[robocup-legged] Call for papers: Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-08)
Pedro M. U. A. Lima
pal at isr.ist.utl.pt
Sun Aug 5 11:02:14 EDT 2007
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CALL FOR PAPERS
SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMOUS AGENTS
AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-08)
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May 12-16, 2008
Estoril, Portugal
www.aamas2008.org
www.aamas-conference.org
AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous
agents and multi-agent systems. The AAMAS conference series was
initiated in 2002 as a merger of three highly respected individual
conferences: the International Conference in Autonomous Agents, the
International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and
Languages, and the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems.
The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile,
internationally respected archival forum for research in all aspects of
the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.
The conference will be held from Monday May 12th until Friday May
16th, 2008 in Estoril, Portugal.
Tutorials and workshops will be held on Monday May 12th and Tuesday
May 13th, 2008. Accepted technical papers and invited talks will be
presented from Wednesday May 14th through Friday May 16th, 2008.
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PAPER SUBMISSION
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This year the conference is soliciting full papers (8 pages) and short
papers (4 pages). Accepted full length papers will be receive a slot
for oral presentation in the conference. In addition, both full and
short papers will be presented in poster sessions and appear in the
conference proceedings.
Short papers are encouraged as a mechanism for both important results
that can be succinctly presented, as well as the timely reporting of
interesting but preliminary work, that may not as yet have the level
of evaluation or detail that would be expected for a full paper. The
program chairs may, at their discretion, accept papers submitted as
full papers into the short paper track.
Both full and short papers will be peer reviewed rigorously and
evaluated on the basis of originality, contribution to the field,
soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of
the art, and overall quality of the contribution.
Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format, using ACM
style guides. Detailed submission instructions will be available on
the AAMAS-08 website. Submissions must not have appeared before (or be
pending to appear) in a journal or conference with published
proceedings, nor may they be under review or submitted to another
forum during the AAMAS-08 review process.
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KEY DATES
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All deadlines are midnight, Eastern Standard Time (New York time).
Tuesday, October 23, 2007: Electronic abstract due
Friday, October 26, 2007: Full electronic paper submissions due
November 27 - 28, 2007: Author feedback opportunity
Wednesday, December 19, 2007: Accept/reject notifications
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SPECIAL TRACKS AND DEMONSTRATIONS
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AAMAS-08 will feature two special tracks: one on Multi-Robotics and the
other on Virtual Agents. Papers for these tracks will be
reviewed by specially recruited reviewers within these sub-communities.
Authors will be asked to indicate special track relevance at
paper submission time. More information on these special tracks
is provided below.
AAMAS-08 will include an Industry and Applications track for descriptions
of emerging and already deployed agent applications. The submission and the
reviewing process for the industry and applications track is separate from
the main conference process. A separate "call for papers" will be
issued at a later stage, but the planned submission deadline is a couple
of weeks after the main conference submission date.
AAMAS-08 will include a demonstration session. Demonstration
submissions will be invited for three different categories: industrial
software, academic software, and robotics. We plan to choose the
winner of each demo category by public vote. A separate "call for
demos" will be issued at a later stage, but planned submission
deadline is 18th of January 2008.
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TOPIC AREAS: MAIN TRACK
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AAMAS-08 encourages the submission of theoretical, experimental,
methodological, engineering and application papers across a broad
range of agent topics. All papers should:
* make clear their contribution to the AAMAS field,
* place their work in the context of relevant related work,
* evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their approach.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Agent-based system development
- agent-oriented software engineering
- agent development environments
- agent languages
- case studies and implemented systems
- P2P, web services, grid computing
Learning
- learning (single and multi-agent)
- computational architectures for learning
- evolution, adaptation
Agent Reasoning
- reasoning (single and multi-agent)
- planning (single and mult-agent)
- cognitive models
- ontological reasoning
Agent cooperation
- teamwork, coalition formation, coordination
- distributed problem solving
- biologically-inspired methods
Agent theories, models and architectures
- formal models of agency
- modeling other agents and self
- BDI, speech act theory
- reactive vs deliberative
- logic-based methods
- bounded rationality
Agent societies and Societal issues
- artificial social systems
- trust and reputation
- social and organizational structure
- privacy, safety and security
- ethical and legal issues
Agent communication
- communication languages
- communication protocols
- agent commitments
Economic paradigms
- electronic markets and institutions
- economically-motivated agents
- game theory (cooperative and non-cooperative)
- social choice theory, voting protocols
- auction and mechanism design
- argumentation, negotiation and bargaining
Agent-based simulations
- emergent behaviour
- simulation-specific issues
The conference also welcomes relevant papers from related fields such
as P2P computing, web services, autonomic and grid computing, as long
as the link is made to relevance and work within the agents community.
