AGENTS-00/ECML-00 Joint Workshop
on
LEARNING AGENTS
June 3, 2000
Barcelona, Spain


SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS

9:00 Opening Remarks (15 minutes)

SESSION I

9:15 Ricardo Aler, Daniel Borrajo, Ines Galvan, Agapito Ledezma
"Learning Models of Other Agents"
9:40 Leonardo Garrido, Katia Sycara, and Ramon Brena
"Quantifying the utility of building agent models: An experimental study"
10:05 Enrico Blanzieri and Gerhard Wickler
"Inducing Decision Trees for Agent Capability Assessment;

10:30 Coffee Break (30 minutes)

SESSION II

11:00 David H. Wolpert and Kagan Tumer
"An Illustration of The COIN Approach to Design of Multi-Agent Systems"
11:25 Bikramjit Banerjee, Sandip Debnath, and Sandip Sen
"Combining Multiple Perspectives"
11:50 Andres Perez-Uribe and Beat Hirsbrunner
"The Risk of Exploration in Multi-Agent Learning systems: A Case Study"
12:15 Yubelsi Bello, Victor Dias, Sandra Zabala, and Gabor Loerincs
"A Personalized Web-Search Agent based on Monitoring User Actions: First Results"

SESSION III

12:40 Research Summaries (20 minutes)
          Belinda Thom
"Machine Learning and Musical Improvisation"

          Steven J. Lynden and Omer F. Rana
"Data Partitioning for Collaborative Learning Agents"

          Michael Mahan and Mark R. Adler
"Intelligent Assistants and Smart Environments"

1:00 LUNCH (90 minutes)

SESSION IV

2:30 Bikramjit Banerjee, Sandip Sen, and Jing Peng
"Evaluating Competitive Learners"
2:55 Patrick Riley and Manuela Veloso
"On Behavior Classification in Adversarial Environments"

SESSION V

3:20 Invite Talk (40 minutes)
        Pat Langley
"Adaptive Interfaces for Personalized Driving Assistance"

4:00 Coffee Break (30 minutes)

SESSION VI

4:30 Doina Caragea, Adrian Silvescu, and Vasant Honavar
"Agents that Learn from Distributed Dynamic Data Sources"

4:55 Panel (TBA) (35 minutes)
OR

4:55 Closing Comments (15 minutes)