DM: AAAI-99 Workshop on Agents' Conflicts - 2nd Call

[Catherine.Tessier]

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The AAAI-99 Workshop on Agents' Conflicts
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2nd Call for papers - Submission deadline 12 March 1999
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* 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).