AAMAS 2005 Conference: Final Call for Papers, Tutorial and Workshop Proposals (Utrecht NL, Jul 05)

                                            FINAL CALL


          for Papers, Workshop and Tutorial Proposals,
          and Special Industry Track 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
===============


Conference papers


                        Electronic abstracts due: DECEMBER 6, 2004
                        Full electronic paper due: DECEMBER 10, 2004


Workshop and Tutorial proposals due: DECEMBER 20, 2004


Industry track contributions due: FEBRUARY 28, 2005




Please note that the conference will be BLIND reviewed!
Authors should carefully read the respective online instructions before
submitting. Online submission of papers possible at
http://www.aamas2005.nl/paper_submissions'.php from NOVEMBER 8, 2004.


More details are provided in the following.




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                            CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS


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About the conference
====================


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
==================


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 of Conference Papers
===============================


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 note that the conference will be BLIND reviewed!


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


The online submission web site
          http://www.aamas2005.nl/paper_submissions'.php
can be used from November 8, 2004.






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                        CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS


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INTRODUCTION
************


The AAMAS-2005 Organising Committee invites proposals for
the Tutorial Program, to be held immediately before to the
technical conference (July, 25-26). Tutorials should serve one or
more of the following objectives:


* Introduce novices to major topics of AAMAS research.


* Provide instruction in established practices and methodologies.


* Survey a mature area of AAMAS research and/or practice.


* Motivate and explain an AAMAS topic of emerging importance.


* Introduce expert non-specialists to an AAMAS subarea.


* Survey an area of agent research especially relevant for people
      from industry






REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSIONS
****************************


Proposals should be from two to four pages in length,
and should contain the following information:




* A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in
        the conference registration brochure.




* A detailed outline of the tutorial, including preferred length
        (1/2 or 1 day).


* Characterization of the potential target audience for the
        tutorial, including prerequisite knowledge.


* A description of why the tutorial topic would be of
        interest to a substantial part of the AAMAS audience.


* A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should include name,
        postal address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address, background in
the tutorial area, any available example of work in the area
        (ideally, a published tutorial-level article on the subject),
        evidence of teaching experience (including references that address the
proposer's presentation ability), and evidence of scholarship in the
area.


* The name and E-mail address of the corresponding presenter. The
        corresponding presenter should be available for E-mail correspondence
during the evaluation process, in the case clarifications and
        discussions on the scope and content of the proposal are needed.


The evaluation of the proposal will take into account its general
interest for AAMAS attendees (e.g., a tutorial on object-oriented
inheritance will be hardly accepted), the quality of the proposal
(e.g., a tutorial that simply lists a set of concepts without any
apparent rationale behind them will be judged badly) as well as the
expertise and efficacy of the presenters. We emphasize that the
primary criteria for evaluation will be whether a proposal is
interesting, well-structured, and motivated, rather than the
perceived experience/standing of the proposer.


Those submitting a proposal should keep in mind that tutorials are
intended to provide an overview of the field; they should present
reasonably well established information in a balanced way. Tutorials
should not be used to advocate a single avenue of research, nor should
they promote a product.


All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to
the Tutorial Chair, Onn Shehory (onn@il.ibm.com),
in plain ASCII text, no later than




                    ** December 20, 2004 **.




The committee's decision will be notified no later than




                    ** January 10, 2005**.


The selection of the tutorials to be included in the final AAMAS program
will be based upon a number of factors, including:
the scientific/technical interest of the topics, the quality of the
proposal, the need to avoid strictly overlapping tutorials, and the
unavoidable need to limit the overall number of selected tutorials.




RESPONSIBILITIES OF AAMAS AND OF TUTORIAL ORGANIZERS
****************************************************


For all accepted proposals, AAMAS will be responsible for:


      * Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the tutorial.


      * Together with the organizers, determining the tutorial date and time.


      * Duplicating tutorial material and distributing them to the
participants.


Tutorial organizers will be responsible for the following:


      * Providing AAMAS with a legible PDF copy of their tutorial notes
          in due time.


      * Presenting the tutorial at AAMAS-05




AAMAS reserves the right to cancel any tutorial if the above
responsibilities are not fulfilled, if deadlines are missed or
if too few attendees register for the tutorial to support the costs of
running the tutorial.






