EMOTIONAL AND EMPATHIC AGENTS (EEA'12)

             ** WORKSHOP ON EMOTIONAL AND EMPATHIC AGENTS **

                                          at AAMAS 2012

                                 June 4-8, 2012, Valencia, Spain





                          http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas12-wseea

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                                      2ND CALL FOR PAPERS



                 [apologies for cross-postings, please distribute]



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Workshop Organizers

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João Dias (INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico, PT)

Janneke van der Zwaan (Delft University of Technology, NL)

Jason Tsai (University of Southern California, USA)



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Senior Steering Committee

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Ana Paiva (PT)

Catholijn Jonker (NL)

Stacy Marsella (USA)

Virginia Dignum (NL)



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Goals

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The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different disciplines to discuss the creation of what we call "empathic agents". Empathy has been associated with the processes that make a person to have "feelings that are more congruent with another's situation than with his own situation". Humans, when interacting with virtual agents or robots can be led to feel empathy, and experience a diverse set of emotional reactions. On the other hand, agents and robots can in a certain, perhaps limited way, also show certain emotions in reaction to human emotions, thus seemingly expressing empathy towards other agents and towards humans.  Further, agents interacting in social simulation scenarios may react to the other agents in a way that is more congruent with the other's. Thus, by seeking inspiration in empathic relations established between humans and between humans and animals, in this workshop we expect to explore these dimensions of empathic agents.



This workshop is multidisciplinary in nature. We expect to involve researchers who are not only interesting in studying intelligent virtual agents, social simulation and social robotics, but also those interested in empathy, cognition, ethology, emotions, human interactions, computer graphics, human-robots interaction and human/computer interaction.



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Topics of Interest

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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Models of empathy

- Empathy for rational agents

- Architectures for empathic agents and robots

- Emotional contagion

- Emotional interactions and regulation with agents

- Emotion modeling for empathic agents and robots

- User modeling for empathic agents and robots

- Social robots and social agents and empathy

- Inter-agent communication and empathy

- Expression of virtual agents for empathic interactions

- Empathy and facial expressions in virtual agents

- Empathic synthetic speech for virtual agents

- Applications to health and social education

- Interactive storytelling and empathy

- Entertainment and education applications

- Emotional and empathic agents in video games

- Empathy and long term interactions with virtual agents and robots

- Evaluating empathy in agents and robots

- Evaluating human empathic reactions to artificial agents and robots



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Important Dates

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Paper submission: February 28, 2012

Acceptance notification: March 27, 2012

Camera ready: April 10, 2012

Uploading of workshop papers to website: May 1, 2012

Workshop: June 4-5, 2012 (provisory date)



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Submissions

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Researchers are invited to submit papers for the workshop focusing the topics of interest of the workshop stating clearly how they can contribute to the themes proposed. Papers should be no longer than 8 pages and must use the AAMAS format (http://aamas2012.webs.upv.es/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19&Itemid=19). All papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee in a single-blind review process. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the workshop.



Papers should be submitted through Easychair in pdf format: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=eeaaamas2012



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Program Committee

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Please check the program committee members at http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas12-wseea/index.php/committees

Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT 2012)

            10th International Workshop on
             Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
                             (DALT 2012)

                          4 or 5 June 2012

                           Valencia, Spain
                (held in conjunction with AAMAS 2012)

         URL: http://www.di.unito.it/~baldoni/DALT-2012/

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                           CALL FOR PAPERS
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The workshop  on Declarative Agent Languages  and Technologies (DALT),
in  its tenth  edition this  year,  is a  well-established forum  for
researchers  interested  in  sharing  their experiences  in  combining
declarative  and  formal approaches  with  engineering and  technology
aspects  of agents  and  multiagent systems.   Building complex  agent
systems calls for models  and technologies that ensure predictability,
allow for  the verification of properties,  and guarantee flexibility.
Developing  technologies  that can  satisfy  these requirements  still
poses  an  important   and  difficult  challenge.   Here,  declarative
approaches  have the  potential of  offering solutions  satisfying the
needs   for  both  specifying   and  developing   multiagent  systems.
Moreover,  they  are gaining  more  and  more  attention in  important
application   areas  such  as   the  semantic   web,  service-oriented
computing, security,  and electronic contracting.

