AISB'01 Abstracts of Technical Talks

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Abstracts for the AISB'01 Symposium on Adaptive Agents and Multi-agent Systems

1. Market Diversity and Market Efficiency: The Approach Based on Genetic Programming
   C. Yeh and S. Chen
2. The Implications of Philosophical Foundations for Knowledge Representation and Learning in Agents
   N. Lacey and M. H. Lee
3. Dynamic Skills Learning: A Support to Agent Evolution
   J. C. Routier, P. Mathieu and Y. Secq
4. Ontological Basis for Open Distributed Multi-agent System
   V. A. Abramov, N. B. Szirbik, J. B. M Goossenaerts, T. Marwala, P. de Wilde, L. Correia, P. Mariano and R. Ribeiro
5. Using Cognition and Learning to Improve Agents' Reactions
   P. R. Graça and G. Gaspar
6. Automated Servicing of Agents
   F. M. T. Brazier and N. J. E. Wijngaards
7. Adaptive Behaviour in the Classical Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
   B. Beaufils, J. Delahaye and P. Mathieu
8. Weakly Dependent Agents May Rely on Their Luck or Collaboration: A Case for Adaptation
   H. Hexmoor
9. Declarative Knowledge Updates Through Agents
   T. Eiter, M. Fink, G. Sabbatini and H. Tompits
10. Learning Faster in Cooperative Multi-agent Systems
    M. Kaya and A. Arslan
11. Adaptive Multi-agent Systems
    Z. Guessoum
12. ATNoSFERES: A Model for Evolutive Agent Behaviors
    S. Landau, S. Picault and A. Drogoul
13. An Adaptive Agent Model
    Z. Guessoum, M. Quenault and R. Durand

1. Assessing Creativity
   G. Ritchie
2. The Digital Clockwork Muse: A Computational Model of Aesthetic Evolution
   R. Saunders and J. S. Gero
3. Towards A Framework for the Evaluation of Machine Compositions
   M. Pearce and G. A. Wiggins
4. Some Fundamental Limits of Automated Artistic Decision Making
   D. Billinge and T. Addis
5. Towards Detection of Perceptually Similar Sounds: Investigating Self-organizing maps
   C. Spevak, R. Polfreman and M. Loomes
6. Paradigmatic Analysis using Genetic Programming
   C. Grilo, F. Machado and A. Cardoso
7. Senses of Interaction: What does Interactivity in Music Mean Anyway?
   A. P. de Ritis
8. Case-based Melody Generation with MuzaCazUza
   P. Ribeiro, F. C. Pereira, M. Ferrand and A. Cardoso
9. A TKS Framework for Understanding Music Composition Processes and its Application in Interactive System Design
   R. Polfreman and M. Loomes
10. Creativity and Surprise
    L. Macedo and A. Cardoso
11. Generating Poetry from a Prose Text: Creativity versus Faithfulness
    P. Gervás
12. Experiments in Meta-theory Formation
    S. Colton

1. Affective vs. Deliberative Agent Control
   M. Scheutz and B. Logan
2. Multiple Level Representation of Emotion in Computational Agents
   D. N. Davis
3. The Somato-Cognitive System
   G. Colombetti
4. Competence, Emotion and Self-regulatory Architecture
   C. B. Frankel and R. D. Ray
5. Varieties of Affect and the CogAff Architecture Schema
   A. Sloman
6. The Role of Emotion in Problem Solving
   R. V. Belavkin
7. On the Positive Value of Affect
   D. C. Moffat
8. Straight from the Heart: Using Physiological Measurements in the Evaluation of Media Quality
   G. M. Wilson and M. A. Sasse
9. SC-EUNE: Surprise/Curiosity-based Exploration of UNcertain and UNknown Events
   L. Macedo and A. Cardoso
10. Simulated Affectations of an Animated Pedagogical Agent
    T. Barker and R. Pilkington
11. A Classroom of the Future - NIMIS: Successfully Incorporating the Affective into Systems and Software Design for Learning Environments
    B. Cooper and P. Brna
12. Exploring the Impact of Emotional State on Sensitivity to Future Consequences
    R. A. Hase, G. J. F. Jones and J. J. Loose
13. Experiments with an Emotion-based Agent using the DARE Architecture
    M. Maçãs, R. Ventura, L. Custódio and C. Pinto-Ferreira
14. Learning Individual Basic Skills using an Emotion-based Architecture
    P. Vale and L. Custódio
15. Emotional Actions for Emotional Agents
    D. Moldt and C. von Scheve

