AT 2012
Agreement Technologies

Table of Contents

• Preface
  
  

• Author Index
  
  

Session I: Invited Papers

Invited Speaker

• Negotiation and Search 1
  Carles Sierra (in collaboration with Dave de Jonge and Angela Fabregues)

SINTELNET Panel on Social Intelligence

• Engineering Good-Enough Social Interaction 2
  Pablo Noriega
• Social Intelligence and Emergent Rationality 3
  Enric Plaza
• The Design of Intelligent Socio-Technical Systems 4-11
  Andrew Jones, Alexander Artikis, Jeremy Pitt

Session II: Multi-Agent Systems

Regular Papers

• Developing Regulated Open Multi-agent Systems 12-26
  Emilia Garcia, Adriana Giret, Vicent Botti
• Dynamic Discovery and Maintenance of Role-based Performance Standards 27-41
  Ramon Hermoso, Henrique Lopes Cardoso
• Towards Building Agreement Spaces using Consensus Networks 42-56
  Miguel Rebollo, Alberto Palomares, Carlos Carrascosa
• A Collaborative Model for Participatory Load Management in the Smart Grid 57-70
  Matteo Vasirani, Sascha Ossowski
• Towards Runtime Support for Norm Change from a Monitoring Perspective 71-85
  Ignasi Gómez-Sebastià, Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Luis Oliva Felipe
• OntoPlay - A Flexible User-Interface for Ontology-based Systems 86-100
  Michał Drozdowicz, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki, Paweł Szmeja, Katarzyna Wasielewska

Position Papers

• Representing and Evaluating Electronic Contracts with Normative Markov Decision Processes 101-102
  Moser Silva Fagundes, Sascha Ossowski, Michael Luck, Simon Miles
• Towards a Framework for the Analysis of Regulative Norm Performance in Complex Networks 103-104
  Luis Oliva Felipe, Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Javier Vázquez-Salceda
• Adapting Agent Organisations with Agreement Technologies 105-106
  J. Santiago Pérez-Sotelo, Carlos E. Cuesta, Sascha Ossowski
• Using CEP-based Blackboards for Coordinating Mobile RFID Agents 107-108
  Johannes Westhuis, Ralf Bruns, Juergen Dunkel
• Dependence Networks for Agreement Technologies 109-110
  Guido Boella, Patrice Caire, Leendert Van Der Torre, Serena Villata
• The CrocodileAgent 2012: Reaching Agreements in a Simulation of a Smart Grid Wholesale Market 111-112
  Ivo Buljevic, Ivana Pranjic, Marija Mijic, Jurica Babic, Ana Petric, Vedran Podobnik

Session III: Argumentation and Negotiation

Regular Papers

• General Directionality and the Local Behavior of Argumentation Semantics 113-127
  Cristian Gratie, Adina Magda Florea, John-Jules Ch. Meyer
• Security Agility Solution Independent of the Underlaying Protocol Architecture 128-137
  Valter Vasic, Miljenko Mikuc
• Towards a Probabilistic Dung-style Argumentation System 138-152
  Tjitze Rienstra
• Arguing from a Point of View 153-167
  Adam Wyner, Jodi Schneider
• WeCurate: Designing For Synchronised Browsing And Social Negotiation 168-179
  Leila Amgoud, Roberto Confalonieri, Dave de Jonge, Mark D'Inverno, Katina Hazelden, Nardine Osman, Henri Prade, Carles Sierra, Matthew Yee-King
• Constraint Definition Rule to Achieve High Rate of Success in Negotiations 180-194
  Raiye Alemayehu, Takayuki Ito

Position Papers

• Overview of HANA: a Human-Aware Negotiation Architecture 195-196
  Angela Fabregues, Carles Sierra
• ConArg: Argumentation with Constraints 197-198
  Stefano Bistarelli, Francesco Santini
• Using Saaty's Method in Contract Negotiations 199-200
  Katarzyna Wasielewska, Maria Ganzha
• Towards Community Browsing for Shared Experiences: The WeBrowse System 201-202
  Matthew Yee-King, Roberto Confalonieri, Dave De Jonge, Nardine Osman, Katina Hazelden, Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade, Carles Sierra, Mark D'Inverno
• The CrocodileAgent 2012: Negotiating Agreements in Smart Grid Tariff Market 203-204
  Sinisa Matetic, Jurica Babic, Marin Matijas, Ana Petric, Vedran Podobnik

