PAPER SESSION 1: SYNTHETIC AGENTS

• Story-Making with Improvisational Puppets

Barbara Hayes-Roth, Stanford University
Robert van Gent, Extempo Systems, Inc.
• Progressive Negotiation for Time-Constrained Autonomous Agents

Abdel-Illah Mouaddib
CRIL and IUT de LENS
• Increasing Believability in Animated Pedagogical Agents

James C. Lester and Brian A. Stone
North Carolina State University
• Creatures: Artificial Life Autonomous Software Agents for Home Entertainment

Stephen Grand, Millennium Interactive Ltd.
Dave Cliff, University of Sussex
Anil Malhotra, Millennium Interactive Ltd.

PAPER SESSION 2: KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION AND ACCUMULATION

• Integrating Pedagogical Capabilities in a Virtual Environment Agent

Jeff Rickel and W. Lewis Johnson
USC/Information Sciences Institute
• A Scalable Comparison-Shopping Agent for the World-Wide Web

Robert B. Doorenbos, Oren Etzioni, and Daniel S. Weld
University of Washington
• Integrating Communicative Action, Conversations and Decision Theory to Coordinate Agents

Mihai Barbuceanu and Mark Fox
University of Toronto
• Ontology-based Web Agents

Sean Luke, University of Maryland
Lee Spector, University of Maryland and Hampshire College
David Rager, University of Maryland
James Hendler, University of Maryland

PAPER SESSION 3: ACTION SELECTION AND PLANNING I

• Knowledge Difference and its Influence on a Search Agent

Yiming Ye and John K. Tsotsos
University of Toronto
• A Collaborative Dialogue Model Based on Interaction Between Reactivity and Deliberation

Takaaki Hasegawa, Yukiko I. Nakano, and Tsuneaki Kato
NTT Information and Communication Systems Laboratories
• Strategy Diffusion in Autonomous Agent System: Detecting Key Agents for Wide Range Consensus

Masakatsu Ohta and Toshiyuki Iida
NTT Communication Science Laboratories
• Combined Execution and Monitoring for Control of Autonomous Agents

Charles Earl and R. James Firby
University of Chicago

PAPER SESSION 4: MODELS OF PERSONALITY

• Improvising Linguistic Style: Social and Affective Bases of Agent Personality

Marilyn A. Walker, AT&T Labs Research
Janet E. Cahn, MIT Media Lab
Stephen J. Whittaker, AT&T Labs Research
• Personality-Rich Believable Agents That Use Language

A. Bryan Loyall and Joseph Bates
Carnegie Mellon University
• A Methodology for Building Believable Social Agents

W. Scott Neal Reilly
Carnegie Mellon University
• Entertaining Agents: A Sociological Case Study

Leonard N. Foner
MIT Media Lab

PAPER SESSION 5: SENSING AND PERCEPTION

• Real-time Control of Attention and Behavior in a Logical Framework

Ian Horswill
Northwestern University
• Learning View Graphs for Robot Navigation

Matthias O. Franz, Bernhard Schölkopf, Philipp Georg, Hanspeter A. Mallot, and Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik
• Modeling Motivations and Emotions as a Basis for Intelligent Behavior

Dolores Cañamero
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Agent-Based Expert Assistance for Visual Problem Solving

Erika Rogers, Clark Atlanta University
Robin R. Murphy, Colorado School of Mines
Barb Ericson, Clark Atlanta University

PAPER SESSION 6: MODELING THE ENVIRONMENT

• Generation of Unknown Environment Maps by Cooperative Low-Cost Robots

R. López de Màntaras, IIIA - Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC
J. Amat, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
F. Esteva, IIIA - Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC
M. López, IIIA - Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC
C. Sierra, IIIA - Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC
• Neo: Learning Conceptual Knowledge by Sensorimotor Interaction with an Environment

Paul R. Cohen, Marc S. Atkin, Tim Oates, and Carole R. Beal
University of Massachusetts
• Modeling an Environment: Agents in Character Feature Extraction

Lijia Zhou and Stan Franklin
University of Memphis
• Integrating Range and Object Data for Robot Navigation

David Franklin and R. James Firby
University of Chicago

PAPER SESSION 7: LEARNING

• A Control Architecture for an Autonomous Mobile Robot

Maria C. Neves, Polytechnic Institute of Porto
Eugénio Oliveira, University of Porto
• Autonomous Document Classification for Business

Chris Clack, Jonny Farringdon, Peter Lidwell, and Tina Yu
University College London
• Ant-like Agents for Load Balancing in Telecommunications Networks

Ruud Schoonderwoerd, Hewlett-Packard Labs Bristol and Delft University of Technology
Owen Holland, University of the West of England
Janet Bruten, Hewlett-Packard Labs Bristol
• Learning to Sense Selectively in Physical Domains

Pat Langley
Stanford University

PAPER SESSION 8: ACTION SELECTION AND PLANNING II

• Transportable Information Agents

Daniela Rus, Robert Gray, and David Kotz
Dartmouth College
• Adaptable Local Level Arbitration of Behaviors

Mohamed Salah Hamdi and Karl Kaiser
Universitaet Hamburg
• A Layered Architecture for Office Delivery Robots

Reid Simmons, Richard Goodwin, Karen Zita Haigh, Sven Koenig, and Joseph O'Sullivan
Carnegie Mellon University
• An Autonomous Spacecraft Agent Prototype

