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Organizing Committee

General Chairs:

Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, City Univ of NY, USA
Joerg P. Mueller, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
generalchairs@aamas2008.org

Program Chairs:

Lin Padgham, RMIT University, Australia
David C. Parkes, Harvard University, USA
programchairs@aamas2008.org

Local Organization Chairs:

Ana Paiva, INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Luis Antunes, GUESS/LabMAg/Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
localchairs@aamas2008.org

Local Infrastructure Chair:

Rui Prada, INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
localchairs@aamas2008.org

Multi-Robotics Special Track Chair:

Pedro Lima, ISR & Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
robotics@aamas2008.org

Virtual Agents Special Track Chair:

Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany
synthetic@aamas2008.org

Workshop Chair:

Juan Antonio Rodriguez, AI Research Institute (IIIA), Spain
workshops@aamas2008.org

Tutorials Chair:

Pinar Yolum, Bogazici University, Turkey
tutorials@aamas2008.org

Industrial Track Chairs:

Michael Berger, Siemens AG, Germany
Satoshi Nishiyama, KDDI Labs, Japan
Bernard Burg, Panasonic, USA
industrial@aamas2008.org

Exhibits/Demo Chairs:

Joelle Pineau, McGill University, Canada
Rafael Bordini, University of Durham, UK
exhibits@aamas2008.org

Finance Chair:

Keith Decker, University of Delaware, USA
finance@aamas2008.org

Doctoral Mentoring Chairs:

Gal Kaminka, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Yohei Murakami, National Inst. of I&C Tech., Japan
mentoring@aamas2008.org

Publicity Chair:

Vincent Conitzer, Duke University, USA
publicity@aamas2008.org

Publications Chair:

Franziska Kluegl, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
publications@aamas2008.org

Registration and Local Finance Chair:

João Balsa, University of Lisbon, Portugal
registration@aamas2008.org

Student Scholarship Chairs:

Sascha Ossowski, U Rey Juan Carlos Madrid, Spain
Paul Scerri, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Von Wun Soo, U Hsinchu, Taiwan
scholarship@aamas2008.org

Sponsoring Chairs:

John Yen, Penn State University, USA
Alex Rogers, University of Southhampton, UK
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
sponsoring@aamas2008.org

Senior Program Committee:

Ana Bazzan UFRGS, Brazil
Rafael Bordini University of Durham, UK
Craig Boutilier University of Toronto, Canada
Felix Brandt University of Munich, Germany
Jonathan Bredin Colorado College, USA
Brahim Chaib-draa Laval University, Canada
Helder Coelho Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Vincent Conitzer Duke University, USA
Stephen Cranefield University of Otago
Mehdi Dastani Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Barbara Dunin-Keplicz Warsaw Univ. and Polish Acad of Sciences, Poland
Edmund Durfee University of Michigan, USA
Ulle Endriss University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Boi Faltings EPFL, Switzerland
Maria Fasli University of Essex, UK
Shaheen Fatima University of Liverpool, UK
Claudia Goldman Samsung Telecom Research Israel, Israel
Eric Horvitz Microsoft Research, USA
Takayuki Ito Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Nick Jennings Southampton University, UK
Catholijn M. Jonker Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Kamalakar Karlapalem IIIT-Hyderabad, India
Ryszard Kowalczyk University of Swinburne, Australia
Sarit Kraus Bar-Ilan University, Israel and Univ. Maryland, USA
Han La Poutre CWI, The Netherlands
Jerome Lang IRIT, France
Kate Larson University of Waterloo, Canada
Ho-fung Leung The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Michael Luck King's College London, UK
Rajiv Maheswaran Univ. of Southern California - ISI, USA
Stacy Marsella Univ. of Southern California - ISI, USA
Radhika Nagpal Harvard University, USA
Eugenio Oliveira Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Ana Paiva INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Técnico
Anna Perini Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy
Jeffrey Rosenschein Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Norman Sadeh Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Paul Scerri Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Sandip Sen University of Tulsa, USA
Onn Shehory IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Carles Sierra AI Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Spain
Munindar Singh North Carolina State University, USA
Elizabeth Sklar Brooklyn College, City Univ of NY, USA
Katia Sycara Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Valentina Tamma University of Liverpool, UK
Kagan Tumer Oregon State University, USA
Manuela Veloso Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Nikos Vlassis Technical University of Crete, Greece
Mary-Anne Williams University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Steven Willmott 3Scale Networks S. L., Spain
Michael Winikoff RMIT University, Australia
Makoto Yokoo Kyushu University, Japan
Chengqi Zhang University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

