SASEMAS Workshop Programme
Tuesday, 26th July, 2005.
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Welcome/Intro | |
| Session 1: Safe and Robust Agents | ||
| 9:20 - 9:45 | Fault-Tolerant Information Sharing Networks. J. Park, K. S. Barber | |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Short Paper: A compositional proof system for agent behaviour. D. Fournier, B. Mermet, G. Simon | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Invited Talk: Developing open specifications for secure and safe multi-agent systems. Stefan Poslad (Queen Mary, University of London). Slides from talk | |
| Session 2: Security Attacks on MAS | ||
| 11:15 - 11:40 | Multiagent modeling and simulation of agents' competition for network resources availability. I. Kotenko, A. Ulanov | |
| 11:40 - 12:05 | Extending the Buddy Model to Secure Variable Sized Multi Agent Communities. J. Page, A. Zaslavsky, M. Indrawan | |
| 12:05 - 12:20 | Short Paper: SECMAP: A Secure Mobile Agent Platform. S. Ugurlu, N. Erdogan | |
| 12:20 - 13:20 | Lunch | |
| 13:20 - 14:25 | Invited Talk: Making Agents Safe for Space. Brad Clement, Daniel Tran, and Steve Chien (JPL/NASA). Slides from talk. | |
| 14:25 - 14:35 | Best Paper Awards | |
| Session 3: Safety/Security in MAS - Agent Autonomy | ||
| 14:35 - 15:00 | Dangers in Multiagent Rescue using DEFACTO. J. Marecki, N. Schurr, M. Tambe, P. Scerri | |
| 15:00 - 15:25 | Towards Using Simulation to Evaluate Safety Policy for Systems of Systems. R. Alexander, M. Hall-May, G. Despotou, T. Kelly | |
| 15:25 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Short Paper: The Use of MAS Rescue Simulation to Assess the Effectiveness of Planning for Urban Disasters: A Preliminary Study. T. Takahashi, N. Ito | |
| 16:15 - 16:40 | Safety in multiagent systems by policy randomization. P. Paruchuri, D. Dini, M. Tambe, F. Ordonez, S. Kraus. Winner of Best Paper award. | |
| 16:40 - 17:20 | Discussion | |
| 17:20 -17:30 | Wrap-up | |
Invited Speaker Bios
Dr. Brad Clement is a senior member of the Artificial Intelligence Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, where he is developing methods for coordinating planning and scheduling for single and multiple spacecraft/missions. He leads projects on distributed continual planning applied to simulated spacecraft and rovers for Mars, on scheduling resource allocation for the Deep Space Network, and on planning under uncertainty. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research interests include multiagent coordination, situated planning and execution, distributed systems, and AI in games.
Daniel Tran is a member of the technical staff in the Artificial Intelligence Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, where he is working on developing automated planning and scheduling systems for onboard spacecraft commanding. Daniel attended the University of Washington and received a B.S. in Computer Engineering, graduating with honors. He is currently the software lead for the Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment flying onboard the Earth Observing-1 satellite.
Dr. Steve Chien is a Principal Computer Scientist at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory where he leads efforts in autonomous space systems
and is the Principal Investigator for the Autonomous Sciencecraft
Experiment. Dr. Chien is also an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Southern California. Dr. Chien was a recipient of the 1995 Lew Allen Award for Excellence. In 1997, he received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for his work in research and development of planning and scheduling systems for NASA. In 2000, he received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal for
service and leadership in research and deployment of planning and scheduling systems for NASA.
Dr. Stefan Poslad is a lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London. He chaired the FIPA agent standards forum security Technical committee and was on its Board of directors before its recent transformation to become an IEEE standards committee in May 2005. He is an active member and co-organiser of agent, Trust and ubiquitous system thematic networks and workshops. He has worked on several distributed system project applications for security including mobile user tourism services, environmental data integration and leisure services composition. His interests include: security, trust and privacy models for open distributed services; open distributed services models based upon the Semantic Web and Intelligent agents, and Ubiquitous computing.