DALT 2012 will be held as a satellite workshop of AAMAS 2012, the 11th
International  Joint Conference  on Autonomous  Agents  and Multiagent
Systems,  in June  2011 in Valencia, Spain.   Following the  success of
nine previous editions, DALT will again aim at providing a discussion
forum to  both (i) support  the transfer of declarative  paradigms and
techniques  to   the  broader  community  of   agent  researchers  and
practitioners, and (ii) to bring  the issue of designing complex agent
systems  to  the  attention  of  researchers  working  on  declarative
languages and technologies.

DALT 2012 will have as a special interest topics those future trends of
the web, where declarative languages and technologies for multiagents
systems will play an effective role: in particular, social computing
(models of social interactions, trust, commitments, and contracts;
social  environments based on declarative technologies) and its related
semantic issues (explicit representation of knowledge and mechanisms for
allowing societies of agents to reason on that).

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                          TOPICS OF INTEREST
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DALT topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


DALT 2012 special topic: declarative approaches for agent-based social
computing
* models of social interactions among agents
* models of buiness interactions among agents
* models of trust, commitments, and reputation for agents
* declarative description of contracts and negotiation policies
* social environments based on declarative technologies
* Semantic Web-aware declarative agents

General themes:
* specification of agents and multi-agent systems
* declarative approaches to engineering agent-based systems

Formal techniques:
* (constraint) logic programming approaches to agent systems
* distributed constraint satisfaction
* modal and epistemic logics for agent modeling
* game theory and mechanism design for multi-agent systems
* semantics of agent communication
* model checking agents and multi-agent systems
* agent communication and coordination languages
* protocol specification, verification, and reasoning

Declarative models:
* declarative models of agent beliefs, goals and capabilities
* declarative models of bounded rationality
* declarative approaches for agent-based grid computing
* declarative paradigms for the combination of heterogeneous agents
* declarative approaches to organizations and electronic institutions
* agent-inspired declarative approaches to Web services and
service-oriented computing

Applications of declarative techniques to:
* multi-agent systems for service-oriented computing
* agent-based grid computing
* security and trust in multi-agent systems
* e-health, e-commerce, e-learning, sociotechnical systems, social
networks, virtual organizations.

Evaluation of declarative approaches:
* experimental analysis of declarative agent technologies
* industrial experiences with declarative agent technologies

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                       SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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We  welcome and  encourage  the submission  of high-quality,  original
papers, which  are not being submitted  simultaneously for publication
elsewhere.  Papers  should be written in  English, formatted according
to the Springer LNCS style,  and not exceed 16 pages. Paper submission
is electronic via the conference website.

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                         WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
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Printed copies of  the proceedings will be available  at the workshop.
Assuming a sufficient number of high-quality submissions, we are again
going to  consider the publication of formal  post-proceedings with an
international  publisher.   The post-proceedings  of  DALT 2003  (LNAI
2990), DALT 2004  (LNAI 3476), DALT 2005 (LNAI  3904), DALT 2006 (LNAI
4327),  DALT 2007 (LNAI  4897), DALT  2008 (LNAI  5397),  DALT 2009
(LNAI  5948), and DALT 2010 (LNAI 6619) have  been published  by
Springer-Verlag  in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.

