[agents] First CFP Adaptive and Learning Agents workshop: ALA at AAMAS'09

[Karl Tuyls]

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1st Call for Papers
ALA 2009:
Learning Agents Workshop at AAMAS 2009

http://teamcore.usc.edu/taylorm/ALA09/

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* Submission Deadline: Feb 1, 2009
* Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2009
* Camera-ready copies: March 15, 2009
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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 setting
    * 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

We plan to organize an LNAI book containing the best papers of the workshop
(after an additional review process).

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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 taylorm at usc.edu with in the
subject line: "Submission ALA". Papers should be submitted in ACM
proceedings format.

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Organization

Workshop chairs:
Matthew Taylor
Karl Tuyls

If you have any questions about the ALA workshop, please contact the chairs
by email: taylorm at usc.edu

Senior Steering Committee Members:
Franziska Klügl
Daniel Kudenko
Ann Nowé
Lynne E. Parker
Sandip Sen
Peter Stone
Kagan Tumer
Karl Tuyls

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