Conference Program
The MATES 2017 conference program will comprise various regular paper sessions, invited keynote talks, a PhD mentoring program including a special panel discussion, as well as social events.
Schedule
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
08:00-17:00 Registration
09:00-12:00 Doctoral Mentoring
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
12:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:30 Doctoral Mentoring (individual
discussions)
15:30-17:00 Panel
Discussion on Reproducibility: A Problem for AI Research? (Panelists: Paolo Petta, Jan Ole Berndt, TBA)
18:00-21:00 Pre-Conference Reception
Thursday, August 24, 2017
08:00-17:00 Registration
09:00-09:30 Inauguration
09:30-10:30 Keynote 1 (Amith Sheth)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Keynote 2 (Christine Preisach)
12:00-13:00 Keynote 3 (Cristiano
Castelfranchi)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
break
14:30-16:00 Paper Session 1:
Knowledge Representation & Learning (Chair: Matthias Klusch)
| Lixin Tao | Extending OWL with Custom Relations for Knowledge-Driven Intelligent Agents |
| Thomas Gabel, Alaa Tharwat and Eicke Godehardt | Eavesdropping Opponent Agent Communication Using Deep Learning |
| Theocharis Kravaris, George Vouros, Christos Spatharis, Konstantinos Blekas, Georgios Chalkiadakis and Jose Manuel Cordero Garcia | Learning Policies for Resolving Demand-Capacity Imbalances during Pre-tactical Air Traffic Management |
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 City Walk
18:00-22:00 Welcome Reception
Friday, August 25, 2017
08:00-17:00 Registration
09:00-10:30 Paper Session 2: Modeling & Analysis
of Personalities, Motivations, Opinions (Chair: Paolo Petta)
| Sebastian Ahrndt and Sahin Albayrak | Learning about Human Personalities |
| Stephanie C. Rodermund, Fabian Lorig, Jan Ole Berndt and Ingo J. Timm | An Agent Architecture for Simulating Communication Dynamics in Social Media |
| Stefania Monica and Federico Bergenti | Two Analytic Models of Compromise in Multi-Agent Systems |
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Keynote 4 (Raj Reddy)
12:00-13:00 Keynote 5 (Frank Leymann)
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-16:00 Paper Session 3: Agent-based
Manufacturing, Industry 4.0 & Distributed Scheduling (Chair: Jan Ole
Berndt)
| Arndt Lüder, Jacek Zawisza and Alexander Becker | Advancing the Performance of Complex Manufacturing Systems Through Agent-based Production Control |
| Frank Nedwed, Ingo Zinnikus, Maxat Nukhayev, Matthias Klusch and Luca Mazzola | shopST: Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling with Agent-Based Simulated Trading |
| Georg Weichhart and Alexander Hämmerle | Lagrangian Relaxation realised in the NgMPPS Multi Actor Architecture |
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 Paper Session 4: Demo Session (Chair:
René Schumann)
| Georg Weichhart and Alexander Hämmerle | Agent-Based Flexible Job Shop Scheduling. Demonstration of the NgMPPS Approach |
| N.N. | TBA |
18:00-22:00 Conference Gala
Saturday, August 26, 2017
08:00-17:00 Registration
09:00-10:30 Paper Session 5: Agent Teamwork,
Collaboration & Grouping Behavior (Chair: Rainer Unland)
| Masoud Barati and Richard St-Denis | Team Formation through Preference-Based Behavior Composition |
| Oudom Kem, Balbo Flavien and Antoine Zimmermann | Collaborative Search for Multi-goal Pathfinding in Ubiquitous Environments |
| Joshua Brown and Terry Bossomaier | Flock Stability in the Vicsek Model |
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Keynote 6 (Matthias Klusch)
12:00-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-15:00 Paper Session 6: Agent Deliberation,
Learning & Decision-Making (Chair: Alexander Pokahr)
| Wulfrano-Arturo Luna-Ramírez and Maria Fasli | Plan Acquisition in a BDI Agent Framework Through Intentional Learning |
| João Guilherme Faccin, Ingrid Nunes and Ana Bazzan | Understanding the Behaviour of Learning-based BDI Agents in the Braess' Paradox |
| Sajad Ghorbani, R. Rahmani and Rainer Unland | Multi-Agent Autonomous Decision Making in Smart Micro-grids' Energy Management: A Decentralized Approach |
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:30 Paper Session 7: Applications of
Multiagent Technology (Chair: Georg Weichhart)
| Stefania Monica and Federico Bergenti | Indoor Localization of JADE Agents without a Dedicated Infrastructure |
| Zohreh Akbari and Rainer Unland | A Holonic Multi-Agent System Approach to Differential Diagnosis |
16:30-17:00 Conference Closing