[agents] CFP: Agent Design - Advancing from Practice to Theory (ADAPT)

[t.balke at surrey.ac.uk]

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                       Call for Papers
                          ADAPT 2013
Agent Design - Advancing from Practice to Theory (ADAPT)

Held with AAMAS 2013, Saint Paul, Minnesota (USA), 6th May 2013
http://adapt2013.dai-labor.de/

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MOTIVATION

Over the last years, members of the agents community have been involved with real-world systems in several domains such as robotics, decision-support agents, personal-assistant agents, in military or space application, or in the commercial area to just give a few examples.

Many of the lessons learned from these endeavours involve surprises, difficulties and flaws. It is quite common for researchers to take theoretical work of their peers and use it in their (more practical) work. Much less common is the opposite feedback loop, i.e. taking the experience of the application and using it to generate or amend theory, unless the research was done by the same person. Even if theories are validated in a laboratory setting, they might not behave as expected when applied in the real world. This feedback though is often hard to capture and only available in a way that is unsuitable as a basis for further refinement of the applied theory. Nevertheless, it is important for our community to know and discuss these challenges if we are to produce the ideas and technologies that are transformative and ultimately, utilised by practitioners.

An important aspect of this workshop is not only to discuss these challenges, but also to develop directions for existing and new theoretical models on how to support the link between theory and practice. In detail we are interested in ideas on how to promote the utilisation of theoretical results in real world applications as well as how to generate theories from real world applications.

The workshop will serve as a forum where to discuss how to reduce the barriers for transferring agent-based theories and algorithms to practitioners as well as vice versa and for to transform the models and assumptions made within the agent community to make all our work more relevant.


AUTHOR GUIDELINES

ADAPT welcomes the submissions with a focus on actual process and proposals for solutions and ways to tackle the interconnect of theory and practise, rather than practical applications. Each paper will be evaluated at least by one academic and one industrial focused committee member in order to ensure that different views are taken into account at this early stage already. Papers must not be submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style <http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html>, and not exceed 16 pages.


SUBMISSION

Paper length should be at most 16 pages, including the text, figures, and references. Paper submission is electronic via easychair <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adapt2013>. To submit, please prepare a PDF file of your paper, a short abstract in plain text, and a list of two to five keywords.


POSTPROCEEDINGS 

After the workshop 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>.


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: 30.01.2013
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 27.02.2013
Camera-ready copies due: 13.03.2013
Workshop Date: 06.05.2013


COMMITTEES

Organising Committee
Benjamin Hirsch (EBTIC/Khalifa University)
Tina Balke (University of Surrey)
Marco Lützenberger (DAI-Labor, TU Berlin)
Nathan Schurr (Aptima)

Programme Committee (Tentative)
Christian Guttmann (IBM Research Australia)
Danny Weynes (KU Leuven)
Ingrid Nunes (PUC University of Rio De Janeiro)
James Harland (RMIT)
Janusz Marecki (IBM TJ Watson Research Center)
João Leite (New University of Lisbon)
John-Jules Meyer (Utecht University)
Jörg Müller (TU Clausthal)
Jorge Gomez-Sanz (The Complutense University)
Koen Hindricks (TU Delft)
Martijn Schut (PwC Netherlands)
Michael Huhns (University of South Carolina)
Michael Georgeff (Precedence Healthcare)
Michal Pechoucek (Czech Technical University)
Nirmit Desai (IBM)
Peter McBurney (Kings College London)
Rafael Bordini (PUC University of Rio Grande do Sul)
Rainer Unland (Universität Essen)
René Schumann (National Institute of Informatics)
Simon Parsons (City University New York)
Wayne Wobcke (University of New South Wales)
Yves Demazeau (Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble)
Alan Carlin (Aptima)
Paul Scerri (Carnegie Mellon University)