[agents] First CFP: IDEAS at AAMAS'2016 (Singapore)

[Adam Eck]

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                          FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The 2nd International Workshop on Issues with Deployment of 
          Emerging Agent-based Systems (IDEAS 2016)
               to be held with AAMAS 2016 in Singapore
                                   May 9 or 10, 2016
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Submissions are invited for the 2016 International Workshop on Issues with Deployment of Emerging Agent-based Systems (IDEAS 2016)

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  WEBSITE
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http://cse.unl.edu/agents/IDEAS2016/cfp.html

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  OVERVIEW
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The IDEAS workshop provides an active forum for bringing together researchers across academia, industry, and the public sector applying agent-based technologies (including both single agent and multiagent systems) to solve real-world problems in deployed (or emerging) applications. This workshop encourages research:

1) describing emerging, existing, or ongoing deployments of agent technologies to real-world systems used in practice,

2) identifying challenges and associated solutions to deploying agent technologies in the real-world,

3) highlighting lessons learned from (successful or unsuccessful) past deployments to improve future systems,

4) presenting simulations or testbeds and analysis techniques for evaluating applied systems, and

5) introducing interesting novel applications areas for intelligent agent and multiagent systems research. 

This workshop serves as platform for discussing cutting edge applied agent research with potential for future submission to the Innovative Applications Track of AAMAS.

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  TOPICS
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The IDEAS workshop aims to discuss a set of challenging topics related to the application of intelligent agent and multiagent technologies to solving real-world problems and producing deployed applications. The workshop will serve as both (1) a forum for discussing and sharing cutting edge applied agent research (including a place to discuss difficult challenges necessary to overcome to produce real-world systems, as well as lessons learned from initial deployments), as well as (2) an incubator for Innovative Applications Track research to be presented at future AAMAS conferences.

The primary aim of this workshop is two-fold: (1) to provide a place for researchers working towards applying agent technologies in real-world problems to discuss and share their work, providing a more targeted meeting complementary to the general AAMAS conference, and (2) an incubator for developing research and manuscripts worthy of publication in the Innovative Applications Track at future AAMAS conferences.

The IDEAS workshop series is of interest to a broad range of researchers and practitioners of intelligent agents and multiagent systems, including (1) computer scientist academics applying their AI/MAS research to real-world problems (e.g., roboticists, software engineers), (2) interdisciplinary researchers combining AI/MAS with various disciplines (e.g., computer aided education, manufacturing, smart energy, e-commerce, e-healthy, survey informatics, intelligent user interfaces), and (3) engineers and scientists from private companies and public organizations performing agent-based research and development, as well as building real commercial systems.

We encourage submissions related, but not limited to, the following:

1. Descriptions of real-world intelligent agent and multiagent systems deployed to real-world applications, including:
-- novel applications of MAS systems,
-- novel inspirations for deployed MAS-based solutions,
-- novel uses of intelligent agents,
-- prototypes of developed systems, and
-- results from existing deployments

2. Real-World Challenges to Deploying Applied Agent Systems, including:
-- modeling and addressing complex environment properties (multiple sources and high levels of uncertainty, noise, non-stationarity, real-time constraints, limited resources),
-- needs for security, robustness, and scalability, and
-- evaluating the correctness, effectiveness, and efficiency of deployed systems

3. Lessons learned from deployed (or emerging) systems, including:
-- why a particular deployment might or might not have succeeded (or would have succeeded with important changes uncovered in hindsight),
-- how improvements might be made to the system for future deployments, and
-- how new tests might be conducted to better evaluate or test the system

4. Testbeds for applied agent systems, including:
-- custom or reusable testbeds for evaluating agents in simulated real-world environments,
-- challenges associated to developing such testbeds and in properly evaluating real-world performance,
-- types of problems that can be studied using such testbeds, and
-- comparative studies of testbeds in investigating issues of applied agent systems

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  IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission: February 1, 2016
Author Notification: March 7, 2016
Camera-ready Deadline: March 10, 2016
Workshop: TBD (May 9 or 10, 2016)

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  SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Each IDEAS submission will be reviewed by two members of the expert program committee. Contributors may submit either full papers (no longer than 8 pages) or a position statement (no longer than 4 pages) that outlines their interests, background, and discussion of an aspect of the workshop theme. Authors are encouraged to submit their papers using the same ACM proceedings format used by AAMAS.  Formatting instructions, as well as the style and sample files, can be found here:

http://sis.smu.edu.sg/aamas2016?itemid=10111

Papers submitted should be in PDF format, and must be submitted through our dedicated EasyChair site, here:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ideas20160

Submitted papers should give full names and contact details for all authors. At least one author of each accepted papers must register for the workshop.

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. 

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  ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Adam Eck, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Leen-Kiat Soh, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Bo An, Nanyang Technological University
Paul Scerri, Platypus, L.L.C.
Adrian Agogino, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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  STEERING COMMITTEE
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Sarit Kraus, Bar-Ilan University
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University
Milind Tambe, University of Southern California