination in the RETSINA Multi-Agent System

Joseph A. Giampapa, Katia P. Sycara

 

 

     11:30-12:00

Formalizing Team Formation and Reformation in Multiagent Systems

Ranjit Nair, Milind Tambe, Stacy Marsella, David V. Pynadath

 

 

     12:00-12:30

Challenges in Identifying the Best Agent Organizations

K. Suzanne Barber, Matthew T. MacMahon

 

 

12:30-2:00

Lunch

 

 

2:00-3:30     

Teamwork Models II (Chair: Julita Vassileva)

 

 

       2:00-2:30

On Proactive Delivery of Needed Information to Teammates

John Yen, Xiaocong Fan, Richard A. Volz

 

 

       2:30-3:00

Co-X: defining what Agents Do Together

H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, Mitch Fleischer, James Odell

 

 

       3:00-3:30

What we can learn about human-agent teamwork from practice

M. Sierhuis, R. Van Hoof, D. Prescott, J. Bradshaw, P. Feltovich, R. Jeffers, N. Suri, A. Uszok, A. Acquisti

 

 

3:30-4:00     

Coffee break

 

 

4:00-5:00     

Panel discussion on Emerging Applications and Future Directions (Moderator: John Yen)

Panelists: Barbara Grosz (Harvard, USA), Matthias Klusch (DFKI GmbH, Germany), Milind Tambe (USC, USA), John Tangney (AFOSR, USA), Julita Vassileva (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

 

 

5:00-5:30     

Closing remarks