[agents] CFP: WEIN 2013

[Satoshi Kurihara]

[With apologies for cross postings]

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                           Call for Papers (WEIN'13)
The Fifth International Workshop on Emergent Intelligence on Networked Agents
                                  (WEIN'13)
At the 12th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multi-agent Systems
                                  (AAMAS 2013)

                   Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 6-10, 2013
                         (http://aamas2013.cs.umn.edu/)
               Date of Workshop: May 6 or 7 (full day workshop), 2013
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Workshop Chair:
   Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy, Japan)

Workshop Organizers:
   Hideyuki Nakashima (Future University-Hakodate, Japan)
   Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy, Japan)
   Satoshi Kurihara (Osaka University, Japan)

Scope and Theme:

   In this workshop we will discuss about the emergence of intelligence
   from large-scale complex networked agents. Our brain consists of 50
   billion neurons and the neuron network causes emergence of our
   consciousness and intelligence. And, each human behavior and
   large-scale complex human network causes emergence of society. We can
   see many emergence phenomena like these among the real world.

   In these cases, not only the dynamics of each neuron or human but also
   the "network dynamics" of these are important. The aim of this
   workshop is to investigate the role of networked agents in the
   emergence of systemic properties, notably emergent intelligence. Focus
   is on topics such as network formation among agents, the feedback of
   network structures on agent’s dynamics, network-based collective
   phenomena, and emergent problem solving of networked agents.

   Up to now, main interest of agent community is the dynamics of agent
   itself. But, in the current rapidly growing Internet like WWW and
   social media like twitter, facebook, etc., studies about the complex
   network are attracting international attention. And studies about
   complex network are deeply related to multi agent community. So, the
   ultimate target of this workshop is to bridge between multi agent
   community and complex system community.

   Currently, it seems that research on MAS is still mostly focused on
   agents themselves, whereas networks of agents have received relatively
   little attention. The rapid development of various technologies,
   including those in web intelligence, ubiquitous computing, sensor
   networks, and grid computing will, however, lead to systems consisting
   of a potentially very large number of agents. In these situations, the
   view of each agent is limited to its local environment, and the
   efficiency of the system is significantly affected by the network in
   which the embedded agents. Thus, it is important to pay attention not
   only to agents themselves, but also to the structure and the dynamics
   of the network.

Topics of interest:

   <Methodologies>
       * Bottom up approach for MAS
       * Collective intelligence
       * Complex network
       * Emergence and self-organization
       * Emergence in multi-agent systems
       * Network-centric agent systems
       * Social networks
       * Web intelligence

   <Applications>
       * Cascade dynamics
       * Multi-agent-based supply chain networks
       * R&D innovation networks
       * Social and economic agents
       * Systemic risk in large-scale networks
       * Web dynamics

Scientific Program Committee Members (tentative)
       Abbass Hussein (UNSW, Australia)
       Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy, Japan)
       Anthony Dekker (DSTO, Australia)
       Dante Suarez (Trinity University, USA)
       Frank Walter (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
       Guillaume Deffuant (Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes
Complexes, France)
       Hidenori Kawamura (Hokkaido University, Japan)
       Hideyuki Nakashima (Future University-Hakodate, Japan)
       KC Tang (Singapore National University, Singapore)
       Kiyoshi Izumi (Tokyo University, Japan)
       Peter Dittrich (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany)
       Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, United States)
       Satoshi Kurihara (Osaka University, Japan)
       Shu-Heng Chen (Cheching University, Taiwan)
       Sung-Bae Cho (Yosei University, Korea)
       Kagan Tumer (Oregon State University)
       Taisei Kaizoji (ICU, Japan)
       Toshiharu Sugawara (Waseda University, Japan)
       Yu Zhang (Trinity University, USA)
       Yutaka Matsuo (AIST, Japan)
       Wei Zhang(Tianjin University, China)

Submission and Important Dates:

   Submission deadline: January 30, 2013
   Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2013
   Submission deadline of modified paper: March 13, 2013

Electronic submission via the conference management system is mandatory:

      https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wein13
      Submissions are accepted as documents in PDF only.
      Detailed information will be available as the workshop web page at
      http://ein.jssst.or.jp/ein/WEIN13.html

      Each contributed paper will be peer reviewed in line with AAMAS standards.
      The submission should not exceed 15 pages in the Springer-Verlag
LNCS style
      (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html), either in
PostScript or PDF format.

      The selected papers will be published as "joint agent special issue" from
      JACIII (Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and
Intelligent Informatics".
      http://www.fujipress.jp/JACIII/JACII00160006.html#pagetop


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