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Invited Speaker: Professor
Michael Luck (King's College, University of London, United Kingdom) Room: Lecture Theatre 3, ICT Building, Date: 1st December
2009, Time: 11:10am
Abstract: Cooperation is the fundamental underpinning of multi-agent systems,
allowing agents to interact to achieve their goals. However, agents must
manage the risk associated with interacting with others who have different
objectives, or who may fail to fulfill their commitments. There are many
ways in which such a desirable social order may be encouraged or even
mandated. For example, trust offers a mechanism for modeling and reasoning
about reliability, honesty, etc, while organisations and norms provide a
framework within which to apply them, and motivations provide a means for
representing and reasoning about overall objectives. In this talk, I will
consider the role of trust, organisations and norms in a motivation-based
view of agency that seeks to regulate behaviour, and will illustrate some
of these issues with aspects of several projects, including the CONTRACT
project, concerned with contract-based electronic business systems. Biography: Michael Luck is Professor of Computer Science in the Department of
Computer Science at King's College London, where he leads the Agents and
Intelligent Systems subgroup and undertakes research into agent
technologies and intelligent systems. His work has sought to take a
principled approach to the development of practical agent systems, and
spans formal models and theories as well as practical applications. Recent
work has been directed at norms and institutions, declarative programming
of agent systems, and industrial deployment and technology forecasting. He
is currently leading work at King's on the IST CONTRACT project, concerned
with distributed electronic business systems on the basis of dynamically
generated, cross-organisational contracts. Professor Luck
has published around 200 articles in these and related areas, and twelve
books (including monographs, textbooks, and edited collections); he was
lead author of the AgentLink roadmaps in 2003 and 2005. He is a a director
of the board of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS), co-founder of the European Multi-Agent
Systems (EUMAS) workshop series (and currently serving on its Advisory
Board, having previously served as its first Chair), co-founder and Chair
of the steering committee of the UK Multi-Agent Systems Workshops (UKMAS),
and a Steering Committee member for the Central and Eastern European
Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS). Professor Luck was a member of
the Executive Committee of AgentLink III, the European Network of
Excellence for Agent-Based Computing, having previously been the Director
of AgentLink II. He is an editorial board member of Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems, the International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software
Engineering, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, and ACM Transactions on
Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, and was previously series editor for
Artech House's Agent Oriented Systems book series. Michael Luck is general
co-chair of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), to be held in Toronto, Canada in May
2010. Invited Speaker: Dr. Simon Goss (Defence
Science and Technology Organisation DSTO, Australia) Room: Lecture Theatre 3, ICT Building, Date: 1st December
2009, Time: 15:30pm Title: Situation Awareness, Sense
Making and Sentiment Abstract: Since the 1990s, accounting for situation awareness in the
behavioural representation of military operators in Operations Research
(OR) modelling has driven the use and extension of the BDI agent
framework. The pragmatic ambition to
be able to ³plug and play² teams, and partial teams, of agents and humans
in simulation has forced us to wrestle with issues in specifying
environments for agent and human interaction. Similarly the demands of coordination and
competition without communication require accounting for recognition of
intention. Changing the granularity
of focus to the team, and beyond to the command, level takes us out of the
realm of the folk psychology of individuals to broader constructs from the
social sciences when we seek to understand and model phenomena such sense
making and change of mood in a population. Biography: Simon
Goss holds a BSc(Hons) and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from LaTrobe
University. After post-doctoral work
in Ion Photodissociation Spectroscopy he moved to intelligent
instrumentation and subsequently applied artificial intelligence. Simon joined DSTO in 1990 to assess the opportunities for artificial
intelligence in the Aircraft Systems Divisional programme and was awarded a Defence Science Fellowship in 1997 to the Artificial Intelligence
group in the Dept of Psychology at the University of Nottingham. Returning to Melbourne in late 1998, Simon led enabling research resulting in two
deployed application recognition awards for AOD teams from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (1999, 2001). Cognitive science and ecological
psychology are strong influences in his attitude to agents and agency both in his DSTO work and as an adjunct in the AgentLab at the
University of Melbourne. |
Workshop
Summary
Collaboration is required when multiple agents achieve complex goals
that are difficult or impossible to attain for an individual agent. This collaboration
takes place under conditions of incomplete information, uncertainty, and
bounded rationality, much of which has been previously studied in economics
and artificial intelligence. However, many real world domains are
characterised by even greater complexity, including the possibility of
unreliable and non-complying collaborators, complex market and incentive
frameworks, and complex transaction costs and organisational structures. This
workshop's thematic focus is on collaborative and autonomous agents that
plan, negotiate, coordinate, and act under this complexity.
