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Autonomous Negotiating Teams
PI Meeting

November 28-30, 2000
Westin Francis Marion
Charleston, SC

Introduction redball Agenda

Tentative Agenda

Tuesday, November 28, 2000
07:15-08:15 Registration, BREAKFAST
08:15-08:30 Opening remarks - Janos Sztipanovits
08:30-09:15 Robert Neches, ISI: CAMERA
09:15-10:00 Gabor Karsai, ISIS/VU: MICANT
10:00-10:30 BREAK
10:30-11:15 Victor Lessor, UMASS : Scalable RT Negotiating Toolkit
11:15-12:00 Costas Tsatsoulis, U.of Kansas: A Case-Based Reflective Negotiation Model
12:00-01:00 LUNCH
01:00-01:30 Milind Tambe, ISI: DYNAMITE
01:30-02:00 Steven Fitzpatrick, Kestrel: A Toolkit to Create Run-time Generators, Aggregators, and Synthesizers
02:00-02:30 Charles Ortiz, SRI: Incremental Negotiation and Coalition for Resource-Bounded Reasoners
02:30-03:00 Michael Huhns, Univ. of South Carolina: Resource Allocation in Dynamic Uncertain Domains
03:00-03:30 Ken Blemel, MSI: Autonomous Negotiating Teams
03:30-04:00 BREAK
04:00-06:00 Demonstrations, discussions
Wednesday, November 29, 2000
07:15-08:00 BREAKFAST
08:00-08:45 Paul Zemany, Sanders: Adaptive Scan Scheduling
08:45-09:30 David Musliner, HTC: Planning RT Negotiations for Mission-Critical Applications
09:30-10:00 Bart Selman, Cornell: Controlling Computational Cost: Structure, Phase Transition, Randomization
10:00-10:30 BREAK
10:30-11:00 David Etherington, U. of Oregon: Improving Coalition Performance by Exploiting Phase Transition Behavior
11:00-11:30 Robert Neches, ISI: Analytical Tools to Evaluate Negotiation Difficulty
11:30-12:00 Weixiong Zhang, ISI: Flexible and Scalable Methods for Multi-Agent Distributed Resource Allocations by Exploiting Phase Transitions
12:00-01:00 LUNCH
01:00-01:30 James Powell, USU: Analytical Prediction for Emergent Dynamics for ANT Systems
01:30-02:00 H. Van Dyke Parunak, ERIM: Agents Overcoming Resource-Independent Scaling Threats
02:00-02:30 Howard Shrobe, MIT: Dynamic Domain Architectures
02:30-03:00 Pradeep Khosla, CMU: Port-based Agent Architecture
03:00-03:30 BREAK
03:30-06:00 Breakout sessions:
Challenge problem (Paul Zemany, James Lawton)
Logistics Demo (Robert Neches, Gabor Karsai)
Other Working groups as needed
Thursday, November 30, 2000
07:15-08:15 BREAKFAST
08:15-08:45 Program coordination issues (Dan Daskiewich, AFRL)
08:45-10:00 Working group reports
10:00-10:30 BREAK
10:30-12:00 Working group reports
12:00-01:00 LUNCH

GENERAL REQUEST: Please send an electronic copy of your presentation to John Luca by COB November 17.

Direct comments concerning this meeting to: John Luca