[agents] [AAMAS-14] FINAL Call for Participation

[Matthew Taylor]

AAMAS-14 is fast approaching!

If you haven't yet registered, you can here:
http://aamas2014.lip6.fr/registration.php
The deadline for regular registration is April 25th. The full program is
available here:  http://aamas2014.lip6.fr/programme_detailed.php

Lunch will be provided each day of the conference and will coincide with
the poster and demo program. Notice that *all* papers, extended abstracts
and full papers, will be presented as posters, during either Wednesday or
Thursday lunch, allowing for extended interactions with the authors. There
is also an exciting program of 39 demos and the Automated Negotiating
Agents Competition.


We excited about our four keynote speakers:
- Iain Couzin, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton
University, USA
"Sensory networks and distributed cognition in animal groups"
- Michael Luck, Professor of Computer Science and Head of the School of
Natural and Mathematical Sciences at King's College London
"From Agents to Electronic Order"
-ACM/SIGAI Agents Research Award Michael Wellman, Professor of Computer
Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan
- IFAAMAS VL Distinguished Dissertation Award Manish Jain, Assistant
Professor at Virginia Tech,
"Thwarting Adversaries with Unpredictability: Massive-scale Game-Theoretic
Algorithms for Real-World Security Deployments"


We are also happy to announce the three nominees in each of the following
three categories

Best Paper nominees:
- "Characterizing conflicts in fair division of indivisible goods using a
scale of criteria", Sylvain Bouveret and Michel Lemaître
- "SimSensei Kiosk: A Virtual Human Interviewer for Healthcare Decision
Support", David DeVault, Ron Artstein, Grace Benn, Teresa Dey, Ed Fast,
Alesia Gainer, Kallirroi Georgila, Jon Gratch and Arno Hartholt, Margaux
Lhommet, Gale Lucas, Stacy Marsella, Fabrizio Morbini, Angela Nazarian,
Stefan Scherer, Giota Stratou, Apar Suri, David Traum, Rachel Wood, Yuyu
Xu, Albert Rizzo, Louis-Philippe Morency
- "Exploiting Separability in Multi-Agent Planning with Continuous-State
MDPs", Jilles Dibangoye, Christopher Amato, Olivier Buffet and Francois
Charpillet

Jay Modi Best Student Paper nominees:
- "Clustering Objects with Robots That Do Not Compute", Melvin Gauci,
Jianing Chen, Wei Li , Tony J. Dodd and Roderich Gross
- "Constraining Information Sharing to Improve Cooperative Information
Gathering", Igor Rochlin and David Sarne
- "Evaluating Coverage Based Intention Selection", Max Waters, Lin Padgham
and Sebastian Sardina

Blue Sky Ideas Best Paper nominees:
- "Mutiagent Systems for Social Computation", Michael Rovatsos
- "Computational Epidemiology as a Challenge Domain for Mutiagent Systems",
Samarth Swarup, Stephen Eubank and Madhav Marathe
- "From Autistic to Social Agents", Frank Dignum, Rui Prada and Gert Jan
Hofstede

We hope to see you in Paris,
Paul, Alessio, Mike and Ana