 

SPC: Multi-Robotics Special Track

Vijay Kumar University of Pennsylvania, USA
Radhika Nagpal Harvard University, USA
Daniele Nardi Universita di Roma, Italy
Lynne Parker University of Tennessee, USA
Alessandro Saffiotti Orebro University, Sweden
Paul Scerri Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Elizabeth Sklar Brooklyn College, City Univ of NY, USA
Manuela Veloso Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Nikos Vlassis Technical University of Crete, Greece
Mary-Anne Williams University of Technology Sydney, Australia

 

SPC: Virtual Agents Special Track

Ruth Aylett Heriot-Watt University, UK
Marc Cavazza University of Teeside, UK
Stacy Marsella Univ. of Southern California - ISI, USA
Ana Paiva INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Catherine Pelachaud Universite de Paris 8, France
Helmut Prendinger National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Katia Sycara CMU, USA
Daniel Thalmann EPFL, Switzerland
R. Michael Young North Carolina State University, USA

 

Program Committee

Main Track Program Committee

Sherief Abdallah British University in Dubai
David Abraham CMU
Adrian Agogino UCSC/NASA
Stephane Airiau University of Tulsa
Natasha Alechina Nottingham
Alon Altman Stanford Univesity
Leila Amgoud IRIT
Luis Antunes GUESS/LabMAg/Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Krzysztof Apt CWI
Itai Ashlagi Technion
Fahiem Bacchus University of Toronto
Matteo Baldoni Dipartimento di Informatica, Univ. di Torino
Joao Balsa DI / FCUL
Bikramjit Banerjee University of Southern Mississippi
Raju Bapi University of Hyderabad
Suzanne Barber The Unversity of Texas
Bernhard Bauer
Punam Bedi University of Delhi, INDIA
Michael Beetz Technical University of Munich
Ahlem Ben Hassine NICT
Michael Benisch CMU
Jamal Bentahar Concordia University
Carole Bernon Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toul
Aurelie Beynier GREYC-CNRS - Université de Caen
Bastian Blankenburg DFKI
Liad Blumrosen Microsoft Research
Guido Boella Universita' degli studi di Torino
Sander Bohte CWI Amsterdam
Olivier Boissier  
Tibor Bosse Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Luis Botelho  
Emma Bowring  
Ronen Brafman Ben Gurion University
Lars Braubach University of Hamburg
Frances Brazier Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jan Broersen Utrecht University
Chris Brooks University of San Francisco
Olivier Buffet LORIA / INRIA
Stefan Bussmann MentalProof Software GmbH
Valerie Camps Universite Paul Sabatier, France
Longbing Cao Faculty of Information Technology
Amilcar Cardoso University of Coimbra
Ruggiero Cavallo Harvard
Lawrence Cavedon RMIT University
Luigi Ceccaroni UPC
Jesus Cerquides U. Barcelona
Krzysztof Cetnarowicz AGH - University of Science and Technology
Georgios Chalkiadakis University of Southampton
Xiaoping Chen University of Science and Technology of China
Chris Cheong RMIT University
Yann Chevaleyre LAMSADE
Ricardo Choren Military Institute of Engineering (IME-RJ)
Bradley Clement Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Robin Cohen
John Collins University of Minnesota
Alan Colman Swinburne University of Technology
Florin Constantin Harvard
Rosaria Conte ISTC-CNR
Massimo Cossentino
Jacob Crandal MIT
Elisabeth Crawford Carnegie Mellon University
Jonathan Dale Quantumn Leap
Rajarshi Das IBM T.J. Watson
Rajdeep Dash Univ Southampton
George Davis CMU
Mathijs de Weerdt Delft University of Technology
John Debenham UTS
Keith Decker University of Delaware
Yves Demazeau CNRS
Jörg Denzinger University of Calgary
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo University of London
Ian Dickinson HP Laboratories
Frank Dignum Utrecht University
Virginia Dignum Utrecht University
Oguz Dikenelli Ege University
Mark D'Inverno
Jurgen Dix Clausthal University of Technology
Dmitri Dolgov Stanford U.
Prashant Doshi The University of Georgia
Paul Dunne University of Liverpool
Alain Dutech LORIA
Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni University Pierre and Marie Curie
Edith Elkind U. Southampton
Yagil Engel U. Michigan
Marc Esteva IIIA-CSIC
