Second International Workshop on

Infrastructure for Agents, MAS, and Scalable MAS

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Programme

13:30-13:50
On MAS Scalability
Niek Wijngaards, Maarten van Steen and Frances Brazier
(niek@cs.vu.nl, frances@cs.vu.nl, steen@cs.vu.nl)

13:50-14:00
Scalability and Multi-Agent Systems
Ralph Deters
(deters@cs.usask.ca)

Session II: Scalability and Infrastructure

14:00-14:20
Terraforming Cyberspace: Toward a Policy-Based Grid Infrastructure for Secure, Scalable, and Robust Execution of Java-Based Multi-Agent Systems
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Niranjan Suri, Martha Kahn, Phil Sage, Doyle Weishar and Renia Jeffers
(jbradshaw@mail.coginst.uwf.edu, nsuri@ai.uwf.edu, rjeffers@aproinc.com, mkahn@globalinfotek.com, psage@globalinfotek.com, doyle@mail.globalinfotek.com)

14:20-14:40
CoABS Grid Scalability Experiments
Martha L. Kahn, Cynthia Della Torre Cicalese
(mkahn@globalinfotek.com, cindy@globalinfotek.com)

14:40-14:50
Evolving Real-Time Local Agent Control for Large-Scale MAS
Tom Wagner and Victor Lasser
(wagner@umcs.maine.edu, lesser@cs.umass.edu)

14:50-15:00
A layered approach for Modelling Agent Conversations
Mariusz Nowostawski, Martin Purvis and Stephen Cranefield
(mnowostawski,mpurvis,scranefield @infoscience.otago.ac.nz)

15:00-15:10
Toward Scalable and Proactive Multi-Agent Teams
John Yen, Jianwen Yin and Thomas R. Loerger
(jianweny@cs.tamu.edu)

Interconnections in mobile systems - an engineering substantiation
Mario Kupries
(Mario.Kupries@zu.ac.ae)

15:10-15:30 Coffee/Tea

Session III: Scalability and Machine Learning

15:30-15:50
Handling a large number of machine learning experiments in a MAS based system
Juan A. Botia, Antonio G. Skarmeta and Mercedes Garijo
(juanbot@fcu.um.es, skarmeta@dif.um.es, mga,juanra @gsi.dit.upm.es)

15:50-16:00
Collective Intelligence to support Scalability
Steven Lynden
(s.j.lynden@cs.cf.ac.uk)

Session IV: Scalability and Applications

16:00-16:20
Does the restart method work? Preliminary results on Efficiency improvements for interactions of web-agents
Michael Shroeder and Luke Boro
(msch@soi.city.ac.uk)

16:20-16:30
Scaling up by Symbolically generalized media
Jorg Wellner, Werner Dilger, Sigmar Papendick
(jwe,wdi @informatik.tu-chemnitz.de, sigmar.papendick@uni-konstanz.de)

16:30-16:40
Scalability Issues for Query Routing Service Discovery
Nicholas Gibbins, Wendy Hall
(nmg,wh@ecs.soton.ac.uk)

16:40-16:50
Modeling and Simulation of Cooperative Multi-Agents in Transactional Database Environments
Khalid Nagi
(nagi@ira.uka.de)

16:50-17:00
Tailored Distributed Accesses to Cultural Heritage
Maria Elena Bonfigli, Giacomo Cabri
(e.bonfigli@cineca.it, giacomo.cabri@unimo.it)

Session V: Industry Perspectives and Tools

Adaptive Routing in Distributed Decentralized Systems: NeuroGrid, Gnutella and Freenet
Sam Joseph
(gaijin@yha.att.ne.jp)

17:00-17:10
JACK Intelligent Agents -- Summary of an Agent Infrastructure
Nick Howden, Ralph Rvnnquist, Andrew Hodgson, Andrew Lucas
(nick.howden@agent-software.com, ralph.ronnquist@agent-software.com, andrew.hodgson@agent-software.com, andrew.lucas@agent-software.com)

17:10-17:15
Scalability in Multi-Agent Systems: The DIET Project
Paul Marrow
(paul.marrow@bt.com)

17:15-17:20
AURECON: Autonomous Dynamic Reconfiguration in Multi-agent Problem Solving
Markus Hannebauer
(markus.hannebauer@gmd.de)