From michael@cs.man.ac.uk Thu Jan 27 20:01:34 EST 1994 Article: 20435 of comp.ai Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:20435 Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!nessie!mucs!m1!michael From: michael@cs.man.ac.uk (Michael Fisher) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: CFP: ECAI'94 Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages Message-ID: Date: 27 Jan 94 08:08:15 GMT Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester Lines: 142 AGENT THEORIES, ARCHITECTURES, AND LANGUAGES Call for Papers - An ECAI '94 Workshop Amsterdam, August 8th, 1994 Introduction Artificial Intelligence is concerned with building, modeling and under- standing systems that exhibit some aspect of intelligent behaviour. Yet it is only comparatively recently -- since about the mid 1980s -- that issues surrounding the synthesis of intelligent autonomous agents have entered the mainstream of AI. Despite the undoubted interest on the part of the international research community, there is currently no recognised forum for presenting work in this area. Results are published in a diverse range of journals, workshops, and conferences, making it difficult for researchers to meet and follow developments. The aim of this workshop, therefore, is to provide an arena in which researchers working in all areas related to the theoretical and practical aspects of both hardware and software agent synthesis can further extend their understanding and exper- tise by meeting and exchanging ideas, techniques and results with research- ers working in related areas. Workshop Themes o Theories of intelligent agents. How do the various components of an agent's cognitive makeup conspire to produce rational behaviour? What is the relationship between these components? What formalisms are appropriate for expressing aspects of agent theory? Do we need logic-based formalisms? If not, is another type of mathematical framework appropriate? o Architectures for intelligent agents. What structure should an artificial intelligent agent have? Is reac- tive behaviour enough? Or do we need deliberation as well? How can we integrate reactive and deliberative components cleanly? What is the relationship between an agent theory and architecture? How are we to reason about reactive systems? o Languages for intelligent agents. What are the right primitives for programming an intelligent agent? How are these primitives related to the theory of an agent, or its architecture? Can we realistically hope to execute agent specifica- tions in complex, perhaps multi-modal languages? Should we aim for simple agents, with limited internal complexity, or for agents with complex reasoning abilities? We are particularly interested in papers that cross theme boundaries, for example, by relating theories to architectures, or architectures to languages. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to the following: Agent Theories Agent Architectures intentions deliberative architectures time, desires, beliefs, and goals reactive architectures situated automata hybrid architectures logical models of agents executing logical agent specifications Agent Languages rationality & bounded rationality agent specification languages the agent-oriented paradigm non-logical agent languages agent-based computing Submission Details Those wishing to participate in the workshop should submit an extended abstract of between one thousand and five thousand words (approximately thirteen pages maximum), to reach either member of the organising committee no later than Monday 11th April 1994. The first page should include full name and contact details (including email, full postal address, and tele- phone number if possible) of at least one author. Notification of accep- tance or rejection will be no later than Monday 9th May 1994, and will be sent by email where possible. Successful authors will be asked to submit a full paper by Monday 13th June 1994; pre-proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. A major international publishing house has expressed an interest in publishing the proceedings. Anyone wishing to attend without presenting a paper will be welcome, pro- vided that they contact the organising committee in advance of the workshop (numbers permitting). NOTE: All those attending the workshop will be required to register for the main conference. Organising Committee Michael Wooldridge Nicholas Jennings Dept of Computing Dept of Electronic Engineering Manchester Metropolitan University Queen Mary & Westfield College Chester Street Mile End Road Manchester M1 5GD, U.K. London E1 4NS, U.K. Email mikew@sun.com.mmu.ac.uk Email N.R.Jennings@qmw.ac.uk Tel (+44 61) 247 1531 Tel (+44 71) 975 5349 Fax (+44 61) 247 1483 Fax (+44 81) 981 0259 Program Committee Phil Cohen (USA) Michael Fisher (UK) Piotr Gmytrasiewicz (USA) Hans Haugeneder (Germany) Sarit Kraus (Israel) Anand Rao (Australia) Yoav Shoham (USA) Munindar Singh (USA) Further Details Contact the organising committee via email for further details, or for LaTeX/PostScript versions of this CFP. 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