[agents] [CFP] The 6th International Workshop on Emergent Intelligence on Networked Agents (WEIN'14)

[Satoshi Kurihara]

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The 6th International Workshop on Emergent Intelligence on Networked
Agents (WEIN'14)

Workshop at the 13th International Joint Conference on Autonomous
Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2014)

   http://ein.jssst.or.jp/ein/WEIN14.html

   Paris, France, May 5-9, 2014
   Date of Workshop: May 5 or 6 (full day workshop), 2014

   Workshop Chair:
       Satoshi Kurihara (The University of Electro-Communications)

   Workshop Organizers:
       Hideyuki Nakashima (Future University-Hakodate)
       Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy Japan)
       Satoshi Kurihara (The University of Electro-Communications)

   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

   Tentative Scientific Program Committee Members

      Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy, Japan)
      Anthony Dekker (DSTO, Australia)
      Eizo Akiyama (Tsukuba University, Japan)
      Guillaume Deffuant (Laboratoire d'Ingenierie des Systemes
Complexes, France)
      Hidenori Kawamura (Hokkaido University, Japan)
      Hideyuki Nakashima (Future University-Hakodate, Japan)
      Kiyoshi Izumi (Tokyo University, Japan)
      Peter Dittrich (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany)
      Satoshi Kurihara (Osaka University, Japan)
      Kazuhiro Kazama (Wakayama University, Japan)
      Hitoshi Yamamoto (Rissho University, Japan)
      Toshiharu Sugawara (Waseda University, Japan)

   Submission and Important Dates:

      Submission deadline: 5 Feb 2014
      Notification of acceptance: 3 March 2014
      Workshop (1 day):  May 5 or 6, 2014

      Each contributed paper will be peer reviewed in line with AAMAS
      standards. The submission format and other detailed information
      will be available as the workshop web page at
      http://ein.jssst.or.jp/ein/WEIN14.html

      We will plan journal special " Emergent Intelligence on
      Networked Agents " at JACIII(Journal of Advanced Computational
      Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics)
      http://www.fujipress.jp/JACIII/JACIII_about.html

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