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# AT 2012
Agreement Technologies

### Proceedings of the First International Conference on Agreement Technologies

### Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 15-16, 2012.

Edited by

### Sascha Ossowski *
Francesca Toni **
George Vouros ***

* CETINIA, University Rey Juan Carlos, 28933 Móstoles (Madrid), Spain
** Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK
*** Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Karaoli and Dimitriou 80, Piraeus, Greece

## Table of Contents

- Preface

- Author Index

### Session I: Invited Papers

#### Invited Speaker

- Negotiation and Search 1
  Carles Sierra (in collaboration with Dave de Jonge and Angela Fabregues)

#### SINTELNET Panel on Social Intelligence

- Engineering Good-Enough Social Interaction 2
  Pablo Noriega
- Social Intelligence and Emergent Rationality 3
  Enric Plaza
- The Design of Intelligent Socio-Technical Systems 4-11
  Andrew Jones, Alexander Artikis, Jeremy Pitt

### Session II: Multi-Agent Systems

#### Regular Papers

- Developing Regulated Open Multi-agent Systems 12-26
  Emilia Garcia, Adriana Giret, Vicent Botti
- Dynamic Discovery and Maintenance of Role-based Performance Standards 27-41
  Ramon Hermoso, Henrique Lopes Cardoso
- Towards Building Agreement Spaces using Consensus Networks 42-56
  Miguel Rebollo, Alberto Palomares, Carlos Carrascosa
- A Collaborative Model for Participatory Load Management in the Smart Grid 57-70
  Matteo Vasirani, Sascha Ossowski
- Towards Runtime Support for Norm Change from a Monitoring Perspective 71-85
  Ignasi Gómez-Sebastià, Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Luis Oliva Felipe
- OntoPlay - A Flexible User-Interface for Ontology-based Systems 86-100
  Michał Drozdowicz, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki, Paweł Szmeja, Katarzyna Wasielewska

#### Position Papers

- Representing and Evaluating Electronic Contracts with Normative Markov Decision Processes 101-102
  Moser Silva Fagundes, Sascha Ossowski, Michael Luck, Simon Miles
- Towards a Framework for the Analysis of Regulative Norm Performance in Complex Networks 103-104
  Luis Oliva Felipe, Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Javier Vázquez-Salceda
- Adapting Agent Organisations with Agreement Technologies 105-106
  J. Santiago Pérez-Sotelo, Carlos E. Cuesta, Sascha Ossowski
- Using CEP-based Blackboards for Coordinating Mobile RFID Agents 107-108
  Johannes Westhuis, Ralf Bruns, Juergen Dunkel
- Dependence Networks for Agreement Technologies 109-110
  Guido Boella, Patrice Caire, Leendert Van Der Torre, Serena Villata
- The CrocodileAgent 2012: Reaching Agreements in a Simulation of a Smart Grid Wholesale Market 111-112
  Ivo Buljevic, Ivana Pranjic, Marija Mijic, Jurica Babic, Ana Petric, Vedran Podobnik

### Session III: Argumentation and Negotiation

#### Regular Papers

- General Directionality and the Local Behavior of Argumentation Semantics 113-127
  Cristian Gratie, Adina Magda Florea, John-Jules Ch. Meyer
- Security Agility Solution Independent of the Underlaying Protocol Architecture 128-137
  Valter Vasic, Miljenko Mikuc
- Towards a Probabilistic Dung-style Argumentation System 138-152
  Tjitze Rienstra
- Arguing from a Point of View 153-167
  Adam Wyner, Jodi Schneider
- WeCurate: Designing For Synchronised Browsing And Social Negotiation 168-179
  Leila Amgoud, Roberto Confalonieri, Dave de Jonge, Mark D'Inverno, Katina Hazelden, Nardine Osman, Henri Prade, Carles Sierra, Matthew Yee-King
- Constraint Definition Rule to Achieve High Rate of Success in Negotiations 180-194
  Raiye Alemayehu, Takayuki Ito

#### Position Papers

- Overview of HANA: a Human-Aware Negotiation Architecture 195-196
  Angela Fabregues, Carles Sierra
- ConArg: Argumentation with Constraints 197-198
  Stefano Bistarelli, Francesco Santini
- Using Saaty's Method in Contract Negotiations 199-200
  Katarzyna Wasielewska, Maria Ganzha
- Towards Community Browsing for Shared Experiences: The WeBrowse System 201-202
  Matthew Yee-King, Roberto Confalonieri, Dave De Jonge, Nardine Osman, Katina Hazelden, Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade, Carles Sierra, Mark D'Inverno
- The CrocodileAgent 2012: Negotiating Agreements in Smart Grid Tariff Market 203-204
  Sinisa Matetic, Jurica Babic, Marin Matijas, Ana Petric, Vedran Podobnik

