[robocup-small] CFP IJCAI-05 Workshop " Agents in Real-Time and Dynamic Environments"

[Ubbo Visser]

CALL FOR PAPERS

NINETEENTH INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Link: http://www.tzi.de/~visser/ijcai05/

Title
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Workshop on Agents in Real-Time and Dynamic Environments
        
Description
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Recent developments in multiagent systems (MAS) have been promising by
achieving autonomous, collaborative behavior between agents in various
environments. However, most of the agents, both software agents and physical
agents, still have problems if the environment is dynamic and the agents
have to act in real time. Examples are obstacle avoidance with moving
obstacles or world models which are composed from egocentric views of
numerous agents. Another aspect is the need for quick responses. In an
environment where a number of agents build a team and both single agent
decisions and team collaborative decisions have to be made methods have to
be fast and precise. This workshop addresses various problems that occur
with respect to these issues.

Topics of Interest
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The main focus of this workshop will be methods from various areas such as
world modeling, planning, learning, and communicating with agents in
real-time and dynamic environments. Within this general theme we aim to
bring together researchers to discuss the following topics:

· World modeling (quantitative, qualitative) 
· Coaching (one agent gives advice to a group of agents) 
· Planning with resources (especially time) 
· Cooperation between agents (robot and/or humans) 
· Communication between agents (implicit, non-verbal, or verbal one) 
· Learning (both offline and online)
· Real-time systems software issues (often ignored but important if serious
about real-time issues in robotics) 
· Scalability and robotics interfacing issues (demands a great deal of
support from the initial design of the system)


Why and to whom is this workshop of interest?
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In the last decade, a lot of effort has been invested to develop methods
that can be used with multi-agent systems. The language development in the
area of communication between agents (ACL) might act as the first example.
Speech acts serve as the basic principle and various protocols have been
invented (e.g. auctions, contract-nets, etc.). Can we transfer these results
to enviroments where quick decisions have to be made? Consider planning as
another example: there are promising methods for path planning, but do they
still hold if the observed obstacles are moving? Learning is another
example: we need on-line learning in a real-time scenario to give agents the
option to learn more about their environment. Usually, learning takes a fair
amount of time but sometimes this time is not available. Can we find methods
which will consider these restrictions?

This workshop addresses researchers from various areas in AI who want to
discuss the mentioned issues from their point of view. How can we develop
new methods or adapt existing methods to meet these demands?

Preliminary workshop agenda
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The workshop will be held on July, 30st 2005, starting at 9am and finishing
at 6pm. Paper presentation will be 20 minutes with 10 minutes of discussion.
There will be an open discussion to reflect the talks and to discuss further
developments. Depending on the contributions we consider creating extra time
slots after each "block" to give attendents of the workshop time for
discussion.

Submission Instructions
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The style for papers in the proceedings follows the style of the main
conference. It is described in an example paper available as a PDF document.
We also provide the latex style file here, including the source for the
guidelines paper. Please start your subject with "[IJCAI-WS]" when
submitting the paper. The papers can be extended abstract or full research
papers. Survey or position papers are also welcome. The papers should end
with relevant bibliographic references and should be no longer than 10
pages. Selection of participants will be based on relevance to the indicated
focus of the workshop, clarity of the work submitted, and the strength of
the research.

Important Dates and Deadlines
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· Deadline for the submission of papers: April 8, 2005 
· Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 22, 2005 
· Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers: May 5, 2005

Organizing Committee
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Ubbo Visser (Chair)
TZI, Center for Computing Technologies
Artificial Intelligence Group
Universität Bremen
Universitätsallee 21-23, D-28359 Bremen, GERMANY 
visser at informatik.uni-bremen.de 
http://www.tzi.de/~visser

Gerhard Lakemeyer
Department of Computer Science V
Aachen University of Technology
Ahornstr. 55, D-52056 Aachen, GERMANY
gerhard at informatik.rwth-aachen.de
http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/gerhard

George Vachtesevanos
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, 
GA 30332-0250, USA 
gjv at ecegatech.edu 
http://icsl.marc.gatech.edu

Manuela Veloso
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890, USA 
Manuela_Veloso at school.coral.cs.cmu.edu
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv


Program Committee
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Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Berlin, Germany
Uli Furbach, Koblenz, Germany
Dieter Fox, Seattle, USA
Joachim Hammer, Gainesville, USA
Gal Kaminka, Bar Ilan, Israel
Gerhard Lakemeyer, Aachen, Germany
James Lawton, Rome, NY, USA
Paul Levi, Stuttgart, Germany
John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht, NL
Elena Messina, Gaithersburg, USA
Daniele Nardi, Rome, Italy
Bernhard Nebel, Freiburg, Germany
Frank Pasemann, St. Augustin, Germany
Angel del Pobil, Jaume I, Spain
Patrick Riley, Pittsburgh, USA
Peter Stone, Austin, USA
Fiora Pirri, La Sapienza, Rome
Alessandro Saffiotti, Örebro, Sweden
Michael Thielscher, Dresden, Germany
Manuela Veloso, Pittsburgh, USA
Ubbo Visser, Bremen, Germany
Thomas Wagner, Bremen, Germany
Brian Williams, Boston, USA