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                           IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline:                    28 February 2012
Notification of acceptance/rejection:         27 March 2012
Camera-ready copies due:                      10 April 2012
Workshop Date:                                4 or 5 June     2012

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                         WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
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Matteo Baldoni (University of Torino, Italy)
Louise Dennis (University of Liverpool, UK)
Viviana Mascardi (University of Genova, Italy)
Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK)
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Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS'12)

Tenth International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS'12)


ProMAS'12 is a satellite workshop at AAMAS 2012 Valencia, Spain, 4-5 June 2012


Over the last decade, the ProMAS workshop series has provided a venue
for state-of-the-art research in programming languages and tools for
the development of multi-agent systems. With the increasing commercial
application of multi-agent systems, the need for development tools and
platforms capable of supporting "professional" or "industrial
strength" MAS development has only increased. Such languages and tools
must be developed in a way that is principled and and at the same time
practical, and ProMAS aims to address both theoretical and practical
issues related to developing and deploying multi-agent systems.

Now in its 10th edition, ProMAS has proved to be an invaluable venue
for bringing together leading researchers from both academia and
industry to discuss key issues in the design of programming languages
and tools for multi-agent systems. In particular, the workshop
promotes the discussion and exchange of techniques, concepts,
requirements and principles central to multi-agent programming
technology. These include the theory and application of agent
programming languages, how to effectively implement a multi-agent
system specification or design, the verification and analysis of agent
systems, as well as the implementation of social structures in
agent-based systems (e.g., organisations, coordination, and
communication in multi-agent systems).

We encourage the submission of papers describing proposals for
programming languages and tools that provide specific programming
constructs to facilitate the implementation of multi-agent system
concepts (e.g., mental attitudes, distribution, and social
interaction). We also welcome submissions describing significant
multi-agent applications, as well as agent programming tools that
allow the integration of agents with legacy systems. We are
particularly interested in approaches or applications that show
clearly the added-value of multi-agent programming, and explain why
and how this technology should be adopted by designers and programmers
both in academia and industry.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Programming languages, models and abstractions for MAS
- Extensions of traditional languages for multi-agent programming
- Programming mobile agents
- Semantics for multi-agent programming languages
- Computational complexity of MAS
- Algorithms, techniques, or protocols relevant to multi-agent
programming (e.g., coordination, cooperation, negotiation)
- Agent communication issues in multi-agent programming
- Programming social, organizational, and normative aspects of MAS
- Interoperability and standards for MAS
- Safety and security for mobile MAS deployment
- Fault tolerance and load balancing for mobile MAS
- Generic tools and infrastructures for multi-agent programming
- High-level executable multi-agent specification languages
- Formal methods and tools for specification and verification of MAS
- Agent/environment/interaction/organization development tools and platforms
- Benchmarks and testbeds for comparing multi-agent programming
languages and tools
- Applications of multi-agent programming languages including: legacy
systems, pervasive applications, multi-robot systems, autonomous
software (e.g., UAVs), (Semantic) Web and Grid-based applications, and
deployed (industrial-strength) multi-agent systems
- Integration of multi-agent and mainstream technologies

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline:                    28  February 2012
Notification of acceptance/rejection:         27  March    2012
Camera-ready copies due:                      10  April    2012
Workshop Date:                                4-5 June     2012

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors should submit their papers via the easychair conference
management system:


Papers should be formatted using Springer LNCS style

and should be less than 16 pages in length.

PUBLICATION

Accepted papers will be appear in informal proceedings to distributed
among participants during the workshop. As was the case with previous
editions of the ProMAS workshop, we are planning to publish extended
versions of selected and invited papers as a volume of the Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series by Springer-Verlag.


ORGANISING COMMITTEE

- Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Brian Logan (University of Nottingham, UK)
- Jomi Hubner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)


STEERING COMMITTEE

- Rafael H. Bordini (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
- Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Juergen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
- Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni (University of Paris VI, France)

Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems ITMAS 2011

Dear colleagues, I am pleased to invite you to submit a paper to ITMAS 2011, 2nd International Workshop on Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems.

