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Marc Esteva is a "Ramon y Cajal" research fellow at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA). He obtained a PhD in computer science by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in 2003.  The PhD was carried out at the IIIA under the supervision of Professor Carles Sierra. The PhD focused on engineering open multi-agent systems as electronic institutions. More information about electronic institutions can be found here.

After his PhD. he carried out research at at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the E-Markets Group of the Faculty of Information Technology at University of Technology Sydney ((UTS).

Contact:
email: marc at iiia.csic.es
voice: +34-93-580 95 70
fax: +34-93-580 96 61

Publications::

• Marc Esteva and Julian Padget. Auctions without auctioneers: distributed auction protocols in the book Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce II, pages 20-28, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1788, Springer-Verlag, 2000. pdf

• Marc Esteva, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Josep Ll. Arcos, Carles Sierra and Pere Garcia. Institutionalising Open Multi-agent Systems, in proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS'2000), pages 381-83, Boston, 2000. pdf

• Marc Esteva, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Josep Ll. Arcos, Carles Sierra and Pere Garcia. Formalising Agent Mediated Electronic Institutions in proceedings of the 3er Congrés Català d'Intel.ligència Artificial, pages 29-38, 2000. pdf

• Marc Esteva, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra, Pere Garcia and Josep L. Arcos, On the Formal Specification of Electronic Institutions in the book Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce: the European AgentLink Perspective, pages 126-147, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1991, Springer-Verlag, 2001. pdf

• Marc Esteva, Julian Padget and Carles Sierra. Formalizing a language for institutions and norms in Intelligent Agents VIII, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence volume 2333, pages 348-366, 2002. pdf

• Marc Esteva and Carles Sierra. ISLANDER 1.0 language definition, Technicl Report of the Institut d'Investigació en Intel.ligència Artificial, IIIA-TR-02-02, 2002. pdf

• Marc Esteva, David de la Cruz and Carles Sierra. ISLANDER: an electronic institutions editor in Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2002), pages 1045-1052, Bologna, 2002. pdf

• Marc-Philipe Huget, Marc Esteva, Steve Phelps, Carles Sierra and Michael Wooldridge. Model Checking Electronic Institutions in ECAI Workshop on Model Checking and Artificial Intelligence (MoChart-2002), Lyon, 2002. pdf

• Wamberto Vasconcelos, Carles Sierra and Marc Esteva. An Approach to Rapid Prototyping of Large Multi-Agent Systems in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE2002), pages 13-22, Edinburgh, 2002. pdf

• Marc Esteva. Electronic Institutions: from specification to development Ph. D. Thesis, Technical University of Catalonia, 2003. phd.pdf.zip

• Wamberto Vasconcelos, Dave Robertson,, Carles Sierra, Marc Esteva, Jordi Sabater and Michael Wooldridge Rapid Prototyping of Large Multi-Agent Systems through Logic Programming in Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 41(2-4), pages 135-169, 2004. pdf

• Marc Esteva, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Bruno Rosell, and Josep L. Arcos. AMELI: An agent-based middleware for electronic institutions. In Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS'04), pages 236-243, New York, USA, July 19-23 2004. pdf
  

• Marc Esteva, Wamberto Vasconcelos, Carles Sierra, and Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar. Norm consistency in electronic institutions. In Proceedings of the XVII Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence - SBIA'04,  Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, volume LNAI 3171, pages 494-505. 2004. pdf

• Marc Esteva, Wamberto Vasconcelos, Carles Sierra, and Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar. Verifying norm consistency in electronic institutions. In In Proceedings of the AAAI-04 Workshop on Agent Organizations: Theory and Practice, pages 8-14, San José, California, USA, July 25-29 2004 pdf
  

• Guifré Cuní, Marc Esteva, Pere Garcia, Eloi Puertas, Carles Sierra, and Teresa Solchaga. MASFIT: Multi-Agent System for Fish Trading.  In Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2004), pages 710-714, València, Spain, 2004. pdf

• Carles Sierra, Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Aguilar, Pablo Noriega, Marc Esteva, and Josep Lluís Arcos, Engineering multi-agent systems as electronic institutions in European Journal for the Informatics Professional, V(4), August 2004. (Spanish version available in 'Novática, 170, July-August, 2004)  pdf

• Josep Ll. Arcos, Marc Esteva, Pablo Noriega, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, and Carles Sierra. Engineering open environments with electronic institutions. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Volume 18:2, pages 191-204 pdf
• Les Gasser, Kelvin Kakugawa, Brant Chee, Marc Esteva, Smooth Scaling Ahead: Progressive MAS Simulation from Single PCs to Grids, in Multi-Agent and Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3415, Pages 1-10, 2005. pdf

• Josep Ll. Arcos, Marc Esteva, Pablo Noriega, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, and Carles Sierra. An integrated development environment for electronic institutions. In Rainer Unland, Matthias Klusch, and Monique Calisti, editors, Software Agent-Based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits, pages 121-142. Birkhauser, 2005. pdf

• A. Bogdanovych, M. Esteva, N. Gu, S. Simoff, M.L. Maher and G. Smith. The Role of Online Travel Agents in the Experience Economy. In WiP Proceedings of the 14-th International Conference on Information Technology in Tourism (ENTER 2007), pages 81-91. Ljubljana, Slovenia, January 24-26 2007. pdf

• Anton Bogdanovych, Marc Esteva, Simeon Simoff, Carles Sierra, Helmunt Berger. A Methodology for 3D Electronic Institutions. The Sixth International Joint Conference in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 07). E. H. Durfee, M. Yokoo eds., pp. 346-348. 2007. pdf

Anton Bogdanovych, Marc Esteva, Simeon Simoff, Carles Sierra, Helmunt Berger. A Methodology for Developing MAS as 3D Electronic Institutions In proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Agent Oriented Software Engineering at AAMAS 2007, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 2007 pdf

A. Bogdanovych, M. Esteva, S. Simoff, and C. Sierra. Teaching Human-like Movements to Autonomous Agents via Implicit Training. In proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 4722, pages 356-357, Paris, France, 2007. pdf

• Jordi Campos, Maite Lopez-Sanchez, Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, Marc Esteva. Formalising Situatedness and Adaptation in Electronic Institutions. In Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN). Workshop at AAMAS 2008. pdf

Awards:

• Best prototype paper award at First International Joint Conference of Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems(AAMAS2002) for the paper ``ISLANDER: an electronic institutions editor''.
• Second prize of the award ``Nuevas Aplicaiones para Internet'' (Award on New Applications for Internet) given by the Catedra de Telefonica of the Thecnical University of Madrid(UPM) for the work on the ISLANDER editor.

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