From owner-kqml@cs.umbc.edu Fri Aug 5 16:53:17 1994 Received: from algol.cs.umbc.edu (daemon@algol.cs.umbc.edu [130.85.100.2]) by lirmm.lirmm.fr (8.6.9/8.6.4) with SMTP id QAA13914 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 1994 16:53:08 +0200 Received: by algol.cs.umbc.edu id AA29463 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for kqml-outgoing); Fri, 5 Aug 1994 10:37:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Aug 1994 10:37:11 -0400 From: Timothy Finin Message-Id: <199408051437.AA00936@topdog.cs.umbc.edu> To: kqml@cs.umbc.edu, srkb@cs.umbc.edu, interlingua@isi.edu, agents@aic.lockheed.com Subject: CFP: 1st Int. Conference on Multiagent Systems - ICMAS '95 Sender: owner-kqml@cs.umbc.edu Precedence: bulk Status: RO CALL FOR PAPERS First International Conference on Multiagent Systems - ICMAS '95 June 12 - 14, 1995 San Francisco, California Multiagent Systems are computational systems in which several semi-autonomous agents interact or work together to perform some set of tasks or satisfying some set of goals. These systems may involve computational agents that are homogeneous or heterogeneous, they may involve activity on the part of agents having common goals or goals that are distinct, and they may involve participation on the part of humans and intelligent computational agents. Research and practice on these systems generally focuses on problem solving, communication, and coordination aspects, as distinct from low-level parallelization or synchronization issues that are more the focus of distributed computing. The design, implementation, and assessment of multiagent systems raises many specific issues. These include how to develop coordination strategies that enable groups of agents to solve problems effectively, negotiation mechanisms that serve to bring a collection of agents to an acceptable state, conflict detection and resolution strategies, protocols by which agents may communicate and reason about inter-agent communications, and mechanisms whereby agents can maintain autonomy while still contributing to overall system effectiveness. Researchers and developers in many areas of the world have contributed to multiagent systems over the last decade. The First International Conference on Multiagent Systems will be held in June of 1995 in San Francisco. Organized as a joint effort of the North American Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) community, the Japanese Multi-Agent and Cooperative Computing (MACC) community, and the European Modeling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World (MAAMAW) community, this conference solicits papers concerning multiagent systems. ICMAS-95 will be a three-day conference combining a strong technical program of submitted papers with plenary sessions that serve to encourage synthesis of ideas from multiple segments of this interdisciplinary area. There will also be tutorials on June 11, the day before the official start of the conference. The program committee wishes to encourage representation of a broad spectrum of perspectives in the conference program. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Agent architectures Artificial life (from a multiagent perspective) Cooperation, coordination, and conflict Communication issues Conceptual and theoretical foundations of multiagent systems Development and engineering methodologies Distributed artificial intelligence Distributed consensus and algorithms for multiagent interaction Distributed search Evaluation of multi-agent systems Integrated testbeds and development environments Intelligent agents in enterprise integration systems and similar types of applications Multiagent cooperative reasoning from distributed heterogeneous databases Multiagent planning and planning for multiagent worlds Negotiation strategies - in both competitive and cooperative situations Organization, organizational knowledge, and organization self-design Practical applications of multi-agent systems (enterprises, robotics, sensing, manufacturing, etc.) Resource allocation in multiagent systems Social structures and their significance in multiagent systems User interface issues for multiagent systems Submissions Authors should submit five (5) copies of papers and an email version of the abstract by December 1, 1994 to one of the conference co-chairs. All papers will be reviewed by the program committee and authors will be notified of acceptance by March 1, 1995. