From mklein@bcsaic.boeing.com Mon Dec 27 12:55:52 EST 1993 Article: 20063 of comp.ai Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:20063 Newsgroups: comp.ai Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!news.mic.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!bcstec!bcsaic!mklein From: mklein@bcsaic.boeing.com (Mark Klein) Subject: CFP: 13th International DAI Workshop Message-ID: Organization: Boeing Computer Services Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1993 20:10:27 GMT Lines: 247 Call for Papers 13th International Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop July 28-30, 1994: Seattle WA USA "Making Connections" Goal ---- Distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) is concerned with the cooperative solution of problems in multi-agent intelligent systems with both computational and human agents. The central problem in DAI is how to achieve coordinated action among such agents, so that they can accomplish more as a group than individually. The DAI workshop is dedicated to advancing the state of the art in this field. For over a decade now the workshop has gathered a relatively small group of active researchers for intensive discussions on the state of the art as well as fruitful directions for future exploration. Previous DAI Workshops have resulted in nine summaries published in AI Magazine, two volumes of edited papers published by Pitman/Morgan Kaufmann as well as special issues of the journals "Group Decision and Negotiation" and "IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics". A wide range of research communities throughout the world are now addressing issues related to DAI. This include work on CKBS (cooperating knowledge-based systems), CSCW (computer-supported cooperative work), ICIS (intelligent cooperating information systems), GDSS (group decision support systems), CE (concurrent engineering), organizational sciences, social psychology, business process management, anthropology and so on. There is also increasing recognition of the need for collaboration support technology in many settings, as evidenced for example by the large international Intelligent Manufacturing System (IMS) Program which envisages future manufacturing facilities based on globally distributed autonomous and intelligent systems. Such potential application areas pose great challenges for DAI. The goal of the 1994 DAI workshop is therefore "making connections": trying to better understand the connections between DAI and related fields as well as real-world problems. It is hoped that the workshop deliberations will help participants (1) develop a better understanding of the gaps between current theory and potential applications and (2) identify future research directions that integrate multi-disciplinary efforts to address these gaps. Diverse perspectives and approaches are of interest including, but not limited to: "real-world" DAI systems - case studies of implemented practical applications - principles for selecting and applying DAI ideas design of coordination-capable agents - task decomposition (speech act formalisms etc). - distributed reasoning and control - intelligent agents - conflict management/negotiation (game theory etc.) - agent models multi-agent learning - inductive - explanation-based societies of agents - design & behaviour - economic models implementational approaches - languages: object-based concurrent programming languages such as Actors and reflective languages - frameworks: ABE, MACE, AGORA, blackboard systems, distributed search and constraint satisfaction - infrastructures - integration of heterogeneous systems Workshop Time & Location ------------------------ July 28, 1994: all day technical sessions July 29, 1994: morning sessions, open afternoon, evening reception July 30, 1994: morning session only - adjourn at noon Site: rustic retreat (location TBD soon) close to Seattle to allow participants to continue to AAAI conference in downtown Seattle July 31. Structure --------- The workshop will consist of several basic elements: o Technical Presentations: There will be several moderated technical sessions, each focusing on a particular technical theme, consisting of 3-4 10-15 minute talks follow by 30-40 minute Q&A sessions where the moderator addresses initial questions to all the speakers and facilitates audience participation. o Invited Talks: We plan to include several invited presentations by potential "customers" of DAI technology (e.g. from concurrent engineering, sales & labor negotiations, scheduling, shop floor control, telecommunications, networks, budget processes etc.) as well as potential "collaborators" (i.e. prominent researchers in related fields such as CSCW and GDSS). o "Breakout" Groups: The workshop will include the opportunity for workshop participants to divide into smaller groups for intensive discussions on gaps between current theory and practical requirements, as well as new inter-disciplinary research directions to addresss these gaps. Each group will communicate their results to the workshop as a whole in a closing technical session. o