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WORKSHOP
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Coordination in
Emergent Agent Societies
Agent societies are coherently
structured groups of agents whose behaviour is constrained by social laws.
Agents in such groups plan and act so as to increase their own utility in
conjunction to society's fitness advantage.
An emergent agent society constitutes an open
system whose structure, laws and individuals change depending on individual
agents' capabilities, knowledge, resources, constraints agents face, and the dynamic
nature of the environment in which agents' plan and act.
A lot of work is devoted to formalizing and
devising architectures for agents' cooperative behaviour, for coordinating
the behaviour of individual agents within groups, as well as to designing
agent societies using social laws. However, providing agents with abilities
to automatically devise societies so as to form coherent emergent groups that
coordinate their behaviour via social laws, is highly challenging.
The objective of this workshop is to report
on methods and techniques towards the formation of emergent agent societies
that constrain their own behaviour, with the aim to coordinate their
activities in highly distributed, dynamic and unpredictable
environments.
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In particular this workshop aims, among
other related topics, to report on advances concerning:
- Models towards the formalization of emergent agents' societies,
their formation, evolution and dissolution.
- Methods for constraint-based agents' coordinated behaviour.
- Specification and exploitation of roles in emergent agent
societies.
- Methods for the dynamic formation of social laws in emergent
agent societies.
- Real-world applications that show the breadth and depth of
challenges for coordination in emerging agent societies.
This is planned to be a full-day workshop.
Participants will have an oral presentation of 20 minutes and ample time
shall be allotted for discussions.
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Program
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Program August Monday 23
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15:30 15:45
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Welcome
/ Introduction
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15:45 16:15
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A
typology of relationships and goals for coordination and regulation
Ronald
Ashri, Michael Luck, Mark dInverno
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16:15 16:45
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Delta:
The Social Delegation Cycle
Guido Boella, Leendert van der Torre
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16:45 17:15
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What
I See is What You Say: Coordination in a Shared Environment
with
Behavioral Implicit Communication
L.
Tummolini, C. Castelfranchi, A. Ricci, M. Viroli, A. Omicini
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17:15 18:00
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Coffee
/Tea Break
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18:00 18:30
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Stress
Modified Policies for Multi-Agent Systems
Ronan
Mac Rauirı, Mark T. Keane
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18:30 19 :00
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Constraint
Relaxation to Reduce Brittleness of Distributed Agent
Protocols
M. Fadzi Hassan, David Robertson
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19:00 -19:30
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Strategies
for Resolving Norm Conflict in Practical Reasoning
Martin
J. Kollingbaum, Timothy J. Norman
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Program August Tuesday 24
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9:00 9:15
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Welcome
/ Introduction
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9:15 9:45
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A Formal
Model of Organizations for Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
Mairi
McCallum, Timothy J. Norman, Wamberto W. Vasconcelos
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9:45 10:15
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Representative
Agents for Reliable Participation in Social Contexts
Ioannis
Partsakoulakis, George Vouros
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10:15 10:45
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Towards
Dynamic Reorganization of Agent Societies
Virginia
Dignum, Frank Dignum, Liz Sonenberg
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10:45 11:15
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Coffee
/Tea Break
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11:15 11:45
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Power
and Dependence in Multiagent Systems (Research note)
Guido Boella, Luigi Sauro, Leendert van der Torre
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11:45 12:45
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Working
session
A
roadmap to emergent agent societies.
Research
agenda, Collaborations, Applications
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12:45 13:00
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Conclusions
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Paper
Submission
It is highly
recommended to submit papers using the final camera-ready formatting style
specified in ECAI 04 Style Guide. Submissions must not exceed 10 pages
in camera-ready format. All submissions must be sent in PDF or PS format to
the Workshop chair.
Guidelines on the
format of submissions will be available on the ECAI 2004 Style Guide page
soon. Final versions of accepted papers will be required to conform strictly
to the formatting requirements specified in the ECAI 2004 Style Guide.
At least one author
of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop to present the
paper. All
workshop participants are expected to register for the main ECAI-2004
conference.
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5 April 2004
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Extended deadline for paper submission.
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2 May 2004
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Notification of papers acceptance/rejection.
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1 June 2004
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Deadline for camera-ready paper.
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22- 23 August 2004
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Workshop at ECAI 04.
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Chair:
Associate Professor George A. Vouros,
Director of the Ai Lab and
Intelligent Cooperative Systems Group
Dept of Information and Comm. Systems Engineering
University of the Aegean Greece
E-mail: georgev at aegean dot gr
Voice: +30 2273 0 82226
Fax: +30 2273 0 82009
Associate Professor Keith S. Decker
Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Delaware
77 E. Delaware Ave.
(the AI/NLP GreenHouse)
Newark, USA
Email:
decker at cis dot udel dot edu
Assistant
Professor M.V.Dignum
Universiteit Utrecht
Institute of Information and Computing Sciences
Utrecht, The Netherlands
E-mail: virginia
at cs dot uu dot nl
Associate
Professor Manolis Koubarakis
Director of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory
Department of Electronic and Computer
Engineering
Technical University
of Crete Greece
E-mail: manolis at intelligence dot tuc dot gr
Dr.
Paul Marrow
Intelligent Systems Laboratory
BT Exact
Orion 1/12, Adastral Park, Ipswich,UK
E-mail: paul dot marrow at bt dot com
Dr.
Timothy Norman
Dept of Computing Science
University of Aberdeen
King's College, Aberdeen, UK
E-mail: tnorman at csd dot abdn dot ac dot uk
Associate
Professor Sascha Ossowski
Head of Artificial Intelligence Lab
Department of Computing
School of Engineering
Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
E-mail: s.ossowski at escet dot urjc dot es
Dr
Pinar Yolum
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Department of Artificial Intelligence
The Netherlands
Email: pyolum AT few DOT vu DOT nl
Dr.
Konstantinos Stergiou,
Dept of Information and Comm. Systems
Engineering
University of the Aegean , Greece
E-mail: konsterg at aegean dot gr
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