[agents] Last CfP ALAMAS&ALAg @ AAMAS2008 - New Deadline Feb.,1st

[Franziska Klügl]

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Final Call for Papers
ALAMAS+ALAg 2008 -
Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop at AAMAS 2008

http://ki.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~kluegl/ALAMAS.ALAg/

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* NEW: Submission Deadline: February, 1st 2008
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* Notification of acceptance: February, 25th 2008
* Camera-ready copies: March, 8th 2008
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Adaptive and Learning Agents, particularly those in a
multi-agent setting are becoming more and more prominent as
the sheer size and complexity of many real world systems grows.
How to adaptively control, coordinate and optimize such systems
is an emerging multi-disciplinary research area at the
intersection of Computer Science, Control theory, Economics,
and Biology.

The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness and interest
in adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration and give a
representative overview of current research in the area of
adaptive and learning agents. It aims at bringing together not
only scientists from different areas of computer science but also
from different fields studying similar concepts (e.g., game theory,
bio-inspired control, mechanism design).

This workshop will focus on all aspects of adaptive and learning
agents and multi-agent systems with a particular emphasis on how
to modify established learning techniques and/or create new learning
paradigms to address the many challenges presented by complex
real-world problems. The topics of interest include but are not
limited to:

    * Novel combinations of reinforcement and supervised learning
      approaches
    * Integrated learning approaches that work with other agent
      reasoning modules like negotiation, trust models, coordination,
      etc.
    * Supervised multi-agent learning
    * Reinforcement learning in multi-agent systems
    * Distributed Learning
    * Adaptation and learning in dynamic environments
    * Evolution of agents in complex environments
    * Co-evolution of agents in a multi-agent settin
    * Cooperative exploration and learning to cooperate and
      collaborate
    * Learning trust and reputation
    * Communication restrictions and their impact on multi-agent
      coordination
    * Design of reward structure and fitness measures for coordination
    * Scaling learning techniques to large systems of learning and
      adaptive agents
    * Emergent behavior in adaptive multi agent systems
    * Game theoretical analysis of adaptive multi agent systems
    * Neuro control in multi agent systems
    * Bio-inspired multi agent systems
    * Applications of adaptive and learning agents and multi agents
      systems to real world complex systems Learning of Co-ordination

Best papers of the workshop will be published in a special issue of
the International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems (IJATS).

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Submission Details

Paper submissions are in the form of extended abstracts of up to
8 pages in length.
Please submit papers by email in pdf format to

alamas.alag at ki.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de

with in the subject line: "Submission ALAMAS+ALAg". Papers should
be submitted in ACM or IFAAMAS proceedings format.

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Organization

Franziska Klügl (U Würzburg)
Sandip Sen (U Tulsa)
Karl Tuyls (U Maastricht)

If you have any questions about the ALAMAS+ALAg workshop, please contact
the chairs by email: alamas.alag at ki.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de.

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