| Tuesday, May 9, 2000 |
| 07:15-08:15 |
Registration, Breakfast |
| 08:15-08:30 |
Opening remarks for ANTS Presentations - Janos Sztipanovits |
| 08:30-09:00 |
Victor
Lessor, UMASS : Scalable RT Negotiating Toolkit |
| 09:00-09:30 |
Costas Tsatsoulis, U.of Kansas: A Case-Based Reflective Negotiation Model |
| 09:30-10:00 |
Milind Tambe, ISI: DYNAMITE |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Break |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Robert Neches, ISI: CAMERA |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Gabor Karsai, ISIS/VU: ANTS and MIC for Autonomous Logistics |
| 11:30-12:00 |
David Musliner, HTC: Planning RT Negotiations for Mission-Critical Applications |
| 12:00-01:00 |
Lunch |
| 01:00-01:20 |
Bart Selman, Cornell: Controlling Computational Cost: Structure, Phase Transition, Randomization |
| 01:20-01:40 |
David Etherington, CIRL: Improving Coalition Performance by Expoiting Phase Transition Behavior |
| 01:40-02:00 |
Robert Neches, ISI: Analytical Tools to Evaluate Negotiation Difficulty |
| 02:00-02:20 |
Weixiong Zhang, ISI: Flexible and Scalable Methods for Multi-Agent Distributed Resource Allocations by Exploiting Phase Transitions |
| 02:20-02:40 |
James Powell, USU: Analytical Prediction for Emergent Dynamics for ANT Systems |
| 02:40-03:00 |
H. Van Dyke Parunak, ERIM: Agents Overcoming Resource-Independent Scaling Threats |
| 03:00-03:30 |
Break |
| 03:30-03:45 |
Working Group session organization
Suggested topics:
Emergent Dynamics - How to Deal With It?
Managing Computational Cost - Opportunities |
| 03:45-06:00 |
Working Group Sessions |
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| Wednesday, May 10, 2000 |
| 07:15-08:00 |
Breakfast |
| 08:00-08:30 |
Steven Fitzpatrick, Cordell Green, Kestrel: A Toolkit to Create Run-time Generators, Aggregators, and Synthesizers |
| 08:30-09:00 |
Charles Ortiz, SRI: Incremental Negotiation and Coalition Formation for Resource-Bounded Reasoners |
| 09:00-09:30 |
Michael Huhns, Univ. of South Carolina: Resource Allocation in Dynamic Uncertain Domains |
| 09:30-10:00 |
Ken Blemel, MSI: Autonomous
Negotiating Teams
Ken Blemel, MSI: Quality of Service
MCCI: Autocoding Toolset
Dan Watson, Utah State University: Acting like ANTs |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Break |
| 10:20-10:40 |
Howard Shrobe, MIT: Dynamic Domain Architectures |
| 10:40-11:00 |
Paul Robertson, Mike Brady, University of Oxford: Algorithms for Adaptation in Aerial Surveillance |
| 11:00-11:20 |
Saul Amarel, Louis Steinberg, Rutgers: Self-Adaptive Software for Automated Design of Complex Engineering Systems |
| 11:20-11:40 |
Akos Ledeczi, ISIS/VU: MIC for Adaptive Computing |
| 11:40-12:00 |
Pradeep Khosla, CMU: Port-based Agent Architecture |
| 12:00-01:00 |
Lunch |
| 01:00-03:00 |
Working group meetings for ANTS and Safer projects
EW Challenge problem (Paul Zemany, James Lawton)
Logistics Demo (Robert Neches, Gabor Karsai)
Towards Control Theory Based Dynamic Scan Scheduling (Northeastern, Sanders)
Feasibility of Periodic Scan Schedules (Bruno Dutertre, SRI) |
| 03:00-03:30 |
Break |
| 03:30-06:00 |
Working group meetings continue |
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| Thursday, May 11, 2000 |
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1. Please bring an electronic copy of your presentation and give it to John Luca.
Agenda