1. Towards Agent-based Service Composition Through Negotiation in Multiple Auctions
   C. Preist, A. Byde, C. Bartolini and G. Piccinelli
2. A Quote-driven Automated Market
   R. A. Bourne and R. Zaidi
3. An Electronic Market for Multi-domain Service Provisioning
   M. Calisti and B. Faltings
4. An Architecture for Pseudonymous e-Commerce
   S. Rafaeli, M. Rennhard, L. Mathy, B. Plattner and D. Hutchison
5. Agent-based Information Discovery in the World Wide Web Using a Neural Network Approach and Fuzzy Logic
   F. Teuteberg
6. Cooperations and Federations of Traders in an Information Market
   M. Christoffel
7. BDI Agents and Constraint Logic
   S. Chalmers
8. Logic Agents, Dialogues and Negotiation: An Abductive Approach
   F. Sadri, F. Toni and P. Torroni
9. Evaluating User Reaction to Character Agent Mediated Displays using Eye-tracking Technology
   M. Witkowski, Y. Arafa and O. de Bruijn
10. Designing Agents for a Virtual Marketplace
    K. Kamyab, F. Guerin, P. Goulev and E. Mamdani
11. Animation of Open Agent Societies
    A. Artikis, L. Kamara, F. Guerin and J. Pitt
12. Agents in Decentralised Information Ecosystems: the DIET Approach
    P. Marrow, M. Koubarakis, R. H. van Lengen, F. Valverde-Albacete, E. Bonsma, J. Cid-Suerio, A. R. Figueiras-Vidal, A. Gallardo-Antolín, C. Hoile, T. Koutris, H. Molina-Bulla, A. Navia-Vázquez, P. Raftopoulou, N. Skarmeas, C. Tryfonopoulos, F. Wang and C. Xiruhaki

1. Modelling Simple Market Structures in Process Algebras with Locations
   J. Padget
2. Algorithms for Location-independent Communication Between Mobile Agents
   P. T. Wojciechowski
3. A Calculus for Distributed Computation
   A. Phillips
4. A Secure Dynamic Extension Mechanism for Mobile Agents
   T. Watanabe
5. Keylets and Mobile Agent Security
   H. K. Tan
6. Autonomous Multicast Reflectors over Active Networks
   L. Yamamoto and G. Leduc
7. Concurrent Routing Protocols in an Active Ad-hoc Network
   R. Gold and D. Tidhar
8. XMILE: An XML Based Approach for Programmable Networks
   C. Mascolo, W. Emmerich and H. de Meer
9. Service Development in Active Networks Using a Component-based Approach
   J. H. Laarhuis, J. van de Leur and A. J. P. Rancuret
10. Planning Mobile Agent Architecture for Open Network Environment
    M. Hattori, A. Ohsuga and S. Honiden
11. Migration Intelligence for Mobile Agents
    C. Erfurth, P. Braun and W. Rossak
12. KMOT: A Mobile Code Toolkit for Resource-constrained Portable Devices
    T. Kunz and Y. Wang
13. Modelling and Simulation of Aggregation Nets
    A. Poylisher and M. Luck
14. Towards Constructing Mobile Code Programs with Safe Dynamic Adaptability
    N. Amano and T. Watanabe
15. A Framework for Adding Computational Intelligence to Mobile Agents
    P. S. da Silva and M. de Jesus Mendes

1. Intentions Determine the Effect of Nonconsciously Registered Visual Information: Evidence for Direct Parameter Specification in the Metacontrast Dissociation
   U. Ansorge and O. Neumann
2. PLANCS: Classes for Programming Adaptive Behaviour Based Robots
   T. S. Dahl and C. Giraud-Carrier
3. Implicit Learning: More Powerful than Current Models Allow? The Case of Learning Serialist Grammars
   Z. Dienes and C. Longuet-Higgins
4. Natural Language Parsing with Cell Assemblies: A Model of Nonconscious Human Language Processing
   C. R. Huyck
5. Styles of Nonconscious Intelligence
   P. Lewicki and M. Czyzewska
6. Refuelling the Debate about Implicit Abstraction: New Evidence from Hidden Covariation Detection
   C. Stamov Roßnagel
7. Metacognitive Measures of Implicit Knowledge
   M. Twyman and Z. Dienes
8. Information Compression by Multiple Alignment, Unification and Search as a Model of Non-conscious Intelligence
   J. G. Wolff