DAI-List Digest Wednesday, 24 July 1991 Issue Number 42 Topics: CFP for 11th DAI Workshop CFP for J. Group Decision and Negotiation Please send submissions to DAI-List@mcc.com. Send other requests, such as changes in your e-mail address, to DAI-List-Request@mcc.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jul 91 15:06:26 -0400 From: durfee@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ed Durfee) Subject: Please Post! Call for Participation 11th International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence The Homestead Glen Arbor, Michigan (near Traverse City) February 26-28, 1992 Distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) is concerned with how a decentralized group of intelligent computational agents should coordinate their activities to achieve their goals. When pursuing common or overlapping goals, they should act cooperatively so as to accomplish more as a group than individually; when pursuing conflicting goals, they should compete intelligently. The 11th Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence will bring together researchers studying coordination from diverse perspectives, ranging from distributed computing systems to discourse analysis, from formalisms for representing nested beliefs in agents to cognitive studies of human performance in organizations, from solving inherently distributed problems in applications such as communication network managment to analyzing the evolution of cooperation in populations of artificial systems. The objective is to identify and develop common theories and approaches to coordination in order to improve our conceptual understandings and practical implementations of coordination processes. Participation at the Workshop will be by invitation only and will be limited to approximately 40 people. To participate, please submit a technical paper describing original research or significant applications in DAI to the Workshop chairman. Preference will be given to work that addresses one or more of the four DAI themes listed below. We specifically discourage the submission of papers in areas such as fine-grained parallelism, hardware or language-level concurrency, and connectionism, because we feel that work in these areas is more appropriate for other workshops. A small number of "interested observers" may also be invited to attend. If you would like to be considered for attendance on this basis, please submit a written request justifying your participation. To encourage participants to relate their work to ongoing themes in DAI beforehand, papers are solicited for (but not strictly limited to) the following themes: 1. Coordination/Collaboration Knowledge: The identification, encoding, and use of generic knowledge for coordination and collaboration. This theme focusses on general knowledge about resolving conflicts, compromising, and cooperating. 2. Coordination as Search: When viewing coordination as a search process, decisions are needed regarding algorithms for conducting the search, heuristics for controlling the search, and protocols for exchanging and updating portions of the search space. This theme broadly includes approaches such as distributed constraint satisfaction search, search for compatible distributed plans, search in cooperative problem-solving and design, negotiation search, and search for appropriate organizational designs. 3. Intelligent Agents in Enterprises and Applications: Embedding DAI systems in computer networks used by people to solve problems allows the automation of both cooperative problem-solving activities (such as distributed interpretation or diagnosis) and coordination activities (such as information filtration or resource allocation). This theme includes issues in identifying suitable applications of DAI technology and in developing DAI agents that interact effectively with people and each other. 4. Modeling Through Communication and Observation in Adversarial and Cooperative Systems: Building and maintaining models of other agents' beliefs, abilities, goals, and plans is crucial for intelligent interaction. Topics in this theme include acquiring modeling information (through communication and plan recognition) and using models to make decisions about communication (deciding whether to tell the truth, eliciting more information) and about other actions. These themes are not mutually exclusive, and we welcome papers that integrate insights from more than one of them. As DAI matures, it is appearing more and more in real-world applications. This welcome development raises the need for engineering principles that will help match particular techniques with kinds of problems. We welcome both theoretical and applied papers, and encourage each to contribute to the development of these principles. Specifically, theoretical papers should explain how their principles and methods can be mapped to applications, while applied papers should explain why they use the techniques that they do and why other approaches are less appropriate for the problem at hand. The Workshop will have several types of sessions, including presentation sessions