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Call for Papers:

Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALAg-07) Workshop

to be held at AAMAS 07
Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
May 14 or 15, 2007

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~ktumer/conferences/alag07.html

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-- Important Dates --

Deadline for Submitting Contributions:     February 12, 2007
Acceptance Notification to authors:         March 5, 2007
Deadline for camera-ready Papers:         March 19, 2007
AAMAS-2007 Workshops:                       May 14-15, 2007


Workshop Description:

As agent-based systems get larger and more complex, there is a  
compelling need for agents to learn and adapt to their dynamic  
environments. Indeed, how to adaptively control, coordinate and  
optimize adaptive multiagent systems is one of the emerging multi- 
disciplinary research areas today. Such systems are often deployed in  
real-world situations with stochastic environments where agents have  
limited perception and communication capabilities. Furthermore, in a  
number of distributed domains without centralized control, different  
agents will have different behaviors, capabilities, learning  
strategies, etc. There
is a pressing need, then, to both study and develop the convergence  
of multiple learners using the same learning scheme as well as  
understand the emergent dynamics of multiple learners with varying  
learning schemes.
This workshop will explore all agent learning approaches, with  
particular emphasis on multiagent settings where the scale and  
complexity of the environment require novel learning techniques. We  
anticipate this workshop to grow into a yearly event as it addresses  
an emerging multi-disciplinary research topic at the intersection of  
Computer Science, Control Theory, and Economics. We welcome and  
encourage all researchers actively involved in this area to  
contribute to this workshop.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

    * Reinforcement learning in multiagent systems
    * Adaptation and learning in dynamic environments
    * Evolution of agents in complex environments
    * Co-evolution of agents in a multiagent setting
    * Cooperative exploration
    * Learning to cooperate and collaborate
    * Learning trust and reputation
    * Learning to negotiate
    * Learning information agents
    * Coordination in large multiagent systems
    * Communication restrictions and their impact on multiagent  
coordination
    * Team formation in multiagent systems
    * Reward structure design for cooperation in multiagent systems
    * Evolutionary fitness design for coordination
    * Scaling learning techniques to large multiagent systems
    * Coordination of heterogeneous agents
    * Game theoretical analysis of multiagent systems
    * Emergent behavior in multiagent systems
    * Neuro control in multiagent systems
    * Bio-inspired control in large multiagent systems

Applications of these methods span:

    * Controlling multiple autonomous vehicles
    * Managing traffic congestion
    * Routing data over a network
    * Controlling constellations of satellites
    * Coordinating thousands of simple devices
    * Managing power distribution
    * Stabilizing aircraft wings
    * Flying in formation
    * Morphing matter: Smart structures/adaptive wings
    * Coordinating (micro) air vehicles
    * Managing system health
    * Controlling nano/micro devices
    * Managing air traffic flow
    * Information assurance and security infrastructure management
    * Agent based web and data mining

The goal of this workshop is to bring together not only scientists  
from different areas of computer science, e.g., agent architectures,  
reinforcement learning, evolutionary algorithms but also from  
different fields studying similar concepts, e.g., game theory, bio- 
inspired control, mechanism design. This workshop will serve as an  
inclusive forum for the discussion on ongoing or completed work and  
include both theoretical and practical issues.

Organizing Committee:

Kagan Tumer
        /Oregon State University/
        204 Rogers Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
        kagan.tumer@oregonstate.edu
        http://engr.oregonstate.edu/~ktumer
Sandip Sen
        /The University of Tulsa/
        600 S. College, Tulsa, OK 74104, USA
        sandip-sen@utulsa.edu
        http://www.mcs.utulsa.edu/~sandip/
Liviu Panait
        /Google Inc./
        604 Arizona Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90405, USA
        liviu@google.com
        http://cs.gmu.edu/~lpanait/

Venue:
ALAg-07 will be held at the Hawaii Convention Center <http:// 
www.aamas2007.org/venue.html> in Honolulu, Hawaii, as part of the  
workshop program at the Sixth International Conference on Autonomous  
Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 07). For local information,  
including registration and accomodotation details, please visit the  
main AAMAS 2007 <http://www.aamas2007.org/index.html> website.

Program committee:

Adrian Agogino, U. California, Santa Cruz, USA
Jake Crandall, MIT, USA
Edwin De Jong, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
Alan Fern, Oregon State University, USA
Pieter Jan 't Hoen, C. voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Netherlands
Daniel Kudenko, University of York, UK
Akira Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan
Eugenio Oliveira, Universidade de Porto, Portugal
Lynne Parker, University of Tennessee, USA
David Parkes, Harvard University, USA
Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, USA
Enric Plaza, Institut d'Investigacio en Intelligencia Artificial, Spain
Jeffrey Rosenschein, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Michael Rovatsos, C. for Intelligent Systems and their Applications, UK
Gerry Tessauro, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Karl Tuyls, University of Maastricht, Netherlands
Eiji Uchibe, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Katja Verbeeck, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium


Important Dates:

Deadline for Submitting Contributions:    February 5, 2007
Acceptance Notification to authors:        March 5, 2007
Deadline for camera-ready Papers:        March 19, 2007
AAMAS-2007 Workshops:                      May 14-15, 2007


Submission Requirements:

The papers (up to 5 pages in length) must follow the AAMAS-2007  
guidelines for paper submission (more information about the  
formatting can be found here <http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/ 
template.html>,
check the sections for /Word or Word Perfect Users/ and /LaTeX  
Users/). Papers (in PDF format) should be emailed to Liviu Panait at / 
lpanait@cs.gmu.edu/ (as well as any comments related to the  
submission process). Please include "ALAg-07 WORKSHOP SUBMISSION" in  
the subject of the email, and include the paper as an attachment.  
Expect an acknowledgement of receipt within a week (if you do not  
receive an email confirmation, please contact us via email to make  
sure we have received your paper).