DAI-List Digest Monday, 21 September 1992 Issue Number 90 Topics: Description of the AI INESC Project IC4 Conference (Preliminary Announcement) CFP: IJISAFM on Mathematical and Computational Models of Organizations 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: Mon, 14 Sep 92 18:18:45 +0200 Subject: Description of the AI INESC Project From: hcoelho@eniac.inesc.pt (Helder COELHO) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INESC PROJECT Coordinator and Head: Professor Helder Coelho Foci of Research: Multiagent Interactions, Knowledge Engineering, and Logic Programming Associated University Institutions: DM/ISEG/UTL, IST/UTL, FC/UL, ISCTE Grant and Industrial Support: 1) National Cooperation - JNICT project "Deontlog" n: 179.90 - JNICT project "Multi-Agent dialogues" n: 841.90 2) International Cooperation - COMPULOG ESPRIT Network - JNICT-CNPq project n: 910060-90.8 - JNICT-British Council project on "Intelligent Tutoring Systems" 3) Industry Cooperation - PITIE project SIGEPI with Globalsis - PITIE project SQL Tutor with Novabase RESEARCH DIRECTIONS The real applications envisaged may be found in plants, intelligent buildings, administrative (offices), and service organizations. 1) Modeling Interactions - Organizing conversations among autonomous agents (HC, MC2) - Organizing negotiations between human and autonomous agents (IR) - Organizing strategic interactions in oligopolistic markets between human and artificial agents (CC, HC) 2) Modeling agents - Agent architecture based upon beliefs, reasoning, actions, communication, choice and evolution (GG, HC) - Agent architecture based upon mental states (beliefs, knowledge, actions, expectations, desires, and intentions) (JC1, MC2, LA) 3) Modeling users (students) - With stereotypes (AP) - Mathetics (formalizing learning and teaching processes) (AP) 4) Modeling societies - Organizing bureaucratic agents in administrative organizations (LB) 5) Modeling agent reasoning - Belief revision (NM) - Deontic reasoning (FS, JC, MA, RL) - Knowledge-based classification of data objects (MC1) - Game searching (CA, LA, LM) 6) Developing workbench - For simulation of multiagent interactions and architectures (LM) 7) Developing applications - Knowledge systems (JC2, JL, LA, LM, PR) - Legal-based systems (FS, JC, MA, RL) - Intelligent tutoring systems (AP, CA) - Learning environments (AP, EC, CB) - Market simulation (CC) HUMAN RESOURCES: 2 Ph.D. (HC, NM) 1 M.Sc. (AP) 4 Ph.D. students (AP, GG, IR, LB, MC2) 3 M.Sc. students (CA, LA, LM) 2 Research students (JC1, JL) Connected Man-Power: 3 M.Sc. students (CC, JC2, MC1/ISEG) 1 M.Sc. students (PR/ISCTE) Associated Groups: 1 Ph.D. (EC/UC) 1 M.Sc. (CB/UC) 1 Ph.D. (JC/IST) 3 M.Sc. (FS, MA, RL/IST) AP - Ana Paiva, CA - Carlos Azevedo, CC - Castro Caldas, HC - Helder Coelho, GG - Graga Gaspar, IR - Isabel Ramos, JC1 - Josi Cascalho, JC2 - Josi Cruces, JL - Josi Louro, LA - Luis Antunes, LB - Luis Botelho, LM - Luis Moniz, MC1 - Manuel Campagnolo, MC2 - Milton Correa, NM - Nuno Mamede, PR - Pedro Ramos, CB - Carlos Bento, EC - Ernesto Costa, FS - Filipe Santos, MA - Maria Alegre, RL - Renwei Li ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: abw@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew B. Whinston) Subject: IC4 Conference (Preliminary Announcement) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 8:58:07 CDT The 4th OC3 conference will be held at the IC2 Institute in Austin, TX on March 28-30, 1993. As in the past, leading researchers and practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds will present new ideas on the impacts of computing on organizational structures and coordination mechanisms, and new methodologies for software development in the domain of business-oriented collaboration systems. A unique feature of the conference will involve Prof. Lynda Applegate leading a discussion on two different cases that illustrate the potential of new computing concepts to influence organizational processes. Individuals who register for the conference will be provided copies of the case to study so that they can participate actively in the discussion. Contact : Andrew B. Whinston CBA 5.202 MSIS University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712-1175 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 09:22:57 PDT From: gasser@morue.usc.edu (Les Gasser) Subject: IJISAFM Special Issue CFP CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS IN ACCOUNTING, FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT Special Issue on "Mathematical and Computational Models of Organizations: Models and Characteristics of Agent Behavior The International Journal of Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management (IJISAFM) is a heavily refereed journal published by John Wiley. A special issue on "Mathematical and Computational Models of Organizations: Models and Characteristics of Agent Behavior," is being co-edited by Professors Kathleen Carley (Kathleen.Carley@centro.cs.cmu.edu -- Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University), Les Gasser (Gasser@morue.usc.edu -- University of Southern California), Daniel O'Leary (oleary@mizar.usc.edu -- School of Business, University of Southern California) and Michael Prietula (mp2j@andrew.cmu.edu -- Carnegie Mellon University, Graduate School of Industrial Administration). Questions regarding the issue can be directed to any of the co-editors. The focus of papers can be on any aspect of mathematical and computational models of organizations, with particular interest in multiple agent models. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Under what conditions does an organization exhibit learning or intelligence greater than the sum of its agents? 2. How does organization theory relate to mathematical and computational models of organizations? 3. How sophisticated do our models of intelligent agents need to be to generate realistic organizational results? 4. What does organization theory gain by using more sophisticated models of intelligent agents? 5. How should different types of agents be organized? 6. How do different types of negotiation strategies between agents affect organizational behavior? 7. What is the empirical behavior of mathematical approaches? 8. How can an organization exhibit learning/intelligence greater than the sum of the behavior of its agents? A broad base of research approaches are considered appropriate for consideration. The deadline for paper submissions is February 28, 1993. As with all papers for the journal, four copies should be submitted to Daniel E. O'Leary IJISAFM School of Business University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-1421 Phone: 213-740-4856