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WORKSHOP ON GAME THEORETIC AND DECISION THEORETIC AGENTS
GTDT'02
Held in association with the 2002 National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2002),
July 28 - August 1, 2002
in
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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This workshop is a continuation of the tradition of prior
sucessful GTDT symposia and workshops in 1999, 2000 and 2001.
Over the last few years game and decision theories have proved to
be powerful tools with which to design autonomous agents, and to
understand interactions in systems composed of many such agents.
Decision theory has been adopted as a paradigm for designing agents
that can handle the uncertainty of any moderately complex environment,
and act rationally to achieve their goals. Game theory, building on
the assumption that agents are rational and self-interested, has been
employed in the design of mechanisms and protocols for interaction,
coordination, communication, negotiation, coalition formation, fair
voting techniques, market-based resource management systems, and
industrial-scale information economies. Further, interesting recent
results have been reported on the issue of mechanism and protocol
design for bounded rational agents.
As a result, there is be much to be gained from bringing together
researchers interested in game theory and decision theory to present
recent work on the applications of these techniques in the
construction of agents and agent systems, and to discuss the
cross-over between these fields.
As with previous GTDT workshops, we plan to publish a selection of the
accepted papers as a journal special issue and/or in book form.
Web page:
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http://www.uic.edu/~piotr/aaai02-gtdt.html
Submission information:
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Submissions are due on March 15, 2002.
Please submit the paper electronically (at most 15 pages standard
LaTeX article style) electronically in postscript (preferred) on pdf,
to
Piotr Gmytrasiewicz
piotr@cs.uic.edu
Authors will be notified about the acceptance of their papers on April 15
Topics of Interest:
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We solicit papers dealing with, but not limited to, the following
areas:
* Developments in decision theory or game theory
applicable to agent-based systems;
* Descriptions of agent systems employing game theory or decision
theory;
* Empirical evaluations of agent systems employing game
theory or decision theory; and
* Position statements about the use of game theory or decision
theory in agent systems.
Descriptions of deployed systems are welcome. We are also interested
in the use of non-standard variants of decision theory (including
qualitative and logical approaches), and in approaches that combine
decision and game theories.
Organizers:
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Co-chair: Piotr Gmytrasiewicz,
CSE Department
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019-0015
Email: piotr@cse.uta.edu
Co-Chair: Simon Parsons,
Center for Coordination Science
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email: sparsons@mit.edu
Program Committee:
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Cristina Biccheri (Carnegie Mellon University)
Craig Boutilier (University of Toronto)
Jon Doyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Amy Greenwald (Brown University)
Jeff Kephart (IBM Institute for Advanced Research)
Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University)
Martha Pollack (University of Michigan)
Richard E. Stearns (University of Albany)
Wynn Stirling (Brigham Young University)
Gerald Tesauro (IBM Watson Research Center)
Leon van der Torre (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Russell Vane (Litton PRC)
Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool)
Shlomo Zilberstein (University of Massachusetts)
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