DAI-List Digest Saturday, 12 May 1990 Issue Number 7 Topics: Call-for-Papers for 10th DAI Workshop 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation 10th AAAI International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence The Flying L Ranch Bandera, Texas (near San antonio) October 23-27, 1990 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 objective of the 10th Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence is to assess and advance the state of the art in coordination among intelligent agents. The focus will be synthetic and pragmatic, investigating how we can integrate theoretical and experimental ideas about knowledge, planning, negotiation, action, etc. in multiagent domains to build working interacting agents. Participation at the Workshop will be by invitation only and will be limited to approximately 35 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 six basic problem areas of DAI 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. Papers are solicited for (but not limited to) the following six basic DAI topics: 1. Task decomposition: the use of multiple interacting knowledge bases, distributed planning, and other ways to decompose a task, distribute it among agents, and allocate resources. 2. Communication and interaction among agents, including communication protocols, Speech Act theory, and reasoning about communication. 3. Maintaining coherence during problem solving, including issues of distributed control and organization. 4. Modeling other agents, such as their beliefs, plans, goals, and problem-solving capabilities, as well as the collaborative process itself. 5. Recognizing and resolving disparities among agents, using negotiation, belief and justification networks, open systems, and due process. 6. Building and simulating agents, using object-based concurrent programming languages such as Actors, reflective languages, frameworks such as ABE, MACE, RAD, and SOCIAL, simulation environments such as DVMT and MICE, and blackboard systems. The Workshop will have several types of sessions, including presentation sessions for discussion of distinguished papers, panel discussions for consideration of groups of related papers, and working sessions on topics such as communication standards for agent interactions, and methodologies and evaluation criteria for DAI research. DATES: Deadline for submission of papers (3 copies, please): July 2, 1990. Notification of acceptance: August 7, 1990. Final papers due (for distribution at the Workshop): October 1, 1990. We expect that revised versions of the best papers from the Workshop will be published as "Distributed Artificial Intelligence Volume III" and in a special issue on DAI in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Michael N. Huhns (chairman) MCC 3500 West Balcones Center Drive Austin, TX 78759-6509 (512) 338-3651 or Kish Sharma, Boeing Edmund H. Durfee, University of Michigan Jacques Ferber, Universite Paris Les Gasser, University of Southern California Van Dyke Parunak, Industrial Technology Insitute Larry M. Stephens, U. of South Carolina ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Toru Ishida, NTT, Japan Victor R. Lesser, University of Massachusetts at Amherst N. S. Sridharan, FMC Corporation