Poster/Demo Session: Participants will be invited to display posters and other demos describing their work during the open afternoon July 29. Participation Requirements -------------------------- Participation at the Workshop will be by invitation only and limited to approximately 35 people. To participate, please submit 4 copies of a technical paper (15 pages or less) describing original research or significant applications in DAI. Preference will be given to work that addresses one or more of the DAI themes listed above, and that presents clear statements of research findings rather than discussion of topics of study. We specifically discourage the submission of papers in areas such as fine-grained parallelism, hardware or language-level concurrency, and connectionism, because we feel that work in these areas is more appropriate for other workshops. We welcome both theoretical and applied papers. Theoretical papers should explain how their principles and methods can be mapped to applications, while applied papers should explain why they use the techniques that they do and why other approaches are less appropriate for the problem at hand. A small number of "interested observers" may also be invited to attend. Please submit a brief (1-2 page) description of your research interests and reason for participation. Please send submissions to the workshop chair and include electronic mail addresses for the authors. Electronic submissions in ascii, Macintosh Word or RTF format are welcome. Papers due March 15, 1994 Notification April 30, 1994 Final papers May 30, 1994 Participants are invited to prepare posters and/or demos for presentation during the open period the afternoon of July 29. Please let the workshop chair know if you plan to do so. A limited number of "scholarships" will be available to support attendance of the workshop by graduate students of limited means. Please indicate if you would like to be considered for this on your submission. Workshop Chairs --------------- Mark Klein DAI Workshop Chair Boeing Computer Services, MS 7L-44 PO Box 24346 Seattle WA 98124-0346 USA Voice: +1 (206) 865-3412 Fax: +1 (206) 865-2965 Email: mklein@atc.boeing.com Kish Sharma DAI Workshop Co-Chair Boeing Computer Services Seattle WA USA Voice: +1 (206) 865-3353 Fax: +1 (206) 865-2965 ksharma@atc.boeing.com Program Committee ----------------- Susan E. Conry Simon Kaplan ECE Department Department of Computer Science Clarkson University University of Illinois Potsdam, NY USA Urbana Illinois USA conry@sun.soe.clarkson.edu kaplan@marula.cs.uiuc.edu Dan Corkill Victor R. Lesser Blackboard Technology Group, Inc. Computer and Information Science Amherst, MA USA University of Massachusetts corkill@cs.umass.edu Amherst, MA USA lesser@cs.umass.edu Kevin Crowston Jeffrey S. Rosenschein Assistant Professor Ross Building School of Business Administration Department of Computer Science University of Michigan Hebrew University Ann Arbor, MI USA Jerusalem ISRAEL crowston@csmil.umich.edu jeff@cs.huji.ac.il Edmund H. Durfee Sandip Sen Electrical Engineering Dept of Mathematical & Computer Sciences and Computer Science University of Tulsa The University of Michigan Tulsa, OK USA Ann Arbor, MI USA sandip@kolkata.mcs.utulsa.edu durfee@caen.engin.umich.edu sandip@kolkata.mcs.utulsa.edu Steve Fickas Ian Smith Computer and Information AI Lab Science Department Federal Institute of Technology University of Oregon Lausanne, SWITZERLAND Eugene OR USA smith@lia.di.epfl.ch fickas@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu Mark Fox Duvvuru Sriram Department of Industrial Engineering Intelligent Engineering Systems Lab University of Toronto Dept of Civil Engineering Toronto, Ontario CANADA Cambridge MA USA msf@ie.utoronto.ca sriram@athena.mit.edu Les Gasser Katia P. Sycara Computational Organization Design Lab The Robotics Institute Institute for Safety and Systems Carnegie Mellon University Management Pittsburgh, PA USA University of Southern California katia@cs.cmu.edu Los Angeles, CA USA gasser@usc.edu Michael Genesereth Jay Martin Tenenbaum Computer Science Department Enterprise Integration Technologies Stanford University Palo Alto, CA USA Stanford CA USA marty@eitech.com genesereth@cs.stanford.edu Michael Huhns Frank von Martial Microelectronics and Computer DETECON (Deutsche Telepost Consulting) Technology Corporation (MCC) Bonn GERMANY Austin Texas USA frank@gmdzi.gmd.de huhns@mcc.com Toru Ishida Andrew Whinston Department of Information Science Department of Management Systems Kyoto University and Information Science Kyoto JAPAN The University of Texas at Austin ishida@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp Austin, TX USA abw@emx.utexas.edu Dr. Nick Jennings Department of Electronic Engineering Queen Mary & Westfield College University of London London UK nickj@qmw.ac.uk Article 20653 of comp.ai: Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:20653 Newsgroups: comp.ai Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bcstec!bcsaic!mklein From: mklein@bcsaic.boeing.com (Mark Klein) Subject: Final CFP: Distributed AI Workshop Message-ID: Organization: