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                 Second Call for Papers/Participation

  BALANCING REACTIVITY AND SOCIAL DELIBERATION IN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

                          A Workshop at the
    14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2000)

             http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html

                   Berlin, Germany, August 22nd, 2000
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Important Dates
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   Deadline for submission:              May 1st, 2000
   Notification:                        June 1st, 2000
   Deadline for camera-ready papers:   June 10th, 2000
   Workshop:                         August 22nd, 2000


Scope
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   Today's envisioned  applications of  intelligent systems in general
   and  multi-agent  systems  in particular confront  researchers  and
   developers with the difficulty of finding the right balance between
   reactive and socially deliberative behavior.  Reactive  systems are
   capable of adapting  very quickly to  unforeseen changes in the en-
   vironment and are hence said to  be  more robust and efficient.  On
   the other hand, they usually lack the necessary overview to produce
   behavior that can  compete with the results of  in-depth  reasoning
   techniques.  In  contrary  to  that,  socially deliberative systems
   allow  for  exploiting  environmental information and  coordination
   mechanisms to build up  through-thought  individual and even  team-
   oriented  strategies.  Though  their  problem-solving  results  are
   usually much better than in reactive systems,  deliberative systems
   are much more susceptible to  dynamic  environments  and often lack
   the potential for real-time computation.

   This workshop focuses on theoretical,  technical and practical work
   on balancing between these two extremes in the context of  collabo-
   rative work in multi-agent  systems.  Contributions from Artificial
   Intelligence as well as Robotics are welcome.

   Theoretical and technical topics of  interest include,  but are not
   restricted to:

     - Extension of reactive systems by cooperation

     - Teaching deliberative systems reactivity and real-time

     - Efficient coordination, cooperation and organization approaches

     - Anytime approaches and algorithms

     - Design and evaluation of hybrid multi-level agent architectures

     - Short-term, medium-term and long-term intentionality

     - Enriching group behavior by environmental,  opponent and social
       models

     - Individual and social adaptivity

   To keep the workshop focussed, we encourage practical contributions
   to be directed at:

     - Multi-agent problem solving (planning, scheduling, control ...)

       Real-world problems  often require  distributed solving strate-
       gies,  because of  natural distribution,  social competence and
       efficiency matters. Multi-agent approaches to such problems are
       said to be more robust than monolithic systems, but usually en-
       tail worse solutions. How can this be overcome by better balan-
       cing between reactive and deliberative behavior?

     - RoboCup

       RoboCup has proven to be a  great and challenging  benchmarking
       scenario both  to  Robotics  and  Artificial  Intelligence.  In
       RoboCup reactivity and real-time are a must, but social delibe-
       ration gets more and more important to match  the world's  lea-
       ding teams.  Hence, there is much research work to be done con-
       sidering the topics of this workshop.

       IMPORTANT:  Papers that focus on RoboCup-specific topics should
       make clear how the work could be applied to  other  domains  as
       well. We encourage you to pick at least one specific domain and
       argue that such is the case.


Submissions
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   Participation in the workshop will be restricted to 30 persons.  We
   encourage active participation by inviting only  people  with  sub-
   mitted papers or with a single-page statement of interest,  reflec-
   ting the authors' concrete relation to the  field  and  topic.  All
   workshop participants must register for ECAI 2000.

   Informal pre-proceedings of the workshop will be published  in time
   to be available at the workshop.  Additionally, Springer-Verlag has
   committed to publish an edited version of the workshop  proceedings
   in its well-known Lecture Notes on Artificial  Intelligence  series
   (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html).  Authors of selected
   papers will be asked to extend their articles for inclusion in this
   LNAI volume.

   Papers should be formatted according to the LNAI  style  guide  for
   authors  (refer  to  http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)
   and should not exceed 12 pages.

   Papers should be submitted as Postscript-files and  additionally as
   pure Tex- and Eps-files via eMail to the contact person  named  be-
   low. Alternatively, send four copies of  your  paper  via  ordinary
   mail to the address of the contact person. Electronic submission is
   strongly preferred.

   Deadline for submission:                May 1st, 2000
   Notification:                          June 1st, 2000
   Deadline for camera-ready papers:     June 10th, 2000
   Workshop:                           August 22nd, 2000


Organizing committee
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   Markus Hannebauer (contact person)
     Planning and Optimization Laboratory
     Research Institute for Computer Architecture
       and Software Technology (FIRST)
     GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology

     Kekulestrasse 7, 12489 Berlin, Germany

     Tel.:  +49-30-6392 1866
     Fax.:  +49-30-6392 1805
     eMail: hannebau@first.gmd.de
     WWW:   www.first.gmd.de/~hannebau

   Jan Wendler
     Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
     Department of Computer Science
     Humboldt University Berlin

     Rudower Chaussee 25, 12489 Berlin, Germany

     Tel.:  +49-30-2093 3170
     Fax.:  +49-30-2093 3168
     eMail: wendler@informatik.hu-berlin.de
     WWW:   www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~wendler

   Enrico Pagello
     Department of Electronics and Informatics
     Faculty of Engineering
     University of Padua

     Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131 Padova, Italy

     Tel.:  +39-049-827 7687
     Fax.:  +39-049-827 7699
     eMail: epv@dei.unipd.it
     WWW:   www.dei.unipd.it


Program committee
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   Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Japan
   Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
   Silvia Coradeschi, Oerebro University, Sweden
   Klaus Dorer, Freiburg University, Germany
   Peter Jarvis, SRI International, USA
   Christoph Jung, infor AG, Germany
   Gal Kaminka, University of Southern California, USA
   Joerg P. Mueller, Siemens AG, Germany
   Itsuki Noda, Stanford University, USA
   Daniel Polani, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
   Martin Riedmiller, Karlsruhe University, Germany
   Jukka Riekki, University of Oulu, Finland
   Josep Lluis de la Rosa, University of Girona, Spain
   Peter Stone, AT&T Laboratories Research, USA
   Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
   Joerg Wilberg, GMD AiS, Germany


Additional information
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   ECAI 2000 homepage
   http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de

   Workshop homepage
   http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html

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