Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies: 15th European Conference, EUMAS 2017, and 5th International Conference, AT 2017, Evry, France, December 14-15, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

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Multi-Agent Systems
and Agreement Technologies
15th European Conference, EUMAS 2017
and 5th International Conference, AT 2017
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Evry, France, December 14 15, 2017
Revised Selected Papers
123
Editors
Francesco Belardinelli EstefaníaArgente
University of ÉvryVal d’Essonne Polytechnic University ofValencia
Paris Saclay, France Valencia, Spain
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Preface
This volume contains revised versions of the papers presented at the 15th European
Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2017) and the 5th International Con-
ferenceonAgreementTechnologies(AT2017),whichwerebothheldattheUniversité
d’Evry – Val d’Essonne, during December 14–15, 2017.
EUMAS 2017 followed the tradition of previous editions (Oxford 2003, Barcelona
2004, Brussels 2005, Lisbon 2006, Hammamet 2007, Bath 2008, Agia Napa 2009,
Paris2010,Maastricht2011,Dublin2012,Toulouse2013,Prague2014,Athens2015,
andValencia2016)inaimingtoprovidetheprimeEuropeanforumforpresentingand
discussingagentsresearchastheannualdesignatedeventoftheEuropeanAssociation
of Multi-Agent Systems (EURAMAS).
AT 2017 was the fifth instalment in a series of events (after Dubrovnik 2012,
Beijing 2013, Athens 2015, and Valencia 2016) that focus on bringing together
researchers and practitioners working on computer systems in which autonomous
software agents interact, typically on behalf of humans, in order to come to mutually
acceptable agreements. A wide scope of technologies can help provide the support
needed for reaching mutually acceptable agreements, such as argumentation and
negotiation, trust and reputation, computational social choice, coalition and team for-
mation, coordination and distributed decision-making, and semantic alignment, to
name a few.
This year, for the third time, both events were co-located and run as a single, joint
event. This joint organization aimed to encourage and continue cross-fertilization
amongthebroaderEUMASandthemorespecializedATcommunities,andtoprovide
a richer and more attractive program to participants. While the technical program was
put together by their independent committees into conference-specific thematic ses-
sions, the conferences shared keynote talks and aligned their schedules to minimize
overlapandenableparticipantstomakethebestpossibleuseofthecombinedprogram
of the two conferences.
Traditionally, both conference series have always followed a spirit of providing a
forum for discussion and an annual opportunity for primarily European researchers to
meetandexchangeideas.Forthisreason,theyhavealwaysencouragedsubmissionof
papers that report on both early and mature research.
The peer-review processes carried out by both conferences put great emphasis on
ensuringthehighqualityofacceptedcontributions.TheEUMAS Program Committee
accepted 30 submissions (48.39%) as full papers and another three submissions
(4.84%) as short papers out of a total of 62 submissions. The AT review process
resultedintheacceptanceofeightfull(57.14%)andtwoshortpapers(14.28%)outof
14 submissions overall.
Thisvolumeisstructuredasfollows:Inthefirstpart,wepresenttheinvitedpaperof
EUMAS;inthesecond,wepresenttheEUMASpapers,andinthethirdwepresentthe
ATpapers.Thepapersofeachpartarethengroupedintothematicareas,wherewefirst
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present full papers, followed by short papers. For the EUMAS papers, the thematic
areas are:
– Agent-Based Modeling
– Logic and Formal Methods
– Argumentation and Rational Choice
– Simulation
– Games
– Negotiation, Planning, and Coalitions
For AT, the thematic areas are:
– Algorithms and Frameworks
– Applications
– Philosophical and Theoretical Studies
The editors would like to thank all authors for submitting to EUMAS and AT, all
participants, the invited speakers, the members of the Program Committees, and the
additional reviewers for putting together a strong joint program. We also thank the
local organizers for their hard work organizing the events. Finally, we would like to
expressourgratitude tothesponsorsoftheconferences, theEuropeanAssociationfor
Artificial Intelligence (EurAi), the Agreement Computing Consortium (Spanish
GovernmentprojectTIN2015-68950-REDC),theIBISClaboratory,andtheUniversité
d’Evry Val d’Essonne – Paris Saclay, for their generous support, without which this
event would not have been possible.