### Session IV: Foundations of Agreement Technologies

#### Regular Papers

- Competitive Voters vs. Collaborative Bidders: Agreements in Dynamic Task Assignment 205-219
  Marin Lujak, Marija Slavkovik
- Experiences - A Forgotten Component of Epistemic States 220-230
  Leila Amgoud, Mark D'Inverno, Nardine Osman, Henri Prade, Carles Sierra
- Backward Planning in the Logics of Communication and Change 231-245
  Pere Pardo, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
- The Topology of Common Belief 246-259
  David Pearce, Levan Uridia

#### Position Papers

- Environment and Agreement Technologies 260-261
  Estefanía Argente, Olivier Boissier, Carlos Carrascosa, Nicoletta Fornara, Peter McBurney, Pablo Noriega, Alessandro Ricci, Jordi Sabater-Mir, Michael Ignaz Schumacher, Charalampos Tampitsikas, Kuldar Taveter, Giuseppe Vizzari, George Vouros
- Changing Agreements: Intention Reconsideration based on Assumptions and Reasons 262-263
  Diana Marosin, Henderik A. Proper, Leendert van der Torre
- Research Opportunities for Argumentation in Social Networks 264-265
  Stella Heras, Katie Atkinson, Floriana Grasso, Peter McBurney, Vicente Botti, Vicente Julian

### Session V: Semantics

#### Regular Papers

- Decentralized Semantic Coordination Via Belief Propagation 266-280
  George Vouros
- Using OWL Artificial Institutions for dynamically creating Open Spaces of Interaction 281-295
  Nicoletta Fornara, Charalampos Tampitsikas

#### Position Papers

- Integrating Semantic Web Technologies and Multi-Agent Systems: A Semantic Description of Multi-Agent Organizations 296-297
  Alexandra-Mădălina Zarafin, Antoine Zimmermann, Olivier Boissier
- Reengineering the Core Grid Ontology 298-299
  Paweł Szmeja, Antoine Zimmermann
- The E-SHIQ Contextual Logic Framework 300-301
  Giorgos Santipantakis, George Vouros

### Session VI: Trust and Reputation

#### Regular Papers

- Multi-Tier Agent Architecture for Open Service Ecosystems 302-316
  Lea Kutvonen
- A Reinforcement Learning Based Strategy for the Double-Game Prisoner's Dilemma 317-331
  Yang Gao
- Trust in Relevance 332-346
  Fabio Paglieri, Cristiano Castelfranchi

#### Position Papers

- Social Networks and Collective Intelligence - A Return to the Agora (with the Polidoxa Shift) 347-348
  Luca Biselli, Nicola Dragoni, Emanuela Goldoni, Pier Paolo Greco, Antonio Marraffa, Manuel Mazzara, Georgios Papageorgiou
- Agent-oriented Engineering of Trust Management Systems 349-350
  Eva Zupančič, Denis Trcek, Kuldar Taveter
- A Structured Environment to Facilitate Agreements 351-352
  Eugénio Oliveira

### Session VII: Agreement Technologies Applications

#### Regular Papers

- Detection of Collusive Behavior in Energy Markets 353-365
  Radu-Casian Mihailescu, Matteo Vasirani, Sascha Ossowski
- Large Scale Agreements via Microdebates 366-377
  Simone Gabbriellini, Paolo Torroni
- u-Help: Supporting Helpful Communities with Information Technology 378-392
  Andrew Koster, Jordi Madrenas-Ciurana, Nardine Osman, Marco Schorlemmer, Jordi Sabater-Mir, Carles Sierra, Dave de Jonge, Angela Fabregues, Josep Puyol-Gruart, Pere Garcia-Calves
- The Role of Argumentation on the Future Internet: Reaching agreements on Clouds 393-407
  Stella Heras, Fernando de La Prieta, Sara Rodriguez, Javier Bajo, Vicente Botti, Vicente Julian
- An Argument-based Approach to Mining Opinions from Twitter 408-422
  Kathrin Grosse, Carlos Ivan Chesnevar, Ana Gabriela Maguitman
- Distributed Thermal Storage Using Multi-Agent Systems 423-437
  Christian Johansson, Fredrik Wernstedt, Paul Davidsson

#### Position Papers

- Desiderata for Agent-Based Power Regulation Protocols in Smart Grids 438-439
  Radu-Casian Mihailescu, Matteo Vasirani, Sascha Ossowski
- Argumentation Tool that Enables Agents to Argue 440-441
  Jaume Jordán, Stella Heras, Vicente Julian
- An Infrastructure for Open Interaction Systems 442-443
  Daniel Okouya, Nicoletta Fornara, Marco Colombetti
- Getting Experts Agreement in Strategic Planning 444-445
  José Miguel Castillo
- Supervised Task Performance of an Autonomous UAV Swarm, Supporting and Implementing Fire-Fighting Procedures 446-447
  Sascha Hornauer, Florian Frische, Andreas Lüdtke, Jürgen Sauer

08-Oct-2012: submitted by Francesca Toni
08-Oct-2012: published on CEUR-WS.org