Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems | PRIMA 2016 | Turin, Italy

In the following, the day-by-day program of PRIMA2016 is listed. Please, check the PRICAI website for details about PRICAI conference and accomodations.

Day 1: Monday August 22th, 2016

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9.00-10.00: KEYNOTE Speech I
Intercultural Collaboration: Human-Aware Research on Multiagent Systems
Toru Ishida, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University
10.00-10:30: Coffee break
10.30-12:00: PRIMA Session I - chair: Aditya Ghose
    (long presentations, 15+5 minutes)

  • Verifying Real-Time Properties of Multi-Agent Systems via SMT-based Bounded Model Checking
    Agnieszka M. Zbrzezny and Andrzej Zbrzezny
  • Competitive VCG Redistribution Mechanisms for Public Project Problem
    Mingyu Guo
  • Coalition Structure Formation Using Anytime Dynamic Programming
    Narayan Changder, Aditya K. Ghose, and Animesh Dutta

  • (short presentations, 7+3 minutes)

  • A Multi Agent System for Understanding the Impact of Technology Transfer Offices in Green-IT
    Christina Herzog, Jean-Marc Pierson and Laurent Lefévre
  • Demand Response Integration through Agent-based Coordination of Consumers in Virtual Power Plants
    Anders Clausen, Aisha Umair, Zheng Ma, and Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen
12.00-13.30: Lunch Break
13.30-15:00: PRIMA Session II - chair: Guido Governatori
    (long presentations, 15+5 minutes)

  • Individually Rational Strategy-proof Social Choice with Exogenous Indifference Sets
    Mingyu Guo, Yuko Sakurai, Taiki Todo, and Makoto Yokoo
  • A Collaborative Framework for 3D Mapping using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
    Patrick Doherty, Jonas Kvarnström, Piotr Rudol, Marius Wzorek, Gianpaolo Conte, Cyrille Berger, Timo Hinzmann, and Thomas Stastny
  • Revenue Maximizing Markets for Zero-Day Exploits
    Mingyu Guo, Hideaki Hata, and Ali Babar

  • (short presentations, 7+3 minutes)

  • Generalising Social Structure using Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets
    (Christopher K. Frantz, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Martin K. Purvis, and Mariusz Nowostawski
15.30-17:00: PRIMA Session III: social science session - chair: Makoto Yokoo
    (long presentations, 15+5 minutes)

  • How, When and Where Can Spatial Segregation Induce Opinion Polarization? Two Competing Models
    Thomas Feliciani, Andreas Flache, and Jochem Tolsma
  • Can Noise in Behavioral Models Improve Macro-Precisions? An Empirical Test
    Michael Mäs and Dirk Helbing
  • Ali Baba and the Thief, Convention Emergence in Games
    Xin Sun and Livio Robaldo
  • Heuristics on the Data-collecting Robot Problem with Immediate Rewards
    Zhi Xing and Jae C. Oh

  • (short presentations, 7+3 minutes)

  • Towards Better Crisis Management in Support Services Organizations Using Fine Grained Agent Based Simulation
    Vivek Balaraman, Harshal Hayatnagarkar, Meghendra Singh, and Mayuri Duggirala

Day 2: Tuesday August 23th, 2016

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9.00-10.00: KEYNOTE Speech II
Agent-based modelling and simulation for co-operative traffic and transport
Joerg P. Mueller, Department of Informatics, Clausthal University of Technology
10.00-10:30: Coffee break
10.30-12:00: PRIMA Session IV - chair: Paolo Torroni
    (long presentations, 15+5 minutes)

  • Argumentation-Based Semantics for Logic Programs with First-Order Formulae
    Phan Minh Dung, Tran Cao Son, and Phan Minh Thang
  • Resistance to Corruption of General Strategic Argumentation
    Michael J. Maher
  • Balancing Rationality and Utility in Logic-Based Argumentation with Classical Logic Sentences and Belief Contraction
    Ryuta Arisaka and Ken Satoh

  • (short presentations, 7+3 minutes)

  • Argumentation Versus Optimization for Supervised Acceptability Learning
    Hiroyuki Kido
  • Dialectical Proof Procedures for Probabilistic Abstract Argumentation
    Phan Minh Thang
12.00-13.30: Lunch Break
13.30-15:00: PRIMA Session V - chair: Matteo Baldoni
    (long presentations, 15+5 minutes)

  • Semantic Reasoning with Uncertain Information from Unreliable Sources
    Murat Şensoy, Lance Kaplan, and Geeth de Mel
  • Sequence Semantics for Normative Agents
    Guido Governatori, Francesco Olivieri, Erica Calardo, Antonino Rotolo, and Matteo Cristani
  • Distant Group Responsibility in Multi-Agent Systems
    Vahid Yazdanpanah and Mehdi Dastani

  • (short presentations, 7+3 minutes)

  • Plan Failure Analysis: Formalization and Application in Interactive Planning Through Natural Language Communication
    Chitta Baral, Tran Cao Son, Michael Gelfond, and Arindam Mitra
15.30-17:00: PRIMA Session VI - chair: Mingyu Guo
    (long presentations, 15+5 minutes)

  • Offer Evaluation and Trade-off Making in Automated Negotiation Based on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Constraints
    Jieyu Zhan and Xudong Luo
  • Spread of Cooperation in Complex Agent Networks Based on Expectation of Cooperation
    Ryosuke Shibusawa, Tomoaki Otsuka, and Toshiharu Sugawara
  • Analyzing Topics and Trends in the PRIMA Literature
    Hoa Khanh Dam and Aditya K. Ghose

  • (short presentations, 7+3 minutes)

  • Automatic Evacuation Management Using a Multi Agent System and Parallel Meta-heuristic Search
    Leonel Enrique Aguilar Melgar, Maddegedara Lalith, Tsuyoshi Ichimura, and Muneo Hori
  • Modeling Organizational and Institutional Aspects in Renewable and Natural Resources Management Context
    Islem Hènane, Sameh Hadouaj, Khaled Ghédira, and Ali Ferchichi

Day 3: Wednesday August 24th, 2016

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10.30-12:00: PRIMA Student Session (PM-S) - chair: Tran Cao Son
    (short presentations, 7+3 minutes)

  • Selected Methods of Model Checking using SAT and SMT-solvers (download PDF)
    Agnieszka Zbrzezny
  • Role of Facial Emotion in Social Correlation (download PDF)
    Pankaj Mishra, Rafik Hadfi and Takayuki Ito
  • Real-time Collision Handling in Railway Network: An Agent-based Approach
    Poulami Dalapati and Animesh Dutta
  • Multi-Agent Based Scalable and Context-Aware Middleware for Typical IoT Scenarios
    Bikash Choudhury, Subhrabrata Choudhury and Animesh Dutta
  • Security and Access Control in Multi-Agent Satellite Systems
    Pratik Sinha and Animesh Dutta
  • Freight Train Scheduling Problem
    Samriddhi Sarkar and Animesh Dutta
  • A Kernelization approach for Anytime Coalition Structure Generation using Knuth X algorithm (download PDF)
    Narayan Changder, Animesh Dutta and Aditya Ghose
12.00-13.30: Lunch Break
13.30-17.00: PRIMA Tutorial I

Day 4: Thursday August 25th, 2016

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10.00-13:00: PRIMA Tutorial II (Mini-school)
13.00-13.30: Lunch Break
13.30-17.00: PRIMA Tutorial III

Day 5: Friday August 26th, 2016

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9.00-10.00: KEYNOTE Speech III
Argumentation for Practical Reasoning
Phan Minh Dung, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
10.00-13.00: PRIMA Tutorial IV