WORKSHOP ON DECISION THEORETIC AND GAME THEORETIC AGENTS
at the
Fifth European Conference
on
Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches
to
Reasoning with Uncertainty
http://www2.elec.qmw.ac.uk/~sp/ecsqaru.html
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University College London (UCL), London, England
5-6 July 1999
Over the last few years, game and economic theory has proved to be a
powerful tool with which to understand interactions in systems
composed of multiple autonomous artificial agents. It has been
employed in the design of cooperation and negotiation algorithms and
strategies, fair voting techniques, market-based resource management
systems, and industrial-scale information economies. More recently,
decision theory has been adopted by a number of authors as a way of
handling the uncertainty that rational agents inevitably face in any
moderately complex environment.
The time therefore seems ripe to bring together researchers interested
in building and understanding agents using both game theory and
decision theory, including those using non-standard variants of the
theories, to compare results and techniques, and to discuss the
advantages and limitations of their respective approaches. It seems
particularly appropriate to do this in conjunction with ECSQARU 99, a
major conference on methods for reasoning under uncertainty.
WEB PAGE:
http://www2.elec.qmw.ac.uk/~sp/ecsqaru.html
WORKSHOP CHAIRS:
* Mike Wooldridge (Queen Mary, University of London)
* Simon Parsons (Queen Mary, University of London)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
* Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University)
* Jeff Rosenchein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
* Tuomas Sandholm (Washington University in St Louis)
* Nir Vulkan (University of Bristol)
* Frederik Ygge (University of Karlskrona/Ronneby)
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
Papers are solicited dealing with, but not limited to, the
following areas:
- Descriptions of agent systems employing game theory or decision theory;
- Empirical evaluations of agent systems employing game theory or
decision theory;
- Theoretical developments in game theory or decision theory applied to
agent systems; and
- Position statements about the use of game theory or decision theory
in agent systems.
Descriptions of deployed systems are particularly welcome, and we
are especially interested in the use of non-standard variants of
decision theory (including qualitative and logical approaches).
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
Authors are invited to submit original papers of at most 10 pages by
e-mail to one of the email address below, using "GTDT99 Submission"
as the subject line. Please submit the paper in postscript.
There is no particular format for the submission, but the cover page
should include title, authors, and the coordinates of the
corresponding author. Authors should also indicate in the first page
which of the thematic areas best describes the content of the paper
(if none is appropriate, please give a set of keywords that best
describe the topic of the paper).
To be considered, submissions must be received no later than February
12. Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their papers by
March 12.
All accepted papers will appear in the working papers distributed
at the workshop. The format guidelines for the final paper version
will be announced later. Final camera-ready copies of accepted papers
will be due by May 01 1999.
Please note that selected papers, whose final version will have to be
received by April 12, will be published in the ECSQARU'99 conference
proceedings.
We also intend to published revised versions of the workshop
papers, along with specially solicted contributions, in book form.
CORRESPONDANCE:
Direct correspondence, inquiries and submissions relating to this
workshop should be addressed to:
Mike Wooldridge, Department of Electronic Engineering,
Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London,
London E1 4NS, United Kingdom.
Email: M.J.Wooldridge@elec.qmw.ac.uk
or
Simon Parsons, Department of Electronic Engineering,
Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London,
London E1 4NS, United Kingdom.
Email: S.D.Parsons@elec.qmw.ac.uk
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission of papers: 12 February 1999
Notification of acceptance: 12 March 1999
Final submissions (for selected papers): 12 April 1999
Final submissions (for all papers): 1 May 1999
Workshop: 5-6 July 1999
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