------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers Workshop on Machine Learning and Intelligent Agents MACHINE LEARNING AND APPLICATIONS Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence 1999 (ACAI'99) 5-16 July 1999, Chania, Greece (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99) European Coordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) (http://www.eccai.org) & Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society (EETN) (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn) ------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Background ------------------------------- Machine Learning in single and multi-agent systems is a relatively new but significant and promising topic in Artificial Intelligence. Intelligent agents and agent-based computer systems represent an important, fundamentally new way of dealing with many important software application problems for which mainstream computer science techniques offer no obvious solution in recent dynamic and distributed nature of both data and applications. Topics to be covered during this workshop must be applications which concern the development of intelligent agent architectures which exhibit machine learning capabilities. These architectures must apply some learning strategy (learning from examples, from instruction, by discovery or analogy, etc.), some learning feedback method (supervised, reinforcement, unsupervised learning, etc.), and must be safely characterized as intelligent agent systems. Examples of topics : Single-agent or isolated Learning, multi-agent or interactive learning, Mutual learning, cooperative learning, collaborative learning, etc. Workshop Objectives ------------------- The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners with an active interest in machine learning problems in environments inhabited by single intelligent agents and/or shared by multiple intelligent agents. Also, this workshop will provide a forum for discussing existing approaches and results and developing new ideas and perspectives. Organizing Committee -------------------- Ass. Prof. T. Panayiotopoulos, University of Piraeus, Dept of Computer Science Email: themisp@unipi.gr Dr. N. Zacharis University of Piraeus, Dept of Computer Science E-mail: nzach@unipi.gr Submission Format ----------------- Interested authors are requested to submit a paper, of no more than 10 pages, before 23 February 1999 Authors of accepted papers will be asked to provide a camera-ready version of their paper before 1 April 1999. Submission should be sent by e-mail to: Assist. Prof. Themis Panayiotopoulos Themis, University of Piraeus, Department of Computer Science Karaoli & Dimitriou 80 Piraeus - 18534, Greece Tel : (+301) 4222193 Fax : (+301) 4221520 E-mail : themisp@unipi.gr Organisational Issues ---------------------- Up to 10 accepted papers will be presented. The Workshop will take place during the afternoon sessions of ACAI-99, from 14:30 to 18:00. The exact date of the workshop will be finalized by the ACAI-99 organizing committee by the end of December 1998. Anyone registered for the main ACAI-99 event can also attend all the workshops. For the Workshop participants who will not be registered for the whole ACAI-99 there will be a fee of 100 ECUs. Proceedings will be published as a technical report in collaboration with the ACAI-99 organization committee. Important Dates --------------- 23 February, 1999 Deadline for paper submission 13 March, 1999 Notification of acceptance 1 April, 1999 Deadline for final camera ready papers 5-16 July, 1999 The exact date will be finalised soon