for discussion of distinguished papers, panel discussions for papers sharing common themes, and working sessions on topics such as unifying concepts behind coordination, and methodologies and evaluation criteria for DAI research. VENUE: DAI'92 will be held at the Homestead in Glen Arbor, Michigan, 27 miles from the Traverse City airport, on the shore of Lake Michigan and adjacent to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Sculpted by glaciers and hundreds of feet in height, the dunes border the western edge of the peninsula the Chippewa called "Leelanau," "the land of delight." The environment is richly forested and surrounded with relics of frontier America, and the resort has on-site ice skating, down-hill skiing, and cross-country trailheads to 36 kilometers of trails through the National Lakeshore (with equipment rental and instruction available). We'll continue the DAI tradition of a participatory workshop by active practitioners in a setting that offers seclusion, natural beauty, and recreational intermissions. SUBMISSION DETAILS: Papers for review should be a maximum length of 10 pages, in a legible format. Please submit 4 copies to Edmund H. Durfee (address below), and indicate on the title page the theme(s) for which the paper is most relevant. Also, please include an electronic mail address for the appropriate contact person. DATES: Deadline for paper submissions (4 copies, 10 page max):November 1, 1991. Notification of acceptance: December 16, 1991. Final papers due (for distribution at the Workshop): January 17, 1992. We expect that revised versions of the best papers from the Workshop will be considered for inclusion in an appropriate journal or in a published collection. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Edmund H. Durfee (co-chair) H. Van Dyke Parunak (co-chair) EECS Department Industrial Technology Institute University of Michigan P. O. Box 1485 1101 Beal Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48106 Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (313) 769-4049 (313) 936-1563 van@iti.org durfee@caen.engin.umich.edu Susan Conry, Clarkson University Jacques Ferber, Universite Paris Michael Huhns, MCC Jeff Rosenschein, Hebrew University Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University Marty Tenenbaum, Stanford University Robert Weihmayer, GTE Labs ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Mark Fox, Carnegie Mellon University Les Gasser, Paris IV/Ecole des Mines, France Carl Hewitt, MIT Toru Ishida, NTT, Japan Victor R. Lesser, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Eric Werner, University of Hamburg, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1991 16:39-EDT From: Katia.Sycara@ISL1.RI.CMU.EDU Subject: Journal Announcement and Call for Papers This is an announcement and Call for Papers for the new Journal on Group Decision and Negotiation. One of the areas of interest is DAI. --Katia Sycara the Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University --------------- GROUP DECISION AND NEGOTIATION edited by Melvin F. Shakun, New York University The idea for the journal, Group Decision and Negotiation, emerges from evolving, unifying approaches to group decision and negotiation processes. These processes are complex and self-organizing involving multiplayer, multicriteria, ill-structured, dynamic problems. Approaches include (1) computer group decision and negotiation support, (2) artificial intelligence and management science, (3) applied game theory, experiment and social choice, and (4) cognitive/behavioral sciences in group decision and negotiation. A number of research studies combines two or more of these fields. The new journal provides a publication vehicle for theoretical and empirical research, and real-world applications and case studies. In defining the domain of group decision and negotiation, the term "group" is interpreted to comprise all multiplayer contexts. Thus, organizational decision support systems providing organization-wide support are included. Group decision and negotiation refers to the whole process or flow of activities relevant to group decision and negotiation, not only to the final choice itself -- e.g., scanning, communication and information sharing, problem definition (representation) and evolution, alternative generation and social-emotional interaction. Descriptive, normative and design viewpoints are of interest. Thus, Group Decision and Negotiation deals broadly with relation and coordination in group processes. Areas of application include intraorganizational coordination (as in integrated design, production, finance, marketing and distribution, --e.g., as in new products and global coordination), computer supported collaborative work, labor-management negotiations, interorganizational negotiation (business, government and non-profits), international (intercultural negotiations), coordination of autonomous agents etc. The journal will also cover development of software for supporting group decision and negotiation. Departments and Departmental Editors "Group Decision and Negotiation Support