Optmas 2016 call for papers
Roie Zivan
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CFP: International Workshop onOptimisation in Multi-Agent Systems (OptMAS)
To be held in conjunction with the Fifteenth International Conference on Autonomous and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2014)
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Workshop Website
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http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~wyeoh/OPTMAS2016/
Call
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We are glad to release this Call for papers for the Workshop on Optimization in Multi-Agent Systems (OptMAS). The OPTMAS workshop invites works from different strands of the multi-agent systems community that pertain to the design of algorithms, models, and techniques to deal with multi-agent optimization problems.
Important dates
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* February 1, 2016 - Submission
of contributions to workshops
* March 7, 2016 - Workshop paper
acceptance notification
* March 10, 2016 - Submission of camera-ready
version
* May 9-10 - Workshop takes place
in conjunction with AAMAS 2016.
Background
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The number of novel applications of multi-agent systems has followed an exponential trend over the last few years, ranging from online auction design, through multi-sensor networks, to scheduling of tasks in multi-actor systems. Multi-agent systems designed for all these applications generally involve some form of very hard optimization problems that are substantially different from problems traditionally dealt with in other areas (e.g. industrial processes or scheduling applications). More specifically, the technical issues that multi-agent algorithm designers have to deal with include:
* Open systems: algorithms to compute solutions to mechanisms that deal with different stakeholders, who may be self-interested or may have different computation/communication capabilities from their peers.
* Distributed systems: algorithms that are across different system components, such as those that deal with agents that are tied to physical devices. This involves considerations of computation and communication constraints, and the possibility of failures of the components and/or communication links.
* Privacy concerns: optimizing while minimizing the exchange of private information.
* Solution quality bounds: problems requiring algorithms with quality bounds.
* Robust optimization: techniques to deal with optimizations that are repeated with only slight changes in the input data and/or unreliable input data.
* Highly parallel architectures: e.g., multi-core, GPGPU, which deal with large-scale problems.
Keywords
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Topics include but are not limite to:
* Distributed constraint optimization/satisfaction
* Winner determination algorithms in auctions
* Coalition formation algorithms
* Algorithms to compute Nash and other equilibria in games
* Optimization under uncertainty
* Optimization with incomplete or dynamic input data
* Algorithms for real-time applications
* GPU for general purpose computations (GPGPU)
* Multi-core and many-core computing
* Cloud, distributed and grid computing
Submission
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Participants should submit a paper (maximum *15* pages in LNCS Springer style),
describing their work on one or more of the topics relevant to the workshop.
Alternatively, participants may submit a shorter paper (maximum *5* pages in
LNCS Springer style) presenting a research statement or perspective on topics
relevant to the workshop.
All submissions are conducted via the OptMAS 2016 EasyChair website:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=optmas2016
Reviewing process
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Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 program committee members. Criteria for
selection of papers will include: technical quality, novelty, significance, and
clarity.
Publication
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Pre-proceedings containing all accepted papers are provided electronically on a
USB stick as a part of the AAMAS workshop registration package. Best papers
from OptMAS 2008 and OptMAS 2009 were selected for publication in the special
issue on Optimisation in Multi-Agent System of the Journal of Autonomous and
Multiagent Systems. Best papers from OptMAS 2011 and 2012 were invited to
submit to a special issue on Optimisation in Multi-Agent System of the Computer
Journal. We plan to continue this initiative for the current and next editions.
Best and Visionary
papers
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Two papers that will be accepted to the workshop will be selected by the organizing committee as the "visionary" and "best" papers of the workshop.
The most “visionary paper” will be published by
Springer in a book under the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) - Hot Topics series. The book will
be a compilation of the most visionary papers of the AAMAS-2016
Workshops, where one paper will be selected from each AAMAS-2016
workshop.
Additionally, the “best paper” will be
published by Springer in a book under the Communications in
Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series.
The book will be a compilation of the best papers of the AAMAS-2016
Workshops, where one paper will be selected from each AAMAS-2016
workshop.
Authors of the selected most visionary paper and
the best paper are expected to provide their latex files promptly upon request.
Organizing committee
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Dr. Archie Chapman, University of Sydney
Dr. Pradeep Varakantham, Singapore Management University
Dr. William Yeoh, New Mexico State University
Dr. Roie Zivan, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Programme Committee
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Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (IIIA).
Bo An, Nanyang Technological University.
Ana Lúcia C. Bazzan, Instituto de Informatica Caixa Postal.
Filippo Bistaffa, Universitty of Verona.
Jesús Cerquides, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (IIIA).
Fei Fang, University of South Carlifornia.
Alessandro Farinelli, Universitty of Verona.
Ferdinando Fioretto, New Mexico State University.
Tal Grinshpoun, Ariel Univeristy.
Patricia Gutierrez, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (IIIA).
Cédric Herpson, Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
Katsutoshi HIRAYAMA, Kobe University.
Tom Holvoet, KU Leuven.
Christopher Kiekintveld, University of Texas at El Paso.
Sven Koenig, University of South Carlifornia.
Kate Larson, University of Waterloo.
Toni Penya-Alba, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (IIIA).
GAUTHIER PICARD, ENS Minses Sain t-Etienne.
Valentin Robu, University of Southampton.
Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Lab.
Marius Silaghi, Flrida Intitute of Technology (FIT).
Matthew E. Taylor, Washigton State University.
Meritxell Vinyals, CEA-LIST
Mohamed Wahbi, University College Cork.
Harel Yedidsion, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Logan Yliniemi, University of Nevada.