From zeng+@ER5000.CIMDS.RI.CMU.EDU Thu Sep 8 21:25:33 EDT 1994 Article: 24131 of comp.ai Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!zeng From: zeng+@ER5000.CIMDS.RI.CMU.EDU (Dajun Zeng) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: CFP, ICMAS '95 Date: 7 Sep 1994 15:20:04 GMT Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science Lines: 207 Message-ID: <34kln4$qju@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: er5000.cimds.ri.cmu.edu Originator: zeng@ER5000.CIMDS.RI.CMU.EDU CALL FOR PAPERS First International Conference on Multiagent Systems - ICMAS '95 June 12 - 14, 1995 San Francisco, California Multiagent Systems are computational systems in which several semi-autonomous agents interact or work together to perform some set of tasks or satisfying some set of goals. These systems may involve computational agents that are homogeneous or heterogeneous, they may involve activity on the part of agents having common goals or goals that are distinct, and they may involve participation on the part of humans and intelligent computational agents. Research and practice on these systems generally focuses on problem solving, communication, and coordination aspects, as distinct from low-level parallelization or synchronization issues that are more the focus of distributed computing. The design, implementation, and assessment of multiagent systems raises many specific issues. These include how to develop coordination strategies that enable groups of agents to solve problems effectively, negotiation mechanisms that serve to bring a collection of agents to an acceptable state, conflict detection and resolution strategies, protocols by which agents may communicate and reason about inter-agent communications, and mechanisms whereby agents can maintain autonomy while still contributing to overall system effectiveness. Researchers and developers in many areas of the world have contributed to multiagent systems over the last decade. The First International Conference on Multiagent Systems will be held in June of 1995 in San Francisco. Organized as a joint effort of the North American Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) community, the Japanese Multi-Agent and Cooperative Computing (MACC) community, and the European Modeling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World (MAAMAW) community, this conference solicits papers concerning multiagent systems. ICMAS-95 will be a three-day conference combining a strong technical program of submitted papers with plenary sessions that serve to encourage synthesis of ideas from multiple segments of this interdisciplinary area. There will also be tutorials presented on June 11, the day before the official start of the conference. The program committee wishes to encourage representation of a broad spectrum of perspectives in the conference program. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Agent architectures Artificial life (from a multiagent perspective) Believable Agents Cooperation, coordination, and conflict Communication issues Conceptual and theoretical foundations of multiagent systems Development and engineering methodologies Distributed artificial intelligence Distributed consensus and algorithms for multiagent interaction Distributed search Evaluation of multi-agent systems Integrated testbeds and development environments Intelligent agents in enterprise integration systems and similar types of applications Multiagent cooperative reasoning from distributed heterogeneous databases Multiagent planning and planning for multiagent worlds Negotiation strategies - in both competitive and cooperative situations Organization, organizational knowledge, and organization self-design Practical applications of multi-agent systems (enterprises, robotics, sensing, manufacturing, IVHS etc.) Resource allocation in multiagent systems Social structures and their significance in multiagent systems User interface issues for multiagent systems Submissions Authors should submit five (5) copies of papers and an email version of the abstract by December 1, 1994 to one of the conference co-chairs. All papers will be reviewed by the program committee and authors will be notified of acceptance by March 1, 1995. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its scientific contribution, and the problems, domains, or environments to which it is applicable. Paper Format for Review Submitted papers must be printed on 8 1/2" x 11"or A4 paper using 12 point type (10 characters per inch for typewriters). Each page must have no more than 38 lines and an average of 75 characters per line. (This corresponds to LaTex article style, 12 point.) Each paper should have a single title page which includes a 150-word abstract and up to two topic areas covered by the paper. (These will be used to focus reviewing and ultimately to structure the technical program.) The body of the paper, including all figures, tables, and diagrams but excluding title page and bibliography must be no more than 12 pages in length. Papers that do not conform to these guidelines will be rejected without review and no electronic submissions will be accepted. Up-to-date Information A Mosaic page (http://ICMAS.cs.umass.edu/ICMAS) can be accessed for the most update information on the conference including as it becomes available information on hotel and travel arrangements, tutorials and the technical program. Hotel Arrangements The conference will be held at San Francisco Hilton and Towers (415-771-1400 or 800-HILTONS). There are a block of rooms set aside for conference participants at a special convention rate till May 11,1995. Reservations received after this date will be accepted based on availability. Please indicate when you are making room arrangements that you will be attending the International Conference on Multiagent Systems in order to get the convention rate. General Chair: Victor R. Lesser Computer and Information Science Department University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-1322 lesser@cs.umass.edu Program Co-Chairs: North America: Susan E. Conry Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Clarkson University Box 5720 Potsdam, NY 13676-5720 (315) 268-6510 conry@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Europe: Yves Demazeau Laboratoire LIFIA/IMAG 46 Avenue Felix Viallet F-38031 Grenoble cx FRANCE +33 76574654 Yves.Demazeau@imag.fr Pacific Rim: Mario Tokoro Keio University / Sony CSL Department of Computer Science 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku Yokohama 223 JAPAN +81-45-560-1153 mario@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Local Arrangements: Evangelos Simoudis Lockheed AI Center o/96-20, B/254F 3251 Hanover Street Palo Alto, CA 94304 (415) 3554-5271 simoudis@aic.lockheed.com Advisory Committee: John Campbell (England) Christiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Susan E. Conry (USA) Yves Demazeau (France) Edmund Durfee (USA) Jacques Ferber (France) Les Gasser (USA) Michael Georgeff (Australia) Carl Hewitt (USA) Michael N. Huhns (USA) Toru Ishida (Japan) Victor Lesser (USA) Jean-Pierre Muller (Switzerland) Jeffrey Rosenschein (Israel) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Katia Sycara (USA) Mario Tokoro (Japan) Program Committee: John Campbell (England) Christiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Helder Coelho (Portugal) Phil Cohen (USA) Edmund Durfee (USA) Jacques Ferber (France) Mark Fox (Canada) Les Gasser (USA) Michael Georgeff (Australia) Carl Hewitt (USA) Bernardo Huberman (USA) Michael Huhns (USA) Toru Ishida (Japan) Nick Jennings (England) Sarit Kraus (Israel) Christian Lemaitre (Mexico) Frank von Martial (Germany) Jean Pierre Muller (Switzerland) Hideyuki Nakashima (Japan) Van Parunak (USA) Jeffrey Rosenschein (Israel) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Luc Steels (Belgium) Toshiharu Sugawara (Japan) Katia Sycara (USA) Article 24647 of comp.ai: Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!news2.near.net!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!usc!not-for-mail From: gasser@morue.usc.edu (Les Gasser) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: ICMAS95 PRELIM CFP: TALK, PANEL, AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Date: 12 Oct 1994 15:32:58 -0700 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 178 Sender: gasser@morue.usc.edu Message-ID: <37ho6q$7e7@morue.usc.edu> Reply-To: gasser@usc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: morue.usc.edu **************************************************************** **************************************************************** FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS - ICMAS '95 CALL FOR PRELIMINARY INVITED TALK, PANEL, AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS **************************************************************** **************************************************************** The 1995 International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-95) will be held June 12-14, 1995 at the San Francisco Hilton Hotel (see the Mosaic page http://ICMAS.cs.umass.edu/ICMAS for details). A cohesive, innovative collection of invited talks, panels, and tutorials is planned for the conference. We solicit preliminary proposals and suggestions for invited talks, panels, and tutorials related to the subjects of the conference, including (but not limited to) the following topics or combinations thereof: Agent architectures Artificial life (from a multiagent perspective) Believable Agents Cooperation, coordination, and conflict Communication issues Conceptual and theoretical foundations of multiagent systems Development and engineering methodologies Distributed artificial intelligence Distributed consensus and algorithms for multiagent interaction Distributed search Evaluation of multi-agent systems Integrated testbeds and development environments Intelligent agents in enterprise integration systems and similar types of applications Multiagent cooperative reasoning from distributed heterogeneous databases Multiagent planning and planning for multiagent worlds Negotiation strategies - in both competitive and cooperative situations Organization, organizational knowledge, and organization self-design Practical applications of multi-agent systems (enterprises, robotics, sensing, manufacturing, IVHS etc.) Resource allocation in multiagent systems Social structures and their significance in multiagent systems User interface issues for multiagent systems If you have suggestions or preliminary proposals for an invited talk, panel or tutorial, please submit the following information to Les Gasser, the ICMAS Tutorials Chair, by 15 November, 1994: The proposed subject of the talk, panel, or tutorial The proposed speaker, panel leader/participants, or tutorial presenter(s) (with full contact information). A brief statement of why you believe a talk, panel, or tutorial on this subject would be relevant and interesting to the MAS conference attendees, Our aim is to get the maximum input from the MAS community at large in formulating the program of ICMAS-95. Hence we're interested in your ideas and suggestions for talks, panels, and tutorials you'd like to see at ICMAS-95, or in which you'd like to participate. Full proposal solicitations on selected topics will come later. TUTORIALS CHAIR: Les Gasser Computational Organization Design Lab Institute of Safety and Systems Management USC 927 West 35th Place Los Angeles, CA 90089-0021 USA Voice: 213.740.4046 Fax: 213.740.9732 Internet: gasser@usc.edu ================================================================ ICMAS-95 General Chair: Victor R. Lesser Computer and Information Science Department University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-1322 lesser@cs.umass.edu Program Co-Chairs: North America: Susan E. Conry Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Clarkson University Box 5720 Potsdam, NY 13676-5720 (315) 268-6510 conry@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Europe: Yves Demazeau Laboratoire LIFIA/IMAG 46 Avenue Felix Viallet F-38031 Grenoble cx FRANCE +33 76574654 Yves.Demazeau@imag.fr Pacific Rim: Mario Tokoro Keio University / Sony CSL Department of Computer Science 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku Yokohama 223 JAPAN +81-45-560-1153 mario@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Local Arrangements: Evangelos Simoudis Lockheed AI Center o/96-20, B/254F 3251 Hanover Street Palo Alto, CA 94304 (415) 3554-5271 simoudis@aic.lockheed.com Advisory Committee: John Campbell (England) Christiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Susan E. Conry (USA) Yves Demazeau (France) Edmund Durfee (USA) Jacques Ferber (France) Les Gasser (USA) Michael Georgeff (Australia) Carl Hewitt (USA) Michael N. Huhns (USA) Toru Ishida (Japan) Victor Lesser (USA) Jean-Pierre Muller (Switzerland) Jeffrey Rosenschein (Israel) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Katia Sycara (USA) Mario Tokoro (Japan) Program Committee: John Campbell (England) Christiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Helder Coelho (Portugal) Phil Cohen (USA) Edmund Durfee (USA) Jacques Ferber (France) Mark Fox (Canada) Les Gasser (USA) Michael Georgeff (Australia) Carl Hewitt (USA) Bernardo Huberman (USA) Michael Huhns (USA) Toru Ishida (Japan) Nick Jennings (England) Sarit Kraus (Israel) Christian Lemaitre (Mexico) Frank von Martial (Germany) Jean Pierre Muller (Switzerland) Hideyuki Nakashima (Japan) Van Parunak (USA) Jeffrey Rosenschein (Israel) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Luc Steels (Belgium) Toshiharu Sugawara (Japan) Katia Sycara (USA)