This workshop aims to foster discussions
on computational models of collaboration in distributed systems,
addressing a range of theoretical and practical issues. We seek contributions
of members in research and industry that use the agent paradigm to approach
their problems.
Some issues of interest of this workshop are:
- How to enable agents to reach and maintain joint agreements in
complex organisational and market driven domains.
- How to develop a comprehensive agreement
formation/maintenance framework applicable to many
application domains.
- How to build and extend MAS that work
efficiently in partially
regulated markets (instead of free or fully regulated
markets).
- How to identify and represent
conceptual/formal components of organisational
structures (e.g., health care and other service-oriented
domains).
- How organisational structures influence the negotiation of agents and the
distribution/execution of tasks.
- Similarly, what are the implications of a partially regulated market
on negotiation/distribution/execution of tasks.
- How to design markets that are adequate for
agents to act with incomplete
and uncertain information of the behaviour of collaborating agents.
- How to cope with unreliable and non-conformant
collaborators, where agreements are made but are not
always conformed with.
- Which measures
of optimality and efficiency are useful in evaluating
models of collaboration by means of theory and simulation.
- How can interventions and incentive structures
assist in reaching and maintaining agreements.
- How to assign transaction costs to
actions in the planning, assignment, and execution stages (e.g., costs
incurred by reaching and maintaining agreements).
- How can transaction costs influence the social outcome of the
system which is further influenced by the organisational context under
which the collaboration takes place.
- Can lessons learnt in game theoretic computation
inform collaborative agent settings.
- How can agents collectively acquire knowledge
about their environment, and their collaborative tasks.
The one day workshop will feature a mixture of invited talks,
discussions and submitted contributions describing current work or work in
progress in collaborative agent research and technology. The workshop
environment fosters open discussions among all participants, particularly
encouraging students to discuss their research topics and seek feedback from
senior agent researchers.
Important Dates
EXTENDED DEADLINE!
Abstract submission: October 27, 2009
Full paper submission: October 30, 2009
Notification: November 10, 2009
Camera ready: November 20, 2009
Topics
of Interest include (but are not limited to):
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Submission
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Call for Papers (CFP) in TXT format
Call for Papers (CFP) in PDF
CARE
2009 Poster in PDF
Submission is to be done electronically at EasyChair at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=care2009.
Submissions should be formatted according to LNCS specification and submitted
as a PDF file. Instructions and templates can be found at: www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
CARE 2009 seeks two types of submissions:
- Full paper of 8-12 pages.
- Short paper of 2-4 pages (such as position and early result papers)
are welcome with the option of extending it to a full paper for the
post-proceedings.
Submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers per paper.
Selection criteria will include relevance, significance, impact, originality,
technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some preference may also be
given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or
which enhance balance of workshop topics. Since this workshop is associated
with the AI'09 conference, accepted papers should be relevant to the AI
research community.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. CARE
2009 plans to offer a best paper
award for the best full paper submission, and a selection of
papers is planned to be published as post-proceedings with a major
international publisher, subject to an appropriate number and quality of
submissions.
Workshop
Officials
GENERAL CHAIR
Christian
Guttmann (Monash University, Australia)
CO-CHAIRS
Michael
Georgeff (PrecedenceHealthCare, Australia)
Frank
Dignum (University Utrecht, Netherlands)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Philippe Pasquier (Simon Fraser
University, Canada)
Iyad Rahwan (British University of
Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
Kobi Gal (Harvard University,
United States of America)
Simon Thompson (British Telecom
Research Laboratories, United Kingdom)
Cees Witteveen (Delft University
of Technology, Netherlands)
Mathijs de Weerdt (Delft University
of Technology, Netherlands)
Gord McCalla (University of
Saskatchewan, Canada)
Andrew Gilpin (Hg Analytics,
United States of America)
David Morley (SRI International,
United States of America)
Kumari Wickramasinghe (Monash
University, Australia)
Liz Sonenberg (Melbourne
University, Australia)
Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Samin Karim (Accenture, Australia)
Lawrence Cavedon (NICTA and RMIT University, Australia)
Michael Winikoff (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Rafael Bordini (Federal
University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Wayne Wobcke
(University of New South Wales, Australia)
Marcelo Blois Ribeiro (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio
Grande do Sul, Brazil)
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