[agents] First Call For Papers: Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop at AAMAS2016 (Singapore)

[Daan Bloembergen]

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Paper deadline: FEBRUARY 1, 2016

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* AAMAS workshop with a long and successful history, now in its eighth
edition.
* Open to original research papers, work-in-progress, and visionary outlook
papers.
* ACM proceedings format up to 8 pages for original research and up to 6
pages for work-in-progress and outlook papers (shorter papers are also
welcome and will not be judged differently).
* Accepted papers are eligible for inclusion in a special issue journal.

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1st Call for Papers
ALA 2016: Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop held at AAMAS 2016
(Singapore). The ALA workshop has a long and successful history and is now
in its eighth edition. The workshop is a merger of European ALAMAS and the
American ALAg series, which is usually held at AAMAS. Details may be found
on the workshop web site: http://ala2016.csc.liv.ac.uk

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* Submission Deadline:        February 1, 2016
* Notification of acceptance: March 7, 2016
* Camera-ready copies:        March 10, 2016
* Workshop: May 9/10, 2016

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Adaptive and Learning Agents, particularly those in a multi-agent setting
are becoming more and more prominent as the sheer size and complexity of
many real world systems grows. How to adaptively control, coordinate and
optimize such systems is an emerging multi-disciplinary research area at
the intersection of Computer Science, Control theory, Economics, and
Biology. The ALA workshop will focus on agent and multi-agent systems which
employ learning or adaptation.

The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness and interest in adaptive
agent research, encourage collaboration and give a representative overview
of current research in the area of adaptive and learning agents and
multi-agent systems. It aims at bringing together not only scientists from
different areas of computer science but also from different fields studying
similar concepts (e.g., game theory, bio-inspired control, mechanism
design).

This workshop will focus on all aspects of adaptive and learning agents and
multi-agent systems with a particular emphasis on how to modify established
learning techniques and/or create new learning paradigms to address the
many challenges presented by complex real-world problems.
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

    * Novel combinations of reinforcement and supervised learning approaches
    * Integrated learning approaches that work with other agent reasoning
modules like negotiation, trust models, coordination,  etc.
    * Supervised multi-agent learning
    * Reinforcement learning (single and multi-agent)
    * Planning (single and multi-agent)
    * Reasoning (single and multi-agent)
    * Distributed learning
    * Adaptation and learning in dynamic environments
    * Evolution of agents in complex environments
    * Co-evolution of agents in a multi-agent setting
    * Cooperative exploration and learning to cooperate and collaborate
    * Learning to cooperate and collaborate
    * Learning trust and reputation
    * Communication restrictions and their impact on multi-agent
coordination
    * Design of reward structure and fitness measures for coordination
    * Scaling learning techniques to large systems of learning and adaptive
agents
    * Emergent behaviour in adaptive multi-agent systems
    * Game theoretical analysis of adaptive multi-agent systems
    * Neuro-control in multi-agent systems
    * Bio-inspired multi-agent systems
    * Applications of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems
to real world complex systems

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SUBMISSION DETAILS

Papers can be submitted through EasyChair:
http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ala-2016

We invite submission of original work, up to 8 pages in length in the ACM
proceedings format (i.e. following the AAMAS formatting instructions). This
includes work that has been accepted as poster only at AAMAS 2016.
Additionally, we welcome submission of preliminary results, i.e.
work-in-progress, as well as visionary outlook papers that lay out
directions for future research in a specific area, both up to 6 pages in
length, although shorter papers are very much welcome, and will not be
judged differently.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed (single-blind). The most "visionary
paper" will be published by Springer in a book under the Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) - Hot Topics series. The book will be a
compilation of the most visionary papers of the AAMAS-2016 Workshops, where
one paper will be selected from each AAMAS-2016 workshop. Additionally, the
"best paper" will be published by Springer in a book under the
Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series. The book
will be a compilation of the best papers of the AAMAS-2016 Workshops, where
one paper will be selected from each AAMAS-2016 workshop. Authors of the
selected most visionary paper and the best paper are expected to provide
their latex files promptly upon request.

Accepted work will be allocated time for oral presentation during the
workshop. Papers accepted at the workshop will also be eligible for
inclusion in a special issue published after the workshop.