DM: AAAI'99 workshop on Agents' conflicts

[Catherine.Tessier]

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The AAAI-99 Workshop on Agents' Conflicts
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Call for papers


* Description of workshop

Agents' conflicts  arise   for  different  reasons,   involve
different concepts, and are dealt with in different ways, depending  
on
the kind of   agents and on  the  domain where they  are
considered. For example, agents  may have conflicting beliefs,
conflicting goals,
or may have to share limited resources.  Conflicts can be expressed as
mere differences, or as contradictions,  or  even as  social  
conflicts
(e.g.
aggression,   fighting). They may be  avoided,   solved, kept, or even
created  deliberately.
Since more and more  concern is attached  to agents'  teamwork and
agents'  dialogue,
conflicts naturally arise as a key issue to be dealt with, not only
with application dedicated techniques, but also with more formal and
generic tools.
The aim of the workshop is therefore to focus on definitions of
agents' conflicts and on their roles within a multiagent system,
i.e. how this system may evolve thanks to, despite, or because of
conflicts.

* Topics

- conflict ontology
- conflict measurements
- conflict scales
- conflict and uncertainty
- coping with conflicts
- conflict management typology
- conflict management vs. knowledge enhancement
- conflict management vs. robustness
- conflict management and time
- conflict and decision making
- system design based on conflicts
- learning from conflicts
- ...

* Format

The  workshop  will    include  invited   papers   from  knowledgeable
researchers within the agent field, contributed papers selected by the
Workshop Committee, and  two  discussions on issues highlighted in the
papers.

Guidelines for the contributed papers are given on the
workshop web site 
http://www.cert.fr/fr/dcsd/PUB/AAAI99/conflicts.html.

* Attendance

Attendance is limited to 40 participants.

* Submission:

Authors are invited to submit papers on the topics outlined above.
Submissions should
be no longer than 10 pages, and be in line with the AAAI-style sheet
(see http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/macros-link.html)

Electronic submissions, in Postscript format, should be sent to:
Catherine.Tessier@cert.fr

* Workshop Chairs

Catherine Tessier and Laurent Chaudron
Onera-Cert-DCSD
2 avenue Edouard-Belin, BP 4025
31055 Toulouse Cedex 04 - France
Tel: (33) 5 62 25 29 14 - fax: (33) 5 62 25 25 64


* Workshop Committee

Cristiano Castelfranchi, CNR, Italy (cris@pscs2.irmkant.rm.cnr.it);
Mark Klein, CCS-MIT (m_klein@mit.edu);
Juergen Mueller, Deutsche Telekom, Germany (muellerhj@tzd.telekom.de);
Joël Quinqueton, Inria, France (jq@lirmm.fr);
Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University (singh@ncsu.edu);
Milind Tambe, University of Southern California  (tambe@isi.edu);
Laurent Chaudron (cochair), Onera-Cert, France
(Laurent.Chaudron@cert.fr);
Catherine Tessier (cochair), Onera-Cert, France
(Catherine.Tessier@cert.fr).

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Dr. Catherine Tessier
Systems Control & Flight Dynamics Department
Control & Decision Research Group
Onera - Cert
BP 4025
31055 Toulouse Cedex  04
France
Phone : (+33) 5 62 25 29 14 - Fax : (+33) 5 62 25 25 64
E-mail : Catherine.Tessier@cert.fr
http://www.cert.fr/fr/dcsd/PUB/PERCEPTION/cath.html
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