1. The Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Honolulu, Hawaii, May 14-18, 2007

2. AAMAS History New York, USA (2004) Hakodate, Japan (2006) Utrecht, The Netherlands (2005) Bologna, Italy (2002) Melbourne, Australia (2003) Honolulu, Hawaii (2007)

3. AAMAS-2007 Overview (on-line registration only)  473 main conference participants from 34 different countries/regions 270 regular 203 students 328 banquet attendees + guests  33 tutorial/workshop only

4. AAMAS-2007 Events (I)  Doctoral Mentoring: 17 students: Co-chairs: Kate Larson and Iyad Rahwan  11 workshops Chair: Elizabeth Sklar  8 tutorials Chair: Jaime Sichman  Industry track: 10 papers Co-chairs: Monique Calisti and Shigeo Matsubara

5. AAMAS-2007 Events (II)  11 Demos: Co-chairs: Elizabeth Andre and Zili Zhang  Exhibition: Toshiba, 21st century systems, Springer, IOS press  Agent Reputation and Trust Testbed Competition (ART)

6. Other Important Folks  Local Organization Chair: Nancy Reed  Finance Chair: Wiebe van der Hoek  Student Scholarships co-Chairs: Sandip Sen and Sascha Ossowski  Sponsorships co-Chairs: Van Parunak, Akihiko Ohsuga, Mehdi Dastani  Publicity Chair: Chris Brooks  Publications co-Chairs: Jay Modi, Atsushi Iwasaki

7. In Memoriam to Jay Modi

8. AAMAS-2007 Sponsors Whitestein Technologies

9. Conference Logistics  Plenary sessions here  Parallel sessions in rooms to the left and right as you leave this room  Breaks and Poster sessions in a pretty courtyard area around the other side of this area  Demonstrations and exhibits are in room 303A.  Wireless access in the registration hallway and near room 301. 301 has a few wired ports.  For lunch, there are nearby places to eat in several directions from here. A large food court downstairs in the Ala Moana shopping center (right past the Ala Moana Hotel).  Enjoy the open areas in the Convention Center and the warm weather during your walks around. But come back from lunch for the poster session!

10. Convention Center Map

11. Now to overview the Technical Program and to introduce our first invited speaker, we turn the podium over to the AAMAS07 program co-chairs

12. Technical Program Co-Chairs:  Michael Huhns University of South Carolina  Onn Shehory IBM

13. Best Paper Award Nominees “A Bounded Q-decomposition RDTP Approach to Resource Allocation,” Plamondon Pierrick and Brahim Chaib-draa “Multiagent Reinforcement Learning and Self-organization in a Network of Agents,” Sherief Abdallah and Victor Lesser “Bidding Optimally in Concurrent Second-Price Auctions of Perfectly Substitutable Goods,” Enrico Gerding, Rajdeep Dash, David Yuen, and Nick Jennings “Outperforming the Competition in Multi-Unit Sealed Bid Auctions,” Ioannis Vetsikas and Nick Jennings “Better automated abstraction techniques for imperfect information games, with application to Texas HoldEm Poker,” Andrew Gilpin and Tuomas Sandholm “Distributed Agent-Based Air Traffic Flow Management,” Kagan Tumer and Adrian Agogino “Theoretical Advantages of Lenient Q-learners: An Evolutionary Game Theory Perspective,” Liviu Panait and Karl Tuyls “Distributed Management of Flexible Times Schedules,” Stephen Smith, Anthony Gallagher, Terry Zimmerman, Laura Barbulescu, and Zack Rubinstein

14. The Best Paper Is: “Distributed Agent-Based Air Traffic Flow Management” by Kagan Tumer and Adrian Agogino

15. Best Student Paper Award Nominees “A Computational Characterization of Multiagent Games with Fallacious Rewards,” Ariel Procaccia and Jeffrey Rosenschein “Computing the Banzhaf Power Index in Network Flow Games,” Yoram Bachrach and Jeffrey Rosenschein “A Generative Inquiry Dialogue System,” Elizabeth Black and Anthony Hunter “Exploiting Factored Representations for Decentralized Execution in Multi-agent Teams,” Maayan Roth, Reid Simmons, and Manuela Veloso “Robust coordination to sustain throughput of an unstable agent network,” Rajesh Gautam and Kazuo Miyashita “Batch Reinforcement Learning in a Complex Domain,” Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan and Peter Stone “Organizational Self-Design in Semi-dynamic Environments,” Sachin Kamboj and Keith Decker “IFSA: Incremental Feature-Set Augmentation,” Ahmadi Mazda, Matthew Taylor, and Peter Stone

16. The Best Student Paper Is: “A Generative Inquiry Dialogue System” by Elizabeth Black and Anthony Hunter

17. Program Statistics  531 papers submitted  122 full papers accepted (23%)  132 short papers (posters) accepted (25%)  3 reviews per paper  43 Senior PC members, 295 PC members, 77 external reviewers

18. Presentation Guidelines  There are 20 minutes for each paper, including questions  There is no dedicated computer for each session, so please consider allowing yours to be used by all of the speakers in your session  Please load your presentation onto whichever computer is to be used before the session begins

19. Poster Guidelines  Please display your poster in Room 306A/B either first thing in the morning or during the morning break  Please use the display materials we provide (tri-fold display board and clips or push-pins)  Try not to damage the boards, because they will be reused for the later poster sessions

20. Invited Lectures  John Strassner, Motorola  Jeff Kephart, IBM  Sarit Kraus, Bar Ilan University  Gal Kaminka, Bar Ilan University  Vincent Conitzer, Duke University