Schedule of presentations

Monday, March 25

OPENING SESSION  (9-10:30am)
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9:00    Opening statements
9:15    Invited Speaker 

BREAK   (10:30-11am)
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PAPER SESSION I (11am-12:30pm)
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11:00   Dajun Zeng and Katia Sycara, "Bayesian Learning in Negotiation" 
11:20   Hung Hai Bui, D. Kieronska and S. Venkatesh, "Negotiating agents 
        that learn about others' preferences" 
11:40   Jurgen Schmidhuber, "A general method for multi-agent reinforcement 
        learning in unrestricted environments"
12:00   Panel Discussion 

LUNCH BREAK (12:30-2:00)
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PAPER SESSION II  (2-3:30pm)
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2:00    Owen Holland, "Multiagent systems: lessons from social insects
        and collective robotics"
2:20    Shounak Roychowdhury, Neeraj Arora and Sandip Sen, "Effects of
        local information on group behavior"
2:40    Jacques Bonneville and Salima Hassas, "Towards a
        self-organizational approach for a parallel computation in a
        distributed production rule based system" 
3:00    Panel Discussion

BREAK   (3:30-4pm)
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PAPER SESSION  III  (4-5:30pm)
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4:00    Milind Tambe, Lewis Johnson and Wei-Min Shen, "Adaptive Agent
        Tracking in Real-world Multiagent domains: A Preliminary Report"
4:20    Hitoshi Matsubara, Itsuki Noda and Kazuo Hiraki, "Learning of
        Cooperative actions in multiagent systems: a case study of
        pass play in Soccer"
4:40    Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso, "Collaborative and Adversarial
        Learning: A Case Study in Robotic Soccer"                   
3:00    Panel Discussion

RECEPTION  (6-7pm)
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Tuesday, March 26

PAPER SESSION IV  (9-10:30am)
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9:00    Andrew Garland and Richard Alterman, "Multiagent Learning through 
        Collective Memory"
9:20    Thomas Haynes, Kit Lau and Sandip Sen, "Learning Cases to
        Compliment Rules for Conflict Resolution in Multiagent Systems"
9:40    M V Nagendraprasad, Victor Lesser, and Susan Lander, "Learning
        Organizational Roles in a Heterogeneous Multiagent System"
10:00   Panel Discussion

BREAK   (10:30-11am)
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BREAKOUT GROUPS  (11am-12:30pm)
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        Cooperative Vs competitive evolution
        Effects of local adaptation on group behavior
        Multiagent reinforcement learning
        Mutually supervised learning

LUNCH BREAK (12:30-2:00)
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REPORTS FROM BREAKOUT GROUPS  (11am-12:30pm)
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11:00   15 minutes per session         
12:00   Open forum

BREAK   (3:30-4pm)
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PAPER SESSION  III  (4-5:30pm)
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4:00    Neeraj Arora and Sandip Sen, "Resolving Social Dilemmas Using
        Genetic Algorithms"
4:20    Lawrence Bull and Terence C. Fogarty, "Evolution in
        cooperative multiagent environments"
4:40    John Grefenstette and Robert Daley, "Methods for Competitive
        and Cooperative Co-evolution"
5:00    Panel Discussion

PLENARY SESSION  (6-8pm)
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Wednesday, March 27

PAPER SESSION VI  (9-10:30am)
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9:00    Cristina Bichhieri, Martha E. Pollack and Carlo Rovelli, "The
        potential for the evolution of cooperation among Web agents"
9:20    Innes A. Ferguson and Grigoris J. Karakoulas, "Multiagent
        Learning and Adaptation in an Information Filtering Market"
9:40    Dan L. Grecu and David C. Brown, "Learning to Design Together"
10:00   Panel Discussion

BREAK   (10:30-11am)
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PAPER SESSION VII (11am-12:00pm)
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11:00   MV Nagendra Prasad and Victor Lesser, "Learning
        Situation-specific Coordination in Generalized Partial Global
        Planning" 
        
11:30   Concluding Remarks 

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