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				CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

		Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems Workshop
					at
				Autonomous Agents 2000
				  Barcelona, Spain
				Sunday, June 4 2000

		 http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/User/O.F.Rana/agents2000/


9:00 	Opening remarks

	MORNING: TOPIC A: "MAS Infrastructure and Requirements" 
		 ==============================================

9:10 	Les Gasser, 
	"MAS Infrastructure Definitions, Needs, and Prospects."

9:40 	Keith Decker, 
	"Tools for Developing and Monitoring Agents in
	Distributed Multi-Agent Systems."

10:00 	Mihhail Matskin, 
	"Agora: An infrastructure for cooperative work support 
	in multi-agent systems."

10:20 	Regis Vincent, 
	"Issues in Simulation of Large-Scale (Intelligent) Agent Systems"

10:30 	Coffee Break

11:00 	K. Suzanne Barber, 
	"Sensible Agent Testbed Infrastructure for Experimentation."

11:20 	Olivier Gutknecht,  Jacques Ferber, 
	"The MADKIT Agent Platform Architecture."

11:40 	Roberto Flores, Rob Kremer, Douglas Norrie, 
	"An Architecture for Modeling Internet-based Collaborative Systems."

12:00 	Leon Osterwiel, 
	"Integrating High-Level and Detailed Agent
	Coordination into a Layered Architecture" combined with "Frameworks for
	Reasoning About Agent-based Systems."

12:20 	Milind Tambe, 
	"Adaptive infrastructures for agent integration."

12:40 	Special grouping: 
	Itsuki Noda and Peter Stone
        Nadir Ould-Khessal and Shamsudin Amin

	"RoboCup Infrastructure and Technology:
	Overview and Comparison With Other Agent Infrastructure / Research"


13:00pm - Lunch

	AFTERNOON: TOPIC B: "Infrastructure Scalability" 
		   =====================================


14:00	Marios D. Dikaiakos and George Samaras, 
	"A Performance Analysis Framework for Mobile-Agent Platforms"

14:20 	Murray Woodside,
	"Scalability Metrics and Analysis of Mobile Agent Systems"

14:40	Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo,
	"A formal Development and Validation Methodology Applied to
	Agent-Based Systems"

15:00	Khaled Nagi,
	"Scalability of a Transactional Infrastructure for
	Multi-Agent Systems"

15:20	In-Gyu Kim, Jang-Eui Hond, Doo-Hwan Bae and Cheong Youn,
	"Scalable Mobile Agents Supporting Dynamic
	Composition of Functionality"

15:40	P. J. Turner and N. R. Jennings,
	"Improving the Scalability of Multi-Agent Systems"

16:00	Coffee

16:30	Line Pouchard and David W. Walker,
	"A Community of Agents for User Support in a
	Problem Solving Environment"

16:50	Juan A. Botia, Antonio G. Skarmeta, Mercedes Garijo,
	Juan R. Velasco,
	"A Proposal for Meta-Learning Through Multi-Agent Systems"

17:10	Sam Joseph and Takahiro Kawamura,
	"Why Autonomy Makes the Agent"

17:20	Stefan Poslad,
	"Open Source, Standards and Scaleable Agencies"


17:45 -	PANEL SESSION:

The following have agreed to participate on the panel:

* K. Suzanne Barber,
University of Texas at Austin

* Tim Finin,
University of Maryland Baltimore County

* Katia Sycara,
Carnegie Mellon

* David Wolpert,
NASA Ames

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