Berndt Farwer University of Durham
Ariel Felner U. Ben-Gurion
Sevan Ficici Harvard University
Felix Fischer University of Munich
Klaus Fischer DFKI GmbH
Michael Fisher University of Liverpool, UK
Roberto Flores Christopher Newport  University
Nicoletta Fornara Università della Svizzera Italiana
Naoki Fukuta Shizuoka University
Fabien Gandon INRIA
Alessandro Garcia Lancaster University
Graca Gaspar  
Enrico Gerding University of Southampton
Hamada Ghenniwa UWO
Chiara Ghidini Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST
Aditya Ghose University of Wollongong
Andrew Gilpin Carnegie Mellon University
Paolo Giorgini University of Trento
ANDREA GIOVANNUCCI IIIA-CSIC
Marie-Pierre Gleizes IRIT
Piotr Gmytrasiewicz U. Illinois Chicago
Lluís Godo IIIA-CSIC
Carla Gomes Cornell University
Thore Graepel Microsoft Research
Gianluigi Greco University of Calabria
Rachel Greenstadt Harvard U.
Zahia Guessoum Pierre and Marie Curie University
Renata Guizzardi Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Mingyu Guo Duke University
Arobinda Gupta Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Mario Gutierrez Virtual Reality Laboratory - EPFL
David Hales University of Bologna
Eric Hansen Mississippi State University
Paul Harrenstein University of Munich
Hiromitsu Hattori Kyoto University
Minghua He Univ Aston
Andreas Herzig IRIT - Univ. Paul Sabatier
Henry Hexmoor Southern Illinois University
Koen Hindriks Delft University of Technology
Katsutoshi hirayama Kobe University
Mark Hoogendoorn Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Marc-Philippe Huget University of Savoie
Michael Huhns University of South Carolina
Luke Hunsberger Vassar College
Samuel Ieong Stanford
Nicole Immorlica Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)
Bipin Indurkhya IIIT-Hyderabad
Atsushi Iwasaki Kyushu University
Kamal Jain Microsoft Research
Wojtek Jamroga Technical University Clausthal
Albert Xin Jiang UBC
Zhi Jin Professor
Radu Jurca Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Souhila Kaci CRIL - Univ. d'Artois
Lalana Kagal MIT
Henry Kautz University of Rochestor
Jeffrey Kephart
Astrid Kiehn Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Franziska Klügl University of Würzburg
Matthias Klusch DFKI
Sven Koenig USC
Sébastien Konieczny CRIL - CNRS
Manolis Koubarakis National and Kapodistrian University of Athen
Joao Leite New University of Lisbon
Yves Lesperance York University
Victor Lesser University of Massachusetts Amherst
Kevin Leyton-Brown University of British Columbia
Wei Liu Lecturer
Jiming Liu Hong Kong Baptist University
Yaxin Liu Fair Isaac Corporation
Alessio Lomuscio Imperial College
Xudong Luo Univ Birmingham
Roger Mailler SRI International
Ashok Mallya Veraz Networks
Andreia Malucelli PUCPR
Shaul Markovitch Technion
Viviana Mascardi Universita di Genova
Shigeo Matsubara Kyoto University
Tokuro Matsuo Yamagata University
Nicolas Maudet LAMSADE
Chris Meek Microsoft Research
amnon meisels Ben Gurion University
pedro meseguer IIIA
John-Jules Meyer Universiteit Utrecht
Simon Miles King's College London
Pericles Mitkas Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Pavlos Moraitis Paris Descartes University
David Morley
AbdelIllah Mouaddib University of Caen
Thierry Moyaux University of Liverpool
Tracy Mullen Penn State University
Steve Munroe
Yohei Murakami NICT
Y. Narahari Professor, Computer Science and Automation
Nanjangud Narendra IBM India Research Lab
Dana Nau University of Maryland
Jose Neves  
Ann Nicholson Monash Uni
Pablo Noriega IIIA-CSIC
Timothy Norman University of Aberdeen
Eugene Nudelman Google
Luis Nunes ISCTE
Andrea Omicini Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Charlie Ortiz SRI
Sascha Ossowski University Rey Juan Carlos
Julian Padget University of Bath
Liviu Panait Google Inc.
Massimo Paolucci Docomo Euro Lab
David Pardoe The University of Texas at Austin
Praveen Paruchuri IAI
Van Parunak NewVectors
Philippe Pasquier University Of Melbourne
Terry Payne Southampton University
Adrian Pearce The University of Melbourne
Michal Pechoucek Czech Technical University in Prague
