CFP: Second Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Distributed Artificial Intelligence 96
T H I R D
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
SECOND AUSTRALIAN WORKSHOP ON DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
in conjunction with
Fourth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(PRICAI'96)
Cairns, Australia
TUESDAY 27 AUGUST 1996
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(* Papers to be revised for publication in LNAI, Springer Verlag *)
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1. TOPICS AND ISSUES
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) is the study of the design and
implementation of agents that can make decisions on their own or in interaction
with other agents. Agents act autonomously and rationally in time-constrained,
open, multi-agent environments. The aim of this workshop is to bring together
researchers interested in the micro and macro aspects of this emerging
technology. The workshop will address the issues of: agent specification via
agent theories, modelling of agents, decisions in multi-agent environments,
development of coordination strategies, negotiation mechanisms, conflict
detection and resolution strategies, communication protocols, and mechanisms
whereby agents can maintain autonomy while still contributing to overall system
effectiveness. The workshop will explore agent architectures, methodologies for
realising agents, agent decision-making theories, inter-agent communication and
natural language discourse, software tools for programming and experimenting
with agents.
This is the second workshop in this series. The first was held in 1995 in
conjunction with the 8th Australian Joint Conference in Artificial Intelligence
(AI'95) in Canberra, Australia. The proceedings of the first workshop is being
published by Springer Verlag in its Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
(LNAI) series.
2. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Chengqi Zhang Co-Chair UNE, AUSTRALIA che...@neumann.une.edu.au
Dickson Lukose Co-Chair UNE, AUSTRALIA luk...@peirce.une.edu.au
Victor Lesser UMASS, USA les...@cs.umass.edu
Jeff Rosenschein HU, ISRAEL je...@cs.huji.ac.il
Nicholas Jennings QMW, UK N.R.Je...@qmw.ac.uk
Toshiharu Sugawara NTT, JAPAN suga...@square.ntt.jp
Rose Dieng INRIA, FRANCE di...@sophia.inria.fr
Norbert Glaser CRIN-INRIA, FRANCE Norbert...@loria.fr
Keith S. Decker CMU, USA dec...@cs.cmu.edu
Mark d'Inverno UW, UK din...@westminster.ac.uk
3. WORKSHOP OUTLINE
This workshop will be a full-day workshop on TUESDAY, 27 AUGUST 1996 in Cairns,
Australia. The cost of this workshop is $60.
Only people who register for the main conference will be allowed to register
for a PRICAI workshop.
Conditions of accepting workshop papers are:
* recommendation of at least two international reviewers; and
* at least one of the authors register for the workshop by July 19, 1996.
4. PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit papers describing both theoretical and practical
work in any areas of distributed artificial intelligence. (Papers accepted or
under review by other conferences or journals are not acceptable.)
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
o Artificial life (from a multiagent perspective)
o Cooperation, coordination, and conflict-resolution
o Communication issues
o Conceptual and theoretical foundations of multiagent systems
o Development and engineering methodologies
o Distributed consensus and algorithms for multiagent interaction
o Evaluation of multi-agent systems
o Integrated testbeds and development environments
o Intelligent agents in enterprise integration systems and similar types of
applications
o Multiagent cooperative reasoning from distributed heterogeneous databases
o Multiagent planning and planning for multiagent worlds
o Negotiation strategies - in both competitive and cooperative situations
o Organization, organizational knowledge, and organization self-design
o Practical applications of multi-agent systems
o Resource allocation in multiagent systems
o Social structures and their significance in multiagent systems
o User interface issues for multiagent systems
o Security Issues in multiagent systems
5. PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPT
The manuscript must be formatted using 10-point font size for the main text
the printing area should be 12.2 x 19.3 cm. Each submission must have a separate
title page and a body. The title page must include a title, a 300-400 word
abstract, a list of keywords, the names and addresses of all authors, their
email addresses, and their telephone and fax numbers. The length of submitted
papers (excluding the title page) must be no more than 15 single-spaced,
single-column pages including all figures, tables, and bibliography. Papers not
conforming to the above requirements may be rejected without review.
6. MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
Only ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION of the paper will be accepted. Electronic submission
must be in POSTSCRIPT format. All papers must be written in English, and each
paper will be refereed by at least two referees.
FTP the POSTSCRIPT submission to:
turing.une.edu.au:incoming
and send an email to:
da...@turing.une.edu.au
to inform us that you have FTPed your submission to our site.
7. WORKSHOP CONTACT
All queries on this workshop should be directed to:
Co-chairs of the programme committee will respond to your queries.
8. INVITED SPEAKER
Professor Joerg H. Siekmann from Universitaet des Saarlandes / German Research
Center for AI (DFKI), GERMANY will present the invited talk at this workshop.
9. WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
After the workshop, accepted papers will then be revised for publication in
the Springer-Verlag "Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence" series.
10. IMPORTANT DATES
31 May 1996 Deadline for Paper Submission
1 July 1996 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
19 July 1996 Deadline for camera-ready version
27 August 1996 Workshop