Boeing Computer Services Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 23:29:18 GMT Lines: 52 Call for Papers 13th International Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop July 28-30, 1994: Seattle WA USA "Making Connections" Distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) is concerned with the cooperative solution of problems in multi-agent intelligent systems with both computational and human agents. The goal of the 1994 DAI Workshop is "making connections": trying to better understand the connections between DAI and related fields as well as real-world problems. The Workshop will include technical presentations, invited talks, breakout groups, and a poster/demonstration session. Diverse perspectives and approaches are of interest including, but not limited to: - "real-world" DAI systems: case studies & design principles - design of coordination-capable agents: task decomposition, distributed reasoning, conflict management etc - multi-agent learning - societies of agents - implementational approaches: languages, frameworks, infrastructures etc. Participation is by invitation only and limited to approximately 35 people. To participate please submit four copies of a technical paper (15 pages or less) describing original research or significant applications in DAI. Theoretical papers should explain how their principles and methods can be mapped to applications, while applied papers should explain why they use the techniques that they do. Several "observers" may also be invited to attend: if interested please submit a brief (1-2 page) description of your research interests and reason for participation. Papers due: March 15, 1994 Notification: April 30, 1994 Final papers: May 30, 1994 Send submissions (including authors' e-mail addresses) to: Mark Klein DAI Workshop Chair Boeing Computer Services, MS 7L-44 PO Box 24346 Seattle WA 98124-0346 USA Voice: +1 (206) 865-3412 Fax: +1 (206) 865-2965 Email: mklein@atc.boeing.com Electronic submissions in ascii, Macintosh Word or RTF format are welcome. Participants are invited to prepare posters and/or demos for presentation; please advise the workshop chair if you plan to do so. A limited number of "scholarships" are available to support graduate student attendance. Article 5701 of news.announce.conferences: Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu news.announce.conferences:5701 Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sparky!rick From: mklein@atc.boeing.com (Mark Klein) Subject: CFP (final): Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop Message-ID: <1994Feb15.231130.16636@sparky.sterling.com> Sender: rick@sparky.sterling.com (Richard Ohnemus) Organization: Boeing Computer Services Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 23:11:30 GMT Approved: rick@sparky.sterling.com Expires: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 08:00:00 GMT Lines: 52 X-Md4-Signature: 5e1ca6afd92c46a885c397a9475cc542 Call for Papers 13th International Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop July 28-30, 1994: Seattle WA USA "Making Connections" Distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) is concerned with the cooperative solution of problems in multi-agent intelligent systems with both computational and human agents. The goal of the 1994 DAI Workshop is "making connections": trying to better understand the connections between DAI and related fields as well as real-world problems. The Workshop will include technical presentations, invited talks, breakout groups, and a poster/demonstration session. Diverse perspectives and approaches are of interest including, but not limited to: - "real-world" DAI systems: case studies & design principles - design of coordination-capable agents: task decomposition, distributed reasoning, conflict management etc - multi-agent learning - societies of agents - implementational approaches: languages, frameworks, infrastructures etc. Participation is by invitation only and limited to approximately 35 people. To participate please submit four copies of a technical paper (15 pages or less) describing original research or significant applications in DAI. Theoretical papers should explain how their principles and methods can be mapped to applications, while applied papers should explain why they use the techniques that they do. Several "observers" may also be invited to attend: if interested please submit a brief (1-2 page) description of your research interests and reason for participation. Papers due: March 15, 1994 Notification: April 30, 1994 Final papers: May 30, 1994 Send submissions (including authors' e-mail addresses) to: Mark Klein DAI Workshop Chair Boeing Computer Services, MS 7L-44 PO Box 24346 Seattle WA 98124-0346 USA Voice: +1 (206) 865-3412 Fax: +1 (206) 865-2965 Email: mklein@atc.boeing.com Electronic submissions in ascii, Macintosh Word or RTF format are welcome. Participants are invited to prepare posters and/or demos for presentation; please advise the workshop chair if you plan to do so. A limited number of "scholarships" are available to support graduate student attendance.