Subject: CFP: AAAI-96 WS on Intelligent Adaptive Agents
From: [email-masked] (IBRAHIM M. IMAM (INFT))
Date: 22 Jan 1996 18:42:16 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.ai

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                    AAAI-96 International Workshop on
                   Intelligent Adaptive Agents (IAA-96)

                    August 4-8, 1996, Portland, Oregon

In recent years, researchers from different fields have pushed toward
greater flexibility and intelligent adaptation in their systems. The
development of intelligent adaptive agents has been rapidly evolving
in many fields of science. Such systems should have the capability of
dynamically adapting their parameters, improve their knowledge-base or
method of operation in order to accomplish a set of tasks. This workshop
will focus on intelligent adaptation and its relationship to other
fields of interest.

Research issues that are of interest to the workshop include but are
not limited to:
1) Analyzing the role of adaptation in planning, execution monitoring, and
   problem-solving;
2) Adaptive control in real-world engineering systems;
3) Analyzing the computational cost of adaptation vs. system robustness;
4) Controlling the adaptive process (what is the strategy? what is
   needed?, what is expected?, etc.);
5) Adaptive mechanisms in an open agent society;
6) Adaptation in distributed systems;

The workshop seeks high quality submission in these areas. Researchers
interested in submitting papers should explain the adaptive process in
light of one or more of the issues presented above. Papers with
real-world applications are strongly encouraged.

Please send any questions to:   Ibrahim F. Imam    at
               [email-masked]

Program Committee Members

Gerald DeJong,            University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Tim Finin,                University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Brian Gaines,             University of Calgary, Canada
Diana Gordon,             Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Yves Kodratoff,           Universite de Paris Sud, France
Ryszard Michalski,        George Mason University, USA
Ashwin Ram,               Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Nigel Shadbolt,           University of Nottingham, England
Reid Simmons,             Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Walter Van de Velde,      Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Brad Whitehall,           United Technologies Research Center, USA
Stefan Wrobel,            GMD, Germany

Submission Information

Paper submissions should not exceed eight single-spaced pages, with
1 inch margins, 12pt font. The first page must show the title, authors'
names, full surface mail addresses, fax number (if possible), email
addresses, short abstract (does not exceed 200 words), and a list of
key words (up to 5).

Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged and should be sent to
the updated email address specified in the workshop World-Wide Web page.
Otherwise, contact the workshop chair at ([email-masked]) for mailing
arrangements.  An extended version of the CFP can be found in:

                http://www.mli.gmu.edu/~iimam/aaai96.html

Important Dates

Submission Deadline:                    March 18, 1996
Notification Date:                      April 15, 1996
Camera-Ready Due:                       May   13, 1996
Workshop:                               August 4, 1996