Call for Papers
for a Special Issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
Special Issue Editors: Juergen Dix, Fariba Sadri, Ken Satoh
http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~dix/AMAI_SPECIAL/AMAI.html
Multi-agent systems (MAS) have become an increasingly important area
of research, not least because of the advances in the Internet and
Robotics. However multi-agent systems can become very complicated,
and, consequently, reasoning about the behaviour of such systems can
become extremely difficult. Therefore, it is important to be able to
formalise multi-agent systems and, to do so in such a way that allows
automated reasoning about agents' behaviour. The purpose of this
Special Issue is to present techniques, based on computational logic
(CL), for reasoning about multi-agent systems in a formal way. This is
clearly a major and exciting challenge for computational logic. We
have to develop techniques to deal with real world issues and
applications. We solicit papers that address CL-related formal
approaches to multi-agent systems . The approaches as well as being
formal must make a significant contribution to the practice of
multi-agent systems. Relevant techniques include the following (but
are not limited to):
* Nonmonotonic reasoning in MAS
* Planning in MAS
* Adaptability and learning in MAS
* Knowledge representation in MAS
* Temporal reasoning in MAS
* Negotiation, co-operation, competition and communication in MAS
* Verification of MAS
* Decision theory for MAS
* Distributed problem solving in MAS
* Significant applications of MAS
Submission Details
We are expecting full papers to describe original, previously
unpublished research, be written in English, and not be simultaneously
submitted for publication elsewhere (previous publication of partial
results at workshops with informal proceedings is allowed).
Papers should be formatted according to the Instructions for AMAI
submissions (see below) and should be between 20 and 40 pages long:
* http://www.baltzer.nl/amai/submit.html and
* http://www.baltzer.nl/authors/
We also require the following issues to be adressed:
1. CL: An introduction that includes statements about how the paper
addresses
the exploitation of CL for MAS
2. MAS : An explanation of which aspect/functionality of MAS the paper
formalises,
3. Examples: Example(s) which give an intuitive motivation and explanation
of the formalisation.
Please submit a PostScript or PDF file of your paper to
dix@uni-koblenz.de by the 31st of January 2001.
IMPORTANT DATES
Papers Due on: January 31, 2001
Author Notification: March 31, 2001
Final version Due on: May 31, 2001
Special Issue: December 2001
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