Download the full programme here.
A link to Google maps showing the conference locations can be found here.
Note: All registrations will be held in level 2 (atrium) of the Commerce Building in
60 Clyde Street. The Commerce Building is located in the north-east region of the University of Otago’s Dunedin campus, on the corner of Clyde and Union Streets. The 3rd-floor entrance of the commerce building can be seen in this link (http://www.otago.ac.nz/its/services/teaching/otago029213.html). The campus map of University of Otago can be found at http://www.otago.ac.nz/fallsconference/images/CampusMap.pdf. The commerce building is highlighted in the map (reference F6.14).
Sunday 1st December
The First New Zealand Agent School (NZAS’13) – presentations by internationally leading experts in the field of agents and multi-agent systems
Monday 2nd December
Tuesday 3rd December: Workshops and Tutorial
The Third Australasian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Health (AIH2013)
Workshop on Machine Learning for Sensory Data Analysis (MLSDA2013)
The Fourth International Workshop on Collaborative Agents – Research and Development (CARE2013), including a special track on Agent-Based Systems for Energy and Environmental Sustainability
Co-ordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN@PRIMA2013), including a special track on Agent-Based Modelling for Policy Engineering
Tutorial on Theory and Applications of State Space Models for Time Series Data – Presented by Associate Professor Peter Tino
AI2013 and PRIMA2013 Conferences
Wednesday 4th December
Conference Welcome – 8.30-9.00am
Keynote Speaker – 9.00-10.00am
Refreshment Break – 10.00-10.30am
Session One – Agent Architectures and Simulation: 10.30-12.30pm
Chair – Martin Purvis
Incorporating PGMs into a BDI architecture Yingke Chen, Jun Hong, Weiru Liu, Lluís Godo, Carles Sierra and Michael Loughlin
Improving the reactivity of BDI agent programs Hoa Khanh Dam, Tiancheng Zhang and Aditya Ghose
The Impact of Exchanging Opinions in Political Decision-making on Voting by Using Multi-agent Simulation Yuichiro Sudo, Shohei Kato and Atsuko Mutoh
GAMA v. 1.6: Advancing the art of complex agent-based modeling and simulation Arnaud Grignard, Patrick Taillandier, Benoit Gaudou, Nghi Quang Huynh, Duc-An Vo and Alexis Drogoul
Towards semantic merging of versions of BDI agent system Yingzhi Gou, Hoa Khanh Dam and Aditya Ghose (Short paper)
Lunch – 12.30-1.30pm
Session Two – Logics of Agency & Agent Communication: 1.30-3.30pm
Chair – Guido Governatori
Reaching your goals without spilling the beans: Boolean secrecy games Nils Bulling, Sujata Ghosh and Rineke Verbrugge
Agents homogeneous: A procedurally anonymous semantics characterizing the homogeneous fragment of ATL Sjur Kristoffer Dyrkolbotn and Truls Pedersen
Defendable Security in Interaction Protocols Wojtek Jamroga, Matthijs Melissen and Henning Schnoor
SAT-based Bounded Model Checking for Weighted Interpreted Systems and Weighted Linear Temporal Logic Bozena Wozna-Szczesniak, Andrzej Zbrzezny and Agnieszka Zbrzezny
Information Dependencies in MCS: Conviviality-Based Model and Metrics Patrice Caire and Antonis Bikakis (Short paper)
Refreshment Break – 3.30-4.00pm
Session Three – Robotic Systems and Agent Applications: 4.00-6.00pm
Chair – Frank Dignum
A Human-Inspired Collision Avoidance Method for Multi-robot and Mobile Autonomous Robots Fan Liu and Ajit Narayanan
A Reliability Analysis Technique for Estimating Sequentially Coordinated Multirobot Mission Performance John Porter, Kawa Cheung, Joseph Giampapa and John Dolan
Designing a Multiagent System for Course-Offering Determination Fuhua Lin and Wu Chen
Using Agent Technology for Ambient Assisted Living Nikolaos Spanoudakis and Pavlos Moraitis (Short paper)
Computational Model of Affective Moral Decision Making that predicts Human Criminal Choices Matthijs Pontier, Jean-Louis van Gelder and Reinout de Vries (Short paper)
Reception – 6.00pm onwards, refer “Social Events” below
Thursday 5th December
Keynote Speaker – 9.00-10.00am
Refreshment Break – 10.00-10.30am
Session Four – Normative Multi-Agent Systems: 10.30-12.30pm
Chair – Jeremy Pitt
Evaluating the Cost of Enforcement by Agent-based Simulation: A Wireless Mobile Grid Example Tina Balke, Julian Padget and Marina De Vos
Compliant business process design by declarative specifications Francesco Olivieri, Guido Governatori, Simone Scannapieco and Matteo Cristani
Social Norm Recommendation in Virtual Agent Societies Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Julian Padget and Maryam A. Purvis
Norm Representation and Reasoning: a Formalization in Event Calculus Wagdi Alrawagfeh
nADICO: A Nested Grammar of Institutions Christopher Frantz, Martin Purvis, Mariusz Nowostawski and Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu (Short paper)