Barney Pell, Caelum Research, NASA Ames Research Center
Douglas E. Bernard, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Steve A. Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Erann Gat, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Nicola Muscettola, Recom Technologies, NASA Ames Research Center
P. Pandurang Nayak, Recom Technologies, NASA Ames Research Center
Michael D. Wagner, Fourth Planet
Brian C. Williams, Recom Technologies, NASA Ames Research Center

PAPER SESSION 9: EXPERT ASSISTANT ARCHITECTURE

• Connection Between Micro and Macro Aspects of Agent Modeling

B. Chaib-draa
Université Laval
• Distributed Diagnosis by Vivid Agents

Michael Schroeder, Univ. Hannover
Gerd Wagner, Univ. Leibzig
• Decision Making and Plan Management by Autonomous Agents: Theory, Implementation and Applications

S. K. Das, Imperial College
J. Fox, Imperial Cancer Research Fund
D. Elsdon, Integral Solutions, Ltd.
P. Hammond, Brunel University

VIDEO SESSION

• INSIGHT: A Virtual Laboratory for Looking into Behavior-Based Autonomous Agents

Simone Strippgen
University of Bielefeld
• Real-Time Interactions with Virtual Agents Driven by Human Action Identification

Luc Emering, Ronan Boulic, Selim Balcisoy, and Daniel Thalmann
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

• COLLAGEN: When Agents Collaborate with People

Charles Rich, MERL--A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory
Candace L. Sidner, Lotus Development Corporation
• SAIRE - A Scalable Agent-based Information Retrieval Engine

Jidé B. Odubiyi, David J. Kocur, and Stuart M. Weinstein, Lockheed Martin Space Mission Systems
Nagi Wakim, Sadanand Srivastava, Chris Gokey, and JoAnna Graham, Bowie State University
• Yenta: A Multi-Agent, Referral-Based Matchmaking System

Leonard N. Foner
MIT Media Lab
• An Automated Meeting Scheduling System that Utilizes User Preferences

Thomas Haynes, Sandip Sen, Neeraj Arora, and Rajani Nadella
University of Tulsa

PAPER SESSION 11: MULTI-AGENT INTERACTION

• Virtual Actors That Can Perform Scripts and Improvise Roles

Peter Wavish, Philips Research Laboratories
David Connah, Institute for Perception Research
• Challenger: A Multi-agent System for Distributed Resource Allocation

Anthony Chavez, Alexandros Moukas, and Pattie Maes
MIT Media Lab
• Multiple Roles, Multiple Teams, Dynamic Environment: Autonomous Netrek Agents

Marcus J. Huber, University of Michigan
Tedd Hadley, University of California at Irvine
• RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Initiative

Hiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Laboratory
Minoru Asada, Osaka University
Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Electrotechnical Laboratory
Itsuki Noda, Electrotechnical Laboratory
Eiichi Osawa, Sony Computer Science Laboratory

PAPER SESSION 12: ACTION SELECTION AND PLANNING III

• Integrated Premission Planning and Execution for Unmanned Ground Vehicles

Edmund H. Durfee, Patrick G. Kenny, and Karl C. Kluge
University of Michigan
• Evaluation of a Semi-Autonomous Assistant for Exploratory Data Analysis

Robert St. Amant, North Carolina State University
Paul R. Cohen, University of Massachusetts
• High-Level Planning and Low-Level Execution: Towards a Complete Robotic Agent

Karen Zita Haigh and Manuela M. Veloso
Carnegie Mellon University
• Adaptation and Learning in Animated Creatures

Jiming Liu, Hong Qin, Y. Y. Tang, and Y. T. Wu
Hong Kong Baptist University

PAPER SESSION 13: WORLD WIDE WEB AGENTS

• An Adaptive Web Page Recommendation Service

Marko Balabanovic
Stanford University
• A Multi-agent System "Test Bed" for Evaluating Autonomous Agents

J. M. Corchado and B. Lees, University of Paisley
N. Rees, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
• Evolving a Multiagent Information Filtering Solution in Amalthaea

Alexandros Moukas and Giorgos Zacharia
MIT Media Lab
• Designing Behaviors for Information Agents

Keith Decker, University of Delaware
Anandeep Pannu, Katia Sycara, and Mike Williamson, Carnegie Mellon University

• Many Hands Make Light Work? An Investigation into Behaviourally Controlled Co-operant Autonomous Mobile Robots

D. P. Barnes, R. A. Ghanea-Hercock, R. S. Aylett, and A. M. Coddington
UK Robotics Ltd.
• Framing Autonomy: A Visual Tracking Architecture

D. Guinea, F. Recio, and J. Vicente
Instituto de Automática Industrial
• Basic Agents for Visual/Motor Coordination of a Mobile Robot

Maria C. Garcia-Alegre and Felicidad Recio
Instituto de Automática Industrial
• An Open Architecture for Robot Entertainment

Masahiro Fujita and Koji Kageyama
Sony Corporation

PAPER SESSION 15: PEOPLE-AGENT INTERACTION

• TAIPE: Tactical Assistants for Interaction Planning and Execution

Edmund H. Durfee, University of Michigan
Jaeho Lee, Marcus Huber, and Michael Kurnow, Orincon Corporation
• I Picked Up Catapia and Other Stories: A Multimodal Approach to Expressivity for "Emotionally Intelligent" Agents

Clark Elliott
DePaul University
• An Intelligent Assistant For Patient Health Care

Silvia Miksch, Kenneth Cheng, and Barbara Hayes-Roth
Stanford University
• Software Agents and User Autonomy

Batya Friedman, Colby College
Helen Nissenbaum, Princeton University