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<b>Special Issue on Autonomous Agents Modelling Other Agents</b><br>
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Published in Artificial Intelligence<br>
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Call for Papers:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-autonomous-agents-modelling-other-agents">https://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-autonomous-agents-modelling-other-agents</a><br>
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Dear Colleagues,<br>
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We invite you to contribute to a new special issue on the topic of <i><b>Autonomous
Agents Modelling Other Agents</b></i>, to be published in the
journal <b>Artificial Intelligence</b>.<br>
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Much research in artificial intelligence (AI) is concerned with
enabling autonomous agents to model various aspects of other agents,
such as their beliefs, intentions, plans, goals, and decision
making. A recent survey by Albrecht and Stone, published in AIJ (<u><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2018.01.002">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2018.01.002</a></u>),
discusses the major modelling methods that have been developed in AI
research and highlights open problems. The survey shows that this is
a large area of research with a history going back several decades.
However, it also shows that the area is fractured into many
sub-communities with little interaction, including work in game
playing, computer poker, automated negotiation, simulated robot
soccer, human user modelling, human-robot interaction, commercial
video games, trust and reputation, and multi-agent learning. The
purpose of this special issue is to provide a venue for new <b>technical
contributions</b> in this area addressing open problems including
those highlighted in the survey, as well as to complement the survey
via <b>research perspectives</b> which may include historical
accounts, a description of recent developments and applications, and
personal views about current limitations and future directions.<br>
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The following is a non-exclusive list of topics relevant to the
special issue:
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<li>Learning and using models of other agents' decision making
processes</li>
<li>Opponent modelling in games</li>
<li>Methods for goal/intent/plan recognition</li>
<li>Theory of mind, recursive reasoning, epistemic planning</li>
<li>Implicit agent modelling</li>
<li>Modelling humans</li>
<li>Modelling other agents under partial observability</li>
<li>Modelling teams/groups of agents</li>
<li>Teammate modelling for ad hoc teamwork</li>
<li>Robust decision making with agent models</li>
<li>Reasoning about utilities and preferences of other agents</li>
<li>Modelling other agents in open multi-agent systems</li>
<li>Modelling changing behaviours of other agents</li>
<li>Safe exploration of agent model spaces</li>
<li>Misspecified agent models and model revision</li>
<li>Graphical representations of agent models</li>
<li>Innovative applications of agents modelling other agents</li>
<li>Historical accounts, current limitations, and future
directions of agent modelling</li>
</ul>
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Submissions will be open from <b>June 2018 until December 31, 2018</b>
and can be made using the EVISE system: <u><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.evise.com/evise/faces/pages/navigation/NavController.jspx?JRNL_ACR=ARTINT">http://www.evise.com/evise/faces/pages/navigation/NavController.jspx?JRNL_ACR=ARTINT</a></u>.
Authors should select <b><VSI:Agents Mod. Other Agents></b>
when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.
All submitted articles will go through a peer-review process.
Reviewing of submitted articles begins immediately after submission,
with first decisions (accept, reject, revisions) made within three
months. Accepted articles will be published immediately online on
the AIJ website and will also be included in the special issue.<br>
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Guest editors:<br>
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Stefano Albrecht (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:s.albrecht@ed.ac.uk">s.albrecht@ed.ac.uk</a>)<br>
University of Edinburgh<br>
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Peter Stone (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:pstone@cs.utexas.edu">pstone@cs.utexas.edu</a>)<br>
University of Texas at Austin<br>
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Michael Wellman (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:wellman@umich.edu">wellman@umich.edu</a>)<br>
University of Michigan
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