SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Dear colleagues,
you are invited to submit papers to the 1st Workshop on Evolutionary Game Theory for Learning in MAS (EGTMAS 2003). For more details: http://como.vub.ac.be/egtmas/index.htm . EGTMAS 2003 will be organised within the second International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems in Melbourne, Australia. Prospective participants must register for the AAMAS 2003 conference. The number of participants is strictly limited. The aim of the workshop is to start a forum on the theoretical modeling of learning in MAS. Evolutionary Game Theory can be used as a framework for analyzing, designing and optimizing MAS. EGT describes how boundedly rational agents can make decisions in complex environments, in which they interact with other agents. Bounded rationality means that agents are limited in their computational resources, in their ability to reason and have limited information. In such complex environments software agents must be able to learn from their environment and adapt to its non-stationarity. As a consequence, the computational method of simulating this learned behaviour becomes very important. This workshop focuses on the role of EGT as a tool for the analysis of learning and adaptation in these complex environments. Contributions should be relevant to the problem of learning in MAS through game theoretic approaches. Specific areas of interest are (but not limited to): 1.. Formal theories for Learning using EGT a.. Single agent and multi agent reinforcement learning b.. Population Dynamics c.. Methodologies for modeling social behavior 2.. MAS-applications using (E)GT models a.. Applications: Auctions, Job-scheduling, Telecom-applications, e-commerce b.. Models: Social societies (e.g. Homo Egualis, Homo Reciprocans), Replicator Dynamics 3.. Agent-based computational economics Those wishing to present should (electronically) submit a full-scale paper, not longer than 8 pages (references and figures included) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] The deadline for submission of contribution is april 2nd, 2003. For detailed formatting instructions please refer to the relevant page of the AAMAS'03 conference. All contributions will be reviewed and in case of acceptance published in the workshop proceedings of the AAMAS'03 conference. Important dates are: Submission deadline - april 2nd, 2003 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection - april 30th, 2003 Submission of camera-read copy - may 15th, 2003 Furthermore, if you have any inquiry please do not hesitate to contact the organisers. Looking forward to meeting you all at EGTMAS '03 and AAMAS '03. Katja, Han and Karl. --- Karl Tuyls [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computational Modeling Lab (CoMo) Department of Computer Science Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels http://como.vub.ac.be/Members/karl.htm
