PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
Second International Conference on
AUTONOMOUS AGENTS (Agents '98)
Minneapolis/St. Paul, May 10-13, 1998
Following the overwhelming interest in the First International
Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents '97), there
will be a Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents
'98). The conference will bring together researchers interested in
modeling and building autonomous agents. Agents are computational
systems that inhabit dynamic, unpredictable environments.
The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers
and videos with summaries concerning autonomous agents in a variety of
embodiments and playing a variety of roles in their environments. As
in Agents '97, the conference will emphasize "complete" agents that
have actually been implemented or are currently under
construction. Evaluation of agents and multi-agent systems will be a
necessary component of each submission. Agents '98 will de-emphasize
theory and focused treatments of isolated component capabilities
(e.g., planning, pattern recognition, diagnosis, learning).
The conference will include presentations of papers and videos, panels
and exhibits. Accepted papers and videos from different application
areas will appear in shared sessions to facilitate an appreciation of
application-independent issues in the design and implementation of
autonomous agents. More generally, the conference will strive towards
an informal atmosphere with plenty of time for presentations,
questions, and discussions. Accepted papers and video summaries will
be published in a Conference Proceedings. A limited number of student
scholarships will be available.
The conference will include tutorials and workshops that will take place
May 9, 1998.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
October 1, 1997 Deadline for receipt of electronic title pages
and abstracts
October 8, 1997 Deadline for receipt of papers and videos
December 15, 1997 Author notifications will be mailed.
January 15, 1998 Camera-ready copies due
Submissions should be sent to
Katia P. Sycara
General Chair, Agents '98
The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA. 15213
e-mail: katia@cs.cmu.edu
Technical Issues
- agent architectures
- coordinating perception, thought, and action
- network-centric agents
- action selection and planning
- real-time performance
- adaptation to run-time events
- longer-term adaptation and learning
- evolution of agents
- knowledge acquisition and accumulation
- integration and coordination of multiple activities
- multi-agent communication
- multi-agent coordination and collaboration
- middle-agents (e.g., matchmakers, brokers, routers)
- multi-agent teams
- semantic agent interoperability
- organization of agent societies
- communication between people and agents
- collaboration between people and agents
- function allocation between people and agents
- modeling the environment
- modeling the behavior of other agents
- meta-modeling of an agent by itself
- user modeling
- believability
- mobility
- life-like qualities
- models of emotion
- models of motivation
- models of personality
- other human-like qualities
- instructability
- mind-body relationship
General Chair
Katia P. Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University)
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Tim Finin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Mike Wooldridge (Mitsubishi Electric Digital Library Group)
Finance Chair:
Jim Hendler (University of Maryland)
Local Arrangements Chair:
Maria Gini (University of Minnesota)
Publicity Chair:
Keith Decker (University of Delaware)
Tutorial Chair:
Anand Rao (Australian AI Institute)
Workshops Chair:
Mike Huhns (University of S. Carolina)
Marketing Chair:
D. Navin Chandra (NetsInc)
Demonstration Chairs:
Software Agents: Henry Kautz (ATT Bell Labs)
Robotic Agents: Robin Murphy (Colorado School of Mines)
Poster Chair:
Afsaneh Haddadi (Daimler Benz)
Exhibits Chair:
David Musliner (Honeywell)
For more information, contact Katia P. Sycara at katia@cs.cmu.edu. A Web site with
detailed information will be available soon.
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