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The 2nd International Workshop on Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems ITMAS 2011 Web page: http://itmas2011.gti-ia.dsic.upv.es

To be held with AAMAS 2011 (http://www.aamas2011.tw/)

2 - 6 May, 2011, Taipei, Taiwan

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DESCRIPTION

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ITMAS aims at bringing together leading researchers from both academia and industry to discuss issues on the design and implementation of infrastructures and tools for Multiagent Systems. When developing applications based on Multiagent Systems, developers and users demand infrastructures and tools which support essential features in Multiagent Systems (such as agent organizations, mobility, etc.) and facilitate the system design, management, execution and evaluation. Agent infrastructures are usually built using other technologies such as grid systems, service-oriented architectures, P2P networks, etc. In this sense, the integration and interoperability of such technologies in Multiagent Systems is also a challenging issue in the area of both tools and infrastructures for Multiagent Systems. A long term goal is the industrial development of infrastructures for building highly scalable applications comprising pre-existing agents that must be organized or orchestrated.

In order for Multiagent Systems to be included in real domains such as media and Internet, logistics, e-commerce and health care, infrastructures and tools for Multiagent Systems should provide efficiency, scalability, security, management, monitorization and other features related to building real applications.

We encourage the submission of papers describing any kind of infrastructures and tools that are used to provide support for Multiagent Systems. We are particularly interested in infrastructures and tools that allow agent-based systems to be adopted by designers and programmers both in academia and industry.

Specific topics for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

* Agent Infrastructures

* Agent Communication Technologies

* Interoperability and Standards

* Integration of technologies to support Multiagent Systems

* Integration of Agent Infrastructures with non-agent Infrastructures

* Efficiency and Scalability Evaluation

* Agent Infrastructure Benchmarks

* Security, Privacy and Identity Management in Multiagent Systems

* Secure Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems

* Infrastructures and tools supporting Social and Organizational Models

* Infrastructures and tools supporting Trust and Reputation Models

* Infrastructures and tools supporting Intelligent Virtual Environments

* Infrastructures and tools supporting Electronic Institutions

* Infrastructures for agent-based Service-Oriented Systems

* Design, Management and Monitoring tools for Multiagent Systems

* Models and Architectures for Designing Agent Infrastructures

* Coordination infrastructures for Multiagent Systems

* Environment infrastructures for Multiagent Systems

* Infrastructure support to Model-driven Engineering in Multiagent Systems

* Infrastructure mechanisms for self-organising Multiagent Systems

* Information Retrieval Tools for Multiagent Systems

* Semantic Web Tools for Multiagent Systems

* Mobile Agent Technologies

* Industry implementations of Multiagent Systems

* Experiences using Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems

* Infrastructures and Tools for Biomedical Multiagent Systems

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IMPORTANT DATES

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* Paper Sumbission Deadline: JANUARY, 30, 2011

* Paper Acceptance Notification: FEBRUARY 27, 2011

* Camera-ready copies due: MARCH 7, 2011

* Workshop Date: MAY 2-3, 2011

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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* Vicent Botti (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Ana Garcia-Fornes (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Michal Pěchouček (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)

* Alessandro Ricci (Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Italy)

* Jose M. Such (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Danny Weyns (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be confirmed)

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* Juan M. Alberola (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Makoto Amamiya (Kyushu University, Japan)

* Matteo Baldoni (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy)

* Fabio Bellifemine (Telecom Italia, Italy)

* Juan A. Botía (University of Murcia, Spain)

* Vicent Botti (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Frances Brazier (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands)

* Nadia Erdogan (I.staurkeynbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Turkey)

* Agustin Espinosa (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Jomi F. Hübner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

* Ana Garcia-Fornes (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Kamalakar Karlapalem (International Institute of Information Technology, India)

* Yasuhiko Kitamura (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)

* Abder Koukam (University of Technology UTBM, France)

* Michal Laclavik (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic)

