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IJCAI-03 Workshop on Multiagent for Mass User Support (MAMUS-03)
August 10, 2003 - Acapulco
(http://www.carc.aist.go.jp/MAMUS-03)
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The workshop focuses on multiagent methodology and technologies
to realize mass user support that provides information services
to users or society as mass beyond conventional personal
services. Multiagent approach in modeling and simulation of
complex social systems has succeeded in providing much knowledge
about their behaviors derived from behaviors of individual
agents. Based on this kind of analytic and scientific
techniques, we discuss how we can provide information services
to support mass user or society from the viewpoint of
engineering and social science. Examples of mass user support
include but not limited to:
- Flow control of mass users in dynamically changing
environment, e.g., road traffic or human flow control.
- Coordination of users' requests with respect to users'
intention, e.g., facility reservation.
- Information providing methods to mass users with direct or
indirect guidance, e.g., navigation, evacuation.
- Dynamic arrangement of mobile objects, e.g., supply chain,
demand bus.
- Allocation of spatio-temporal resources, e.g., design of
buildings or cities.
- Control of embedded systems or information appliance by
negotiation for efficiency use of energy.
We focus on how multiagent system can contribute to engineering
problems as synthesis rather than scientific analysis by
multiagent simulations. In addition to the applications
mentioned above, papers on AI technologies toward mass user
support are also welcome. The relevant topics include but not
limited to:
- Planning, scheduling for multiagent coordination.
- Market, auction mechanisms for negotiation in multiagent.
- Stochastic problem solving for resource allocation in
multiagent.
- Multiagent architecture for mass user support.
- User modeling for coordinating users' intention and
preference.
- Social coordination by negotiation, e.g., game theory based
approach.
[ Submission Instructions ]
The workshop welcomes submissions of original papers in any of
the workshop topics. Papers must be no longer than eight (8)
pages. The preferred format is one of the IJCAI-03 main
conference that is shown at IJCAI-03 web site. All submissions
should be sent to the secretariat ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
by March 7, 2003. Electronic submission in PDF format is
required. The following information should be sent in
"plain text" with the submitted papers:
Paper title, keywords, contact author's name, affiliation,
postal address, and email address.
The workshop is by invitation only. Those who wish to
participate the meeting without presentation of their works are
requested to send one-page position papers by March 7, 2003,
which will not included in working note.
Note: Participants should register for the main IJCAI conference
in addition to the workshop.
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[ Important Dates and Deadlines ]
- Deadline for the submission of papers: March 7, 2003.
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 24, 2003.
- Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers and A/V forms:
May 23, 2003.
- Workshop: August 10, 2003. Acapulco.
[ Organizing Committee ]
Koichi Kurumatani (Chair)
Cyber Assist Research Center (CARC)
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Aomi 2-41-6, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0064, Japan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.carc.aist.go.jp/~kurumata
Shu-Heng Chen
Department of Economics
National Chengchi University
Taipei, Taiwan, 11623, R.O.C.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://econo.nccu.edu.tw/ai/www.htm
Azuma Ohuchi
Graduate School of Engineering
Hokkaido University
N13, W8 Kita-Ku, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://ses3.complex.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/members_eng.htm
[ Program Committee ]
Robert Axtell, The Brookings Institution, USA
Kazuo Miyashita, AIST, Japan
Itsuki Noda, AIST, Japan
Michael P. Wellman, University of Michigan, USA
[ Related Web Pages ]
Workshop Home Page: http://www.carc.aist.go.jp/MAMUS-03
IJCAI-03 Conference: http://www.ijcai-03.org/
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