Session IV: Foundations of Agreement Technologies

Regular Papers

• Competitive Voters vs. Collaborative Bidders: Agreements in Dynamic Task Assignment 205-219
  Marin Lujak, Marija Slavkovik
• Experiences - A Forgotten Component of Epistemic States 220-230
  Leila Amgoud, Mark D'Inverno, Nardine Osman, Henri Prade, Carles Sierra
• Backward Planning in the Logics of Communication and Change 231-245
  Pere Pardo, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
• The Topology of Common Belief 246-259
  David Pearce, Levan Uridia

Position Papers

• Environment and Agreement Technologies 260-261
  Estefanía Argente, Olivier Boissier, Carlos Carrascosa, Nicoletta Fornara, Peter McBurney, Pablo Noriega, Alessandro Ricci, Jordi Sabater-Mir, Michael Ignaz Schumacher, Charalampos Tampitsikas, Kuldar Taveter, Giuseppe Vizzari, George Vouros
• Changing Agreements: Intention Reconsideration based on Assumptions and Reasons 262-263
  Diana Marosin, Henderik A. Proper, Leendert van der Torre
• Research Opportunities for Argumentation in Social Networks 264-265
  Stella Heras, Katie Atkinson, Floriana Grasso, Peter McBurney, Vicente Botti, Vicente Julian

Session V: Semantics

Regular Papers

• Decentralized Semantic Coordination Via Belief Propagation 266-280
  George Vouros
• Using OWL Artificial Institutions for dynamically creating Open Spaces of Interaction 281-295
  Nicoletta Fornara, Charalampos Tampitsikas

Position Papers

• Integrating Semantic Web Technologies and Multi-Agent Systems: A Semantic Description of Multi-Agent Organizations 296-297
  Alexandra-Mădălina Zarafin, Antoine Zimmermann, Olivier Boissier
• Reengineering the Core Grid Ontology 298-299
  Paweł Szmeja, Antoine Zimmermann
• The E-SHIQ Contextual Logic Framework 300-301
  Giorgos Santipantakis, George Vouros

Session VI: Trust and Reputation

Regular Papers

• Multi-Tier Agent Architecture for Open Service Ecosystems 302-316
  Lea Kutvonen
• A Reinforcement Learning Based Strategy for the Double-Game Prisoner's Dilemma 317-331
  Yang Gao
• Trust in Relevance 332-346
  Fabio Paglieri, Cristiano Castelfranchi

Position Papers

• Social Networks and Collective Intelligence - A Return to the Agora (with the Polidoxa Shift) 347-348
  Luca Biselli, Nicola Dragoni, Emanuela Goldoni, Pier Paolo Greco, Antonio Marraffa, Manuel Mazzara, Georgios Papageorgiou
• Agent-oriented Engineering of Trust Management Systems 349-350
  Eva Zupančič, Denis Trcek, Kuldar Taveter
• A Structured Environment to Facilitate Agreements 351-352
  Eugénio Oliveira

Session VII: Agreement Technologies Applications

Regular Papers

• Detection of Collusive Behavior in Energy Markets 353-365
  Radu-Casian Mihailescu, Matteo Vasirani, Sascha Ossowski
• Large Scale Agreements via Microdebates 366-377
  Simone Gabbriellini, Paolo Torroni
• u-Help: Supporting Helpful Communities with Information Technology 378-392
  Andrew Koster, Jordi Madrenas-Ciurana, Nardine Osman, Marco Schorlemmer, Jordi Sabater-Mir, Carles Sierra, Dave de Jonge, Angela Fabregues, Josep Puyol-Gruart, Pere Garcia-Calves
• The Role of Argumentation on the Future Internet: Reaching agreements on Clouds 393-407
  Stella Heras, Fernando de La Prieta, Sara Rodriguez, Javier Bajo, Vicente Botti, Vicente Julian
• An Argument-based Approach to Mining Opinions from Twitter 408-422
  Kathrin Grosse, Carlos Ivan Chesnevar, Ana Gabriela Maguitman
• Distributed Thermal Storage Using Multi-Agent Systems 423-437
  Christian Johansson, Fredrik Wernstedt, Paul Davidsson

Position Papers

• Desiderata for Agent-Based Power Regulation Protocols in Smart Grids 438-439
  Radu-Casian Mihailescu, Matteo Vasirani, Sascha Ossowski
• Argumentation Tool that Enables Agents to Argue 440-441
  Jaume Jordán, Stella Heras, Vicente Julian
• An Infrastructure for Open Interaction Systems 442-443
  Daniel Okouya, Nicoletta Fornara, Marco Colombetti
• Getting Experts Agreement in Strategic Planning 444-445
  José Miguel Castillo
• Supervised Task Performance of an Autonomous UAV Swarm, Supporting and Implementing Fire-Fighting Procedures 446-447
  Sascha Hornauer, Florian Frische, Andreas Lüdtke, Jürgen Sauer