[agents] Final CFP: MSDM @ AAMAS 2015 - DEADLINE EXTENDED

[Brenda Ng]

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                              FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
                                  The 10th Workshop on
Multiagent Sequential Decision Making Under Uncertainty (MSDM)
                             (to be held at AAMAS 2015)
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May 4 or 5, 2015
Istanbul, Turkey
http://masplan.org/msdm2015

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Important Dates
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February 18, 2015 - Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED)
March 10, 2015 - Author notification
March 19, 2015 - Camera-ready submission deadline
May 4 or 5, 2015 - Full-day workshop
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The MSDM workshop focuses on principled sequential decision-making methods,
and applications, to systems of multiple agents. Several multiagent models
have emerged for cooperative agents (e.g., MMDP, Dec-POMDP) as well as for
self-interested agents (e.g., I-POMDP, POSG), under various assumptions
about agents' capabilities to communicate, observe, and influence other
agents. The high complexity associated with such models has prompted
development of planning and learning techniques that (1) exploit structure
in agents' interactions and the problem, (2) find exact and more efficient
approximate solutions, and (3) decentralize and distribute computation.
Through a tutorial, presentations by authors and distinguished invitees,
and discussions, we aim to facilitate collaboration among researchers and
practitioners toward advancing MSDM theory and application.

Multiagent sequential decision making comprises (1) problem representation,
(2) planning, (3) coordination, and (4) learning, in self-interested as
well as cooperative agent systems. The MSDM workshop addresses this full
range of aspects. Topics of particular interest include:
* Fundamental modeling challenges (e.g., model specification and model
granularity)
* Novel representations, algorithms and complexity results
* Comparisons of algorithms
* Relationships between models and their assumptions
* Decentralized vs. centralized planning approaches
* Online vs. offline planning
* Communication and coordination during execution
* Computational issues involving long decision horizons and large number of
agents, states, observations and actions
* (Reinforcement) learning in partially observable multiagent systems
* Cooperative, competitive, and self-interested agents
* Application domains
* Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies
* Standardization of software
* High-level principles in MSDM: past trends and future directions

Please refer to the workshop website (http://masplan.org/msdm2015) for more
details.

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Submission Instructions
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Authors are encouraged to submit papers up to 8 pages in length, as per the
instructions posted on:
https://masplan.org/msdm2015:instructions

The proceedings of the MSDM workshop are not archival. In addition to
original papers, we also encourage papers that are currently under
submission or recently published elsewhere.

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Organizing Committee
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Aurélie Beynier, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Prashant Doshi, University of Georgia
Brenda Ng, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jason Sleight, University of Michigan

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Advisory Committee
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Chris Amato, MIT
Prashant Doshi, University of Georgia
Ed Durfee, University of Michigan
Abdel-Illah  Mouaddib, University of Caen Basse-Normandie
Frans Oliehoek, University of Amsterdam
Zinovi Rabinovich, Mobileye
Matthijs Spaan, Delft University of Technology
Milind Tambe, University of Southern California
Pradeep Varakantham, Singapore Management University
Stefan Witwicki, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University
Shlomo Zilberstein, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Program Committee
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Martin Allen, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Chris Amato, MIT
Bikramjit Banerjee, University of Southern Mississippi
Aurélie Beynier, University Pierre and Marie Curie
Olivier Buffet, INRIA
François Charpillet, INRIA
Prashant Doshi, University of Georgia
Ed Durfee, University of Michigan
Alberto Finzi, University of Napoli "Federico II"
Akshat Kumar, Singapore Management University
Jun-Young Kwak, Spokeo
Francisco Melo, Instituto Superior Tecnico/INESC-ID
Joao Messias, Instituto Superior Técnico
Hala Mostafa, Singapore Management University
Abdel-Illah Mouaddib, University of Caen Basse-Normandie
Enrique Munoz de Cote, INAOE
Brenda Ng, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Frans Oliehoek, University of Amsterdam
Praveen Paruchuri, CMU
David Pynadath, University of Southern California
Zinovi Rabinovich, Mobileye
Anita Raja, University of North Carolina
Jason Sleight, University of Michigan
Ekhlas Sonu, University of Georgia
Matthijs Spaan, Delft University of Technology
Katia Sycara, CMU
Karl Tuyls, University of Liverpool
Pradeep Varakantham, Singapore Management University
Stefan Witwicki, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University
Chongjie Zhang, MIT
Shlomo Zilberstein, University of Massachusetts Amherst