CFP: 4th Intl. Joint Conference AAMAS 2005 on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (Netherlands, July 05)

                                        Call for Papers


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              4th International Joint Conference AAMAS on


                Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems


                                    July 25 - 29, 2005


                  Utrecht University, The Netherlands


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                              http://www.aamas2005.nl




Important dates
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Electronic abstracts due:


                                            DECEMBER 6, 2004


Electronic paper submission deadline:


                                            DECEMBER 10, 2004


Notification: February 25, 2005




About the conference
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Agents are one of the most prominent and attractive technologies in
computer science at the beginning of the new milennium. The technologies,
methods, and theories of agents and multiagent systems are currently
contributing to many diverse domains such as information retrieval, user
interfaces, electronic commerce, robotics, computer mediated collaboration,
computer games, education and training, ubiquitous computing, and social
simulation. They not only are a very promising technology, but are also
emerging as a new way of thinking, a conceptual paradigm for analyzing
problems
and for designing systems, for dealing with complexity, distribution, and
interactivity, while providing a new perspective on computing and
intelligence.


The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 as a merger of three
highly
successful related events: AGENTS (International Conference on
Autonomous Agents),
ICMAS (International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems), and ATAL
(International
Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages).


The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile,
internationally
renowned forum for research in the theory and practice of autonomous
agents and
multiagent systems. In particular, it brings together the world's
researchers
active in this important, vibrant, and rapidly growing field.


AAMAS 2005 events include workshops and tutorials given by distinguished
experts
in the field, as well as an agent school, and doctoral mentoring program.


Please check http://www.aamas2005.nl for latest information on the
conference.




Topics of interest
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Topics of interest to AAMAS-05 include, but are not restricted to:


          * agents & complex systems; computational ecosystems
          * agent architectures; perception, action & planning in agents
          * agents & cognitive models
          * agents & networks: web agents, semantic web, grid, web services, P2P
          * agent communication: languages, semantics, pragmatics & protocols
          * agent-mediated electronic commerce & trading agents
          * agent-oriented software engineering & agent-oriented methodologies
          * agent programming languages, development environments & testbeds
          * applications of autonomous agents & multi-agent systems
          * artificial social systems; conventions, norms, social laws &
institutions
          * autonomous robots & robot teams
          * coalition formation & teamwork; cooperative distributed problem
solving
          * computational complexity in autonomous agents & multi-agent systems
          * cooperation & coordination; multi-agent planning
          * cooperative information systems, middle agents & brokers
          * distributed & multi-agent constraint satisfaction
          * game theoretic/economic foundations; algorithmic mechanism design
          * logics & formal models of agency; verification
          * multi-agent evolution, adaptation & learning
          * mobile agents
          * multi-agent simulation & modeling
          * negotiation, auctions, social choice mechanisms & argumentation
          * ontologies for agent systems
          * privacy & security issues in multi-agent systems
          * scalability & performance issues, robustness & dependability
          * synthetic agents; human-like, lifelike & believable qualities
          * theories of agency & autonomy
          * trust in agent systems; adjustable autonomy




Submission
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AAMAS-05 encourages the submission of theoretical, experimental,
methodological, and
applications papers. Theory papers should make clear the significance
and relevance of
their results to the AAMAS community. Similarly, applied papers should
make clear both
their scientific and technical contributions, and are expected to
demonstrate a
thorough evaluation of their strengths and weaknesses in practice.
Papers that address
isolated agent capabilities (for example, planning or learning) are
discouraged unless
they are placed in the overall context of autonomous agent architectures
or multi-agent
system organization and performance. A thorough evaluation is considered
an essential
component of any submission. Authors are also requested to make clear
the implications
of any theoretical and empirical results, as well as how their work
relates to the
state of the art in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems research
as evidenced in,
for example, previous AAMAS conferences. All submissions will be
rigorously peer
reviewed and evaluated on the basis of the quality of their technical
contribution,
originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the
state of the
art, and overall quality.


In addition to conventional conference papers, AAMAS-05 also welcomes
the submission
of papers that focus on implemented systems, software, or robot
prototypes. These
papers require a demonstration of the prototype at the conference and
should include
a detailed project or system description specifying the hardware and
software features
and requirements.


Please check http://www.aamas2005.nl/paper_submissions.htm for
submission details.




Organizing committee
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General co-chairs


          Sarit Kraus, Bar-Ilan University / University of Maryland
          Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University


Program co-chairs


          Sven Koenig, University of Southern California
          Michael Wooldridge, University of Liverpool


Local organization chair


          Frank Dignum, Utrecht University


Local treasurer


          Virginia Dignum, Utrecht University


Finance chair


          Sandip Sen, University of Tulsa


Workshops chair


          Rino Falcone, ISTC - CNR


Tutorials chair


          Onn Shehory, IBM Israel


Demos co-chairs


          Omer Rana, Cardiff University
          Thomas Rist, FH Augsburg


Doctoral mentoring chair


          Jürgen Dix, TU Clausthal


Publicity chair


          Matthias Klusch, DFKI


Sponsorship co-chairs


          Monique Calisti (Europe)
          Zakaria Maamar (Middle East)
          Kamal Karlapalem (South Asia)
          Jiming Liu (East Asia)
          Ana Lúcia Bazzan (Latin America)
          William Walsh (US & Canada)


Publications chair


          Bin Yu, Carnegie Mellon University


Student scholarship chair


          Barbara Keplicz, Warsaw University


Exhibits chair


          Marie-Pierre Gleizes, IRIT, University Paul Sabatier

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