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Call for Extended Abstracts
SYMPOSIUM ON ADAPTIVE AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~kudenko/aisb01/
Part of the AISB'01 Convention
21st - 24th March 2001
University of York, United Kingdom
Sponsored by AISB and AgentLink2
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In recent years, Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems have become
a highly active area of AI research. Intelligent Agents have been
developed and applied successfully in many domains, such as e-commerce,
human-computer interaction, entertainment, process management and
traffic control.
When designing agent systems, it is impossible to foresee all the
potential situations an agent may encounter and specify an agent
behavior optimally in advance. Agents therefore have to learn from and
adapt to their environment. This task is even more complex when nature
is not the only source of uncertainty, and the agent is situated in an
environment that contains other agents with potentially different
capabilities, goals, and beliefs. Multi-Agent Learning, i.e., the
ability of the agents to learn how to cooperate and compete, becomes
crucial in such domains.
The goal of this symposium is to increase awareness and interest in
adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration between ML experts and
agent system experts, and give a representative overview of current
research in the area of adaptive agents. The symposium will serve as an
inclusive forum for the discussion on ongoing or completed work in both
theoretical and practical issues.
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
The symposium will focus on (but is not limited to) the following areas:
- Learning and adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems
- Evolutionary agents and emergent Multi-Agent structures
- Learning from interaction with humans
- Learning by observation, imitation, and cooperation
- Practical applications of learning agents
- Agent learning and cognition
- Distributed Learning
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Chair: Daniel Kudenko
Department of Computer Science
University of York
Heslington, York, YO10 5DD
United Kingdom
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Co- Chair: Eduardo Alonso, Department of Computer Science,
University of York, United Kingdom
Programme Committee:
- Michael Fisher, Department of Computer Science,
Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom.
- Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Department of Computer Science,
University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
- Lyndon Lee, Intelligent Agents Research Group,
British Telecom Laboratories, United Kingdom.
- Michael Luck, Department of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
SUBMISSIONS:
Initially, we require an extended abstract, up to four pages in length
(at least 10pt font). The following formats are acceptable:
Paper: A4, 3 copies
Email: PDF, Postscript, or MS Word
Please submit your abstracts on or before 21st December 2000.
Please post or email submissions to the programme chair (address given
above).
Full papers (submitted after the extended abstract has been accepted)
should be no longer than 12 pages. Accepted symposium papers will be
published by AISB and the proceedings will have an ISBN number.
TIMETABLE:
Abstract submission deadline: 21st December 2000
Notification of Acceptance: 20th January 2001
Submission of full papers: 1st March 2001
Convention: 21st - 24th March 2001
CONTACTS:
If you have any questions about this symposium, please contact the
programme chair ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
If you have any questions about the AISB'01 convention, please contact
the convention chair, Simon Colton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
If you have any questions about the local arrangements, please contact
the local arrangements chair, Eduardo Alonso ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
