May
13-16, 1997
University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden
MAAMAW '96:
7th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous
Agents in a Multi-Agent World
January 22 - 25,
1996Institute for Perception Research
Eindhoven - The Netherlands
First announcement of MAAMAW'96 in MAAMAW Blackboard no. 38
MAAMAW workshops
The MAAMAW workshops are the European forum for discussing progress on
multi-agent systems. Multi-agent systems are, typically, distributed systems
that are designed as a collection of interacting autonomous agents, each
having their own capacities and goals that are related to a common
environment. The notion of agent encompasses physical as well as software
agents. The discipline, which emerged at the cross road of distributed
computing, artificial intelligence and embedded systems now borrows actively
from a diversity of disciplines including biology, ecology and
economy. Moreover, work on multi-agent systems is laying the foundations of
new models of computing and interaction, taylored to the emerging large-scale
infrastructure of open distributed platforms like the World-Wide Web.
See also the Topics of this years MAAMAW.
MAAMAW'96 follows a single track format that features invited contributions,
state-of-the-art lectures, contributed papers, posters and demonstrations.
The organization of MAAMAW'96 will rely heavily on an interactive workshop
service on the World-Wide Web (WWW).
A MAAMAW WWW server is maintained as a way
to support the scientific and practical organisation of the workshop. An
interactive review, papers on line, integrated communication between authors,
contributions to the discussions, public commentary and annotations, local
organisation and registration information is now available.
You can find here:
Comments?
We hope you will use the unique capabilities of the MAAMAW WWW-server as a
vehicle for communication and research.
Mail to maamaw@arti.vub.ac.be with comments and suggestions.
The MAAMAW'96 scientific co-chairs are
Walter Van de Velde
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels
walter@arti.vub.ac.be
and
John W. Perram
Lindo Center for Applied Mathematics
Odense University
Forskerparken 10
jperram@imada.ou.dk
The MAAMAW'96 organisation chair person is
Rudy van Hoe
Institute for Perception Research
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
vanhoe@prl.philips.nl
The Institute for Perception Research (IPO) is a partnership between Philips
Research Laboratories and Eindhoven University of Technology. At the IPO,
research focuses on human-machine communication (hardware, software, and
services).
MAAMAW '96 will be held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
The workshop will take place in the congress center GOLDEN
TULIP (Geldrop),
situated about 5 kilometers from the Centre of the City.
Eindhoven is situated in the south of the Netherlands, close to
Amsterdam
(130 km), Antwerp (95 km) and Cologne (150 km).
Eindhoven is easy to reach by air, train, and car.
Programme committee
Magnus Boman - Stockholm University and R.I.T., Sweden
John Campbell - University College, London, UK
Christiano Castelfranchi - University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Helder Coelho - INESC, Technical, U. Lisbon Portugal
Yves Demazeau - LIFIA/IMAG, Grenoble, France
Aldo Dragoni - University of Ancona Italy
Jean Erceau - ONERA/GIA, Chatillon, France
Jacques Ferber - LAFORIA, Paris, France
Francisco Garijo - Telefonica, Madrid, Spain
Nick Jennings - Queen Mary and Westfield College, UK
Wouter Joosen - KU Leuven, Belgium
George Kiss - Open University, UK
Paul Levi - University of Stuttgart, Germany
Judith Masthoff - Institute for Perception Research, Eindhoven, NL
Jean-Pierre Muller - IIIA, Neuchatel Switserland
Eugenio Oliveira - Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Jeffrey Rosenschein - Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Donald Steiner - Siemens/DFKI, Germany
Kurt Sundermeyer - Daimler Benz AG, Germany
Peter Wavish - Philips Research Lab, Redhill, UK
At MAAMAW'96 the topics of learning, believability and social behavior
receive special emphasis.
Other topics are:
- Conceptual and theoretical foundations of multi-agent systems,
- Models, methods and techniques of interaction, coordination, communication, cooperation, negociation, etc,
- Dynamics of agent societies and social phenomena,
- Learning and adaptation for coordination and cooperation,
- Believability and usability of multi-agent systems,
- Artificial life from a multi-agent perspective,
- Applications of multi-agent systems,
- Multi-agent testbeds and experimental methodology.
Authors wishing to submit papers should do so before September 25, 1995 to the primary chair:
Walter Van de Velde
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2
B-1050 Brussels
Tel: +32 2 629 37 00
Fax: +32 2 629 37 29
Papers should be submitted by surface mail in 5 hard copies to the address
above, sent by email to "maamaw@arti.vub.ac.be" and/or made available on WWW in postscript format. In both latter cases a notification should be mailed to maamaw@arti.vub.ac.be. Fax submissions will be ignored.
Papers should
be written in English and not exceed 12 A4 pages (12pt fonts) when
printed. The first page should include an
abstract and the full coordinates of at least one author. Please include also
a statement that the paper contains original and unpublished work and will not be submitted to
any other conference before the notification of acceptance/rejection from
MAAMAW. Papers are submitted to rigourous refereeing by the MAAMAW'96
Programme Committee.
Authors will be advised as to the acceptance status of
their paper around 8th of November, 1995. Camera ready copies, preferably in
electronic form, are due no later than December 1th, 1995. Printed
proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag
and available at the workshop.
last update: Dec 4, 1996
maamaw@arti.vub.ac.be
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