[agents] AAMAS 2008 Call for Participation

[Vincent Conitzer]

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                      CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
          SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMOUS AGENTS
                    AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-08)
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                         May 12-16, 2008
                        Estoril, Portugal
                        www.aamas2008.org
                     www.aamas-conference.org

AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous
agents and multi-agent systems. The AAMAS conference series was
initiated in 2002 as a merger of three highly respected individual
conferences: the International Conference in Autonomous Agents, the
International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and
Languages, and the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems.
The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile,
internationally respected archival forum for research in all aspects of
the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.

The conference will be held from Monday May 12th until Friday May
16th, 2008 in Estoril, Portugal.

Tutorials and workshops will be held on Monday May 12th and Tuesday
May 13th, 2008. Accepted technical papers and invited talks will be
presented from Wednesday May 14th through Friday May 16th, 2008.
The list of accepted papers is available on the main conference webpage.

Invited speakers include Randy Beard (Brigham Young University),
Moshe Tennenholtz (The Technion) and Demetri Terzopoulos (UCLA).

AAMAS-08 will also feature two special paper tracks: one on Multi-Robots
and the other on Virtual Agents, along with an Industry and Applications
track for descriptions of emerging and already deployed agent
applications,
and a demonstration session.

Early registration is now open and closes on March 7. Late registration
closes on April 21st.
http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas2008/registration.html

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Topics of interest in AAMAS-08 include, but are not limited to:

Agent-based system development
  - agent-oriented software engineering
  - agent development environments
  - agent languages
  - case studies and implemented systems
  - P2P, web services, grid computing

Learning
  - learning (single and multi-agent)
  - computational architectures for learning
  - evolution, adaptation

Agent Reasoning
  - reasoning (single and multi-agent)
  - planning (single and mult-agent)
  - cognitive models
  - ontological reasoning

Agent cooperation
  - teamwork, coalition formation, coordination
  - distributed problem solving
  - biologically-inspired methods

Agent theories, models and architectures
  - formal models of agency
  - modeling other agents and self
  - BDI, speech act theory
  - reactive vs deliberative
  - logic-based methods
  - bounded rationality

Agent societies and Societal issues
  - artificial social systems
  - trust and reputation
  - social and organizational structure
  - privacy, safety and security
  - ethical and legal issues

Agent communication
  - communication languages
  - communication protocols
  - agent commitments

Economic paradigms
  - electronic markets and institutions
  - economically-motivated agents
  - game theory (cooperative and non-cooperative)
  - social choice theory, voting protocols
  - auction and mechanism design
  - argumentation, negotiation and bargaining

Agent-based simulations
  - emergent behaviour
  - simulation-specific issues

The conference also welcomes relevant papers from related fields such
as P2P computing, web services, autonomic and grid computing, as long
as the link is made to relevance and work within the agents community.

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*Special track on Multi-Robots:

Papers on theory and applications concerning teams of multiple robots
are welcome, namely those focusing on real robots interacting with their
surrounding environments. The goal is to foster interaction between
researchers on multi-agent and multi-robot systems, so as to provide a
cradle for cross-fertilization of concepts from both fields.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
  - cooperative perception
  - cooperative localization
  - middleware for multi-robot systems
  - multi-robot mapping and localization
  - networked robots
  - formal models of multi-robot plans

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*Special track on Virtual agents:

Virtual agents are embodied agents in interactive virtual or physical
environments that emulate human-like behavior. Papers on the design,
implementation, and evaluation of virtual agents are welcome, as well
as papers about challenging applications of virtual agents. The goal
is to provide an opportunity for interaction and cross-fertilization
between the AAMAS community and researchers working on virtual agents
and to strengthen links between the two communities.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
  - verbal and non-verbal expressiveness
  - models of personality, emotions and social behavior
  - multi-user/multi-virtual-agent interaction
  - advanced 3D modeling and animation technologies
  - applications, experience reports and user studies

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chairs:
Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, City Univ of NY, USA
Joerg P. Mueller, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
* generalchairs -at- aamas2008.org

Program Chairs:
Lin Padgham, RMIT University, Australia
David C. Parkes, Harvard University, USA
* programchairs -at- aamas2008.org

Local Organization Chairs:
Ana Paiva, INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Luis Antunes, GUESS & University of Lisbon, Portugal
* localchairs -at- aamas2008.org

Multi-Robots Special Track Chair:
Pedro Lima, ISR & Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
* robotics -at- aamas2008.org

Virtual Agents Special Track Chair:
Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany
* synthetic -at- aamas2008.org

Workshop Chair:
Juan Antonio Rodriguez, AI Research Institute (IIIA), Spain
* workshops -at- aamas2008.org

Tutorials Chair:
Pinar Yolum, Bogazici University, Turkey
* tutorials -at- aamas2008.org