Systems" ________________________________________________ Tug Bui, Naval Postgraduate school, Monterey,USA, Tawfik Jelassi, INSEAD, European Institute of Business Administration, Fontainebleau Cedex, France, Jay Nunamaker, Management Information Systems Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA "Artificial Intelligence and Management Science" ________________________________________________ Gregory Kersten, School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Katia Sycara, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA "Applied Game Theory, Experiment and social Choice" ___________________________________________________ Kalyan Chatterjee, College of Business Administration, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA "Cognitive/Behavioral Sciences" ______________________________ Gregory Northcraft, Department of Management and Policy, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA Partial List of Associate Editors Lynda Applegate, Harvard School of Business Administration, Max Bazerman, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Peter Bogetoff, Copenhagen Business school, Steven Brams, New York University, Colin Camerer, University of Pennsylvania, Lucien Duckstein, University of Arizona, Guy Olivier Faure, University of Paris V- Sorbonne, Paul Gray, The Claremont Graduate School, Carl E. Hewitt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Akira Ishikawa, Aoyama Gakuin University, Matthias Jarke, Universitat Passau, Robert Johanson, Institute for the Future, Menlo Park Carl Jones, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, D. Marc Kilgour, Wilfrid Laurier University, Pekka Korhonen, Helsinki School of Economics, Victor Lesser, Stanford University, C. Michael Lewis, University of Pittsburgh, Wojek Michalowski, Carleton University, Jeryl L. Mumpower, State University of New York, Bertrand Munier, Ecole Normale superieure, Cachan Cedex, Margaret Neale, Northwestern University, Hannu Nurmi, University of Turku, William F. Samuelson, Boston University, Taracad R. Sivasankaran, California State University, Edward Stohr, New York University, Ephraim F. Sudit, Rutgers- The State University of New Jersey, Leigh Thompson, University of Washington, Stephen Weiss, New York University, Andrew Whinston, University of Texas - Austin, Stan Zionts, State University of New York at Buffalo. CALL FOR PAPERS Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts in accordance with the following style: articles for publication should be sent to: Group Decision and Negotiation, Editorial Office, Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. The return of unsolicited articles cannot be guaranteed. Authors may suggest referral of their paper to a particular Departmental Editor. North American authors may submit manuscripts to: Group Decision and Negotiation, Editorial Office, P.O. Box 230, Accord MA 02018 - 0230, USA. Manuscripts (in four copies) should be typed doublespaced on one side of plain paper, with wide margins to allow for editorial notes and instructions to the printer. Equations and symbols should be type if possible; in any case, clarity is essential. The first page of the manuscript should contain the author's name, article title and if necessary a running head (condensed title) which should not exceed 45 characters, including spaces. Each page of the manuscript should be consecutively numbered, including pages of references and captions. The author's affiliation should appear at the end of the article. Abstract: Include an Abstract of 100-200 words. Keywords: Give 5-10 Keywords. Symbols: Unusual symbols should be identified in the margin, and an alternative or equivalent symbol or sign should be provided if the one required is rare. Special care should be taken to distinguish between the letter O and zero, the letter| and the number one, kappa and k, mu and u, nu and v, eta and n. Subscripts and superscripts should be marked if not clear. The use of italics is to be indicated by single underlining; bold-face by wavy underlining. Notes which do not belong to the head of the article should be numbered consecutively. They should be placed at the end of the article, before the references, not as footnotes. A note which refers to the head of the article should be indicated by an asterisk. Notes should be kept to an absolute minimum. All Figures should be delivered in reproducible form. References should be listed at the end of the article in alphabetical and chronological order. A journal reference should comprise name(s), initial(s), year of publication, full title of paper, name of journal (underlined), volume number (wavy underlined), issue number, and first and last pages. Offprints: The author will receive, without charge, 50 Offprints of the article. Additional Offprints may be ordered when the proofs are returned to the publisher. No page charges are levied on authors or their institutions. For further information please contact Group Decision and Negotiation, Editorial Office, Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 17,3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands.