[robocup-worldwide] RoboCup @ AAMAS

[Ubbo Visser]

Dear RoboCuppers,

most of you will remember last year's announcement from our President  
Manuela Veloso saying that we would like to focus this year on showing  
research results, discussing future research potentials, and tell  
other communities how great RoboCup is.

We are pleased to announce that there will be a nice opportunity for  
this at AAMAS 2010: the workshop "Agents in real-time and dynamic  
environments" has been confirmed recently.

So, please spread the word, prepare and submit a paper and come to  
Toronto, Canada in May 2010. Here is the CFP including links:

Best regards,
Ubbo Visser
Sahar Asadi
Tim Laue
N. Michael Mayer


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    Call for Papers

    Agents in Real-time and Dynamic Environments

    Workshop @ AAMAS 2010
    Toronto, Canada, May 10th or 11th, 2010
    (exact date will be announced soon)

    http://dyn-agents.informatik.uni-bremen.de/

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Recent developments in multiagent systems (MAS) have been promising by  
achieving autonomous, collaborative behavior between agents in various  
environments (e.g. RoboCup, DARPA challenge). However, most of the  
agents, both software agents and physical agents, still have problems  
if the environment is dynamic and the agents have to act in real time.

Examples are obstacle avoidance with moving obstacles or world models  
which are composed from egocentric views of numerous agents. Another  
aspect is the need for quick responses. In an environment where a  
number of agents build a team and both single agent decisions and team  
collaborative decisions have to be made methods have to be fast and  
precise. This workshop addresses various problems that occur with  
respect to these issues.


Topics of Interest
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The main focus of this workshop will be methods from various areas  
such as world modeling, planning, learning, and communicating with  
agents in real-time and dynamic environments. Within this general  
theme we aim to bring together researchers to discuss the following  
topics: World Modeling (quantitative, qualitative), Coaching (one  
agent gives advice to a group of agents), Planning with resources  
(especially time), Cooperation between agents (robot and/or humans),  
Communication between agents (implicit, non-verbal, or verbal one),  
Real-time systems software issues (often ignored but important if  
serious about real-time issues in robotics), Scalability and robotics  
interfacing issues (demands a great deal of support from the initial  
design of the system).


Why and to whom is this workshop of interest?
---------------------------------------------
In the last decade, a lot of effort has been invested to develop  
methods that can be used with multiagent systems. Discussions on  
combining current research and finding overlaps in the field of  
simulation and robotics is of special interest. One example are high  
level learning methods being applicable with the constraints that we  
can find in real world problems: dynamic environments, autonomous  
multiagent, and robotic constraints. A questions arises how these  
aspects in parallel can benefit from each other.
Online-learning is another example: we need online learning in a real- 
time scenario to give agents the option to learn more about their  
environment. Usually, learning takes a fair amount of time but  
sometimes this time is not available. Can we find methods which will  
consider these restrictions?
The language development in the area of communication between agents  
(ACL) might act as another example. Speech acts serve as the basic  
principle and various protocols have been invented (e.g. auctions,  
contract-nets, etc.). Can we transfer these results to environments  
where quick decisions have to be made? Consider planning as another  
example: there are promising methods for path planning, but do they  
still hold if the observed obstacles are moving?
This workshop addresses researchers from various areas in AI and  
Robotics who want to discuss the mentioned issues from their point of  
view. How can we develop new methods or adapt existing methods to meet  
these demands?


Important Dates and Deadlines
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Deadline for the submission of papers:  FEBRUARY,  2, 2010
Notification of acceptance/rejection:  MARCH 2, 2010
Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers:  MARCH 19, 2010
Workshop: MAY 10th or 11th, 2010

All papers will be peer-reviewed and we will have at least three  
reviews per paper.


Submission Instructions
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Submissions will be done using the ConfMaster system on http://dyn-agents.confmaster.net 
.
The style for papers in the proceedings follows the style of the main  
conference which can be found on http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/.  
The papers can be extended abstracts or full research papers. Survey  
or position papers are also welcome. The papers should end with  
relevant bibliographic references and should be no longer than 10 pages.


Organizing Committee
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Ubbo Visser, University of Miami, FL, USA
Sahar Asadi, Oerebro University, Sweden
Tim Laue, DFKI Safe and Secure Cognitive Systems, Germany
N. Michael Mayer, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan


Program Committee
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Luis Almeida, Porto, Portugal
Minoru Asada, Osaka, Japan
Sahar Asadi, Oerebro, Sweden
Tucker Balch, Atlanta, USA
Xiaoping Chen, Bejing, China
Amy Eguchi, New York, USA
Udo Frese, Bremen, Germany
Uli Furbach, Koblenz, Germany
Adam Jacoff, Gaithersburg, USA
Todd Hester, Austin, USA
Gerhard Kraetzschmar, Bonn, Germany
Gerhard Lakemeyer, Aachen, Germany
Tim Laue, Bremen, Germany
Pedro Lima, Lisboa, Portugal
Michael Mayer, Chia-Yi, Taiwan
Daniele Nardi, Rome, Italy
Itsuki Noda, Tsukuba, Japan
Daniel Polani, Hatfield, UK
Martin Riedmiller, Freiburg, Germany
Peter Stone, Austin, USA
Satoshi Tadokoro, Sendai, Japan
Manuela Veloso, Pittsburgh, USA
Ubbo Visser, Miami, USA

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