(Apologies for cross-posting.) ******************************************************* 1st Call for Papers ALA 2009: Learning Agents Workshop at AAMAS 2009
http://teamcore.usc.edu/taylorm/ALA09/ ******************************************************* * Submission Deadline: Feb 1, 2009 (tentative) * Notification of acceptance: Feb 23, 2009 (tentative) * Camera-ready copies: March 8, 2009 (tentative) ******************************************************* Adaptive and Learning Agents, particularly those in a multi-agent setting are becoming more and more prominent as the sheer size and complexity of many real world systems grows. How to adaptively control, coordinate and optimize such systems is an emerging multi-disciplinary research area at the intersection of Computer Science, Control theory, Economics, and Biology. The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness and interest in adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration and give a representative overview of current research in the area of adaptive and learning agents. It aims at bringing together not only scientists from different areas of computer science but also from different fields studying similar concepts (e.g., game theory, bio-inspired control, mechanism design). This workshop will focus on all aspects of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems with a particular emphasis on how to modify established learning techniques and/or create new learning paradigms to address the many challenges presented by complex real- world problems. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Novel combinations of reinforcement and supervised learning approaches * Integrated learning approaches that work with other agent reasoning modules like negotiation, trust models, coordination, etc. * Supervised multi-agent learning * Reinforcement learning in multi-agent systems * Distributed Learning * Adaptation and learning in dynamic environments * Evolution of agents in complex environments * Co-evolution of agents in a multi-agent setting * Cooperative exploration and learning to cooperate and collaborate * Learning trust and reputation * Communication restrictions and their impact on multi-agent coordination * Design of reward structure and fitness measures for coordination * Scaling learning techniques to large systems of learning and adaptive agents * Emergent behavior in adaptive multi-agent systems * Game theoretical analysis of adaptive multi-agent systems * Neuro control in multi-agent systems * Bio-inspired multi-agent systems * Applications of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems to real world complex systems Learning of Co-ordination We plan to organize an LNAI book containing the best papers of the workshop (after an additional review process). ******************************************************* Submission Details Paper submissions are in the form of extended abstracts of up to 8 pages in length. Please submit papers by email in pdf format to [email protected] with in the subject line: "Submission ALA". Papers should be submitted in ACM proceedings format. ******************************************************* Organization Workshop chairs: Matthew Taylor Karl Tuyls If you have any questions about the ALA workshop, please contact the chairs by email: [email protected] Senior Steering Committee Members: Franziska Klügl Daniel Kudenko Ann Nowé Lynne E. Parker Sandip Sen Peter Stone Kagan Tumer Karl Tuyls ******************************************************* --------------------------------------------- Matthew E. Taylor PHE 414, 213-740-7654 http://teamcore.usc.edu/taylorm/ Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Southern California _______________________________________________ uai mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
