C.3 NIAD&R: Results of Research

C.3 NIAD&R: Results of Research

Publications

1. Rocha, Ana Paula, Multi-Agent Automatic Negotiation Protocols for Virtual Enterprises formation process (Metodologias de Negociação em Sistemas Multi-agente para Empresas Virtuais). Doctoral Thesis, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, 2002.
2. Nogueira, Luis, Multi-agent System for E-brokering in the Insurance Business (Sistema Multi-Agente para mediação Electrónica de Seguros), Master Thesis, submitted to Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, December, 2002.

1. * Oliveira, Eugénio and Sarmento, Luis,"Emotional Valence-based Mechanisms and Agent Personality", in Advances of Artificiasl Intelligence, Eds. G.Bittencourt, G.Ramalho, Lecture Notes in Artificial intelligence V.2507, pp.152-162, Springer.
2. * Nogueira, Luis and Oliveira, Eugénio, "A Multi-Agent System for E-Insurance Brokering", in Agent technologies, Infrastructures, tools and Applications for e-Services, Eds. R.Kowalczyk, R.Muller, H.Tianfield, R.Unland, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, V.2592, Springer.
3. * Reis, Luis Paulo and Lau, Nuno, "COACH UNILANG - A Standard Language for Coaching a (Robo) Soccer Team", in RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V, Eds. Andreas Birk, Silvia Coradeschi, Satoshi Tadokoro, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence V.2377, pp.183-192, Springer.
4. * Nunes, Luis and Oliveira, Eugénio,"Cooperative learning using Advice Exchange", Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, V.2636, pp.33-48, Eds. E.Alonso, D.Kazakov, D.Kudenko, Springer.
5. * Lau, Nuno and Reis, Luis Paulo, "FC Portugal Team Description: Configurable strategy and Flexible Teamwork", in RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V, Eds. Andreas Birk, Silvia Coradeschi, Satoshi Tadokoro, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence V.2377, pp.515-518, Springer.
6. Nogueira, Luis and Oliveira, Eugénio, "E-Insurance brokering system", in Proceedings of NET.OBJECTDAYS 2002 Workshops, pp. 354-372, Erfurt, Germany.
7. Louro, Sérgio; Reis, Luis Paulo and Oliveira, Eugénio, "Virtual 3D: A Multi-Agent System for Visualizing RoboCup Simulation League Games with Intelligent Camera Control", in Proceedings of International RoboCup Symposium, Ed. Gal Kaminka, P.Lima, R.Rojas, Fukuoka.
8. Nunes, Luis and Oliveira, Eugénio, "On Learning by Exchanging Advice", in Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AISB/AAMAS-2), Imperial College, London.
9. Reis, Luis Paulo and Lau, Nuno, "FCPortugal 2002 Coach: High Level coaching of Robosoccer Games", in Proceedings of International RoboCup Symposium, Ed. Gal Kaminka, P.Lima, R.Rojas, Fukuoka.
10. Camacho, Rui, "Improving the efficiency of ILP Systems using an Incremental Language Level Search", in Proceedings of the Twelfth Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning (Benelearn 2002),Ed. Marco Wiering, pp.26-32, Utrecht, Holland.
11. Reis, Luis Paulo and Lau, Nuno, "FCPortugal 2002 team Description:Flexible Coordination Techniques", in Proceedings of International RoboCup Symposium, Ed. Gal Kaminka, P.Lima, R.Rojas, Fukuoka, apan.
12. Pereira, Guilherme and Oliveira, Eugénio, "Reliable Framework architecture for Multi-Agent System interaction", in Proceedings of the 7th Conference on CSCW in design, Eds. W.Shen, J.Souza, J.P.Barthés, pp.276-282, Rio de Janeiro.
13. Nogueira, Luis and Oliveira, Eugénio, "Agent Mediated Insurance Brokering", in Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Symposium on Autonomous decentralized Systems (ISADS 2002), Guadalajara.
14. Soares, M.G., Malheiro, B. and Restivo, F.J., "Implementation of a Campus-wide DGPS data server", in Proceedings of 5th Conferência de Redes de Computadores- CRC'2002, Faro.
15. Soares, M.G., Malheiro,B. and Restivo, F.J., "Posicionamento via satélite aplicado à Tecnologia automóvel", Proceedings of 2nd Jornadas Politécnicas de Engenharia Mecânica, Automóvel, Organização e Gestão industrial, Energia e Ambiente, Setúbal.
16. Moreira, A. P., Costa, P., Sousa, A. and Reis, Luís Paulo, ?5dpo Team Description Middle Size League, in Proceedings of International RoboCup Symposium, Ed. Gal Kaminka, P.Lima, R.Rojas, Fukuoka, Japan.

