SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

Sixth European Symposium on Adaptive and Learning Agents and Multi- Agent 
systems (ALAMAS 2006)
          http://como.vub.ac.be/alamas2006

Adaptive Learning Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (ALAMAS) is an  emerging 
multi-disciplinary area encompassing Computer Science,  Software Engineering, 
Biology, as well as Cognitive and Social Sciences.

The goal of this symposium 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 symposium is the sixth in a series of symposia that have  taken 
place annually since 2001. After these five successful  symposia, ALAMAS will be 
held at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel on  Monday the 3rd and Tuesday the 4th of 
April 2006. The organization is  in hands of the Computational Modeling Lab.
All accepted papers are published in Symposia proceedings. The best  papers from 
the previous 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 and 
sixth ALAMAS 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:

o    Learning of Co-ordination
o    Distributed Learning
o    Game-Theoretical and Analytical Approaches to Adaptive Multi-Agent  Systems
o    Emergent Organisation/Behaviour and Studies of Complexity in Multi- Agent 
Systems with Learning and Adaptation
o    Evolutionary Agents
o    Evolution of Individual Learning in Multi-Agent Systems
o    Logic-Based Learning
o    Learning in Reactive Agents
o    Adaptive Mobile Agents
o    Software engineering techniques and tools to support development of 
Adaptive and Learning Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
o    Biological inspired Multi-Agent Systems
o    Industrial and Large Scale Applications of Learning Agents

Program Chair: Ann Nowe
Local organisers: Maarten Peeters and Katja Verbeeck

Important dates:
Submission deadline: January 30, 2006
Notification of acceptance: February 24, 2006
Deadline for camera-ready: March 24, 2006
Symposium: April 3 and 4, 2006

More info is available at http://como.vub.ac.be/alamas2006