IMPORTANT DATES
***************


December 20, 2004
Proposal Submission Deadline


January 10, 2005
Acceptance Notification


April 10, 2005
Deadline for submitting tutorial materials


July 25 - 26, 2005
AAMAS-05 Tutorials




Proposals and inquiries should be sent by email (in ASCII)
to the tutorials chair:


      Onn Shehory
      onn@il.ibm.com






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                      CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS


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INTRODUCTION
************


The AAMAS-2005 Organising Committee invites proposals for
the Workshop Program, to be held immediately before the
technical conference (July, 25-26).


The main goal of the AAMAS-2005 workshops is to stimulate and
facilitate an active exchange, interaction and comparison of
approaches, methods, and ideas about specific (both theoretical
and applicative) topics on the Agents and Multi-Agent Systems domain.
Workshops should be organized so that an informal and participated
discussion among attendees is guaranteed. Members from all areas
of the AAMAS community are invited to submit workshop proposals
for review. Workshops on new emerging topics or specific relevant
aspects of consolidated ones are particularly encouraged.


Workshops can vary in length, but most will last a full day.
Workshop organizers and attendees must register for their workshop
and possibly for the main AAMAS conference.


REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSIONS
****************************


Proposals for workshops should be from two to four pages in length,
and should contain the following information:


* A brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the
      workshop goals and the technical issues that will be its focus.


* A brief discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest.


* A list of related workshops held within the last two years, if any,
      and their relation to the proposed workshop.


* If applicable, detailed information about previous editions of
      the same workshop (e.g., number of submissions, number of attendees).


* A preliminary call for participation/papers.


* The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of
      the proposed workshop organizing committee. This committee should
      consist of three or four people knowledgeable about the technical
      issues to be addressed.
      These people cannot all work at the same institution.


* The name of the primary contact for the organizing committee;
      an email address of this person should be given.


* A description of the qualifications of the individual committee
      members with respect to organizing scientific events, including a
      list of workshops previously arranged by any members of the proposed
      organizing committee, if any.


All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to
the Workshop Chair, Rino Falcone (r.falcone@istc.cnr.it),
in plain ASCII text, no later than




                  ** December 20, 2004 **.




The committee's decision will be notified no later than




                  ** January 10, 2005**.


The selection of the workshops to be included in the final AAMAS program
will be based upon a number of factors, including:
the scientific/technical interest of the topics, the quality of the
proposal, the need to avoid strictly overlapping workshops, and the
unavoidable need to limit the overall number of selected workshops.




RESPONSIBILITIES OF AAMAS AND OF WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
****************************************************


For all accepted proposals, AAMAS will be responsible for:


    * Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the workshop.


    * Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time.


    * Duplicating working notes and distributing them to the participants.


Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following:


    * Setting up a Web site for the workshop according to the template that
        will be distributed upon acceptance.


    * Advertising the workshop and issuing a call for participation/papers.


    * Collecting submissions, notifying acceptances in due time, and
        ensuring a transparent and fair selection process. All workshop
        organizers commit themselves to adopt the same deadlines for
        submissions and notifications of acceptance, i.e.,


                  - March 14, 2005 submission of contributions to workshops
                  - April 18 2005, notifications


    * Making the PDF of the whole workshop notes available to the
        workshop chair in due time (approx. 7 weeks before the conference).


    * Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants get
        registered to the workshop and are invited to register to the main
        conference.


AAMAS reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above
responsibilities are not fulfilled or if too few attendees register
for the workshop.


AAMAS encourages the production of publications based on the workshop,
and leave this upon the workshop organizers.




IMPORTANT DATES for Workshops
*****************************


December 20, 2004
Proposal Submission Deadline


January 10, 2005
Acceptance Notification


March 14, 2005
Deadline for submitting of contributions to workshops


April 18, 2005
Acceptance Notifications of contributions to workshops


July 25 - 26, 2005
AAMAS-05 Workshops




Please send proposals (in ASCII) and inquiries via email to:


      Rino Falcone
      r.falcone@istc.cnr.it








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                  Call for INDUSTRY TRACK PAPERS


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INTRODUCTION
************


The AAMAS-05 conference will, for the first time, feature a track
specifically intended for industrial participants: the AAMAS
Industry Track. The industry track is being organised in
cooperation with AgentLink, Europe's IST-funded coordination
activity for autonomous agents and multi-agent systems (see
http://www.agentlink.org/).