Wojciech Penczek Polish Academy of Sciences
Loris Penserini Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST
Adrian Petcu EPFL
Paolo Petta Austrian Research Institute for AI
Avi Pfeffer Harvard
Steve Phelps Victria Limited
John Phelps Honeywell Laboratories
Jeremy Pitt Imperial College London
Pascal Poupart University of Waterloo
Doina Precup McGill University
Alun Preece University of Aberdeen
Ariel Procaccia Hebrew University
Martin Purvis University of Otago
Maryam Purvis University of Otago
Hong Qi Jilin University
Zinovi Rabinovich IAM Group, ECS, University of Southampton
Iyad Rahwan British University in Dubai
Anita Raja University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Gopal Ramchurn Univ Southampton
Omer Rana Cardiff University
Jinghai Rao Carnegie Mellon University
Timothy Rauenbusch
B. Ravidran IIT Madras
Daniel Reeves Yahoo Research
Martin Rehak Czech Technical University
Robert Reynolds Wayne State University
Alessandro Ricci Università di Bologna
Valentin Robu CWI, Center for Mathematics &Computer Science
Alex Rogers University of Southampton
Avi Rosenfeld Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem,
Rosaldo Rossetti Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto
Francesca Rossi Univ. Padova
Joerg Rothe University of Duesseldorf
Michael Rovatsos University of Edinburgh
Jordi Sabater-Mir IIIA-CSIC
Sabyasachi Saha Toyota ITC
Yuko Sakurai Kyushu University
Sebastian Sardina RMIT University
David Sarne Harvard University
Francesco Scarcello University of Calabria
Marco Schorlemmer IIIA-CSIC
Bart Selman Cornell University
Luciano Serafini Fondazione Bruno Kessler - ITC IRST
Rob Shields CombineNet
Kosuke Shinoda National Defense Academy
Jaime Sichman University of  São Paulo
Maarten Sierhuis USRA/RIACS
Marius Silaghi Florida institute of Technology
Stephen Smith CMU
Leenkiat Soh
Liz Sonenberg University of Melbourne
Von Wun Soo Naitonal Tsing Hua University 
Diana Spears University of Wyoming
Kostas Stathis Royal Holloway, Uni. of London
Peter Stone University of Texas
Arnon Sturm Ben Gurion University
Kaile Su Peking University
Shuyang Sun
Angelo Susi Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST
Samarth Swarup University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Milind Tambe USC
Luke Teacy University of Southampton
Moshe Tennenholtz Technion
John Thangarajah RMIT University
Simon Thompson BT Group
Francesca Toni Imperial College, London
Jan Treur Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Paola Turci University of Parma
Karl Tuyls Universiteit Maastricht
Wiebe van der Hoek University of Liverpool
Leon van der Torre University of Luxembourg
Hans van Ditmarsch Computer Science, University of Otago, NZ
Rogier van Eijk Utrecht University
M. Birna van Riemsdijk Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Laszlo Varga MTA SZTAKI
Wamberto Vasconcelos University of Aberdeen
Javier Vazquez-Salceda Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
K. Brent Venable University of Padova
Katja Verbeeck Universiteit Maastricht
Rineke Verbrugge University of Groningen
Gérard Verfaillie ONERA
Ioannis Vetsikas University of Southampton
Jose Vidal U South Carolina
Renata Vieira UNISINOS
Bao Vo Swinburne University of Technology
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik U. Michigan
Toby Walsh NICTA and UNSW
William Walsh CombineNet
Shengsheng Wang
Gerhard Weiss SCCH
Michael Wellman U. Michigan
Cees Witteveen TU Delft
Wayne Wobcke University of New South Wales
Mike Wooldridge Univ Liverpool
Bozena Wozna Jan Dlugosz University 
Jianhui Wu University of Michigan
Peter Wurman Kiva Systems
Yang Xu University of Pittsburgh
Ping Xuan Clark University
Hirofumi Yamaki Nagoya Univeristy
Bo Yang Jilin University
John Yen The Pennsylvania State University
Pinar Yolum Bogazici University
Franco Zambonelli Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Daniel Dajun Zeng Professor
Yifeng Zeng Aalborg University
Minjie Zhang University of Wollongong, Australia
Weixiong Zhang Deakin University
Zili Zhang
Shlomo Zilberstein University of Massachusetts