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SPECIAL TRACKS: INFO and TOPICS
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*Special track on Multi-Robotics:
Papers on theory and applications concerning teams of multiple robots
are welcome, namely those focusing on real robots interacting with their
surrounding environments. The goal is to foster interaction between
researchers on multi-agent and multi-robot systems, so as to provide a
cradle for cross-fertilization of concepts from both fields.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- cooperative perception
- cooperative localization
- middleware for multi-robot systems
- multi-robot mapping and localization
- networked robots
- formal models of multi-robot plans
*Special track on Virtual agents:
Virtual agents are embodied agents in interactive virtual or physical
environments that emulate human-like behavior. Papers on the design,
implementation, and evaluation of virtual agents are welcome, as well
as papers about challenging applications of virtual agents. The goal
is to provide an opportunity for interaction and cross-fertilization
between the AAMAS community and researchers working on virtual agents
and to strengthen links between the two communities.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- verbal and non-verbal expressiveness
- models of personality, emotions and social behavior
- multi-user/multi-virtual-agent interaction
- advanced 3D modeling and animation technologies
- applications, experience reports and user studies
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chairs:
Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, City Univ of NY, USA
Joerg P. Mueller, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Program Chairs:
Lin Padgham, RMIT University, Australia
David C. Parkes, Harvard University, USA
Local Organization Chairs:
Ana Paiva, INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Luis Antunes, ISR & Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Multi-Robotics Special Track Chair:
Pedro Lima, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Virtual Agents Special Track Chair:
Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany
Workshop Chair:
Juan Antonio Rodriguez, AI Research Institute (IIIA), Spain
Tutorials Chair:
Pinar Yolum, Bogazici University, Turkey
Industrial Track Chairs:
Michael Berger, Siemens AG, Germany
Satoshi Nishiyama, KDDI Labs, Japan
Bernard Burg, Panasonic, USA
Exhibits/Demo Chairs:
Joelle Pineau, McGill University, Canada
Rafael Bordini, University of Durham, UK
Finance Chair:
Keith Decker, University of Delaware, USA
Doctoral Mentoring Chairs:
Gal Kaminka, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Yohei Murakami, National Inst. of I&C Tech., Japan
Publicity Chair:
Vincent Conitzer, Duke University, USA
Publications Chair:
Franziska Kluegl, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Registration and Local Finance Chair:
Joo Balsa, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Student Scholarship Chairs:
Sascha Ossowski, U Rey Juan Carlos Madrid, Spain
Paul Scerri, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Von Wun Soo, U Hsinchu, Taiwan
Sponsoring Chairs:
John Yen, Penn State University, USA
Alex Rogers, University of Southhampton, UK
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Senior Program Committee:
Ana Bazzan, UFRGS, Brazil
Rafael Bordini, University of Durham, UK
Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto, Canada
Felix Brandt, University of Munich, Germany
Jonathan Bredin, Colorado College, USA
Brahim Chaib-draa, Laval University, Canada
Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Vincent Conitzer, Duke University, USA
Mehdi Dastani, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Warsaw Univ. and Polish Acad of Sciences, Poland
Edmund Durfee, University of Michigan, USA
Ulle Endriss, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Boi Faltings, EPFL, Switzerland
Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UK
Shaheen Fatima, University of Liverpool, UK
Claudia Goldman, Samsung Telecom Research Israel, Israel
Barbara Grosz, Harvard University, USA
Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research, USA
Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Nick Jennings, Southampton University, UK
Catholijn M. Jonker, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Kamalakar Karlapalem, IIIT-Hyderabad, India
Ryszard Kowalczyk, University of Swinburne, Australia
Sarit Kraus, Bar-Ilan University, Israel and Univ. Maryland, USA
Han La Poutre, CWI, The Netherlands
Jerome Lang, IRIT, France
Kate Larson, University of Waterloo, Canada
Ho-fung Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Dayou Liu, Jilin University, China
Michael Luck, King's College London, UK
Rajiv Maheswaran, Univ. of Southern California - ISI, USA
Stacy Marsella, Univ. of Southern California - ISI, USA
Radhika Nagpal, Harvard University, USA
Eugenio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Ana Paiva, INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Tecnico
Anna Perini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy
Jeffrey Rosenschein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Paul Scerri, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Sandip Sen, University of Tulsa, USA
Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Carles Sierra, AI Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Spain
Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
Elizabeth Sklar, Brooklyn College, City Univ of NY, USA
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
Kagan Tumer, Oregon State University, USA
Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Nikos Vlassis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Steven Willmott, 3Scale Networks S. L., Spain
Michael Winikoff, RMIT University, Australia
Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University, Japan
Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
SPC: Multi-Robotics Special Track
Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Radhika Nagpal, Harvard University, USA
Daniele Nardi, Universita di Roma, Italy
Lynne Parker, University of Tennessee, USA
Alessandro Saffiotti, Orebro University, Sweden
Paul Scerri, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Elizabeth Sklar, Brooklyn College, City Univ of NY, USA
Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Nikos Vlassis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
SPC: Virtual Agents Special Track
Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Stacy Marsella, Univ. of Southern California - ISI, USA
Ana Paiva, INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Tcnico, Portugal
Catherine Pelachaud, Universite de Paris 8, France
Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
R. Michael Young, North Carolina State University, USA
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