ZiF Conference "Solving Complex Problems with Agent Systems"

Program

Thursday, February 17

AM Session

• 9:00-9:15 Introduction to the Meeting
  
  
• 9:15-10:15
  Ed Durfee: Distributed problem solving and multiagent systems: Commonalities, differences, and examples
  
  
• 10:15-10:45
  Hans-Dieter Burkhard: Agent-oriented programming and open systems
  
  Coffee break
  
  
• 11:30-12:00
  Klaus Fischer: The multi-agent system development tool MAGSY: Methods and applications
  
  
• 12:00-12:30
  Kurt Sundermeyer: The COSY Project: Methods, tools and applications of agent-oriented techniques

12:30-14:00 Lunch at ZiF

PM Session

• 14:00-14:30
  Franco di Primio/B. Müller: Minimal scenarios for studying the transition from individual to competitive and to cooperative behavior
  
  
• 14:30-15:00
  Donald Steiner: A flexible agent model incorporating rationality and reactivity
  
  
• 15:00-15:30
  Tim Lüth: Processing complex tasks with cooperating robot systems
  
  
• 15:30-16:00
  Uwe Schnepf: Learning methods for behaviour-based navigation in unknown environments
  
  Coffee break
  
  
• 16:30-17:00
  Frank v. Martial: Conflict resolution among nonhierarchical distributed agents
  
  
• 17:00-17:30
  Gerhard Kraetzschmar: Communicated beliefs and consistency in multi-agent systems
  
  
• 17:30-18:00 General Discussion

19:30 Dinner at Bültmannshof

Friday, February 18

AM Session

• 9:00-10:00
  William Bricken: Entity-based modeling in virtual environments
  
  
• 10:00-10:30
  Ipke Wachsmuth/Yong Cao: Agent-mediated verbal interaction with a virtual environment
  
  
• 10:30-11:00
  Jürgen Emhardt: Task-oriented agent for exploring virtual worlds
  
  Coffee break
  
  
• 11:30-12:00
  Christoph Thomas: Situated agents in domain-oriented support environments
  
  
• 12:00-12:30
  Henning Lobin: Artificial agents for grounding natural language semantics

12:30-14:00 Lunch at ZiF

PM Session

• 14:00-15:00
  Yves Demazeau: From feature abstraction to integration of visual modules using agent systems
  
  
• 15:00-15:30
  Ulrich Meyer: TUB-MAGIC: An agent architecture for business applications
  
  
• 15:30-16:00
  Jürgen Müller: Using multi-agent systems for distributed problem solving in the transportation domain
  
  Coffee Break
  
  
• 16:30-17:00
  Nick Jennings: ARCHON: A distributed artificial intelligence system for industrial applications
  
  
• 17:00-18:00 General Discussion

19:30 Dinner at local restaurant