Industrial Track Chairs:
Michael Berger, Siemens AG, Germany
Satoshi Nishiyama, KDDI Labs, Japan
Bernard Burg, Panasonic, USA
* industrial -at- aamas2008.org

Exhibits/Demo Chairs:
Joelle Pineau, McGill University, Canada
Rafael Bordini, University of Durham, UK
* exhibits -at- aamas2008.org

Finance Chair:
Keith Decker, University of Delaware, USA

Doctoral Mentoring Chairs:
Gal Kaminka, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Yohei Murakami, National Inst. of I&C Tech., Japan

Publicity Chair:
Vincent Conitzer, Duke University, USA

Publications Chair:
Franziska Kluegl, University of Wuerzburg, Germany

Registration and Local Finance Chair:
Joo Balsa, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Student Scholarship Chairs:
Sascha Ossowski, U Rey Juan Carlos Madrid, Spain
Paul Scerri, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Von Wun Soo, U Hsinchu, Taiwan

Sponsoring Chairs:
John Yen, Penn State University, USA
Alex Rogers, University of Southhampton, UK
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong


Senior Program Committee:

Ana     Bazzan,     UFRGS, Brazil
Rafael  Bordini,    University of Durham, UK
Craig   Boutilier,  University of Toronto, Canada
Felix   Brandt,     University of Munich, Germany
Jonathan Bredin,    Colorado College, USA
Brahim  Chaib-draa, Laval University, Canada
Helder  Coelho,      Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Vincent Conitzer,   Duke University, USA
Mehdi   Dastani,    Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Warsaw Univ. and Polish Acad of Sciences, Poland
Edmund  Durfee,     University of Michigan, USA
Ulle    Endriss,    University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Boi     Faltings,   EPFL, Switzerland
Maria   Fasli,      University of Essex, UK
Shaheen Fatima,     University of Liverpool, UK
Claudia Goldman,    Samsung Telecom Research Israel, Israel
Eric    Horvitz,    Microsoft Research, USA
Takayuki Ito,       Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Nick    Jennings,   Southampton University, UK
Catholijn M. Jonker, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Kamalakar Karlapalem, IIIT-Hyderabad, India
Ryszard Kowalczyk,  University of Swinburne, Australia
Sarit   Kraus,      Bar-Ilan University, Israel and Univ. Maryland, USA
Han     La Poutre,  CWI,  The Netherlands
Jerome  Lang,       IRIT, France
Kate    Larson,     University of Waterloo, Canada
Ho-fung Leung,      The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Michael Luck,       King's College London, UK
Rajiv   Maheswaran, Univ. of Southern California - ISI, USA
Stacy   Marsella,   Univ. of Southern California - ISI, USA
Radhika Nagpal,     Harvard University, USA
Eugenio Oliveira,   Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Ana     Paiva,      INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Tecnico
Anna    Perini,     Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy
Jeffrey Rosenschein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Norman  Sadeh,      Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Paul    Scerri,     Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Sandip  Sen,        University of Tulsa, USA
Onn     Shehory,    IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Carles  Sierra,     AI Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Spain
Munindar Singh,     North Carolina State University, USA
Elizabeth Sklar,    Brooklyn College, City Univ of NY, USA
Katia   Sycara,     Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Valentina Tamma,    University of Liverpool, UK
Kagan   Tumer,      Oregon State University, USA
Manuela Veloso,     Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Nikos   Vlassis,    Technical University of Crete, Greece
Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Steven  Willmott,   3Scale Networks S. L., Spain
Michael Winikoff,   RMIT University, Australia
Makoto  Yokoo,      Kyushu University, Japan
Chengqi Zhang,      University of Technology, Sydney, Australia


SPC: Multi-Robots Special Track

Vijay   Kumar,        University of Pennsylvania, USA
Radhika Nagpal,       Harvard University, USA
Daniele Nardi,        Sapienza Universita di Roma
Lynne   Parker,       University of Tennessee, USA
Alessandro Saffiotti, Orebro University, Sweden
Paul    Scerri,       Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Elizabeth Sklar,      Brooklyn College, City Univ of NY, USA
Manuela Veloso,       Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Nikos   Vlassis,      Technical University of Crete, Greece
Mary-Anne Williams,   University of Technology Sydney, Australia


SPC: Virtual Agents Special Track

Ruth    Aylett,      Heriot-Watt University, UK
Marc    Cavazza,     University of Teesside, UK
Stacy   Marsella,    Univ. of Southern California - ISI, USA
Ana     Paiva,       INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Tcnico, Portugal
Catherine Pelachaud, Universite de Paris 8, France
Helmut  Prendinger,  National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Katia   Sycara,      Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Daniel  Thalmann,    EPFL, Switzerland
R. Michael Young,    North Carolina State University, USA