Track 1

Innovative Agent Applications
Auto Tune: A generic Agent for Automated Performance Tuning
J.P Bigus, J.L Hellerstein, M.S Squillante
IBM T.J.Watson Research Center,USA

A Multi Agent Architecture for the resolution of
Feature Conflicts in Telephony
M.Amer A. Karmouch,
Multimedia and Mobile Agent Research Lab, Canada
T. Gray, S. Mankovskii, Mitle Corporation, Canada

Agents to Achieve Customer Satisfaction:
TheCOMFY Comfort Management System
E. Boertjes, H. Akkermans,
Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
R.Gustavsson,
University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden
R.Kamphuis,
Netherlands Energy Research Foundation, The Netherlands

Multi Agent System Based Supply Chain
Management and Enterprise Supply Planning
DongJin, Tsinghua University, China

Invited Speaker
Rick Frey Debis Systemhaus, Germany
Agent technology is making the transition from research labs into industry

Agent Negotiation and Bidding
Adaptive Multi Issue Negotiation Protocol for Electronic Commerce
A.P. Rocha, E. Oliveria, University of Porto, Portugal

Personalized Bidding Agents for Online Auctions
J.Hu, D.Reeve, H.S. Wong, University of Michigan, USA

Automated Negotiation for Provisioning Virtual Private Networks Using FIPA -Compliant Agents
P. Faratin, University of London, UK
N.R. Jennings, Southampton University, UK
P Buckle, Nortel Networks, UK
C. Sierra, IIIA,CSIC, Spain

Agreement in Virtual Marketplace with
CBR Supported Negotiation
L. Brito, P. Novais, J. Neves Universidade do Minho, Portugal
(Short Presentation)

Agents Paving a way in Electronic Commerce
C.Moore, KPN Research, The Netherlands,
J.Nunez-Suarez, B.T.UK, D.O’Sullivan, Broadcom Eireann, Eire P. Cros, ONERA/CERT, France,
H. Brouchard, France Telecom, France.
(Short Presentation)

Track 2

Agent Mobility, Security and collaborative Scheduling

Personal Diary Management with Fuzzy Preferences.
W. Wobcke, BT Laboratories, UK A.Sichanie, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK

An Application of Mobile Agents as Personal Assistants
In Electronic Commerce
V. Roth, M.Jalali, R. Hartman,
Fraunhofer Institut fur Graphische Datenverarbeitung, Germany C.Roland, Thomson-CSF, France

Integrated Multi Agent Information Security System : Mechanisms of Agents' Operation and Learning.
V. Gorodetski, L Kotenko, SPIIRAN, Russia
L Popyack, US Air force Research Laboratory,
USA V Skormin, Binghamton University, USA
(Short Presentation)

Multi Agent Collaboration

An Agent based framework for designing Multi-controller Systems
A.Van Breeman, T. De Vries, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Supporting Strategic Process J. Debenham, University of Technology, Australia

Hierarchical Command and Control for Multi-Agent Teamwork B. Hoff, M. Howard, C. Lee
HRL Laboratories, USA

Love Thine Agent: Implementing believable agents using augmented transition networks
T. Riolfo, A.Whittaker, Psygnosis, UK
(Short Presentation)

Track 1

Personalised Information and Service Agents

ACE: A Multiagent recommender system using mixed collaborative and cognitive filtering
R.Sanguesa, A.Vazquez-Huerga, J. Vazquez-Salceda Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

A PDA-Based Personalized Recommender Agent
G.S. Almasi, A.J.Lee, IBM T.J.Watson Research Centre, USA

CommunityWare Situated in Real World Contexts:
Knowledge Media Augmented by Context-aware Personal Agents
Y. Sumi, K.Mase, ATR Media Integration & Communication Research Laboratories, Japan

AIMedia Shopping Assistant: Delivering Personalised Advertising on the web
V. Conan E. Pierre, S. Senart, J. Cornet,
Thomson CSF Communications, France
(Short Presentation)

Sports Agents: A mediator -based Multi Agent System for Co-operative Information Gathering from the World Wide Web H.Lu, L. Sterling, University of Melbourne, Australia
(Short Presentation)

A Novel Multi-Agent KODAMA Co-ordination For On-line Searching and Browsing the web
T.Helmy, T. Mine, G. Zhong, M. Amamiya Kyushu University, Japan (Short Presentation)

Personal Service Environments- an Approach to Personalized Service Interaction
M. Byland, F. Espinoza, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
(Short Presentation)

Track 2

The Massive Development Method for Multiagent Systems, Jurgen Lind, DFKI, Germany

FIPA-OS: the FIPA agent Platform available as Open Source
S. Poslad, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK P. Buckle, R. Hadingham, Nortel Networks, UK

SoFAR with DIM Agents
L. Moreau, N. Gibbens, D. De Roure
S. El-Beltagy, W. Hall, G. Hughes, D. Joyce,
S. Kim, D. Michaelides, D. Millard, S. Reich,
R. Tansley, M. Weal
University of Southampton, UK

An Implementation of a secure Java2 Based Mobile Agent System
J.A. Perez Diaz, D.A. Gutierrez, J.M. Cueva Lovell
e R. Hidalgo, S.J. Estevez Andres, S.I.Garcia Baron
University of Oviedo, Spain

CAROSSE: an agent oriented CAD tool for
designing complex electronic systems
R. Foisel, A. Drogoul, LIP6-OASIS/MIRIAD, France
O. Cayrol, M. Attia, PSA Peugeot-Citroen, France
(Short Presentation)

Dynamic Integration of CIMS Applications Using Agent-Based Operational Administration
J. Cao, University of Warwick, UK
(Short Presentation)