******************************************************************* FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Second Symposium on Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems AISB'02 Convention, April 2002, Imperial College, London ******************************************************************* Sponsored by AISB and AgentLinkII MOTIVATION In recent years, Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems have become a highly active area of AI research. Intelligent Agents have been developed and applied successfully in many domains, such as e-commerce, human-computer interaction, entertainment, process management and traffic control. When designing agent systems, it is impossible to foresee all the potential situations an agent may encounter and specify an agent behavior optimally in advance. Agents therefore have to learn from and adapt to their environment. This task is even more complex when nature is not the only source of uncertainty, and the agent is situated in an environment that contains other agents with potentially different capabilities, goals, and beliefs. Multi-Agent Learning, i.e., the ability of the agents to learn how to cooperate and compete, becomes crucial in such domains. The goal of this symposium is to increase awareness and interest in adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration between ML experts and agent system experts, and give a representative overview of current research in the area of adaptive agents. The symposium will serve as an inclusive forum for the discussion on ongoing or completed work in both theoretical and practical issues. The proposed symposium is a continuation of AAMAS. AAMAS was held as part of AISB-01 in York, March 2001. -------------------------- CHAIR: Eduardo Alonso Department of Computing City University Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB United Kingdom eduardo@soi.city.ac.uk CO-CHAIRS: Daniel Kudenko, University of York Dimitar Kazakov, University of York PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Kurt Driessens, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Pete Edwards, University of Aberdeen, UK. Eugenio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugal. Michael Schroeder, City University, UK. Kostas Stathis, City University, UK. Niek Wijngaards, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands. KEYNOTE SPEAKER Luc Steels, from Free University of Brussels, will give a keynote talk at the symposium. ------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST The proposed symposium will focus on (but is not limited to) the following areas: - Learning and adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems - Logic-based learning - Learning and communication - Natural selection, language and learning - Evolutionary agents and emergent Multi-Agent structures - Industrial applications of learning agents - Distributed Learning ------------------------ SUBMISSIONS Initially, we require an extended abstract, up to four pages in length (at least 10pt font). The following formats are acceptable: - Paper: A4, 3 copies - Email: PDF, Postscript, or MS Word Please submit your abstracts on or before 21st December 2001. Please post or email submissions to the programme chair (address given above). Full papers (submitted after the extended abstract has been accepted) should be no longer than 12 pages. Accepted symposium papers will be published by AISB and the proceedings will have an ISBN number. ------------------------- TIMETABLE Abstract submission DEADLINE: 21st December 2001 Notification re. extended abstracts: 31st January 2002 Submission of full papers: 11th March 2002 Convention: 2nd - 5th April 2002 -------------------------- CONTACTS If you have any questions about this symposium, please contact the programme chair, either at the address given above, or by email: eduardo@soi.city.ac.uk If you have any questions about the AISB'02 convention, please contact the convention chair, Jeremy Pitt: j.pitt@ic.ac.uk ------------------- MLnet community list http://www.mlnet.org/mlnet2/services/mlnet-community.html