CFP: CARE 2009: International Workshop on Collaborative Agents -- REsearch and Development, Melbourne, Australia
Christian
International Workshop on
Collaborative Agents -- REsearch and Development (CARE) 2009
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/sphc/care2009.html
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
October 10, 2009
FULL PAPER SUBMISSION
October 15, 2009
The workshop is held in conjunction with the 22nd Australasian Joint
Conference
on Artificial Intelligence AI09, 1st December, 2009, Melbourne,
Australia
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Summary
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Collaboration is required when multiple agents achieve complex goals
that are difficult or impossible to attain for an individual agent.
This collaboration takes place under conditions of incomplete
information, uncertainty, and bounded rationality, much of which has
been previously studied in economics and artificial intelligence.
However, many real world domains are characterised by even greater
complexity, including the possibility of unreliable and non-complying
collaborators, complex market and incentive frameworks, and complex
transaction costs and organisational structures. This workshop's
thematic focus is on collaborative and autonomous agents that plan,
negotiate, coordinate, and act under this complexity.
This workshop aims to foster discussions on computational models of
collaboration in distributed systems, addressing a range of
theoretical and practical issues. We seek contributions of members in
research and industry that use the agent paradigm to approach their
problems.
Some issues of interest of this workshop are:
* How to enable agents to reach and maintain joint agreements in
complex organisational and market driven domains.
* How to develop a comprehensive agreement formation/maintenance
framework applicable to many application domains.
* How to build and extend MAS that work efficiently in partially
regulated markets (instead of free or fully regulated markets).
* How to identify and represent conceptual/formal components of
organisational structures (e.g., health care and other
service-oriented domains).
* How organisational structures influence the negotiation of agents
and the distribution/execution of tasks.
* Similarly, what are the implications of a partially regulated market
on negotiation/distribution/execution of tasks.
* How to design markets that are adequate for agents to act with
incomplete and uncertain information of the behaviour of collaborating
agents.
* How to cope with unreliable and non-conformant collaborators, where
agreements are made but are not always conformed with.
* Which measures of optimality and efficiency are useful in evaluating
models of collaboration by means of theory and simulation.
* How can interventions and incentive structures assist in reaching
and maintaining agreements.
* How to assign transaction costs to actions in the planning,
assignment, and execution stages (e.g., costs incurred by reaching and
maintaining agreements).
* How can transaction costs influence the social outcome of the system
which is further influenced by the organisational context under which
the collaboration takes place.
* Can lessons learnt in game theoretic computation inform
collaborative agent settings.
* How can agents collectively acquire knowledge about their social and
physical environment, and their collaborative tasks.
The one day workshop will feature a mixture of invited talks,
discussions and submitted contributions describing current work or
work in progress in collaborative agent research and technology. The
workshop will foster open discussions among all participants,
particularly encouraging students to discuss their research topics and
to seek feedback from senior agent researchers.
Contact
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CARE organisers
care2...@easychair.org
Important Dates
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Abstract submission
October 10, 2009
Full paper submission
October 15, 2009
Notification
November 10, 2009
Camera ready
November 20, 2009
Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):
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RESEARCH
* Collaboration frameworks
* Models of teamwork and joint action
* Organisation/Institutes/Norms
* Auctioning/Negotiation
* Task/Resource allocation
* Behaviour modelling/monitoring
* Adherence/Intervention mechanisms
* Incentive frameworks
* Intervention mechanisms
* Agreement technology
* Contract networks/formation
* Cloud computing
APPLICATION AREAS
* Collaborative care planning/management
* Disaster planning/management
* Traffic planning/management
* Transport/Logistics
* Applications in primary and preventative healthcare
* Chronic disease planning/management
* Epidemiological agent models
* Unmanned air/land vehicles
* Robotic soccer/Robotic rescues
* Weather forecast
* Artificial and natural immune systems
* Social networks (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook,...)
* Smart grid network (e.g., electricity/gas metering)
Submission and Publication
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Submission is to be done electronically at EasyChair at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=care2009. Submissions
should be formatted according to LNCS specification and submitted as a
PDF file. Instructions and templates can be found at:
www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
CARE 2009 seeks two types of submissions.
- Full paper of 8-12 pages.
- Short paper of 2-4 pages (such as position and early result papers)
are welcome with the option of extending it to a full paper for the
post-proceedings.
Submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers per paper.
Selection criteria will include relevance, significance, impact,
originality, technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some
preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends
or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop
topics. Since this workshop is associated with the AI'09 conference,
accepted papers should be relevant to the AI research community.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. CARE
2009 plans to offer a best paper award for the best full paper
submission, and a selection of papers is planned to be published as
post-proceedings with a major international publisher, subject to an
appropriate number and quality of submissions.
Workshop Officials
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GENERAL CHAIR
Christian Guttmann (Monash University, Australia)
CO-CHAIRS
Michael Georgeff (PrecedenceHealthCare, Australia)
Frank Dignum (University Utrecht, Netherlands)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Philippe Pasquier (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Iyad Rahwan (British University of Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
Kobi Gal (Harvard University, United States of America)
Simon Thompson (British Telecom Research Laboratories, United Kingdom)
Cees Witteveen (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Mathijs de Weerdt (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Gord McCalla (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Andrew Gilpin (Hg Analytics, United States of America)
David Morley (SRI International, United States of America)
Kumari Wickramasinghe (Monash University, Australia)
Liz Sonenberg (Melbourne University, Australia)
Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Samin Karim (Accenture, Australia)
Lawrence Cavedon (NICTA and RMIT University, Australia)
Michael Winikoff (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Rafael Bordini (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Wayne Wobcke (University of New South Wales, Australia)
more to be announced...
INVITED SPEAKERS
to be announced
Sponsors
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School of Primary Health Care, Monash University, Australia
The Finkel Foundation, Australia
PrecedenceHealthCare, Australia
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Christian Guttmann, PhD
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~xtg/
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