1. Oliveira, Eugénio and Nunes, Luis, Information Exchange during the learning process in Multi-Agent Systems. To appear as a chapter of the book "Learning, Coordination and Communication in Multi-Agent Systems", Ed. Lahkmi Jain.
2. Nunes, Luis and Oliveira, Eugénio, "On Learning by Exchanging Advice", (to appear in) Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation Behaviour, Ed. Blay Whitby.

Oliveira, Eugénio and Sarmento, Luis, "Emotional Advantage for Adaptability and Autonomy", to appear in the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous gents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS03), Melbourne, Australia, July 2003.
1. Nunes, Luis and Oliveira, Eugénio, Oliveira, "Advice Exchange Amongst Heterogeneous Learning Agents: Experiments in the Pursuit domain", to appear in the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS03), Melbourne, Australia, July, 2003.
2. Reis, Luis Paulo, Ciber-Feup -- Ensino de Robótica e Inteligência Artificial através da participação em Competições Robóticas, in Electrónica e Comunicações, V.7 N.3, Universidade de Aveiro, September 2002.
3. Baguette, Bruno, "Java Distributed Systems: RMI and JINI", LIACC Report, ERASMUS scholarship supervised by Eugénio Oliveira, Porto, 2002.
4. Carvalho, Joana Marta Ribeiro Sousa, "The Rule Set Custom Document at Intellix A/S", Report EC/LEIC 2001-02, ERASMUS scholarship in Denmark supervised by Eugénio Oliveira.
5. Alves, Alexessander Couto, "Time Series Analysis", LIACC Report, January 2002.
6. Braga, João Manuel, "Workflow de Negócios na Empresa Modelo-Continente Hipermercados S.A", Report EC/LEIC 2001-02, supervised by Eugénio Oliveira.
7. Alves, Alexessander Couto, "Aplying ILP to Time Series Data- first experiment", LIACC Report, February 2002.

Interview in a magazine

Prototypes

• BIAS- Brokerage in Insurance: An Agent-based System. BIAS is a tool including a Broker Agent suitable for the Insurance products domain. BIAS provides the means to build up both Customer Agents and Insurares Agents to interacting with Broker agent. BIAS improves interaction by learning users' preferences and building aproprite users' stereotypes. 2002.
• FCPortugal 2002: A multi-agent based simulated Robosoccer Team. 2002.
• FCPortugal Coach 2002: A Coach for Multi-Agent based simulated Robosoccer Team. 2002.
• Virtual 3D: a Multi-Agent System for Visualizing RoboCup simulation League Games with Intelligent Camera Control. 2002.
• ForEV V.1.2: Virtual Enterprise Formation Platform. ForEV is an Agent-based tool and platform enabling multi-attribute, adaptive negotiation between enterprises aiming at forming a temporary consortium, 2002.
• PyroSim V.1.0. A simple Graphical Simulator for "Emotion-like" based Agents evolving in Fire Combat scenaria. 2002.

Theses supervised

1. Rocha,Ana Paula, "Multi-Agent Automatic Negotiation Protocols for Virtual Enterprises formation process" ("Metodologias de Negociação em Sistemas Multi-agente para Empresas Virtuais"). Doctoral Thesis, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, 2002.

1. Reis, Luis Paulo "Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems: Application to the University Administration and to RoboSoccer" ("Coordenação em Sistemas Multi-Agente: Aplicações na gestão Universitária e Futebol Robótico").(Supervisor Eugénio Oliveira)
2. Nunes, Luis Miguel "Learning and mutual Adaptation in the Multi-Agent context". (Supervisor Eugénio Oliveira).
3. Malucelli, Andrea "Agent-mediated Electronic Institutions". (Supervisor Eugénio Oliveira).

1. Nogueira, Luis "Intelligent Brokering Services for the Insurance application domain"("Sistema Multi-Agente para Mediação Electrónica de Seguros").Submitted to Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, 2002.
2. Pereira, Guilherme "Agent-mediated Travel Agency".
3. Sarmento, Luis "Agent architecture including Emotional motivation for Decision Making".
4. Alves, Alexessander "Agent-based, adaptive Network Communication Management".
5. Pinto, Luis "An Electronic Market for trading Electrical Energy".
6. Cardoso, Nuno "Coordinating AGV's through autonomous agents".
7. Louro, Sérgio "Controling Video Camera for simulated Robosoccer visualisation".
8. Dias, Pedro "Traffic Management simulation through an adaptive Multi-agent system".
9. Proença, Hugo, "Agent-based railways traffic network control".
10. Sousa, Nuno, "Emotion-based Facilitator Agents".

Organization of scientific meetings

• AgentLink Joint ALAD/AMEC SIGs Meeting, Bologna, July 2002.

• "AT2AI-3 - Third International Symposium From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation", Vienna, Austria, April 2002. (Ana Paula Rocha).
• "CIA'02- Sixth International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents", Madrid, September 2002. (Eugénio Oliveira).
• "AAMAS'02-First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems", Bologna, July 2002. (Eugénio Oliveira).
• "The Second Symposium on Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems", Co-located with AISB'02, Imperial College, London, April 2002. (Eugénio Oliveira).
• "The Seventh International conference on CSCW in Design", Rio, September 2002.(Eugénio Oliveira).
• "PRO-VE'02- Third IFIP Working Conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises", Algarve, May 2002.(Eugénio Oliveira).
• "SBIA'02-XVI Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence", Recife. November, 2002. (Eugénio Oliveira).
• "BASYS'02- Balanced Automated Systems in Manufacturing and Services", Cancun, Mexico, September 2002. (Eugénio Oliveira).
• "CARS&FOF02- 18th International Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factory of the Future", Porto, July 2002.(Eugénio Oliveira).

• RoboCup Federation: RoboCup Simulation League (Luis P. Reis).

Editorial Boards

• Member of the European Board for the IOS and Ohmsha Ltd. "Frontiers in AI and its Applications" sub-series for promoting world wide outstanding dissertations in Artificial Intelligence (E. Oliveira).
• Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal "Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems" Kluwer Academic Publishers (E. Oliveira).

Advanced and post-graduate courses

• Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Masters Course, Porto 2001 (E. Oliveira, Ana P. Rocha, Luis P.Reis).

Invited Seminars

• Rocha, Ana Paula, "Negociação Automática para Formação de Empresas Virtuais" Invited talk at WIAA2002- Third Workshop on Autonomous Agents, IST, Lisboa, February 2002.
• Reis, Luis Paulo, "Estratégias e Táticas no Futebol Robótico", Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, ESG, Sexta Semana da Engenharia Electrotécnica, April 2002.
• Oliveira, Eugénio, "Publicar resultados de Investigação: estudo de caso", Workshop "Publicar resultados de investigação", Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, June 2002.
• Cardoso, Henrique L., "Including Marketing Strategies in the Electronic Commerce Framework", in the ALAD/AMEC Joint SIG meeting, Bologna, July 2002.

Awards

• First Place in the 2002 RoboCup Simulation League Coach Competition, Fukuoka, Japan, June 2002. (Luis P. Reis. LIACC in Collaboration with IEETA).
• Second Place in the Ciber-rato 2002 (Cyber-mouse contest), Robótica 2002 Festival, University of Aveiro, April 2002. (Luis P. Reis).

Science in education

• "Inteligência Artificial divulgada aos Jovens", Ancrensis Cooperativa de Ensino em V.P. de Âncora, May 2002. (Luis P. Reis).
• "Introdução à Inteligência Artificial", Escola Secundária António Sérgio, Gaia, February 2002. (Eugénio Oliveira and Luis P. Reis).

C.3 NIAD&R: Results of Research