-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [WI] IJCAI 2019 Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Multi Agent Problem Solving - Deadline Extension and EMISAJ Fast Track Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:45:27 +0200 From: Dominik Bork dominik.bork@univie.ac.at Reply-To: Dominik Bork dominik.bork@univie.ac.at To: wi@lists.kit.edu

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The submission deadline for the SMMAPS workshop has been *extended until April 30th*.

Moreover, we can now offer a fast-tracking to the *Enterprise Modeling and Information Systems Journal (EMISAJ) - Journal on Conceptual Modeling *for the best workshop papers.

*IJCAI 2019 Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Multi Agent Problem Solving*

This workshop is one result of the Dagstuhl Seminar 18471 on Next-generation Domain-Specific Modeling: Principles and Methods https://www.dagstuhl.de/de/programm/kalender/semhp/?semnr=18471

Call for Papers http://vienna.omilab.org/repo/files/CM-MAPS/CM-MAPS2019-CfP-v4.pdf (PDF-Download)

One of the initial aspects of artificial intelligence studied was problem-solving by autonomous systems. But it was quickly realized that many problems could not be solved by a single autonomous system, and in fact, a single system may not have a complete understanding of the complete problem being solved. Hence, with this as background, the area of cooperative problem solving, distributed artificial intelligence, and multi-agent systems as a comprehensive area have been established. The key point is that the original ideas of the problem are decomposed into sub-problems, agents (humans or systems) being assigned to work on sub-problems, and the need for cooperation among agents to solve the problem. And finally, establish a coordination framework to ensure that cooperation happens as intended, remain.

As AI is handling complex applications, like self-driving vehicles, to IoTs driven AI backed smart solutions, the core issues of the problem, sub-problems, cooperation, and coordination will surface, and become very relevant. In the implemented complex solutions, from IBM Watson's based systems to a conversational agent, the problem is attempted to solve made up of multiple subproblems, and yet, the characterization of the subproblems and their interrelationship is not explicitly represented. The representation can be languages that glue the coordination among deployed sub-systems or higher level artifacts that convey the overall cooperation to solve the problem.

Conceptual modeling based on a conceptual model has constructs with a well-defined meaning, and an ontology to convey by language or visual diagram the concepts, their attributes, and interrelationships among the concepts. The area of knowledge representation also uses constructs to represent and model knowledge for comprehension and processing. The knowledge graphs are primitive knowledge representation techniques that do not capture the processing and enactment aspects of the problem being solved by a multi-agent system. Further, cooperative frameworks driven AI-based systems provide new capabilities, discover extended relationships among constructs and solve the problems in a novel and creative way. Thus, new computing paradigms are wanted to address the key issues and challenges in modeling and development of new generation multi-agent systems.

The aim of the workshop is to bring the conceptual modelers, requirements specifiers, multi-agent language specifiers, formal process modelers, and cooperative problem solvers to get together and open this area of research to help the designers and solution providers of large AI systems to visualize, comprehend, discuss, evolve, and enact the AI system. Our proposed ideas from the workshop can help deploy, manage, monitor and control large AI systems, and work towards efficient and qualitatively better problem-solving multi-agent AI systems. These large AI systems can be orchestrated by the execution of tasks orchestrated by events and coordinated by a workflow management system.

The key topics of interest for the workshop are:

* Conceptual artifacts to visualize and compose multi-agent problem solvers and their requirements * Languages to specify and reason about high-level problem solving * Cooperation frameworks among multiple agents to solve a problem * Task allocation and quality and efficiency issues * Workflow driven coordination to enact and deploy multi-agent problem solver * Formalisms to bridge conceptual and formal models for decision and learning multi-agent AI systems * Evolution and change management for multi-agent problem solving * Agent Capability modeling * Ontology modelling and specification for agent and problem solving

Submission

Submitted papers must be formatted according to IJCAI guidelines (check https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit). All contributions should be atmost six (6) pages, five (5) pages maximum for content, and one (1) page for references.

Submissions should only be made electronically as PDF documents via paper submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=cmmaps2019

Important Dates

* Apr 30, 2019: Deadline for submission of contributions to the workshop * May 10, 2019: Paper acceptance/rejection notification * May 24, 2019: Deadline for camera-ready paper versions * Aug 10-12, 2019: IJCAI 2019 Workshops

*Organization*

Organizing Committee:

* Kamal Karlapalem, IIIT Hyderabad, India, kamal@iiit.ac.in mailto:kamal@iiit.ac.in, https://www.iiit.ac.in/people/faculty/kamal/ * P Radha Krishna, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal, India prkrishna@nitw.ac.in mailto:prkrishna@nitw.ac.in, https://www.nitw.ac.in/faculty/id/16934/ * Dominik Bork, University of Vienna, dominik.bork@univie.ac.at mailto:dominik.bork@univie.ac.at, http://homepage.dke.univie.ac.at/bork/

Program Committee (tentative):

* Robert Andrei Buchman, Babes Bolyal University Cluj Napoca, Romania, * Yi CAI, South China Univ of Technology * Peter Fettke, Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany * Aurona Gerber, University of Pretoria, South Africa * Knut Hinkelmann, FHNW Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland * Julio Cesar Leite, PUC de Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, * Maurizio Lenzerini, Università di Roma, Italy * Qing Li, Poly U, HK * Wolfgang Maass, Saarland University, Germany * Heinrich C. Mayr, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria * John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto * Praveen Paruchuri, IIIT Hyderabad, India * David V. Pynadath, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, USA * Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock, Germany * Hannes Schlieter, TU Dresden, Germany * Bernhard Thalheim, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany * Isabelle Wattiau, ESSEC Business School, Paris, France * Manuel Wimmer, JKU Linz, Austria * Robert Woitsch, BOC Asset Management GmbH, Vienna, Austria * Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan * Yan Liu Fiona, Poly U, HK * Xiao-Ming Wu, Poly U, HK * Shuai Li, Poly U, HK