[agents] OPTMAS 2008 programme

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               First International Workshop on Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems (OPTMAS)
                                             http://www.optmas08.org
                                                      12th May 2008
                         (Co-located with AAMAS 2008 - Estoril, Portugal)
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The list of papers accepted at OptMas has been released (and available
to download) and the programme for the workshop is available at:
http://www.optmas08.org.

<Invited talk>: Prof. Moshe Tennenholtz will be giving a talk at
 the workshop.

<Panel session>: The invited panellists are: Nick Jennings,
Moshe Tennenholtz, and Makoto Yokoo.

To attend the workshop, please register with:
http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas2008/registration.html

The list of accepted papers is given below:
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1.Agent Based Decomposition of Optimization Problems
 Johan Holmgren, Jan A. Persson, Paul Davidsson

2.Optimization in Private Stable Matching with Cost of Privacy Loss
  Marius Silaghi, Prashant Doshi, Toshihiro Matsui, Makoto Yokoo,
Markus Zanker

3.Benchmarking Hybrid Algorithms for Distributed Constraint Optimisation
 Games
 Archie Chapman, Alex Rogers, Nicholas R. Jennings

4.Bidding Strategies for Realistic Multi-Unit Sealed-Bid Auctions
Ioannis Vetsikas, Nicholas R. Jennings

5.Optimizing coalition formation for tasks with dynamically evolving rewards
and nondeterministic action effects
Majid Ali Khan, Damla Turgut, Ladislau Boloni

6. Agent-Based Optimisation Systems for Electrical Load Management
 Rongxin Li, Jiaming Li, Geoff Poulton, Geoff James

7.A Self-organizing Multi-agent System for Online Unsupervised Learning
in Complex Dynamic Environments
 Igor Kiselev, Reda Alhajj


8.Stochastic Fictitious Play using Particle Filters to update the beliefs
of opponents strategies
Michalis Smyrnakis, David Leslie

9.Constant cost of the computation-unit in efficiency graphs
Marius Silaghi, Robert N. Lass, Evan Sultanik, William Regli, Toshihiro
Matsui, Makoto Yokoo

10.An Organizational View of Metaheuristics
David Meignan, Jean-Charles Creput, Abderrafiaa Koukam

11.MANGO: A MultiAgent ENvironment for Global Optimization
 Lirida Kercelli, Ayse Sezer, Pinar Yolum, S.Ilker Birbil, Figen Oztoprak
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