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Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) is the study of the design and implementation of agents that can make decisions on their own or in interaction with other agents. Agents act autonomously and rationally in time-constrained, open, multi-agent environments. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the micro and macro aspects of this emerging technology. The workshop will address the issues of: agent specification via agent theories, modelling of agents, decisions in multi-agent environments, development of coordination strategies, negotiation mechanisms, conflict detection and resolution strategies, communication protocols, and mechanisms whereby agents can maintain autonomy while still contributing to overall system effectiveness. The workshop will explore agent architectures, methodologies for realising agents, agent decision-making theories, inter-agent communication and natural language discourse, software tools for programming and experimenting with agents.
Chengqi Zhang Co-Chair UNE, AUSTRALIA chengqi@neumann.une.edu.au Dickson Lukose Co-Chair UNE, AUSTRALIA lukose@peirce.une.edu.au Victor Lesser UMASS, USA lesser@cs.umass.edu Anand Rao AAII, AUSTRALIA anand@aaii.oz.au Toshiharu Sugawara NTT, JAPAN sugawara@square.ntt.jp Jose Carlos Neves UMINHO, PORTUGAL jneves@di-ia.uminho.pt Nicholas Jennings QMW, UK N.R.Jennings@qmw.ac.uk Rose Dieng INRIA, FRANCE dieng@sophia.inria.fr Norbert Glaser CRIN-INRIA, FRANCE Norbert.Glaser@loria.fr John Smith CQU, AUSTRALIA JOHN@topaz.cqu.edu.au
This workshop will be a full-day workshop on 13th November 1995 at AI'95 in Canberra, Australia.
The cost of workshops is set at $75 for conference attendees and $150 for others.
Authors are invited to submit papers describing both theoretical and practical work in any areas of distributed artificial intelligence. (Papers accepted or under review by other conferences or journals are not acceptable.) Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Agent Theories Agent Architectures -------------- ------------------- intentions methodologies desires, beliefs, and goals architectures & decision-making situated automata theory deliberative architectures specification/verification of agents reactive architectures executing logical agent specifications hybrid architectures agent communication languages Agent Decision-Making Agent Modelling --------------------- --------------- decision models and decision procedures decision-theoretic modelling decision-making under uncertainty logical modelling planning and decision theory communicative acts & modelling rationality & bounded rationality knowledge-theoretic modelling time-constrained reasoning game-theoretic modelling Agent Languages --------------- agent specification languages the agent-oriented paradigm agent-based computing
Artificial life (from a multiagent perspective) Cooperation, coordination, and conflict-resolution Communication issues Conceptual and theoretical foundations of multiagent systems Development and engineering methodologies Distributed consensus and algorithms for multiagent interaction Evaluation of multi-agent systems Integrated testbeds and development environments Intelligent agents in enterprise integration systems and similar types of applications Multiagent cooperative reasoning from distributed heterogeneous databases Multiagent planning and planning for multiagent worlds Negotiation strategies - in both competitive and cooperative situations Organization, organizational knowledge, and organization self-design Practical applications of multi-agent systems Resource allocation in multiagent systems Social structures and their significance in multiagent systems User interface issues for multiagent systems Security Issues in multiagent systems
The manuscript must be formatted on 8.5 in x 11 in or A4 paper using 12 point Times. The left and right margin should be 25mm each. The top and bottom margin should be 35mm each. Each submission must have a separate title page and a body. The title page must include a title, a 300-400 word abstract, a list of keywords, the names and addresses of all authors, their email addresses, and their telephone and fax numbers. The body must also include the title and abstract, but the author information must be excluded. The length of submitted papers (excluding the title page) must be no more than 15 single-spaced, single-column pages including all figures, tables, and bibliography. Papers not conforming to the above requirements may be rejected without review.
Only electronic submission of the paper will be accepted. Electronic submission must be in postscript format. All papers must be written in English, and each paper will be refereed by at least two referees.
FTP the compressed postscript submission to turing.une.edu.au:incoming and send an email to ai95dai@turing.une.edu.au to inform us that you have FTPed your submission to our site.
Professor Michael Georgeff from Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute will present an invited talk for this workshop. The title of his talk will be "Agents and Their Plans".
31st August 1995 Deadline for Paper Submission 15th September 1995 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection 30th September 1995 Deadline for camera-ready version 13th November 1995 Workshop