[agents] 1st CFP: ALAW - Workshop on Agents Living in Augmented Worlds at Federated AI Meeting 2018 (Stockholm, Sweden)

[Angelo Croatti]

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CFP: ALAW @ FAIM (joint IJCAI/ECAI/AAMAS/ICML conferences) 2018

2nd International Workshop on Agents Living in Augmented Worlds



Web Site: alaw2018.apice.unibo.it



Held at the Federated Artificial Intelligence Meeting (FAIM),

Joint IJCAI/ECAI/AAMAS/ICML conferences - Stockholm (Sweden) - July 13-15, 2018.



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===== INTRODUCTION =====



The scale of future Augmented Worlds range from small environments and augmented individual artifacts, up to large augmented realities and aggregates, including buildings, neighborhoods, or entire cities. Intelligent agents and related technologies represent a natural way to model the citizens living on the digital side of these augmented worlds, as either the soul of smart/augmented objects, or as the smart assistants of human users inhabiting these worlds, or rather as distributed and situated teams helping human coordination and cooperation. Pervasive computing, IoT and the Cloud, as well as mobile augmented/mixed reality frameworks, represent the  enabling technologies on top of which the agent-oriented layers are based.



The objective of the workshop is to be an interdisciplinary forum where to discuss any aspect that concerns agent-based augmented worlds, from their conceptual and theoretical foundations, to their design and engineering, and their applications to specific domains.



The workshop aims at exploring the impact that these augmented worlds can have on making individual and collective human/agent actions more effective, on enhancing human/agent reasoning capability, imagination, learning, sociality, and so on; on how human activities and processes can be (re-)shaped while the physical environment where these Augmented Worlds are instantiated is (re-)shaped too.



Agent-based augment worlds can be a lab where to explore novel forms of human augmentation - besides reality augmentation - along different dimensions, such as augmented cognition and augmented sociality. Novel forms of interaction can be studied inside them, enabling humans communicating/cooperating - either explicitly or implicitly - with other humans and with the intelligent agents populating and shaping such augmented worlds.



===== TOPICS OF INTEREST =====



The list of topics of interest for the workshop includes:

- Models and theories of agency and MAS living in/shaping Augmented Worlds

- Methodologies for designing agent systems living in/shaping Augmented Worlds

- Methodologies for evaluating applications using MAS living in/shaping Augmented Worlds

- Interaction, coordination, cooperation models inside Augmented worlds

- Agent-based platforms and technologies for developing Augmented Worlds

- Human augmentation by means of agents and multi-agent systems in Augmented Worlds

- Real-world applications designed using agent-based Augmented Worlds

- Future applications of Agent Oriented Programming to develop Mixed and Augmented Reality Applications based within Augmented Worlds.

 - Specific areas of application for Augmented Worlds e.g Education, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Gaming, Simulations, ...





===== CONTRIBUTIONS =====



The workshop welcomes any research contribution in the form of either a demonstration exhibit (submitted as a 1 page abstract) or to submit a position paper (8 pages) or regular paper (16 pages) which would allow to solicit the discussion and brainstorming about any relevant aspect related to agents living in an augmented worlds, either theoretical/conceptual and practical. A main objective of the meeting is booting a community on these issues.



A further important objective of the meeting is to set up the first publication of this vision, providing an overview about the state-of-the-art, starting from the research and discussion originated during the workshop.  This publication is planned to be either a book or a special issue on some high-level reference journal (e.g. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing).





===== IMPORTANT DATES =====



- Paper submission deadline:      May 1st, 2018

- Notification of acceptance:           May 29th, 2018

- Workshop:                       July 14th, 2018





===== SUBMISSION DETAILS =====



Papers can be submitted via EasyChair in PDF format through following link.



https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alaw2018



Submissions should use the Springer LNCS format, following the guidelines at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors. The maximum number of pages (including references, figures, tables and appendix) is limited to:



- Regular Papers: 16 pages

- Position Papers: 8 pages

- Demonstrations: 1 page (abstract)





===== ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE =====



Organizers and PC chairs in alphabetical order:

- Abraham Campbell, University College Dublin, Ireland

- Carlos Carrascosa, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

- Angelo Croatti, University of Bologna, Italy

- Gregory O'Hare, University College Dublin, Ireland

- Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy





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