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CALL FOR PAPERS
SECOND WORKSHOP ON GAME THEORETIC AND DECISION
THEORETIC AGENTS
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Over the last few years, game and decision theories 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 algorithms and strategies for interaction,
coordination, communication, negotiation, coalition formation, 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.
As a result, there seems to be much to gain from bringing together
researchers interested in game theory and decision theory to present
recent work on the application of these techniques in the construction
of agent systems and to discuss the cross-over between the fields, and
the Workshop on Game Theoretic and Decision Theoretic Agents provides
a forum in which to do this.
This year the workshop will be held in conjunction with the
International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS
2000). It will
take place on Friday 7th July in Boston, MA, USA.
WEB PAGE:
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http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~sp/events/gtdt/gtdt00/index.html
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
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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).
WORKSHOP CHAIRS:
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* Simon Parsons (University of Liverpool)
* Piotr Gmytrasiewicz (University of Texas at Arlington)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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* Klaus Fischer (DFKI)
* Amy Greenwald (IBM Institute for Advanced Research)
* Jeff Kephart (IBM Institute for Advanced Research)
* Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University)
* Jeff Rosenchein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
* Tuomas Sandholm (Washington University at St Louis)
* Wynn Stirling (Brigham Young University)
* Gerald Tesauro (IBM Watson Research Center)
* Leon van der Torre (Free University of Amsterdam)
* Russ Vane
* Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool)
* Fredrik Ygge
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
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Authors are invited to submit original papers of at most 15 pages
standard LaTeX article style by e-mail to one of the email address
below, using "GTDT00 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 17th
March. Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their papers by
5th May.
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 2nd June.
We also intend to published revised versions of the workshop
papers, as a special issue of the Journal of Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems.
IMPORTANT DATES:
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* Submission of papers: 17th March 2000
* Notification of acceptance: 5th May 2000
* Final submissions: 2nd June 2000
* Workshop: 7th July 2000
CORRESPONDENCE:
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Direct correspondence, inquiries and submissions relating to
this
workshop should be addressed to:
Simon Parsons, Department of Computer Science,
Chadwick Building, University of Liverpool,
Liverpool L69 7ZF, United Kingdom.
Email: S.D.Parsons@csc.liv.ac.uk
Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, CSE Department
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019-0015
Email: piotr@huckle.uta.edu
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