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                          MAAMAW'96

                  Seventh European Workshop on 

        MODELLING AUTONOMOUS AGENTS IN A MULTI-AGENT WORLD 

                       January 22-25, 1996

               Institute for Perception Research
                          Eindhoven
                       The Netherlands


                       CALL FOR PAPERS

            ***** DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 25 1995 ***** 


The MAAMAW workshops are the European forum for discussing progress on
multi-agent systems. Multi-agent systems are, typically, distributed
systems that are designed as a collection of interacting autonomous
agents, each having their own capacities and goals that are related to
a common environment.  The notion of agent encompasses physical as
well as software agents. The discipline, which emerged at the cross
road of distributed computing, artificial intelligence and embedded
systems. now borrows actively from a diversity of disciplines
including biology, ecology and economy. Moreover, work on multi-agent
systems is laying the foundations of new models of computing and
interaction, taylored to the emerging large-scale infrastructure of
open distributed platforms like the World-Wide Web.

MAAMAW is thus interested in original papers of high quality on the
following or related topics:

     Conceptual and theoretical foundations of multi-agent systems,
     Models, methods and techniques of interaction, coordination, 
          communication, cooperation, negociation, etc,
     Dynamics of agent societies and social phenomena,
     Learning and adaptation for coordination and cooperation,
     Believability and usability of multi-agent systems,
     Artificial life from a multi-agent perspective,
     Applications of multi-agent systems,
     Multi-agent testbeds and experimental methodology.
     
In MAAMAW'96, we especially encourage submission of papers emphasizing
aspects of learning, believability and social behavior. 

The MAAMAW'96 scientific co-chairs are:

Walter Van de Velde                   John W. Perram
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory    Lindo Center for Applied Mathematics
Vrije Universiteit Brussel            Odense University
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels          Forskerparken 10, DK-5230 Odense M
walter@arti.vub.ac.be                 jperram@imada.ou.dk 

VENUE AND LOCAL ORGANISATION
----------------------------

The Institute for Perception Research (IPO) is a partnership between
Philips Research Laboratories and Eindhoven University of
Technology. At the IPO, research focuses on human-machine
communication (hardware, software, and services).

The workshop will be organized in the region of Eindhoven.  Eindhoven
can be reached easily by plain, train or car.

MAAMAW'96 Organisation chair:

Rudy van Hoe
Institute for Perception Research
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
vanhoe@prl.philips.nl 


FORMAT
------

MAAMAW'96 follows a single track format that features invited
contributions, state-of-the-art lectures, contributed papers, posters
and demonstrations.

The organization of MAAMAW'96 will rely heavily on an interactive
workshop service on the World-Wide Web (WWW).  A MAAMAW WWW server is
set up as a way to support the scientific and practical organisation
of the workshop. An interactive review, papers on line, integrated
communication between authors, contributions to the discussions,
public commentary and annotations, local organisation and registration
information will all be available.


SUBMISSION PROCEDURES
---------------------

Authors wishing to submit papers should do so before September 25th
1995 to the primary chair:

Walter Van de Velde
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory             Tel: +32 2 629 37 00
Vrije Universiteit Brussel                     Fax: +32 2 629 37 29
Pleinlaan 2,                           Email: maamaw@arti.vub.ac.be
B-1050 Brussels                  WWW: http://arti.vub.ac.be/~walter

Papers should be submitted by mail in 5 hard copies, sent by email
(maamaw@arti.vub.ac.be) or made available on WWW in postscript
format. In the latter case a notification should be sent to the
primary chair. Papers should be written in English and not exceed 12
A4 pages (12pt fonts) when printed. Fax submissions will be ignored.
The first page should include an abstract, the full coordinates of at
least one author, and a statement that the paper contains original and
unpublished work and will not be submitted to any other conference
before the notification of acceptance/rejection from MAAMAW.  Papers
are submitted to rigourous refereeing by the MAAMAW'96 Programme
Committee.  Authors will be advised as to the acceptance status of
their paper around 8th of November. Camera ready copies, preferably
in electronic form, are due no later than December 1th 1995. These
papers willl be made available on the MAAMAW server. Printed
proceedings will be published and available at the workshop.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
-------------------

The programme committee consists of:

Magnus Boman               (Stockholm University and R.I.T.) (Sweden)
John Campbell              (University College, London) (UK)
Christiano Castelfranchi   (University of Siena, Siena) (Italy)
Helder Coelho              (INESC, Technical U. Lisbon) (Portugal)
Yves Demazeau              (LIFIA/IMAG, Grenoble) (France)
Aldo Dragoni               (University of Ancona) (Italy)
Jean Erceau                (ONERA/GIA, Chatillon) (France)
Jacques Ferber             (LAFORIA, Paris) (France)
Francisco Garijo           (Telefonica, Madrid) (Spain)
Nick Jennings              (Queen Mary and Westfield College) (UK)
Wouter Joosen              (KU Leuven) (Belgium)
George Kiss                (Open University) (UK)
Paul Levi                  (University of Stuttgart) (Germany)
Judith Masthoff            (Institute for Perception Research, Eindhoven) (NL)
Jean-Pierre Muller         (IIIA, Neuchatel) (Switserland)
Eugenio Oliveira           (Universidade do Porto) (Portugal)
Jeffrey Rosenschein        (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) (Israel)
Donald Steiner             (Siemens/DFKI) (Germany)
Kurt Sundermeyer           (Daimler Benz AG) (Germany)
Peter Wavish               (Philips Research Lab, Redhill) (UK)