Lunch – 12.30-1.30pm
Keynote Speaker – 1.30-2.30pm
Session Five – Learning and Emergence: 2.30-3.30pm
Chair – Tina Balke
Emotional Multiagent Reinforcement Learning in Social Dilemmas Chao Yu, Minjie Zhang and Fenghui Ren
A Multi-agent Based Migration Model for Evolving Cooperation in the Spatial N-Player Snowdrift Game Raymond Chiong and Michael Kirley
Refreshment Break – 3.30-4.00pm
Session Six – Institutions, Norms and Applications: 4.00-6.00pm
Chair – Virginia Dignum
Procedural Justice and `Fitness for Purpose’ of Self-Organising Electronic Institutions Jeremy Pitt, Dídac Busquets and Regis Riveret
A methodology for plan revision under norm and outcome compliance Simone Scannapieco, Guido Governatori, Francesco Olivieri and Matteo Cristani
On the Development of an MAS Based Evacuation Simulation System: Autonomous Navigation & Collision Avoidance Leonel Enrique Aguilar Melgar, Wijerathne Maddegedara Lalith Lakshman, Muneo Hori, Tsuyoshi Ichimura and Seizo Tanaka (Short paper)
A Computational Agent Model of Physical Activity Based on Social Cognitive Theory Julienka Mollee and Natalie Van Der Wal (Short paper)
Evaluating the Impact of Human-Agent Teamwork Communication Model (HAT-CoM) on the Development of Shared Mental Model Nader Hanna, Deborah Richards and Michael Hitchens (Short paper)
Conference Dinner – 6.00pm-late, refer “Social Events” below
Friday 6th December
Keynote Speaker – 9.00-10.00am
Refreshment Break – 10.00-10.30am
Session Seven – Negotiation and Argumentation: 10.30-12.30pm
Chair – Makoto Yokoo
An Efficient Route Minimization Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows based on Agent Negotiation Petr Kalina, Jiří Vokřínek and Vladimír Mařík
Higher-order theory of mind in negotiations under incomplete information Harmen De Weerd, Rineke Verbrugge and Bart Verheij
Non-Standard Uses of PIRIKA: Pilot of the Right Knowledge and Argument Yutaka Oomidou, Hajime Sawamura, Takeshi Hagiwara and Jacques Riche
Agent’s Strategy in Multiple-Issue Negotiation Competition and Analysis of Result Shota Morii and Takayuki Ito (Short paper)
A Framework for Analyzing Simultaneous Negotiations Yoshinori Tsuruhashi and Naoki Fukuta (Short paper)
Lunch – 12.30-1.30pm
Session Eight – Distributed Problem Solving: 1.30-3.30pm
Chair – Aditya Ghose
Embedding Preference Ordering for Single-phase Self-stabilizing DCOP Solvers Toshihiro Matsui, Marius Silaghi, Katsutoshi Hirayama, Makoto Yokoo and Hiroshi Matsuo
Decentralized Area Partitioning for a Cooperative Cleaning Task Chihiro Kato and Toshiharu Sugawara (Short paper)
Modeling and Algorithm for Dynamic Multi-Objective Distributed Optimization Maxime Clement, Tenda Okimoto, Tony Ribeiro and Katsumi Inoue (Short paper)
Lightweight Distributed Adaptive Algorithm for Voting Procedures by using Network Average Consensus Clement Duhart, Michel Cotsaftis and Cyrille Bertelle (Short paper)
A New Ant Colony Optimization Method Considering Intensification and Diversification Mitsuru Haga and Shohei Kato (Short paper)
Refreshment Break – 3.30-4.00pm
Session Nine – Mechanism Design and Agent Applications: 4.00-6.00pm
Chair – to be confirmed
Strategy-proof mechanisms for the k-winner selection problem Yuko Sakurai, Tenda Okimoto, Masaaki Oka and Makoto Yokoo
Repeated Auctions for Reallocation of Tasks with Pickup and Delivery upon Robot Failure Bradford Heap and Maurice Pagnucco (Short paper)
Prosperity and decline of online communities Kimitaka Asatani, Fujio Toriumi, Hirotada Ohashi, Mitsuteru Tashiro and Ryuichi Suzuki (Short paper)
Context-Aware Mobile Augmented Reality for Library Management Adrian Shatte, Jason Holdsworth and Ickjai Lee (Short paper)
Estimating Arrival Time of Pedestrian Using Walking Logs Yui Okuda and Yasuhiko Kitamura (Short paper)
Conference Closing – 6.00pm
Social Events
Wednesday 4th December
The Conference Reception will be held at St Margaret’s College commencing at 6.00pm. The College is located in the heart of the campus and is a peaceful setting for you to take the opportunity to meet other delegates. Light food and refreshments will be available.
Thursday 5th December
The Conference Dinner will be held at Larnach Castle. Coaches will leave at 6.10pm from the Union Street entrance to the Commerce Building to take you to the venue. The journey to the Castle will take approximately 30 minutes and you will travel around the Dunedin Harbour and up Highcliff Road on the Peninsula Hills to the Castle. You will have the opportunity to explore New Zealand’s only Castle and its beautiful gardens before the Haggis Ceremony and dinner commences. Coaches will leave the Castle at approximately 9.15pm for the return journey to the city. The coaches will make stops in the central city and the Commerce Building.