Forwarded message from [hannebau@first.gmd.de] sent originally on Sat, 1 Jan 2000 19:32:04 +0800 (GMT-8): : [Please apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message.] : : --------------------------------------------------------------------- : First Call for Papers/Participation : : ECAI 2000 Workshop on : BALANCING REACTIVITY AND SOCIAL DELIBERATION IN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS : : http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html : : Berlin, Germany, August 22, 2000 : --------------------------------------------------------------------- : : Important Dates : --------------- : : Deadline for submission: 1.5.2000 : Notification: 1.6.2000 : Deadline for camera-ready papers: 10.6.2000 : Workshop: 22.8.2000 : : Scope : ----- : : Today's envisioned applications of intelligent systems in general : and multi-agent systems in particular confront researchers and : developers with the difficulty of finding the right balance between : reactive and socially deliberative behavior. Reactive systems are : capable of adapting very quickly to unforeseen changes in the en- : vironment and are hence said to be more robust and efficient. On : the other hand, they usually lack the necessary overview to produce : behavior that can compete with the results of in-depth reasoning : techniques. In contrary to that, socially deliberative systems : allow for exploiting environmental information and coordination : mechanisms to build up through-thought individual and even team- : oriented strategies. Though their problem-solving results are : usually much better than in reactive systems, deliberative systems : are much more susceptible to dynamic environments and often lack : the potential for real-time computation. : : This workshop focuses on theoretical, technical and practical work : on balancing between these two extremes in the context of collabo- : rative work in multi-agent systems. Contributions from Artificial : Intelligence as well as Robotics are welcome. : : Theoretical and technical topics of interest include, but are not : restricted to: : : - Extension of reactive systems by cooperation : : - Teaching deliberative systems reactivity and real-time : : - Efficient coordination, cooperation and organization approaches : : - Anytime approaches and algorithms : : - Design and evaluation of hybrid multi-level agent architectures : : - Short-term, medium-term and long-term intentionality : : - Enriching group behavior by environmental, opponent and social : models : : - Individual and social adaptivity : : To keep the workshop focussed, we encourage practical contributions : to be directed at: : : - Multi-agent problem solving (planning, scheduling, control ...) : : Real-world problems often require distributed solving strate- : gies, because of natural distribution, social competence and : efficiency matters. Multi-agent approaches to such problems are : said to be more robust than monolithic systems, but usually en- : tail worse solutions. How can this be overcome by better balan- : cing between reactive and deliberative behavior? : : - RoboCup : : RoboCup has proven to be a great and challenging benchmarking : scenario both to Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. In : RoboCup reactivity and real-time are a must, but social delibe- : ration gets more and more important to match the world's lea- : ding teams. Hence, there is much research work to be done con- : sidering the topics of this workshop. : : IMPORTANT: Papers that focus on RoboCup-specific topics should : make clear how the work could be applied to other domains as : well. We encourage you to pick at least one specific domain and : argue that such is the case. : : : Submissions : ----------- : : Participation in the workshop will be restricted to 30 persons. We : encourage active participation by inviting only people with sub- : mitted papers or with a single-page statement of interest, reflec- : ting the authors' concrete relation to the field and topic. All : workshop participants must register for ECAI 2000. : : Informal pre-proceedings of the workshop will be published in time : to be available at the workshop. Additionally, Springer-Verlag has : committed to publish an edited version of the workshop proceedings : in its well-known Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series : (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). Authors of selected : papers will be asked to extend their articles for inclusion in this : LNAI volume. : : Papers should be formatted according to the LNAI style guide for : authors (refer to http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) : and should not exceed 12 pages. : : Papers should be submitted as Postscript-files and additionally as : pure Tex- and Eps-files via eMail to the contact person named be- : low. Alternatively, send four copies of your paper via ordinary : mail to the address of the contact person. Electronic submission is : strongly prefered. : : Deadline for submission: 1.5.2000 : Notification: 1.6.2000 : Deadline for camera-ready papers: 10.6.2000 : Workshop: 22.8.2000 : : Organizing committee : -------------------- : : Markus Hannebauer (contact person) : Planning and Optimization Laboratory : Research Institute for Computer Architecture : and Software Technology (FIRST) : GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology : : Kekulestrasse 7, 12489 Berlin, Germany : : Tel.: +49-30-6392 1866 : Fax.: +49-30-6392 1805 : eMail: hannebau@first.gmd.de : WWW: www.first.gmd.de/~hannebau : : Jan Wendler : Artificial Intelligence Laboratory : Department of Computer Science : Humboldt University Berlin : : Rudower Chaussee 25, 12489 Berlin, Germany : : Tel.: +49-30-2093 3170 : Fax.: +49-30-2093 3168 : eMail: wendler@informatik.hu-berlin.de : WWW: www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~wendler : : Enrico Pagello : Department of Electronics and Informatics : Faculty of Engineering : University of Padua : : Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131 Padova, Italy : : Tel.: +39-049-827 7687 : Fax.: +39-049-827 7699 : eMail: epv@dei.unipd.it : WWW: www.dei.unipd.it : : Program committee : ----------------- : : Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Japan : Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany : Silvia Coradeschi, Oerebro University, Sweden : Klaus Dorer, Freiburg University, Germany : Peter Jarvis, SRI International, USA : Christoph Jung, infor AG, Germany : Gal Kaminka, University of Southern California, USA : Joerg P. Mueller, Siemens AG, Germany : Itsuki Noda, Stanford University, USA : Daniel Polani, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany : Martin Riedmiller, Karlsruhe University, Germany : Jukka Riekki, University of Oulu, Finland : Josep Lluis de la Rosa, University of Girona, Spain : Peter Stone, AT&T Laboratories Research, USA : Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA : Joerg Wilberg, GMD AiS, Germany : : Additional information : ---------------------- : : ECAI-2000 homepage : http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de : : Workshop homepage : http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html : : -- : +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ : | Markus Hannebauer www.first.gmd.de/~hannebau | : | Dipl.-Inform., Research Fellow hannebau@first.gmd.de | : | | : | Research Institute for Computer Architecture | : | and Software Technology (FIRST) | : | phone: +49- 30-63 92 18 66 | : | German National Research Center cell. p.: +49-177-267 43 60 | : | for Information Technology (GMD) fax: +49- 30-63 92 18 05 | : +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
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