AAAI-97 Workshop
on
Multiagent Learning
July 28, 1997
Providence, Rhode Island
Organizing committee members:
- Sandip Sen
(Chair), Univ. of Tulsa, sandip@kolkata.mcs.utulsa.edu
- Diana F. Gordon,
Naval Research Lab, gordon@aic.nrl.navy.mil
- Tad Hogg,
XEROX PARC, hogg@parc.xerox.com
- Victor Lesser, UMass,
lesser@cs.umass.edu
- Manuela
Veloso, CMU, veloso@cs.cmu.edu
- Gerhard
Weiss, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, weissg@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS
- 8:30 Introductory Remarks (10 minutes)
SESSION I
- 8:40 Invited Speaker: Jordan Pollack,
- Co-evolution
and Mediocrity in Learning
-
SESSION II
9:40 David C. Parkes and Lyle H. Ungar,
- "Learning
and Adaption in Multiagent Systems"
Abstract
-
10:00 Coffee Break (30 minutes)
SESSION III
- 10:30 Sandip Sen and Neeraj Arora,
- "Learning
to take risks"
Abstract
- 10:50 Caroline Claus and Craig Boutilier,
-
"The
Dynamics of Reinforcement Learning in Cooperative Multiagent Systems"
Abstract
- 11:10 Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso,
- "Using
Decision Tree Confidence Factors for Multiagent Control"
Abstract
- 11:30 Tucker Balch,
- "Learning
Roles: Behavioral Diversity in Robot Teams"
Abstract
-
11:50 LUNCH (100 minutes)
SESSION IV
- 1:30 Panel Discussion: "Multiagent learning problems and approaches"
Moderator: Sandip Sen
SESSION V
- 2:30 Oliver Guenther, Tad Hogg and Bernardo A. Huberman,
- "Learning
in Multiagent Control of Smart Matter"
Abstract
Related material
- 2:50 Claudia V. Goldman and Jeffrey S. Rosensehein,
- "Evolving
Organizations of Agents"
Abstract
- 3:10 Maria Gordin, Narendra Puppala and Sandip Sen,
- "Evolving
Cooperative Groups: Preliminary Results"
Abstract
- 3:30 Thomas Haynes,
-
"Augmenting
Collective Adaptation with Simple Process Agents"
Abstract
-
4:00 Coffee Break (30 minutes)
SESSION VI
- 4:30 Jose M. Vidal and Edmund H. Durfee,
- "Agents
Learning about Agents: A Framework and Analysis"
Abstract
- 4:50 Edwin de Jong,
- "An Accumulative Exploration Method for Reinforcement Learning"
Compressed version
Abstract
- 5:10 M.V. Nagendra Prasad and Victor R. Lesser,
- "Learning
Problem Solving in Cooperative Multi-agent Systems"
Abstract
- 5:30 Raj Bhatnagar,
- "Learning
by Cooperating Agents"
-
5:50 Concluding Remarks