From: Daniel Kudenko (kudenko@cs.york.ac.uk)
Date: Thu 02 Dec 2004 - 13:52:22 GMT
Fifth European Workshop on Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems
Paris, March 21-22 2005
www-poleia.lip6.fr/~guessoum/AAMAS
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IMPORTANT DATE: Extended abstracts submission:
January 5, 2005
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Call for papers
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Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) is an emerging
multi-disciplinary area encompassing Computer Science, Software
Engineering, Biology, as well as Cognitive and Social Sciences.
When designing agent systems, it is impossible to foresee all the
potential situations an agent may encounter and specify the agents'
behaviour 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 the agents to learn how to co-operate and compete,
becomes crucial in such domains.
The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness and interest in
adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration between ML experts and
agent system experts, and give a representative overview of current
research in the area of adaptive agents. The symposium will serve as an
inclusive forum for the discussion on ongoing or completed work in both
theoretical and practical issues.
The proposed workshop is the fifth in a series of symposia that have
taken place annually since 2001 (see http://www.aamas.net). After these
four successful workshops, AAMAS is moving down to the Continent.
AAMAS-05 will be held at the University of Paris during the third week
of March. All accepted papers are published in Symposia proceedings. The
best papers from the first AAMAS Symposia have been published in two
Springer LNAI books, and we plan to publish a follow-up volume including
papers from the fifth AAMAS Symposium. » ?
The workshop topic is situated at the intersection of two areas,
namely, Adaptation/Learning and Agents/Multi-Agent Systems. The workshop
will focus on (but is not necessarily limited to) the following topics:
- Adaptive Mobile Agent.
- From Single Agent to Multi-Agent Learning.
- Learning of Co-ordination.
- Learning and Communication.
- Distributed Learning.
- Evolutionary Agents.
- Emergent Organisation/Behaviour and Studies of Complexity in
Multi-Agent Systems with Learning and Adaptation.
- Evolution of Individual Learning in Multi-Agent Systems.
- Game-Theoretical and Analytical Approaches to Adaptive Multi-Agent
Systems.
- Logic-Based Learning.
- Learning in Reactive Agents.
- Learning for Real-Time Applications.
- Industrial and Large Scale Applications of Learning Agents.
Instructions for submissions
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Paper submissions are in the form of extended abstracts of up to 4 pages
in length. Accepted papers will be published either in the form of full
papers of up to 12 pages, or short papers of up to 6 pages. Please
submit papers by email in pdf or ps format to Zahia.Guessoum@lip6.fr.
Extended abstracts and papers should be submitted in Springer Lecture
Note Series (LNCS/LNAI) format. Please follow the instructions for
authors available at the Springer LNCS/LNAI Web:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Important Dates
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- Submission Deadline: January 5, 20045
- Notification of acceptance: January 26, 2005
- Deadline for camera-ready copies: March 1, 2005
Committees
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Steering Committee:
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- Eduardo Alonso, Dept. of Computing, City University, London EC1V 0HB
- Dimitar Kazakov, CS Dept., University of York, Heslington, York YO10
5DD, UK
- Daniel Kudenko, CS Dept., University of York, Heslington, York YO10
5DD, UK
Co-Chairs:
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- Eduardo Alonso, Dept. of Computing, City University, London EC1V 0HB
- Zahia Guessoum, CReSTIC (URCA, Reims) and LIP6 (University of Paris 6)
Programme Committee:
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Ozalp Babaoglu (University of Bologna)
Frances Brazier (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Philippe De Wilde (Imperial College London, UK)
Kurt Driessens (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
Saso Dzeroski (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Marie-Pierre Gleizes (Irit, France)
Tom Holvoet (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
Franziska Klugl (University of Würzburg)
Paul Marrow, (Btexact Technologies, UK)
Ann Nowé (Free University Brussels, Belgium)
Luis Nunes (University of Porto, Portugal)
Eugenio Oliveira (University of Porto, Portugal)
Paolo Petta (Austrian Research Centre for AI, Austria)
Enric Plaza (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
Henry Soldano (LIPN, France)
Malcolm Strens (QinetiQ, UK)
Marco Wiering (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
Niek Wijngaards (Thales Research & Technology Netherlands)
Organization Committee:
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Organization Chair: Zahia Guessoum (CReSTIC/LIP6)
Aime Aït Younès (CReSTIC)
Eric DesJardin (CReSTIC)
Lilia Rejeb (CReSTIC)
Nora Faci(CReSTIC)
Tarek Jarraya (CReSTIC)
Moamar Sayed Mouchaweh (CReSTIC)