From: Daniel Kudenko (kudenko@cs.york.ac.uk)
Date: Wed 10 Dec 2003 - 12:52:43 GMT
CALL FOR PAPERS
SMART ADAPTIVE AGENT APPLICATIONS (SA3) WORKSHOP
Smart Adaptive Agent Applications
(SA3)
Joint ALAD and EUNITE Workshop
at the EUNITE 2004 conference
10-12 June
Aachen Germany
Introduction
When designing agent systems, it is impossible to foresee all
potential situations an agent may encounter and specify the
agents' behavior optimally in advance. Agents therefore have to
learn from and adapt to their environment. This task is even more
complex when the agent is situated in an environment that contains
other agents with potentially different capabilities and goals.
Multi-agent learning, i.e., the ability of agents to learn how to
co-operate and compete, becomes crucial in such domains.
Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) is an emerging
multi-disciplinary area encompassing agents, machine learning,
software engineering, biology, as well as cognitive and social
sciences. One of the major challenges faced in this field is the
transfer of technologies that have been successful in simple
domains to real-world applications.
The SA3 workshop will focus on such applications of smart
adaptive agents and multi-agent systems. Three keynote speakers
from industry will be invited to present examples of the use of
adaptive agent technology in industrial applications.
The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness and interest
in adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration between
members of EUNITE and ALAD, and give a representative overview of
current applications in the area of adaptive agents. The EUNITE
2004 Conference is the fourth conference organized by the European
Network of Excellence EUNITE. The conference will feature
state-of-the-art presentations as well as new developments in
fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary computation and machine
learning. The focus will be on adaptive systems, with a special
interest in solving industrial problems.
Topics of Interest The workshop will focus on (but will not be
restricted to) applications of smart adaptive agents for:
* Embodied Conversational Agents,
* System Control
* Information Retrieval and Presentation
* Transport Systems
* Ambient Intelligence
* Health Care
* E-Commerce
* Telecommunications
* Interactive Entertainment
* Military Organisation
The workshop on Smart Adaptive Agent Applications is jointly
organized by the European Network of Excellence EUNITE and the
ALAD SIG (Agents that Learn, Adapt and Discover) of the European
Network of Excellence AgentLink II.
Workshop Chairs
* Dr. M. Poel (University of Twente, Netherlands)
* Dr. D. Kudenko (University of York, UK)
* Dr. J.Z. Hernandez (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)
Program Committee
* Dr. E. Alonso (City University, UK)
* Dr. A. García-Serrano (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)
* Dr. D. Kazakov (University of York, UK)
* Dr. P. Marrow (British Telecom)
* Dr. M.J. Strens (QinetiQ)
* Dr. M. Thuillard
Submission Details For details on how to prepare the draft final
paper, see the submission guidelines for the main EUNITE
conference published on the EUNITE 2004 homepage
(http://www.eunite.org). Submissions may be either a full
technical paper (up to 8 pages) or a position statement in the
form of an extended abstract (one or two pages). Electronic
submissions (PostScript or PDF) are preferred and should be sent
by 15th of February 2004 to the address below.
Address your submission to:
SA3 Workshop EUNITE 2004
c/o M. Poel
Dept. Computer Science
University of Twente
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands
Email: mpoel@cs.utwente.nl
Accepted papers Authors of accepted papers will be notified by
e-mail; the list will also be published on the EUNITE 2004 web
site. After the event, a second round of more extensive reviews is
planned which is to lead to the publication of extended versions
of selected contributions in an edited collection.
Important Dates
* 15th of February 2004
Deadline for the submission of the full paper and the one-page extended
abstract
* 7th of March 2004
Confirmation of acceptance
* 31st of March 2004
Deadline for early registration
* 4th of April 2004
Deadline for submission of revised papers and abstracts
* 10 - 12th of June 2004
Symposium in Aachen Germany
Further Information
For information about paper formatting,
registration, and accommodation, see the Eunite website
(http://www.eunite.org/).