CFP: AAMAS 2007

[Wiebe van der Hoek]

                                 CALL FOR PAPERS
                    The Sixth International Joint Conference on
                 AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-07)
                                Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
                                  May 14--18, 2007
                            http://www.aamas2007.org/

Introduction

AAMAS is the premier scientific conference for research in autonomous agents 
and multiagent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 as a 
merger of three highly respected individual conferences: the International 
Conference on Autonomous Agents, the International Workshop on Agent Theories, 
Architectures, and Languages, and the International Conference on Multi-Agent 
Systems. The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, 
internationally respected archival forum for scientific research in the theory 
and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. (See 
http://www.aamas-conference.org/ for more information.) AAMAS-07 is the Sixth 
conference in the AAMAS series, following enormously successful previous 
conferences at Bologna, Italy (2002), Melbourne, Australia (2003), New York, 
USA (2004), Utrecht, The Netherlands (2005), and Hakodate, Japan (2006). 
AAMAS-07 will be held at the Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Information for Authors

AAMAS-07 encourages the submission of theoretical, experimental, 
methodological, and application 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 
multiagent system organization and performance. A thorough evaluation of all 
hypotheses is considered an essential component of any submission. Authors 
should also 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 multiagent systems as evidenced in, for example, previous 
AAMAS conferences. All submissions will be peer reviewed rigorously and 
evaluated on the basis of originality, soundness, significance, presentation, 
understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality of their technical 
contribution.
In addition to conventional conference papers, AAMAS-07 will also include a 
demonstration track for work focusing on implemented systems, software, or 
robot prototypes; and an industry track for descriptions of industrial 
applications of agents. The submission processes for the demonstration and 
industry tracks will be separate from the main paper submission process.

Topics of Interest for Papers

Agents (Does the research apply to an individual agent?)
    * Architectures: reactive and deliberative (e.g., based on BDI, Bayesian 
networks, or logic)
    * Autonomous or humanoid robots
    * Autonomy
    * Cognitive models, including emotions and philosophies
    * Embodied and believable agents
    * Formal models of agency
    * Learning, evolution, and adaptation
    * Perception and action


Multiagent Systems (Does the research apply to more than one agent?)

    * Argumentation, negotiation, and conflict handling
    * Brokering and matchmaking
    * Communication: languages, semantics, pragmatics, protocols, and 
conversations
    * Cooperative distributed problem solving
          o Coordination, cooperation, and teamwork
          o Task and resource allocation
          o Distributed constraint processing
    * Emergent behavior
    * Mechanism design, auctions, and game theory
    * Modeling other agents and self
    * Multiagent planning
    * Multiagent learning
    * Societal aspects
          o Conventions, commitments, norms, obligations, and social laws
          o Social and organizational structures
          o Trust and reputation
    * Social robots and robot teams


Tools and Techniques (How do we go about creating agents and MAS?)

    * Agent-oriented software engineering, including implementation languages 
and frameworks
    * Computational complexity
    * Mobile agents
    * Ontologies
    * Performance, scalability, robustness, and dependability
    * Verification and validation (e.g., model checking)


Applications and Environments (Where do we use agents and MAS?)

    * Artificial social systems
    * Autonomic computing
    * Case studies and reports on deployments
    * Computational infrastructures (e.g., Grid and P2P)
    * Electronic markets and institutions
    * Pervasive computing
    * Privacy, safety, and security
    * Simulation systems
    * Web services and service-oriented computing


Systemic Matters

    * Ethical and legal issues raised by agents and multiagent systems
    * Standardization efforts in industry and commerce


Important Dates
Oct 20, 2006: electronic abstract submission deadline
Oct 23, 2006: electronic paper submission deadline
Dec 19, 2006: notification

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Prof. Wiebe van der Hoek       http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~wiebe/
Department of Computer Science     tel (+44 151) 79 47480/54292
University of Liverpool             fax (+44 151)      79 54235
Liverpool L69 3BX, United Kingdom           wiebe at csc.liv.ac.uk