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FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS - ICMAS '95
CALL FOR PRELIMINARY INVITED TALK, PANEL, AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
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The 1995 International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-95)
will be held June 12-14, 1995 at the San Francisco Hilton Hotel (see
the Mosaic page
for details). A
cohesive, innovative collection of invited talks, panels, and
tutorials is planned for the conference. We solicit preliminary
proposals and suggestions for invited talks, panels, and tutorials
related to the subjects of the conference, including (but not limited
to) the following topics or combinations thereof:
Agent architectures
Artificial life (from a multiagent perspective)
Believable Agents
Cooperation, coordination, and conflict
Communication issues
Conceptual and theoretical foundations of multiagent systems
Development and engineering methodologies
Distributed artificial intelligence
Distributed consensus and algorithms for multiagent
interaction
Distributed search
Evaluation of multi-agent systems
Integrated testbeds and development environments
Intelligent agents in enterprise integration systems
and similar types of applications
Multiagent cooperative reasoning from distributed heterogeneous
databases
Multiagent planning and planning for multiagent worlds
Negotiation strategies - in both competitive and cooperative
situations
Organization, organizational knowledge, and organization self-design
Practical applications of multi-agent systems (enterprises,
robotics, sensing, manufacturing, IVHS etc.)
Resource allocation in multiagent systems
Social structures and their significance in multiagent systems
User interface issues for multiagent systems
If you have suggestions or preliminary proposals for an invited talk,
panel or tutorial, please submit the following information to Les
Gasser, the ICMAS Tutorials Chair, by 15 November, 1994:
The proposed subject of the talk, panel, or tutorial
The proposed speaker, panel leader/participants, or tutorial
presenter(s) (with full contact information).
A brief statement of why you believe a talk, panel, or tutorial
on this subject would be relevant and interesting to the MAS
conference attendees,
Our aim is to get the maximum input from the MAS community at large in
formulating the program of ICMAS-95. Hence we're interested in your
ideas and suggestions for talks, panels, and tutorials you'd like to
see at ICMAS-95, or in which you'd like to participate. Full proposal
solicitations on selected topics will come later.
TUTORIALS CHAIR:
Les Gasser
Computational Organization Design Lab
Institute of Safety and Systems Management
USC
927 West 35th Place
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0021 USA
Voice: 213.740.4046
Fax: 213.740.9732
Internet: gasser@usc.edu
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ICMAS-95 General Chair:
Victor R. Lesser
Computer and Information Science Department
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
(413) 545-1322
lesser@cs.umass.edu
Program Co-Chairs:
North America:
Susan E. Conry
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Clarkson University
Box 5720
Potsdam, NY 13676-5720
(315) 268-6510
conry@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
Europe:
Yves Demazeau
Laboratoire LIFIA/IMAG
46 Avenue Felix Viallet
F-38031 Grenoble cx
FRANCE
+33 76574654
Yves.Demazeau@imag.fr
Pacific Rim:
Mario Tokoro
Keio University / Sony CSL
Department of Computer Science
3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku
Yokohama 223 JAPAN
+81-45-560-1153
mario@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp
Local Arrangements:
Evangelos Simoudis
Lockheed AI Center
o/96-20, B/254F
3251 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(415) 3554-5271
simoudis@aic.lockheed.com
Advisory Committee:
John Campbell (England)
Christiano Castelfranchi (Italy)
Susan E. Conry (USA)
Yves Demazeau (France)
Edmund Durfee (USA)
Jacques Ferber (France)
Les Gasser (USA)
Michael Georgeff (Australia)
Carl Hewitt (USA)
Michael N. Huhns (USA)
Toru Ishida (Japan)
Victor Lesser (USA)
Jean-Pierre Muller (Switzerland)
Jeffrey Rosenschein (Israel)
Evangelos Simoudis (USA)
Katia Sycara (USA)
Mario Tokoro (Japan)
Program Committee:
John Campbell (England)
Christiano Castelfranchi (Italy)
Helder Coelho (Portugal)
Phil Cohen (USA)
Edmund Durfee (USA)
Jacques Ferber (France)
Mark Fox (Canada)
Les Gasser (USA)
Michael Georgeff (Australia)
Carl Hewitt (USA)
Bernardo Huberman (USA)
Michael Huhns (USA)
Toru Ishida (Japan)
Nick Jennings (England)
Sarit Kraus (Israel)
Christian Lemaitre (Mexico)
Frank von Martial (Germany)
Jean Pierre Muller (Switzerland)
Hideyuki Nakashima (Japan)
Van Parunak (USA)
Jeffrey Rosenschein (Israel)
Evangelos Simoudis (USA)
Luc Steels (Belgium)
Toshiharu Sugawara (Japan)
Katia Sycara (USA)