<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Workshop on Multiagent Interaction without Prior Coordination (MIPC 2014)<br> At the 28th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-14) <br> Website: <a href="http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/mipc2014">http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/mipc2014</a><br>
<br>This workshop focuses on models and algorithms for multiagent interaction without prior coordination<br>(MIPC). Interaction between agents is the defining attribute of multiagent systems, encompassing problems of<br>
planning in a decentralized setting, learning other agent models, composing teams with high task performance, and<br>
selected resource-bounded communication and coordination. There is significant variety in methodologies used to<br>solve such problems, including symbolic reasoning about negotiation and argumentation, distributed optimization<br>
methods, machine learning methods such as multiagent reinforcement learning, etc. The majority of these well<br>studied methods depend on some form of prior coordination. Often, the coordination is at the level of problem<br>
definition, e.g., learning algorithms may assume that all agents share a common learning method or prior beliefs,<br>distributed optimization methods may assume specific structural constraints regarding the partition of state<br>
space or cost/rewards, and symbolic methods often make strong assumptions regarding norms and protocols. In<br>realistic problems, these assumptions are easily violated - calling for new models and algorithms that<br>specifically address the case of ad hoc interactions. Similar issues are also becoming increasingly more<br>
pertinent in human-machine interactions, where there is a need for intelligent adaptive behaviour and assumptions<br>regarding prior knowledge and communication are problematic. The community of researchers addressing such issues<br>
is diverse, drawing on many different speciality areas and corresponding methods. The goal of this workshop is to<br>bring together these diverse viewpoints in an attempt to consolidate the common ground and identify new lines of<br>
attack.<br><br><br><br><u>Topics</u><br><br>The workshop will discuss research related to multiagent interaction without prior coordination, as outlined<br>in the workshop description above. A non-exclusive list of relevant topics includes:<br>
<ul><li>Learning and adaptation in multiagent systems without prior coordination<br></li><li>Agent coordination and cooperation without prior coordination<br></li><li>Team formation and information sharing in ad hoc settings<br>
</li><li>Teammate/opponent modelling and plan recognition<br></li><li>Human-machine interaction without prior coordination<br></li><li>Game theory/incomplete information applied to ad hoc agent coordination<br></li></ul>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br><u>Important Dates</u><br></font><div><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Submission deadline: April 10, 2014</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2014</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Camera-ready copies: May 15, 2014</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Workshop: July 28, 2014</span><br></li></ul><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><br><u>Submission Details<br></u><br>Papers can be submitted by April 10, 2014 to EasyChair:<br><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mipc2014">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mipc2014</a><br>
<br><br>The workshop follows the formatting guidelines for standard paper submissions to the AAAI-14 main track. See<br>here for details: <br><a href="http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2014/aaai14call.php">http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2014/aaai14call.php</a><br>
<br><br>Papers will be selected based on a double-blind peer review process. Please avoid including any information<br>in the paper that would identify the authors or their institutions.<br><br><br><br><u>Organization</u><br>
<br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Program chairs:<br><ul><li>Stefano Albrecht (The University of Edinburgh)<br></li><li>Samuel Barrett (The University of Texas at Austin)<br></li><li>Jacob Crandall (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology)<br>
</li><li>Somchaya Liemhetcharat (A*STAR, Singapore)<br></li></ul><br>Advisory committee:<br><ul><li>Subramanian Ramamoorthy (The University of Edinburgh)<br></li><li>Peter Stone (The University of Texas at Austin)<br></li>
<li>Manuela Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University)</li></ul><div><br></div></font></div></div></div>