DAI-List Digest Tuesday, 24 March 1992 Issue Number 74 Topics: Real-Life Industrial Applications of DAI CFP for MAAMAW '92 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, 24 Mar 92 10:28:52 +0100 From: hlaasri@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr (Hassan Laasri) Subject: Real-Life Applications of DAI within the Industry? Dear colleagues, An industrial friend is looking for real-life applications (not testbeds or prototypes) using Distributed AI (CDPS, multiagent systems) within the industry in USA, Europe, or Japan. If you have any information or pointer, please Email them directly to me and I'll forward to the concerned person. [These would be appropriate for DAI-List also - Huhns] Thanks in advance for your cooperation, Hassan Laasri Alcatel Alsthom Recherche Route de Nozay 91460 Marcoussis, France Email: hlaasri@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Mar 92 18:22:15 EDT From: amedeo cesta Subject: MAAMAW 92 CFP MAAMAW '92 Fourth European Workshop on Modeling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World July, 29-31 1992 S.Martino al Cimino (near Rome), Italy CALL FOR PAPERS The purpose of this Workshop is to stimulate exchange and discussion of research in the field of multiagent systems. MAAMAW is the European forum for DAI studies. While classical DAI research was mainly concerned with distributed problem solving and task allocation in view of a common goal, MAAMAW emphasizes the problems arising when several autonomous agents, endowed with their own goals, knowledge, and abilities, share a common environment and pursue either shared or competing goals. MAAMAW is therefore interested both in classical DAI problems (coordination, communication, cooperation, negotiation, etc.) and in theories of intention and action, or, more generally, in the architecture of the autonomous agent. Multiagent models are a new area of research in rapid growth, of relevant interest both for AI and for social and management sciences. Both novel theoretical and computational approaches to multiagent topics are encouraged. The submitted papers will undergo a strict selection. MAAMAW is a 60-person international workshop where you can discuss your ideas or exhibit your systems. Topics of MAAMAW interest include, but are not limited to: * Agents architectures (high level, reactive, situated agents) * Artificial life from a multiagent perspective * Cooperation, coordination, and conflict * Communication (protocols, linguistic strategies, negotiation approaches) * Distributed multiagent planning and group work * Distributed algorithms for multiagent interactions * Learning of cooperation and coordination * Hardware based on a multiagent perspective * Multiagent testbeds for simulating multiagent interactions * Formal specification and verification of agents and systems of agents * Conceptual and theoretical foundations of multiagent systems This year the workshop will focus on: *** SOCIAL SIMULATION *** with special reference to: * Social organization, social roles, norms * Power and influence between agents * Collective agents, joint intentions, commitment, responsibility in social action * DAI and the Multi-Agent perspective for the social sciences Preprints of the proceedings will be available at the workshop. Papers from the proceedings will be revised and appear in a book of the ''Decentralized AI'' series published by Elsevier/North Holland. MAAMAW '92 is organized by: IP-CNR - Institute of Psychology of the Italian National Research Council AI*IA - Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence And is sponsored by: ECCAI - European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence CNR - Special Project on "Informatica e Calcolo Parallelo" of the Italian National Research Council Program Chairmen: Cristiano Castelfranchi (IP-CNR / AI*IA - Italy) Eric Werner (PLATO GmbH, Luebeck - Germany) Program Committee: Magnus Boman (Stockholm University and R.I.T. -Sweden) John Campbell (University College London - United Kingdom) Rosaria Conte (IP-CNR, Rome - Italy) Yves Demazeau (LIFIA/IMAG, Grenoble - France) Mauro Di Manzo (Universita di Genova - Italy) Jacques Ferber (LAFORIA, Paris - France) Julia Galliers (University of Cambridge - United Kingdom) Graca Gaspar (Faculdade de Ciencias de Lisboa, Portugal) Heikki Hammainen (Nokia Research Center, Espoo - Finland) Hans Haugeneder (Siemens AG, Muenchen - Germany) George Kiss (The Open University, Milton Keynes - UK) Paul Levi (Technischen Universitaet, Muenchen - Germany) Frank v. Martial (DETECON, Bonn - Germany) Jean-Pierre Muller (Universite de Neuchatel - Switzerland) Eugenio Oliveira (Universidade do Porto - Portugal) John Perram (Odense Universitet - Denmark) Jeffrey Rosenschein (Hebrew University, Jerusalem - Israel) Walter Van de Velde (Vrije Universiteit Brussels - Belgium) Peter Wavish (Philips Research Lab, Redhill - UK) Gilad Zlotkin (Hebrew University, Jerusalem - Israel) Invited Speakers: Leading experts of the domain will be invited to give presentations. These will include: Edmund Durfee (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - USA) Carl Hewitt (MIT, Cambridge, MA - USA) Yoav Shoham (Stanford University, Stanford, CA - USA) Multi-Agent Olympics: There will be a competition and a prize for the most interesting multiagent system (software, hardware). People willing to present a system should contact in advance the local organizers. Last year the multiagent olympics was judged by a renowned international panel of judges and the winners were: Alexis Drogoul (LAFORIA, Paris - France) and Christophe Dubreuil (CERT-ONERA, Toulouse - France). Submission of Papers: Authors are requested to submit 5 copies of papers written in English in hardcopy format (electronic and fax submissions will not be accepted) to the Program Chairman at the address specified below. Submitted papers should be no longer than 5000 words (12 pages, A4 or 8.5"x11" sized paper in letter quality print). The first page of each paper should contain the title, the name of the author(s), the complete address(es), and an abstract. Application without Papers: People not submitting a paper are requested to give a brief description of their research interests. Applications are welcome, but acceptance will be restricted given the objectives of the workshop. Timetable: Papers, as well as general applications, must be received by April 15, 1992. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by June 1, 1992. Final camera-ready papers must be received by June 30, 1992. Send papers to: Dr.C.Castelfranchi - MAAMAW92 IP-CNR Viale Marx 15, I-00137 Rome, ITALY Local Organizers (to be contacted for further information) Amedeo Cesta (IP-CNR / AI*IA) Maria Miceli (IP-CNR / AI*IA) Viale Marx 15, I-00137 Rome, ITALY tel: +39-6-8292626; fax: +39-6-824737 e-mail: maamaw@irmkant.bitnet