AUCTIONBOTS 2006

Workshop on

Auction Mechanisms for Robot Coordination

Held in conjunction with
The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence - AAAI 2006

July 17, 2006, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

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Monday, July 17, 2006

8:30 am
 Welcome - Introduction
 Bernardine Dias, Sven Koenig, Michail G. Lagoudakis

Oral Presentations Session I
8:50 am
 Improving Sequential Single-Item Auctions
 Xiaoming Zheng, Sven Koenig, and Craig Tovey
9:15 am
 Learning When to Auction and When to Bid
 Didac Busquets and Reid Simmons
9:40 am
 Monitoring and Interference Impact in Multi-Robot Auction Methods
 Jose Guerrero and Gabriel Oliver
10:05 am
 Alphabet Soup: A Testbed for Studying Resource Allocation in Multi-Vehicle Systems
 Christopher J. Hazard, Peter R. Wurman, and Raffaello D'Andrea
10:30 am
Coffee Break

Poster Spotlight Presentations
11:00 am
 Comparing Market and Token-Based Coordination
 Yang Xu, Paul Scerri, Katia Sycara, and Michael Lewis
11:05 am
 Multiagent Coordination Using a Distributed Combinatorial Auction
 Jose M. Vidal
11:10 am
 Coordinating Busy Agents Using a Hybrid Clustering-Auction Approach
 Kshanti Greene and Martin O. Hofmann
11:15 am
 Allocating Heterogeneous Tasks to Heterogeneous Teams
 George Thomas and Andrew B. Williams
11:20 am
 Supporting Fault Tolerant Multi-Agent Negotiation in Open MAS with FT-ACL
 Nicola Dragoni and Mauro Gaspari
11:25 am
 Dynamic and Distributed Allocation of Resource Constrained Project Tasks to Robots
 Sanem Sariel and Tucker Balch
11:30 am
 Auctions for Robust Task Execution in Multi-Robot Teams
 Maitreyi Nanjanath and Maria Gini
11:35 am
 Poster Session
12:45 pm
Lunch Break

Oral Presentations Session II
1:50 pm
 Layering Coalition Formation With Task Allocation
 Fang Tang and Lynne E. Parker
2:15 pm
 Task Inference and Distributed Task Management in Complex 3D Environments
 Benoit Morisset, Charles Ortiz, and Regis Vincent
2:40 pm
 Optimal Coordination of Loosely-Coupled Self-Interested Robots
 Ruggiero Cavallo, David C. Parkes, and Satinder Singh
3:05 pm
 Commbots: Distributed Control of Mobile Communication Relays
 Brian P. Gerkey, Roger Mailler, and Benoit Morisset
3:30 pm
Coffee Break

 Invited Panel: Visionary Statements
4:00 pm
 Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University [slides]
4:10 pm  Alvin Roth, Harvard University [slides]
4:20 pm  Brad Clement, NASA JPL [slides]
4:30 pm
Jeff Kephart, IBM Research
4:40 pm
 Invited Panel: Discussion
6:00 pm
Adjourn