March 2018 Francesco Belardinelli
Estefania Argente
Organization
EUMAS 2017 Organization
Conference Chair
Francesco Belardinelli Université d’Evry val d’Essonne, Paris Saclay, France
Local Organization
Francesco Belardinelli Université d’Evry val d’Essonne, Paris Saclay, France
Abbas Slimani Université d’Evry val d’Essonne, Paris Saclay, France
Program Committee
Nadia Abchiche Mimouni Université d’Evry val d’Essonne, Paris Saclay, France
Natasha Alechina University of Nottingham, UK
Fred Amblard IRIT - University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, France
Ana L. C. Bazzan Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Francesco Belardinelli Université d’Evry val d’Essonne, Paris Saclay, France
Olivier Boissier Ecole des Mines Saint-Etienne, France
Vicent Botti Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Ioana Boureanu University of Surrey, UK
Cristiano Castelfranchi Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy
Georgios Chalkiadakis Technical University of Crete, Greece
Vincent Chevrier LORIA/CNRS Université de Lorraine, France
Amit Chopra Lancaster University, UK
Massimo Cossentino National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Natalia Criado King’s College London, UK
Mehdi Dastani Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Tiago de Lima University of Artois and CNRS, France
Marina De Vos University of Bath, UK
Louise Dennis University of Liverpool, UK
Catalin Dima LACL, Université Paris Est - Créteil, France
Sylvie Doutre IRIT - University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, France
AmalElFallahSeghrouchni LIP6 - Pierre and Marie Curie University, France
Piotr Faliszewski AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Nicoletta Fornara Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Nicola Gatti Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Benoit Gaudou IRIT - University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, France
Umberto Grandi IRIT - University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, France
Davide Grossi University of Liverpool, UK
Andreas Herzig IRIT - CNRS, France
Guillaume Hutzler Université d’Evry val d’Essonne, Paris Saclay, France
Wojtek Jamroga Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
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Franziska Klügl Örebro University, Sweden
Joao Leite Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Brian Logan University of Nottingham, UK
Alessio Lomuscio Imperial College London, UK
Dominique Longin IRIT - CNRS, France
Maite Lopez-Sanchez University of Barcelona, Spain
Emiliano Lorini IRIT - CNRS, France
Samhar Mahmoud King’s College London, UK
Vadim Malvone Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Frederic Moisan Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Aniello Murano Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Jörg P. Müller TU Clausthal, Germany
Emma Norling Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Peter Novák Science & Technology Corporation B.V.,
The Netherlands
Ingrid Nunes Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Andrea Omicini Università di Bologna, Italy
Nardine Osman Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain
Giuseppe Perelli University of Oxford, UK
Laurent Perrussel IRIT – University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, France
Sebastien Picault Université de Lille, France
Alessandro Ricci Università di Bologna, Italy
Antonino Rotolo Università di Bologna, Italy
Nicolas Sabouret LIMSI - CNRS, France
Olivier Simonin INSA Lyon, Inria, France
Abbas Slimani Université d’Evry val d’Essonne, Paris Saclay, France
Ingo J. Timm University of Trier, Germany
Paolo Torroni Università di Bologna, Italy
Paolo Turrini Imperial College London, UK
Karl Tuyls University of Liverpool and Google, UK
Leon van der Torre University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
M. Birna van Riemsdijk Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Wamberto Vasconcelos University of Aberdeen, UK
Laurent Vercouter LITIS - INSA Rouen, France
Serena Villata CNRS - Sophia-Antipolis, France
Neil Yorke-Smith Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
AT 2017 Organization
Conference Chair
Estefanía Argente Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Local Organization
Francesco Belardinelli Université d’Evry val d’Essonne, Paris Saclay, France
Abbas Slimani Université d’Evry val d’Essonne, Paris Saclay, France
Organization IX
Program Committee
Giulia Andrighetto InstituteofCognitiveSciencesandTechnologies(ISTC
CNR), Rome, Italy
Floris Bex Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Javier Bajo Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Holger Billhardt Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Elena Cabrio Université Côte d’Azur, Sophia Antipolis, France
Carlos Carrascosa Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Carlos Chesñevar UniversidadNacionaldelSur,BahiaBlanca,Argentina
Paul Davidsson Malmö University, Sweden
Sylvie Doutre IRIT - University of Toulouse, France
Alberto Fernandez Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Stella Heras Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Floriana Grasso University of Liverpool, UK
Mirjana Ivanovic University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Gordan Jezic University of Zagreb, Croatia
Vicente Julian Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Jeroen Keppens King’s College London, UK
Matthias Klusch DFKI Research Center for AI, Germany
Lea Kutvonen University of Helsinki, Finland
Ryszard Kowalczyk Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Jerome Lang LAMSADE, Université Paris-Dauphine, France
Joao Leite Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Emiliano Lorini Université Paul Sabatier IRIT, France
Paulo Novais University of Minho, Portugal
Viorel Negru West University of Timisoara, Romania
Eugenio Oliveira Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Nir Oren University of Aberdeen, UK
Eva Onaindia Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Sascha Ossowski Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Marcin Paprzycki Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Simon Parsons King’s College London, UK
Miguel Rebollo Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Jörg Rothe Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
Sara Rodriguez University of Salamanca, Spain
Victor Sanchez-Anguix Coventry University, UK
Jordi Sabater-Mir Institut d’Investigació en Inteligència Artificial
(IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Marco Schorlemmer Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain
Michael Ignaz Schumacher University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Francesca Toni Imperial College London, UK
Denis Trcek University of Ljubljana, Slovenia