* Pavlos Moraitis (Paris Descartes University, France)

* Andrea Omicini (Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Italy)

* Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)

* Michal Pechoucek (Agent Technology Center, Czech Republic)

* Alessandro Ricci (Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Italy)

* Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)

* Murat Sensoy (University of Aberdeen, UK)

* Carles Sierra (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)

* Michael Shumacher (University of Applied Sciences Western, Switzerland)

* Jose M. Such (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Pavel Vrba (Rockwell Automation Research Center, Czech Republic)

* Danny Weyns (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

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SUBMISSION and REVIEW DETAILS

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Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers from the Program Committee. Criteria for the selection of papers will include: high quality, clear presentation, novelty of research, relevance to the topics, coverage of relevant state of the art and the practical implementation of the infrastructures and tools presented.

Submissions must follow the Springer LNCS paper format and should be a maximum of 12 pages.

Papers must be submitted in pdf format via the conference management system, available at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itmas2011

As in previous editions, we are negotiating the publication of extended versions of selected papers as a volume for a special issue in a journal indexed in the SCI.

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CONTACT

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Ana Garcia-Fornes (agarcia(at)dsic(dot)upv(dot)es)

Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation

CALL FOR PAPERS

CaRR2011 :: IUI2011 Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation

Location: Palo Alto, California, USA

Date: February 13, 2011

Website: http://www.dai-labor.de/carr2011/

General Information:

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Context-aware information is widely available in various ways such as interaction patterns, location, devices, annotations, query suggestions and user profiles and is becoming more and more important for enhancing retrieval performance and recommendation results. At the moment, the main issue to cope with is not only recommending or retrieving the most relevant items and content, but defining them ad hoc. Further relevant issues are personalizing and adapting the information and the way it is displayed to the user's current situation (device, location) and interests.

In this workshop we focus on the integration of context for retrieval and recommendation.

We recognize a general content context and a user-centric content context.

A general content context is a common case defined by time, weather, location and many similar other aspects. A user-centric content context is given by the content of user profiles such as language, interests, devices used for interaction, etc.

Call for Papers:

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The aim of the CaRR Workshop is to invite the community to a discussion in which we will try to find new creative ways to handle context-awareness. Furthermore, the workshop aims at improving the exchange of ideas between different communities involved in research concerning, among other machine learning, information retrieval and recommendation.

The workshop is especially intended for researchers working on multidisciplinary tasks who want to discuss problems and synergies. We are interested in ideas about creative and collaborative approaches for context-aware retrieval and recommendation.

The participants are encouraged to address the following questions:

    * Why is context-awareness in retrieval and recommendation necessary?

    * Which benefits come from context-aware retrieval and recommendation systems?

    * How do user interfaces handle context?

    * In what ways can context improve HCI?

    * How can we combine general- and user-centric context-aware technologies?

    * How should context affect the way information is presented?

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects:

    * Context-aware information retrieval

    * Context-aware profiling, clustering and collaborative filtering

    * Machine learning for context-aware information retrieval and ontology learning

    * Ubiquitous and context-aware computing

    * Use of context-aware technologies in UI/HCI

    * Context-aware advertising

    * Recommendations for mobile users

    * Context-awareness in portable devices

Paper submissions and reviews will be handled electronically through the CaRR page in EasyChair (which will be made available at a later point in time).

