2 July (Thurs) - 8 July (Wed), 1998
Cite des Sciences - La Villette, Paris, France
Multi-agent systems are computational systems in which several agents
interact. The concept of "agent" as a computational entity that can
accomplish goals has spawned a plethora of activity in artificial
intelligence and more widely in computer science. Much of the conceptual
power of this exciting new paradigm arises from the flexibility and
sophistication of the interactions and the organizations in which the
agents participate. Agents can communicate, cooperate, coordinate,
negotiate with one another, both in advancement of their own goals and for
the good of the overall system in which they are situated. Multi-agent
systems may involve computational agents that are homogeneous or
heterogeneous, they may involve activity on the part of agents having
common goals or distinct goals, and they may involve participation on the
part of humans as well as artificial agents.
ICMAS is the premiere international forum specifically devoted to the
study of agent interaction and the development of multiagent systems.
ICMAS participants typically come from the physical, computational, and
social sciences, and are drawn together by their mutual interest in
understanding the phenomena that arise when agents interact, in
investigating the interplay between agents as individuals and as
participants in collective settings, and in formulating languages,
architectures, and mechanisms that are specifically applicable to
multiagent systems.
ICMAS'98 TOPICS
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Building on the traditions of ICMAS'95 (June 1995) in San Francisco and
ICMAS'96 (December 1996) in Kyoto, ICMAS'98 is committed to maintaining
global involvement and disciplinary breadth, where the topics of interest
will include but are not limited to:
Interaction capabilities, constraints, and prefererences :
* Communication languages and protocols (semantics, pragmatics, etc.)
* Organization and social structure (agent roles, social laws, etc.)
* Cooperative problem solving (collective goals driving individual choices)
* Decentralized systems (individual choices driving collective behavior)
* Mechanism design (incentives for aligning individual and group goals)
Reasoning about coordinated interactions
* Conflict resolution and negotiation
* Multi-agent planning
* Coalition formation and organization self-design
* Agent modeling and plan recognition
* Multi-agent learning
* Distributed search and constraint satisfaction
* Foundations (multi-agent logics, game-theory, economics, philosophy, etc.)
Engineering, deploying, and evaluating multiagent systems
* Agent programming languages
* Multi-agent programming frameworks
* Agent models and architectures
* Standards for multi-agent technology (interaction protocols, languages)
* Development and engineering methodologies
* Evaluation of multi-agent systems
* Testbeds and development environments
* User interfaces and personalizable agents
Practical applications
* Agents in electronic commerce
* Cooperative information systems
* Distributed resource allocation
* Information agents on the internet
* Multi-agent simulations of social and biological systems
* Multiagent vision and robotics
* Believable agents in multi-agent settings
* Interacting personal digital assistants
* ...and many others...
Contributions to ICMAS are encouraged to span several of these areas,
since investigations into aspects of multiagent systems should tie
together ideas on what the nature of the interactions are, how
computational agents should operate within this framework, how the results
have been developed and evaluated, and the practical significance of the
work.
AGENTS' WORLD CONTEXT
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ICMAS'98 is the cornerstone of a comprehensive gathering of researchers
interested in multiagent systems in numerous settings. Coordinated with
ICMAS'98 will be held seven international events (six workshops and one
competition):
ATAL'98 Agents Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Workshop focusing on Theory and Practice of Intelligent Agents
CIA'98 Cooperative Information Agents
Workshop focusing on Multi-Agent Systems and Databases
IATA'98 Intelligent Agents for Telecommunications Applications
Workshop focusing on Multi-Agent Systems & Telecommunications
CRW'98 Collective Robotics
Workshop focusing on Multi-Agent Systems and Robotics
ACW'98 Agents in CommunityWare
Workshop focusing on Multi-Agent Systems and Telematics
MABS'98 Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-Based Simulation
Focusing on MAS, Social Sciences & Artificial Life
Paris'98 Featuring Robocup'98 and FIRA RWC'98
International Competition between Soccer Robots Teams
ICMAS'98 and the seven coordinated events together comprise the "Agents'
World" event that will be held over 5 full days (July 3-4-6-7-8, 1998),
with tutorials presented the day before (July 2, 1998). The ICMAS'98
conference and the coordinated events will consist of technical sessions
presenting reviewed papers and plenary sessions bringing together
different aspects of this highly interdisciplinary area.
ICMAS'98 SUBMISSIONS
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Authors should submit five (5) copies of papers and an email version of
the abstract by November 21, 1997 to one of the programme co-chairs.
Papers received after the deadline will be returned unopened. All papers
will be reviewed by the program committee, and authors will be notified of
acceptance by February 13, 1998. Each paper should clearly indicate the
nature of its scientific contribution, and the problems, domains, or
environments to which it is applicable.
Paper Format: Submitted papers must be printed on 8 1/2" x 11" or A4 paper
using 12 point type (10 characters per inch for typewriters). Each page
must have no more than 38 lines and an average of 75 characters per line.
(This corresponds to LaTex article style, 12 point.) Each paper should
have a single title page which includes a 150-word abstract and up to two
topic areas covered by the paper. (These will be used to focus reviewing
and ultimately to structure the technical program.) The length of the
paper must be at most 5000 words.
Multiple submission: If a paper might also be submitted to one of the
other Agents' World events, this fact should be clearly indicated on the
paper. More generally, a paper that has been (or will be) submitted to
other conferences may be submitted to ICMAS'98 as long as (1) it is not
published or presented at other conferences, (2) the author clearly
indicates on his paper the other places where it has been submitted, and
(3) the author notifies the program co-chair if he submits his paper to
other conferences during the ICMAS'98 review process. Previously published
papers or papers that have been accepted for publication in conference
proceedings, books, or journals should not be submitted to ICMAS. Papers
that have been or will be presented at small workshops/symposia whose
proceedings are available only to attendees may be submitted.
