Agents for Hand-Held, Mobile,
or Embedded Devices
a special track of ATAL-2001
The Eighth International Workshop on
AGENT THEORIES, ARCHITECTURES, AND LANGUAGES
Seattle, USA --- August 1-3, 2001
http://www.atal.org/
Papers are sought for a special track of the ATAL-2001 workshop on the
use of agent technology for hand-held, mobile or embedded devices. The
ATAL workshop series aims to bring together researchers interested in
the agent-level, micro aspects of agent technology. Specifically, ATAL-2000
will address issues such as theories of rational agency, software architectures
for intelligent agents, methodologies and programming languages for realising
agents, and software tools for applying and evaluating agent systems.
Papers that consider macro-level, societal issues of agent-based systems
are welcome if they explicitly relate to the workshop themes. ATAL-2001
will be held immediately before the IJCAI-2001 conference. The ATAL-2001
proceedings will be formally published as volume eight of the "Intelligent
Agents" series from Springer-Verlag.
WORKSHOP THEMES
As the title suggests, the workshop has three main themes:
- AGENT THEORIES: What approaches (e.g., game theory, logic) are appropriate
for agent theory? How do these approaches relate to one another?
- AGENT ARCHITECTURES: What architectures are appropriate for autonomous
agents? How can such architectures be given a formal semantics? How
can different agent architectures be evaluated and compared? What methodologies
can be used to build agent-based applications? How close are these methodologies
to existing formal specification languages or object-oriented analysis
and design methods?
- AGENT LANGUAGES: What programming paradigms are most suitable for
agents? How do agent-oriented languages differ from object-oriented
and logic programming languages? What are efficient implementation mechanisms
for these languages?
Papers that cross theme boundaries are of particular interest. An example
would be a paper that demonstrated how a particular agent architecture embodied
some theory of agency, or what benefits a particular agent language can
bring in a specific application domain. Apart from these general themes
we encourage papers on two SPECIAL TRACKS, one on "FORMAL THEORIES (logical,
game- or decision-theoretical or otherwise) OF NEGOTIATION BETWEEN AGENTS"
and one on "AGENTS FOR HANDHELD, MOBILE OR EMBEDDED DEVICES".
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Those wishing to participate in the workshop should submit an original research
paper of up to 5000 words (approximately 13 pages maximum) to one of the
co-chairs (John-Jules Meyer or Milind Tambe, at the addresses listed below).
If you wish your paper to be considered for one of the special tracks then
mark this clearly on the front page. Electronic submission in PostScript
or pdf formats is strongly encouraged, but four single-sided hard copies
will also suffice; if you send hardcopy, please ensure you use a reliable
delivery service to ensure your paper turns up before the deadline passes.
The first page of your submission should include the full name and contact
details (including email, full postal address, and telephone number) of
at least one author. Formatting instructions are available from the workshop
WWW site (see above). The preproceedings will be distributed at the workshop;
the formal proceedings will be published shortly afterwards.
TIMETABLE
Submissions due 6 April 2001
Notifications sent 18 May 2001
Prefinal versions due 22 June 2001
Workshop 1-3 August 2001
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
John-Jules Meyer (Co-chair)
Utrecht University
Institute of Information and Computing Sciences
Centrumgebouw Noord, office A123
P.O. Box 80089
3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
jj@cs.uu.nl
Milind Tambe (Co-chair)
USC Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695, USA
tambe@isi.edu
David Pynadath (Associate chair)
USC Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695, USA
pynadath@isi.edu
SPECIAL TRACK ORGANISERS
- Formal Theories of Negotiation - Frank Dignum, Utrecht University,
The Netherlands, dignum@cs.uu.nl
- Agents for Hand-Held, Mobile, or Embedded Devices - Tim Finin,
University of Maryland Baltimore County, finin@cs.umbc.edu
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
| Chitta Baral |
Arizona State U, USA. |
| Suzanne Barber |
U of Texas at Austin, USA. |
| Michael Beetz |
U of Bonn, Germany. |
| Cristiano Castelfranchi |
CNR, Rome, Italy. |
| Lawrence Cavedon |
RMIT, Australia. |
| Phil Cohen |
Oregon Graduate Inst, USA. |
| Rosaria Conte |
IP-CNR, Italy. |
| Giuseppe De Giacomo |
U of Rome, Italy. |
| Keith Decker |
University of Delaware, USA. |
| Frank Dignum |
Utrecht U, Netherlands. |
| Mark d'Inverno |
U of Westminster, UK. |
| Alexis Drogoul |
U of Paris VI, France. |
| Ed Durfee |
U of Michigan, USA |
| Jacques Ferber |
U of Montpellier II, France. |
| Tim Finin |
U of Maryland Baltimore County |
| Klaus Fischer |
DFKI, Germany. |
| Michael Fisher |
U of Liverpool, UK. |
| Stan Franklin |
U of Memphis, USA. |
| Fausto Giunchiglia |
U of Trento, Italy. |
| Piotr Gmytrasiewicz |
U of Texas at Arlington, USA. |
| Barbara Grosz |
Harvard U, USA. |
| Henry Hexmoor |
U of North Dakota, USA. |
| Wiebe van der Hoek |
Utrecht U, Netherlands. |
| Marc Huber |
Intelligent Reasoning Systems, USA. |
| Nick Jennings |
U of Southampton, UK. |
| Anupam Joshi |
U of Maryland, USA. |
| Hirofumi Katsuno |
Tokyo Denki U, Japan. |
| David Kinny |
U of Melbourne, Australia. |
| Sarit Kraus |
Bar-Ilan U, Israel. |
| Ora Lassila |
Nokia Research Center, Boston, USA |
| Yves Lesperance |
York U, Toronto, Canada. |
| Alessio Lomuscio |
Imperial College, London, UK |
| Michael Luck |
U of Southampton, UK. |
| John-Jules Meyer |
Utrecht U, Netherlands (co-chair). |
| Joerg Mueller |
Siemens, Germany. |
| Hideyuki Nakashima |
AIST, Japan. |
| Simon Parsons |
U of Liverpool, UK. |
| David Pynadath |
USC-ISI, USA. |
| Anand Rao |
Mitchell Madison Group, UK. |
| Luciano Serafini |
U of Trento, Italy. |
| Onn Shehory |
IBM Haifa Res. Labs, Israel. |
| Carles Sierra |
CSIC, Spain. |
| Munindar Singh |
North Carolina State U, USA. |
| Liz Sonenberg |
U of Melbourne, Australia. |
| Peter Stone |
ATT Labs, USA |
| Katia Sycara |
Carnegie Mellon U, USA. |
| Milind Tambe |
USC-ISI, USA (co-chair). |
| Jan Treur |
Free Univ. Amsterdam, Netherlands. |
| Tom Wagner |
University of Maine, USA |
| Wayne Wobcke |
University of Melbourne, Australia. |
| Mike Wooldridge |
U of Liverpool, UK. |
| Peter Wurman |
North Carolina State U, USA. |
| Makoto Yokoo |
NTT Labs, Japan |
| Eric Yu |
U of Toronto, Canada |
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