Important dates:

* Paper submission: November 1, 2010

* Notification: December 12, 2010

* Camera-ready submission: December 19, 2010

* Workshop: February 13, 2010

Organizers and Committees:

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General Chairs (carr2011@dai-lab.de)

* Ernesto William De Luca, DAI Lab/Technische Universität Berlin

* Alan Said, DAI Lab/Technische Universität Berlin

* Matthias Böhmer, Münster University of Applied Sciences

* Florian Michahelles, ETH Zurich

Industrial Chair

* Sahin Albayrak, DAI Lab/Technische Universität Berlin

Program Committee

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* Sarabjot Singh Anand, University of Warwick, UK

* Gernot Bauer, Münster University of Applied Sciences, Germany

* Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia

* Toine Bogers, Royal School of Library Information Science, Denmark

* Gregor Broll, LMU/Docomo, Germany

* Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China

* Ed Chi, PARC, USA

* Marco Degemmis, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy

* Aldo Gangemi, Italian National Research Council, Italy

* Ido Guy, IBM, Israel

* Olaf Hartig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

* Dietmar Jannach, TU-Dortmund, Germany

* Carsten Kessler, University of Münster, Germany

* Thomas Kirste, Universität Rostock, Germany

* Antonio Krüger, DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany

* Michael Kruppa, DFKI, Berlin, Germany

* Neal Lathia, University College London, UK

* Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

* Johannes Leveling, Dublin City University, Ireland

* Pasquale Lops, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy

* Bernd Ludwig, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

* Stefan Mandl, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

* Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany

* Marco Pennacchiotti, Yahoo!, USA

* Till Plumbaum, DAI Lab/Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

* Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

* Christoph Schlieder, Universität  Bamberg, Germany

* Edmund Schuster, MIT, USA

* Bracha Shapira, Ben Gurion University, Israel

* Armando Stellato, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

* Jesse Vig, Universtity of Minnesota, USA

* Robert Wetzker, TU-Berlin, Germany

* Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

Best,

Ernesto William De Luca

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Dr.-Ing. Ernesto William De Luca

Director of the Competence Center Information Retrieval & Machine Learning

Technische Universität Berlin - DAI-Laboratory Sekr. TEL 14

Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7

10587 Berlin / Germany

Phone:  +49 30 314 74074

Fax:    +49 30 314 74003

E-mail: ernesto.deluca@dai-labor.de

http://www.dai-labor.de/team~ernesto.deluca

http://www.dai-labor.de/irml

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Decision Making in Multiagent Systems

AAMAS-2010 Tutorial
on
Decision Making in Multiagent Systems

Call for Participation

Toronto, Canada,
May 10-14 2010

We are glad to invite you to participate in the Decision Making in Multiagent Systems Tutorial, that brings together two very successful tutorial from previous years: the DEMI Tutorial from AAMAS-09 and the Decision Theoretic Planning Tutorial from IJCAI-09.

This full-day tutorial deals with time-extended decision making in multi-agent systems. Drawing motivation, in part, from the search and rescue applications in disaster management, the tutorial will span the range of multiagent interactions of increasing generality, and study a set of optimal and approximate solution techniques to time-extended decision making in both noncooperative and cooperative multiagent contexts. This self-contained tutorial will begin with the relevant portions of game theory and culminate with several advanced decision-theoretic models of agent interactions.

The list of topics includes:

* Requirements for the multiagent decision model and solution

* Game theory background
  -- Repeated strategic and Bayesian games
  -- Iterative solution methods (e.g. fictitious play)

* Partially observable stochastic games (POSGs)
  -- Basics of Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and Partial Observability (POMDPs)
  -- Decentralised Formulation of MDPs (Dec-MDPs)
  -- Interactive POMDPs (I-POMDPs)

* Uncertainty utilization
  -- Targeted trajectory distributions (TTD-MDP)
  -- Stigmergic solution with perceptual control (Multi-agent EMT)

* Team decision making in Dec-MDP models
  -- Decision theoretic view of Dec-MDPs
  -- Computational and structural analysis of Dec-MDP models
  -- Optimal and approximate algorithm design for Dec-MDPs

All tutorial materials will be made available on-line at
http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~mtjspaan/tutorialDMMS/

Registration information will be available soon at
http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/index.php?content=registration

Sincerely,

Tutorial Organizing Committee

Prashant Doshi, Zinovi Rabinovich, Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, Matthijs Spaan, Shlomo Zilberstein, Christopher Amato