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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Aims and Scope
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The emergence of autonomous agents and multi-agent technology is one of the
most exciting and important events to occur in computer science during the
1990s. It is widely believed that this technology will play a central role
in the development of complex distributed systems, networked information
systems, and computer interfaces during the twenty-first century. The aim of the
journal is, therefore, to provide a forum for disseminating significant new
results in the foundations, development, analysis, and applications of
autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.
The journal will publish original, high quality papers on the theory and
practice of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. While a range of
submissions are welcome, from purely theoretical to application-oriented,
all submissions should indicate both the consequences of their results for
the development of agent systems and the significance of their results for
other researchers and practitioners within the field. The journal will be
multi-disciplinary, in that it will be relevant to many fields that share
interests with agent systems. These fields include computer science and
artificial intelligence, software engineering, distributed systems,
distributed artificial intelligence, computer-supported cooperative work,
knowledge representation and manipulation, information sciences, ethology,
organizational theory, sociology, linguistics, philosophy,
economics, and cognitive science.
Specific topics will include, but are not restricted to:
- Micro-level aspects of multi-agent systems, including agent
architectures, agent representation formalisms and notations, agent
development methodologies, practical reasoning, decision theory and
agency, software agents and expert assistants, human-agent
interaction, agent learning and adaptivity, and believable/synthetic
agents.
- Macro-level aspects of multi-agent systems, including
cooperation, coordination, conflict detection and resolution,
negotiation, organizational structuring and design for multi-agent
systems, computational market systems, self-organization, emergent
functionality and swarm intelligence, multi-agent learning,
languages for cooperation and coordination, agent communication
languages, and issues of overall performance of multi-agent systems.
- Agents as a software engineering paradigm, including
specification and verification of agent systems, interaction based
programming, and agent mobility.
- Exploration of relationships between agents and other
disciplines such as ethology, psychology, linguistics, philosophy,
and human-computer interaction; and the relationship between
multi-agent systems and other disciplines such as sociology,
economics, game theory, cscw, and organization theory.
- Significant and novel applications of agent technology, in such
areas as networks and distributed systems, human-computer
interaction, computer-supported cooperative work, process and
manufacturing control, business process management, information
gathering, computer games and virtual environments, and multi-agent
simulation of social and organizational phenomena.
- Environments, testbeds, and programming languages for
experimentation with, and analysis of, agent systems.
- Best practice in agent system development, including methodology
of analysis and design for agent systems, evaluations of different
approaches to developing agent systems, and practical experiences
with agent development.
- Comprehensive reviews and authoritative tutorials of research
and practice in agent systems, including annotated literature lists
and short descriptions of significant agent system projects and
research groups.
- Comprehensive reviews of books dealing with agents and multi-
agent systems.
Executive Editors:
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Nicholas Jennings, University of London, UK. (N.R.Jennings@qmw.ac.uk)
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. (katia@cs.cmu.edu)
Michael Georgeff, Australian AI Institute, AUSTRALIA. (georgeff@aaii.oz.au)
Associate Editors:
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Joseph Bates, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Istituto di Psicologia del Consiglio
Nazionaledelle Ricerche, ITALY
Phil Cohen, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology,USA
Ed Durfee, University of Michigan,USA
Dov Gabbay (On-Line Editor), Imperial College, UK
Les Gasser, National Science Foundation, USA
Michael Huhns (Book Review Editor), University of South Carolina,USA
Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, JAPAN
Victor Lesser, University of Mass., Amherst,USA
Jeff Rosenschein, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, ISRAEL
Mike Wooldridge, Queen Mary & Westfield College, UK
Editorial Board:
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Keith Decker, University of Delaware, USA
Yves Demazeau, Institut IMAG, FRANCE
Jacques Ferber, Universite Montpellier II, FRANCE
Tim Finin, University of Maryland Baltimore County,USA
Chris Hankin, Imperial College, UK
Barbara Hayes-Roth, Stanford University,USA
James Hendler, University of Maryland,USA
Carl Hewitt, MIT, USA
Tad Hogg, Xerox PARC,USA
Lewis Johnson, USC,USA
Henry Kautz, AT&T Labs,USA
Hiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Lab, JAPAN
Sarit Kraus, Bar-Ilan University, ISRAEL
Danny Lange, General Magic Inc.,USA
Michael Lewis, University of Pittsburgh,USA
JyiShane Liu, National Cheng Chi University, TAIWAN
Pattie Maes, MIT Media Lab,USA
John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht Univ., THE NETHERLANDS
Jean-Pierre Mueller, University of Neuchatel, SWITZERLAND
Joerg Mueller, Zuno Ltd, UK
Hideyuki Nakashima, Electrotechnical Laboratories, JAPAN
Toyoaki Nishida, Nara Institute of Science & Technology, JAPAN
Eugenio Oliveira, University of Porto, PORTUGAL
Anand Rao, Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, AUSTRALIA
Yoav Shoham, Stanford University,USA
Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University,USA
Gerhard Weiss, Technical University of Munich, GERMANY
Makoto Yokoo, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, JAPAN
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
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Authors are encouraged to submit high quality, original work that has neither
appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals.
PROCESS FOR SUBMISSION
1. Authors should submit five hard copies of their final manuscript to:
Mrs. Karen Cullen
AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
Editorial Office
Kluwer Academic Publishers Tel.: 781-871-6600
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For prompt attention, all correspondence can be directed to this address.
2. Authors are strongly encouraged to use Kluwer's LaTeX journal style.
Please see ELECTRONIC FORM section below.
3. Enclose with each manuscript, on a separate page, from three to five
keywords.
4. Enclose originals for the illustrations (see STYLE FOR ILLUSTRATIONS
section below) for one copy of the manuscript. Photocopies of the figures may
accompany the remaining copies of the manuscript. Alternatively, original
illustrations may be submitted after the paper has been accepted.
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the time your manuscript is submitted, including the title, the names of the
authors, and an abstract. This will help the journal expedite the refereeing
of the manuscript.
7. The refereeing is by anonymous peer review.
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The Kluwer LaTeX journal style file is the preferred format, and we urge all
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order. References in the text should be denoted by numbers in square brackets,
e.g. [12]. References should be complete, in the following style:
- Style for papers: Author(s) initials followed by last name for
each author, paper title, publication name, volume, inclusive page
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- Style for books: Author(s), title, publisher, location, year,
chapter or page numbers (if desired).
- Examples as follows:
(Book) D. Marr, Vision, A Computational Investigation into the
Human Representation & Processing of Visual Information, Freeman:
San Francisco, CA, 1982.
(Journal Article) A. Rosenfeld and M. Thurston, "Edge and curve
detection for visual scene analysis," IEEE Trans. Comput. vol. C.-
20 pp. 562-569, 1971.
(Conference Proceedings) A. Witkin, "Scales space filtering," in
Proc. Int. Joint Conf. Artif. Intell., Karlsruhe, West Germany,
1983, pp. 1019-1021.
(Lab. memo.) A. L. Yuille and T. Poggio, "Scaling theorems for zero
crossings," M.I.T. Artif. Intell. Lab., Massachusetts Inst.
Technol.,Cambridge, MA, A.I. Memo. 722, 1983.
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