 

Multi-Robotics Special Track Program Commitee

Andreas Birk Jacobs University
Andrea Bonarini Politecnico di Milano
Brett Browning Carnegie Mellon Univ
Stefano Carpin Univ. Calif. at Merced
Antonio Chella University of Palermo
Peng Cheng University of Pennsylvania
Eric Chown Bowdoin College
Anna  Costa University of São Paulo
M. Bernardine Dias Carnegie Mellon University
Patrick Doherty University of Linköping
Marco Dorigo Université Libre de Bruxelles
Alessandro Farinelli University of Southampton
Fernando Fernandez Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Rafael Fierro University of New Mexico
Brian Gerkey SRI
Maria Gini University of Minnesota
Greg Grudic University of Colorado
Karen Haigh BBN
Luca Iocchi Sapienza University Roma
Hyuckchul Jung IMHC
Gal Kaminka Bar Ilan University
Lars Karlsson Orebro University
Gerhard Kraetzschmar FH Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Manish Kumar University of Cincinnati
Nuno Lau Universidade de Aveiro
Marco Mamei Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Alcherio Martinoli EPFL
Dejan Milutinovic Duke Univeristy Lab. of Comp. Immunology
Luis Montesano Instituto de sistemas e Robotica; Instituto 
Itsuki Noda AIST
Joelle Pineau McGill University
Mikhail Prokopenko CSIRO ICT Centre
Luis Paulo Reis U Porto
Carlos Ribeiro Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica
Martin Riedmiller University of Osnabrück
Maayan Roth Google
Paul Rybski Carnegie Mellon University
Erol Sahin Middle East Technical University
Claude Sammut University of New South Wales
Martijn Schut VU University Amsterdam
Matthijs Spaan IST Lisbon
Cyrill Stachniss Univ. of Freiburg
Gita Sukthankar University of Central Florida
Paulo Tabuada UCLA
Pradeep Varakantham CMU
Regis Vincent SRI
George Vouros University of the Aegean
Alfredo Weitzenfeld ITAM
Marco Wiering U Utrecht
Andrew Williams Spelman College
Bin Yu Quantum Leap

 

Virtual Agents Special Track Program Commitee

Jan Allbeck University of Pennsylvania
Norman Badler University of Pennsylvania
Tolga Capin Bilkent University
Angelica de Antonio Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Carlos Delgado-Mata Universidad Panamericana
Stephane Donikian IRISA/INRIA
Marco Gillies Department of Computer Science
Jonathan Gratch University of Southern California
Jomi Hübner Universidade Regional de Blumenau
Bruno Herbelin Aarlborg University
Dirk Heylen University of Twente
Steve Wan Ching Ho University of Hertfordshire
Jesus Ibanez University Pompeu Fabra
Katherine Isbister RPI
Mitsuru Ishizuka Univ. of Tokyo
Prem Kalra Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Michael Kipp DFKI
Stefan Kopp University of Bielefeld
Nicole Kraemer University Duisburg-Essen
Brigitte Krenn Austrian Research Institute for Artificial In
James Lester
Sandy Louchart MACS Heriot-Watt University
Brian   Loyall  BAE Systems
Brian Magerko
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann University of Geneva
Michael Mateas  UC Santa Cruz
Wenji Mao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jean-Claude Martin CNRS-LIMSI
Soraia Musse Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grand
Yukiko Nakano Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technolog
Luciana Nedel Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul
Toyoaki Nishida Kyoto University
Igor Pandzic University of Zagreb
Christopher Peters University of Paris8
Paul Piwek Open Univ.
Rob Pooley Computer Science, Heriot Watt University
Rui Prada INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
David Pynadath USC
Matthias Rehm University of Augsburg
Mark Riedl ICT/USC
Thomas Rist Univ. of Applied Sciences, Augsburg
Isaac Rudomin ITESM-CEM
Zsofi Ruttkay University of Twente
Jesus Savage University of Mexico
Magy Seif el nasr Simon Fraser University
Etienne de Sevin
Kristinn Thorisson Reykjavik University
Bill Tomlinson University of California, Irvine
David Traum USC/ICT
Hannes Vilhjalmsson Reykjavik University

 

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