MAAMAW'96 Seventh European Workshop on MODELLING AUTONOMOUS AGENTS IN A MULTI-AGENT WORLD January 22-25, 1996 Institute for Perception Research Eindhoven The Netherlands CALL FOR PAPERS ***** DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 25 1995 ***** The MAAMAW workshops are the European forum for discussing progress on multi-agent systems. Multi-agent systems are, typically, distributed systems that are designed as a collection of interacting autonomous agents, each having their own capacities and goals that are related to a common environment. The notion of agent encompasses physical as well as software agents. The discipline, which emerged at the cross road of distributed computing, artificial intelligence and embedded systems. now borrows actively from a diversity of disciplines including biology, ecology and economy. Moreover, work on multi-agent systems is laying the foundations of new models of computing and interaction, taylored to the emerging large-scale infrastructure of open distributed platforms like the World-Wide Web. MAAMAW is thus interested in original papers of high quality on the following or related topics: Conceptual and theoretical foundations of multi-agent systems, Models, methods and techniques of interaction, coordination, communication, cooperation, negociation, etc, Dynamics of agent societies and social phenomena, Learning and adaptation for coordination and cooperation, Believability and usability of multi-agent systems, Artificial life from a multi-agent perspective, Applications of multi-agent systems, Multi-agent testbeds and experimental methodology. In MAAMAW'96, we especially encourage submission of papers emphasizing aspects of learning, believability and social behavior. The MAAMAW'96 scientific co-chairs are: Walter Van de Velde John W. Perram Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Lindo Center for Applied Mathematics Vrije Universiteit Brussel Odense University Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels Forskerparken 10, DK-5230 Odense M walter@arti.vub.ac.be jperram@imada.ou.dk VENUE AND LOCAL ORGANISATION ---------------------------- The Institute for Perception Research (IPO) is a partnership between Philips Research Laboratories and Eindhoven University of Technology. At the IPO, research focuses on human-machine communication (hardware, software, and services). The workshop will be organized in the region of Eindhoven. Eindhoven can be reached easily by plain, train or car. MAAMAW'96 Organisation chair: Rudy van Hoe Institute for Perception Research P.O. Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands vanhoe@prl.philips.nl FORMAT ------ MAAMAW'96 follows a single track format that features invited contributions, state-of-the-art lectures, contributed papers, posters and demonstrations. The organization of MAAMAW'96 will rely heavily on an interactive workshop service on the World-Wide Web (WWW). A MAAMAW WWW server is set up as a way to support the scientific and practical organisation of the workshop. An interactive review, papers on line, integrated communication between authors, contributions to the discussions, public commentary and annotations, local organisation and registration information will all be available. SUBMISSION PROCEDURES --------------------- Authors wishing to submit papers should do so before September 25th 1995 to the primary chair: Walter Van de Velde Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Tel: +32 2 629 37 00 Vrije Universiteit Brussel Fax: +32 2 629 37 29 Pleinlaan 2, Email: maamaw@arti.vub.ac.be B-1050 Brussels WWW: http://arti.vub.ac.be/~walter Papers should be submitted by mail in 5 hard copies, sent by email (maamaw@arti.vub.ac.be) or made available on WWW in postscript format. In the latter case a notification should be sent to the primary chair. Papers should be written in English and not exceed 12 A4 pages (12pt fonts) when printed. Fax submissions will be ignored. The first page should include an abstract, the full coordinates of at least one author, and a statement that the paper contains original and unpublished work and will not be submitted to any other conference before the notification of acceptance/rejection from MAAMAW. Papers are submitted to rigourous refereeing by the MAAMAW'96 Programme Committee. Authors will be advised as to the acceptance status of their paper around 8th of November. Camera ready copies, preferably in electronic form, are due no later than December 1th 1995. These papers willl be made available on the MAAMAW server. Printed proceedings will be published and available at the workshop. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- The programme committee consists of: Magnus Boman (Stockholm University and R.I.T.) (Sweden) John Campbell (University College, London) (UK) Christiano Castelfranchi (University of Siena, Siena) (Italy) Helder Coelho (INESC, Technical U. Lisbon) (Portugal) Yves Demazeau (LIFIA/IMAG, Grenoble) (France) Aldo Dragoni (University of Ancona) (Italy) Jean Erceau (ONERA/GIA, Chatillon) (France) Jacques Ferber (LAFORIA, Paris) (France) Francisco Garijo (Telefonica, Madrid) (Spain) Nick Jennings (Queen Mary and Westfield College) (UK) Wouter Joosen (KU Leuven) (Belgium) George Kiss (Open University) (UK) Paul Levi (University of Stuttgart) (Germany) Judith Masthoff (Institute for Perception Research, Eindhoven) (NL) Jean-Pierre Muller (IIIA, Neuchatel) (Switserland) Eugenio Oliveira (Universidade do Porto) (Portugal) Jeffrey Rosenschein (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) (Israel) Donald Steiner (Siemens/DFKI) (Germany) Kurt Sundermeyer (Daimler Benz AG) (Germany) Peter Wavish (Philips Research Lab, Redhill) (UK)