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its scientific contribution, and the problems, domains, or environments to which it is applicable. Paper Format for Review Submitted papers must be printed on 8 1/2" x 11"or A4 paper using 12 point type (10 characters per inch for typewriters). Each page must have no more than 38 lines and an average of 75 characters per line. (This corresponds to LaTex article style, 12 point.) Each paper should have a single title page which includes a 150-word abstract and up to two topic areas covered by the paper. (These will be used to focus reviewing and ultimately to structure the technical program.) The body of the paper, including all figures, tables, and diagrams but excluding title page and bibliography must be no more than 12 pages in length. Papers that do not conform to these guidelines will be rejected without review and no electronic submissions will be accepted. General Chair: Victor R. Lesser Computer and Information Science Department University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-1322 lesser@cs.umass.edu Program Co-Chairs: North America: Susan E. Conry Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Clarkson University Box 5720 Potsdam, NY 13676-5720 (315) 268-6510 conry@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Europe: Yves Demazeau Laboratoire LIFIA/IMAG 46 Avenue Felix Viallet F-38031 Grenoble cx FRANCE +33 76574654 Yves.Demazeau@imag.fr Pacific Rim: Mario Tokoro Keio University / Sony CSL Department of Computer Science 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku Yokohama 223 JAPAN +81-45-560-1153 mario@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Local Arrangements: Evangelos Simoudis Lockheed AI Center o/96-20, B/254F 3251 Hanover Street Palo Alto, CA 94304 (415) 3554-5271 simoudis@aic.lockheed.com Advisory Committee: John Campbell (England) Christiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Susan E. Conry (USA) Yves Demazeau (France) Edmund Durfee (USA) Jacques Ferber (France) Les Gasser (USA) Michael Georgeff (Australia) Carl Hewitt (USA) Michael N. Huhns (USA) Toru Ishida (Japan) Victor Lesser (USA) Jean-Pierre Muller (Switzerland) Jeffrey Rosenschein (Israel) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Katia Sycara (USA) Mario Tokoro (Japan) Program Committee: John Campbell (England) Christiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Helder Coelho (Portugal) Phil Cohen (USA) Edmund Durfee (USA) Jacques Ferber (France) Mark Fox (Canada) Les Gasser (USA) Michael Georgeff (Australia) Carl Hewitt (USA) Bernardo Huberman (USA) Michael Huhns (USA) Toru Ishida (Japan) Nick Jennings (England) Sarit Kraus (Israel) Christian Lemaitre (Mexico) Frank von Martial (Germany) Jean Pierre Muller (Switzerland) Hideyuki Nakashima (Japan) Van Parunak (USA) Jeffrey Rosenschein (Israel) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Luc Steels (Belgium) Toshiharu Sugawara (Japan) Katia Sycara (USA) _______________________________________________________________________ Send mail to majordomo@cs.umbc.edu to subscribe/unsubscribe to the kqml mailing list. 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Archives are at http://www.cs.umbc.edu/kqml/mail/ From Yves.Demazeau@imag.fr Mon Nov 28 19:13:37 1994 Received: from imag.imag.fr (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]) by lirmm.lirmm.fr (8.6.9/8.6.4) with SMTP id TAA13789; Mon, 28 Nov 1994 19:13:30 +0100 Received: from leda.imag.fr by imag.imag.fr with SMTP id AA25029 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4); Mon, 28 Nov 1994 19:13:01 +0100 Received: by leda.imag.fr (4.1/5.17) id AA14184; Mon, 28 Nov 94 19:12:27 +0100 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 94 19:12:27 +0100 From: Yves.Demazeau@imag.fr (Yves Demazeau) Message-Id: <9411281812.AA14184@leda.imag.fr> To: Christof.Baeijs@imag.fr, koning@isar.fr, amouaddi@loria.fr, carpuat@irit.fr, H.Delesalle@elf-p.fr, Isabelle.Delouis@der.edf.fr, Jaime.Sichman@imag.fr, Jean-Paul.Krivine@der.edf.fr, Michel.Occello@imag.fr, Nils.Ferrand@imag.fr, Yves.Demazeau@imag.fr, bburg@framentec.fr, bourgine@cemagref.fr, charp@loria.fr, chevrier@loria.fr, collinot@laforia.ibp.fr, drogoul@laforia.ibp.fr, ferber@laforia.ibp.fr, fuhs@cemagref.fr, gleizes@irit.fr, erceau@onera.fr, pinson@dauphine.fr, Francois-Regis.Monclar@der.edf.fr, glize@irit.fr, jph@loria.fr, jq, js, kornman@lamsade.dauphine.fr, magma@cosmos.imag.fr, moraitis@dauphine.fr, reitz Subject: ICMAS - Extended Deadline Cc: Yves.Demazeau@imag.fr Status: RO Dear Colleague, The abstract (by email) and the 5 copies of the paper (by courrier) should ARRIVE to me on Tuesday 6th december at latest. Extended but firm deadline. Submissions arriving after this date will not be considered. Regards Yves Demazeau ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pour en revenir au francais, a ce delai de grace aprement negocie cote ICMAS, et cf. la reunion de jeudi et vendredi derniers, j'attends pour la fin de CETTE semaine, et plus exactement JEUDI SOIR 1er DECEMBRE au plus tard : - de la part de Joel (Quinqueton), un compte-rendu (2-3 pages) de la reunion MARCIA de Nancy des 29-30/11/93 - de la part de Jacques (Ferber) ou bien de Marie-Pierre (Gleizes), un compte-rendu de la reunion MARCIA de Toulouse des 1-2/3/94 Pour inclusion dans les actes de la journee du 16/12. Si un rapport manque, aucun rapport ne sera inclus. Ce serait dommage. ============================================================================== * Do not throw away your empty prepaid (illustrated or not) phonecards, I am * * collecting them just like others collect stamps. Please send them to me !! * ============================================================================== Yves DEMAZEAU LIFIA/IMAG/CNRS 46 Avenue Felix Viallet F-38031 GRENOBLE Cedex Yves.Demazeau@imag.fr tel +33 76574654 fax +33 76574602 sec +33 76574806 ==============================================================================