**WRAC 2005 Schedule**

**Tuesday September 20^th^**

8:00 -- 8:30 Registration

8:30 -- 845 Welcome

8:45 -- 10:00 Intelligence

> Agent-mediated Pro-active Web-sites
>
> *Karin Breitman, Walt Truszkowski (Brazil/USA)*
>
> Fast Convergence to Satisfying Distributions
>
> *Teddy Candale, Sandip Sen (USA)*
>
> Towards an Emotional Decision-Making
>
> *Mickael Camus, Alain Cardon (France)*

10:00 -- 10:30 Break

10:30 -- 12:00 Intelligence (cont)/Agent Assurance

> A New Parameter for Maintaining Consistency in an Agent\'s Knowledge
> Base Using Truth Maintenance System
>
> *Qutaibah Althebyan, Henry Hexmoor (USA)*
>
> Mind out of Programmable Matter
>
> *Martin Randles, A. Taleb Bendiab, P. Miseldine (UK)*
>
> Characterizing Environmental Information for Monitoring Agents
>
> *Albert Esterline, Sundaresan, Bhanu Gandluri (USA)*
>
> Towards a Model Debugger for Cougaar Model Driven Architecture Systems
>
> *Shawn Bohner, Nannan He, Dong Kwan Kim, Boby George (USA)*

12:00 -- 1:00 Lunch

1:00 -- 2:30 Multi-Agent/Communities Papers

> Can Agent Oriented Software Engineering be used to Develop MASs
> Product lines?
>
> *Joaquin Pena (Spain)*
>
> Towards Dynamic Electronic Institutions: From Agent Coalitions to
> Agent Institutions
>
> *Eduard Muntaner Perich, Josep Lluis de la Rosa (Spain)*
>
> Institutionalization by Habitulization and Typification of Roles in
> Societies of Autonomous Agents
>
> *Eric Baumer, Bill Tomlinson (USA)*
>
> On the concept of agent in multi-robot environment
>
> *Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz, K. Cetnarowicz (Poland)*

2:30 -- 3:00 Break

3:00 -- 4:30 Communities (cont.)/Modeling

> An Approach for Autonomy: A Collaborative Communication Framework for
> Multi-Agent Systems
>
> *Warren Dufrene Jr. (USA)*
>
> Semantic Interoperability Among Multiple Cooperating Agent Communities
>
> *Jody Little, Garry S. Bernal, Mary Armijo (USA)*
>
> Autonomy Without Independence: Animal Training as a Model for
> Autonomous Agent Design
>
> *David Wyland (USA)*
>
> Agent Modeling of Tetrahedron-based Structures
>
> *Walt Truszkowski, Charles Sebens (USA)*

**Wednesday September 21^st^**

8:30 -- 10:30 Autonomic Papers:

> Feeling Safe? Living Next Door?
>
> *Roy Sterritt, Mike Hinchey (Northern Ireland/USA)*
>
> Shaping the Future of Online Payment Processing: An Autonomic Approach
> applied to Intelligent Payment Brokers
>
> *Marcelo Perazolo, Carlos Hoyos, Viswanath Srikanth (USA)*
>
> Genetically Modified Software: Realizing Viable Autonomic Agency
>
> *Andy Laws, A. Taleb Bendiab, S.J. Wade (UK)*
>
> Harnessing Self-modifying Code for Resilient Software
>
> *Christian Tschudin, Lidia Yamamoto (Switzerland)*
>
> Survivable Security Systems through Autonomicity
>
> *Roy Sterritt, Grainne Garrity, Edward Hanna, Patricia O\'Hagan
> (Northern Ireland)*

10:30 -- 11:00 Break

11:00 -- 12:00 Keynote -- Jeff Kephart, IBM

12:00 -- 1:00 Lunch

1:30 -- 3:00 Architectures

> An Agent-Based, Reference Architecture for Man-on-the-Loop (MOTL)
>
> *Henry Hexmoor, Peter Scott, Christopher Bowman (USA)*
>
> Hierarchies, Holons, and Agent Coordination
>
> *Albert Esterline, Barbara Pioro, Chafic BouSaba, Abdollah Homaifar
> (USA)*
>
> Sustainably Energized Agent Architectures for Venus, Titan, Europa,
> and Earth's Ocean
>
> *George Hagerman (USA)*
>
> A Systematic Framework for Open Software Agents
>
> *Eric Sanchis (France)*

3:00 -- 3:30 Break

3:30 -- 5:00 Architectures (cont.)

> Hybrid System Reachability-Based Analysis of Dynamical Agents
>
> *Eric Aaron (USA)*
>
> A self-optimization approach for hybrid planning and socially inspired
> agents
>
> *Markus Koch, Willi Richert (Germany)*
>
> Online Distributed Agent Evolution
>
> *Suranga Hettiarachchi, William M. Spears, Wesley Kerr, Dimitri
> Zarzhitsky, Derek Green (USA)*
>
> Open-Framework Simulation: Can it be done?
>
> *Brian Capozzi, Vikram Manikonda, Renato Levy, Goutam Satapathy, and
> Wilbur Peng, Larry Meyn (USA)*

**Thursday September 22nd**

8:30 -- 10:00 Applications

> Agent-mediated Pro-active Web-sites
>
> *Karin Breitman, Walt Truszkowski (Brazil/USA)*
>
> Run Time Agents as a means of reconciling flexibility and
> scalablility: a radical view?
>
> *Tiziana Margaria, Bernhard Steffen (Germany)*
>
> Concept and Sensor Network Approach to Computing: The Lexicon
> Acquisition Component
>
> *Jan Smid, Marek Obitko, Andrej Bencur (USA/Czech)*
>
> An Agent Based Hybrid Analog-Digital Robotic Sensor Web Meta-System
>
> *William A. Stoffel (USA)*

10:00 -- 10:30 Break

10:30 -- 12:30 Mobile Agents/Game Theory

> Harnessing Agent Based Games Research for Emerging Behaviour Analysis
>
> *Abdennour El Rhalibi, A. Taleb Bendiab (UK)*
>
> Defining Agents via Strategies: Towards a view of MAS as games
>
> *Edward Haeusler, D.R. Vasconcelos, Mario R.F. Benevides (Brazil)*
>
> Secure Mobile Agent Deployment and Communication Towards Autonomous
> Semantic Grid
>
> *Coskun Bayrak, Umit Topaloglu, Nitin Kanaskar*
>
> A System Theory Approach to the Representation of Mobile Digital
> Controller Agents
>
> *Fernando Barros (Portugal)*
>
> Towards Adaptive Migration Strategies for Mobile Agents
>
> *Steffen Kern, Peter Braun (Germany/Australia)*

12:30 -- 2:00 Lunch

2:00 -- 4:00 NASA Goddard Tour