[agents] [CFP] Self-Explaining Agents - special session at PAAMS2013

[Benjamin Hirsch]

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Call for Paper for the Special Session on Self-Explaining Agents on the PAAMS 2013

ABSTRACT
The development of multi-agent systems in heterogeneous environments is a challenging task for humans. As a matter of fact, the management of such systems where different parties at different times make use of different technologies to reach their goals becomes ever more difficult. Thus systems can dynamically change due to the presence or absence of agents, services, devices and emergent behaviours can occur; behaviours which are not pre-programmed into the systems. Hence, developers attempt to shift evermore design decisions to the application runtime allowing systems to manage themselves. Those are called self-adaptive systems. The adaption process depends on adaption properties which are called self-* properties. The goal of this special session is to foster one particular self-* property, namely self-explanation.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Jan 13, 2013
Notification Feb 10, 2013
Final paper Feb 22, 2013
PAAMS: 22nd-24th of May, 2013, Salamanca, Spain

GOALS
Having self-explanatory descriptions might be beneficial to many aspects of multi-agent systems like agent-human interaction, agent-planning and agent- communication, to name but a few. Hence, the goal of this special session is to foster research in self-explanation for agent-systems. In addition, currently there is no common understanding or agreed definition of the term self-explanation and its inherent meaning. In order to fill this gap, the special session seeks a discussion with a broad audience of researchers who have experience with the design and development of self-adaptive agent-applications.

TOPICS
This special session shall deepen (but is not limited to) the following research areas:

. Self-Explaining Systems
. Definition of Self-Explanation
. Categorization of Self-Explanations
. Requirements of Self-Explaining Systems . Self-Configuration through Self-Explanation . Demonstrations on Self-Configuration through Self-Explaining Systems . Agents with Self-Explaining User Interaction . Directability of Agents . Adjustable Agent Autonomy


. AI Methods on Adaption and Semantic Reasoning . IOPE and other Description Paradigms . Reasoning on Semantic Descriptions . Learning of Communication Protocols . BDI-Agents and Reasoning on D . Collaborative Reinforcement Learning on Self-Explanations . Interaction in Agent-Human-Robot Teamwork


SUBMISSIONS
All papers must be formatted according to the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing Series Springer template, with a maximum length of: 8 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the PAAMS 2013 conference management system.

PAPER PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be included in a volume of the PAAMS 2013 Proceedings, published in the Advances in Intelligent and Soft-Computing series of Springer. At least one of the authors per paper will be required to register and attend the special session to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEES
Johannes Fähndrich Technische Universtität Berlin, Germany 
Sebastian Ahrndt Technische Universität Berlin, Germany 
Benjamin Hirsch EBTIC / Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates

FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information visit:
http://www.paams.net/
or
http://www.dai-labor.de/~faehndrich/sea/