WHAT IS THE INDUSTRY TRACK?
***************************


The AAMAS industry track is a special track at the AAMAS
conference that will run in parallel to the regular AAMAS
scientific track. It will feature presentations and demonstrations
from industrial participants, giving them an opportunity to
showcase the state of the art in technology and industrial
application of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems to AAMAS
delegates and to publish associated papers in a high quality,
formal proceedings. The industry track aims to foster mutually
beneficial links between those engaged in foundational scientific
research and those working to make autonomous agents and
multi-agent systems a commercial reality. This enables
industrially-based software agent developers and practitioners to
participate in AAMAS in a meaningful way and to present their
technology and applications to both their peers and the associated
scientific community.


HOW WILL THE TRACK BE REFEREED?
*******************************


Whereas in the regular conference track the overriding refereeing
criterion is clearly scientific excellence, the industry track
focuses primarily on the industrial relevance and technological
significance of the contribution. Preference will be given to
mature work demonstrating concrete industrial/commercial results
and business value.


Examples of an "ideal" paper might include: (i) a presentation of
a particular kind of commercially available software agent
technology, together with experience of how this was applied in a
field-tested system; or (ii) a report on a field-tested
agent-based system.


We explicitly discourage the submission of purely speculative
papers, proposals, and plans for future work/potential
applications. Academic participation in the industry track is
acceptable, but please note that we strongly discourage the
submission of: (i) papers that merely appeal to potential
applications, without demonstrating that they have been
meaningfully applied; (ii) academic papers that work with highly
abstracted versions of potential applications; or (iii) academic
papers that describe software agent systems/platforms without
either a real industrial link or genuine application.


In general, if you believe that your paper makes a scientific
contribution, you should think about submitting to the regular
scientific track; whereas, if your paper is an overview of an
agent technology, a "practical experience" paper, or similar, then
you should probably submit to the industry track.




HOW CAN I PARTICIPATE?
**********************


The industry track invites developers, practitioners, and
industrial researchers to submit high quality papers on agent
technology and its applications. See the conference web site for
paper formatting and submission instructions.


Accepted contributions will be formally published in the
"Proceedings of the Industry Track of AAMAS-05" and will be
distributed at the conference along with the AAMAS-05 main
conference proceedings. Selected publications will be encouraged
to present their applications in the AgentLink newsletter. The
contributions will influence the AgentLink Roadmap to be published
in 2005.


Note that the Industry Track is part of the AAMAS conference -
there is no separate registration for the Industry Track.




IMPORTANT DATES
***************


Deadline for Submission of Contributions - 28 February 2005
Notification of acceptance - 28 March 2005




CO-CHAIRS


    Michal Pechoucek -- Czech Technical University, AgentLink
    Donald Steiner -- Quantum Leap Innovations
    Simon Thompson -- British Telecom


Programme Committee:


    David Allsopp -- Qinetic
    Fabio Bellifemine -- Telecom Italia Laboratories
    Jeff Bradshaw -- IHMC
    Sven Brueckner -- Altarum
    Monique Calisti -- Whitestein Technologies
    Jonathan Dale -- Futjitsu
    Ian Dickenson -- HP
    Mark Greaves -- DARPA
    Jon Himoff -- CEO Magenta
    Martin Hofmann -- Lockheed Martin
    David Kinny -- Agentis
    James Lawton -- AFRL
    Vladimir Marik -- Rockwell Research Center
    David Martin -- SRI
    Peter McBurney -- AgentLink
    Jim Odell -- Agentis
    Christ Priest -- HP
    Chris Reed -- Calico Jack, Dundee University
    Ralph Ronnquist -- AOS Australia
    Jeff Rosenschein -- Hebrew Uni
    David Sadek -- France Telecom
    Onn Shehory -- IBM Israel
    John Shepherdson -- BT
    Petr Skobelev -- CTO Magenta
    Niranjan Suri -- IHMC
    Simon Thompson -- British Telecom




CONTACT for the industry track:


      Michal Pechoucek
      pechouc@labe.felk.cvut.cz


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AAMAS 2005 Joint Conference 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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AAMAS 2005 GENERAL CONTACT


Sarit Kraus sarit@macs.biu.ac.il
Munindar Singh singh@ncsu.edu


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__________________________________________________
Dr. Matthias Klusch
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
Phone: +49-681-302-5297, Fax: +49-681-302-2235
http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/, klusch@dfki.de
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