ICMAS'98 CHAIRS
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General Chair: Organizing Chair:
Yves Demazeau Alexis Drogoul
Laboratoire LEIBNIZ-IMAG Laboratoire LIP6
Universites de Grenoble et CNRS Universite de Paris 6 et CNRS
46 avenue Felix Viallet 4 place Jussieu
F-38031 Grenoble cx F-75252 Paris Cedex 05
France France
Yves.Demazeau@imag.fr Alexis.Drogoul@lip6.fr
Programme Co-chairs:
Europe/Africa: Americas: Asia/Pacific Rim:
Nick Jennings Ed Durfee Mike Georgeff
EE Department EE & CS Department Australian AI Institute
Queen Mary & W. College University of Michigan 171 La Trobe Street
Mile End Road 1101 Beal Avenue Melbourne, Victoria 3000
London E1 4NS Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Australia
UK USA georgeff@aaii.oz.au
N.R.Jennings@qmw.ac.uk durfee@umich.edu deb@aaii.oz.au
Publicity Chair: Publication Chair: Finance Chair:
Mike Wooldridge Piotr Gmytrasiewicz Mike Huhns
EE Department CS and E Department E & CE Department
Queen Mary & W. College University of Texas University of South
Mile End Road at Arlington Carolina
London E1 4NS Arlington, TX 76019 Columbia, SC 29208
UK USA USA
M.J.Wooldridge@qmw.ac.uk piotr@cse.uta.edu huhns@sc.edu
ICMAS'98 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Ron Arkin Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Magnus Boman Stockholm University, Sweden
Cristiano Castelfranchi IP-CNR, Italy
Krzysztof Cetnarowicz University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow, Poland
Brahim Chaib-draa Laval University, Canada
Philip Cohen Oregon Graduate Institute, USA
Keith Decker University of Delaware, USA
Jim Doran University of Essex, United Kingdom
Alexis Drogoul Universite Paris 6, France
Jacques Ferber Universite Montpellier II, France
Klaus Fischer DFKI, Germany
Francisco Garijo Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo, Spain
Les Gasser National Science Foundation, USA
Fausto Giunchiglia Universita di Trento, Italy
Piotr Gmytrasiewicz University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Vladimir Gorodetski Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Rune Gustavsson University College of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden
Michael Huhns University of South Carolina, USA
Toru Ishida Kyoto University, Japan
David Kinny Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, Australia
Mark Klein Penn State University, USA
Sarit Kraus Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Christian Lemaitre Laboratorio Nacional de Informatica Avanzada, Mexico
Jean-Pierre Muller University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Hideyuki Nakashima Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan
Eugenio Oliveira University of Porto, Portugal
Ei-Ichi Osawa Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Japan
Lin Padgham Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
H. Van Dyke Parunak Industrial Technology Institute, USA
John Perram Odense University, Denmark
Anand Rao Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, Australia
Antonio Rocha Costa Pontifica Univ. Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Jeff Rosenschein Hebrew University, Israel
Tuomas Sandholm Washington University, USA
Sandip Sen University of Tulsa, USA
Carles Sierra AI Research Institute, Spain
Munindar Singh University of North Carolina, USA
Donald Steiner Siemens, Germany
Leon Sterling The University of Melbourne, Australia
Katia Sycara Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Milind Tambe University of Southern California, USA
Jan Treur Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Garimella Uma D E Shaw India Software Ltd, India
Walter Van de Velde Riverland Next Generation, Belgium
Jacques Wainer UNICAMP Campinas, Brazil
Gerhard Weiss Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Mike Wellman University of Michigan, USA
Wayne Wobcke The University of Sydney, Australia
Mike Wooldridge Queen Mary & Westfield College, United Kingdom
Makoto Yokoo NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
Chengqi Zhang The University of New England, Australia
Shi Zhongzhi Institute of Computing Technology CAS, China
ICMAS'98 ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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John Campbell Christiano Castelfranchi
(University College of London, UK) (Inst de Psicologia, CNR, Italy)
Susan E. Conry Yves Demazeau
(Clarkson University, USA) (LEIBNIZ/CNRS, France)
Edmund Durfee Jacques Ferber
(Univ. of Michigan, USA) (Univ. of Montpellier, France)
Les Gasser Michael Georgeff
(USC, USA) (Australian AI Institute, Australia)
Carl Hewitt Michael N. Huhns
(MIT, USA) (Univ. of S. Carolina, USA)
Toru Ishida Nick Jennings
(Kyoto University, Japan) (Queen Mary and W. College, London, UK)
Christian Lemaitre Victor Lesser
(LANIA, Xalapa, Mexico) (Univ. of Massachusetts, USA)
Jean-Pierre Muller Jeffrey Rosenschein
(Univ. Neuchatel, Switzerland) (Hebrew University, Israel)
Donald Steiner Katia Sycara
(Siemens AG Germany) (CMU, USA)
Mario Tokoro
(Keio Univ. / Sony CSL, Japan)
FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT ICMAS'98 AND OTHER AGENTS' WORLD COORDINATED EVENTS
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More detailed information about ICMAS'98 and Agent's World is available
on:
ICMAS'98 http://www-leibniz.imag.fr/MAGMA/ICMAS98
Agents' World http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/AgentsWorld
The ICMAS'98 and the seven coordinated events will be held at Cite des
Sciences - La Villette, in the northern part of Paris intra-muros. More
detailed Information about the Cite des Sciences is available at :
Cite des Sciences http://www.club-internet.fr/cite-sciences
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