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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear all,</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We are organizing the next iteration of the Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) workshop at the International Conference on Autonomous
Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2023) in London, United Kingdom. Please find the Call for Papers below.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop at AAMAS (London, United Kingdom)</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><a href="https://alaworkshop2023.github.io/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://alaworkshop2023.github.io/</span></a></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Submission deadline: January 30, 2023</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Extended versions of all original contributions at ALA 2023</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
will be eligible for inclusion in a <b>special issue of the Springer journal </b>
</span><a href="https://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/521"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Neural Computing and Applications</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> (Impact Factor 5.606)</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">TL;DR:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Workshop with a long and successful history, now in its thirteenth edition.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Covering all aspects of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems research.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Open to original research papers, work-in-progress, and visionary outlook papers, as well as presentations on recently published journal papers.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* ACM proceedings (AAMAS) format up to 8 pages (excluding references) for original research, up to 6 pages for work-in-progress and outlook papers (shorter papers are also welcome
and will not be judged differently) and 2 pages for recently published journal papers.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Accepted papers are eligible for inclusion in a post-proceedings journal special issue.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Submissions through EasyChair:
</span><a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ala2023"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ala2023</span></a></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">IMPORTANT DATES:</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Submission Deadline:<span class="apple-tab-span">
</span> <span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>January 30, 2023</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Notification of acceptance:<span class="apple-tab-span">
</span>February 27, 2023</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Camera-ready copies:<span class="apple-tab-span">
</span> <span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>March 5, 2023</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Workshop:
<span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>May 29 & 30, 2023</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Journal submission deadline:
<span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>September 15, 2023</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">OVERVIEW</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Adaptive and learning agents, particularly those interacting with each other in a multi-agent setting, are becoming increasingly prominent
as the size and complexity of 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 agents and multi-agent systems which employ learning or adaptation.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness of 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).</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">All aspects of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems are on topic for this workshop, but we will particularly encourage
work that modifies established learning techniques and/or creates new learning paradigms to address the many challenges presented by complex real-world problems. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Novel combinations of reinforcement and supervised learning approaches</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Integrated learning approaches using reasoning modules like negotiation, trust, coordination, etc.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Supervised and semi-supervised multi-agent learning</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Reinforcement learning in multi-agent systems</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Novel deep learning approaches for adaptive single and multi-agents systems</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Human-in-the-loop learning systems</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Planning and Reasoning (single and multi-agent)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Distributed learning</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Adaptation and learning in dynamic environments</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Evolution and Co-evolution of agents in complex multi-agent environments</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Cooperative exploration</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Learning to cooperate and collaborate</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Learning trust and reputation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Communication restrictions and their impact on multi-agent coordination</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Design of reward structure and fitness measures for coordination</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Scaling learning techniques to large systems of agents</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Emergent behavior in adaptive multi-agent systems</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Game theoretical analysis of adaptive multi-agent systems</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Neuro-control for adaptation in multi-agent systems</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Bio-inspired multi-agent systems</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Adaptive and learning agents for multi-objective decision making</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Multiple objectives in (multi-)agent systems</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* Applications of adaptive and learning (multi-agent) systems to model real world complex systems</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In addition to these topics, this year we are interested in exploring negative results that can serve as guidelines for early-stage
researchers in the field of adaptive and learning single/multi-agent systems.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">SUBMISSION DETAILS</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Papers can be submitted through EasyChair:
</span><a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ala2023"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ala2023</span></a></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We invite submission of original work, up to 8 pages in length (excluding references) in the ACM proceedings format (i.e. following
the AAMAS formatting instructions). This includes work that has been accepted as a poster/extended abstract at the AAMAS 2023 conference. 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. Finally, we also accept recently published journal papers in the form of a 2 page
abstract.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">All submissions will be peer-reviewed (single-blind). Accepted work will be allocated time for poster and possibly oral presentation
during the workshop. <b>Extended versions of all original contributions at ALA 2023</b> will be eligible for inclusion in a
<b>special issue of the Springer journal </b></span><a href="https://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/521"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Neural Computing and Applications</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
(Impact Factor 5.606)</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.
<b>Deadline for submitting extended papers: September 15, 2023.</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We look forward to receiving your submissions,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- The Organizers</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Conor F. Hayes (University of Galway, IE)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Caroline Wang (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Connor Yates (Oregon State University, USA)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Francisco Cruz (UNSW Sydney, AUS)</span></p>
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