Agents '99 call for papers — topics, deadlines, and the full list of conference officials including the senior programme committee.
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CALL FOR PAPERS *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** CALL FOR PAPERS
The Third International Conference on
AUTONOMOUS AGENTS (Agents '99)
Seattle, Washington, USA
Saturday May 1 - Wednesday May 5, 1999
http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/agents99
INTRODUCTION
Autonomous agents are computer systems that are capable of independent
action in open, unpredictable environments. Agents are also one of
the most important and exciting areas of research and development in
computer science today. Agents are currently being applied in domains
as diverse as computer games and interactive cinema, information
retrieval and filtering, user interface design, electronic commerce,
and industrial process control. The aim of the Agents '99 conference
is to bring together researchers and developers from industry and
academia in order to report on the latest scientific and technical
advances, discuss and debate the major issues, and showcase the latest
systems. Agents '99 will build on the enormous success of its two
predecessors, Agents '97 in Marina del Rey, and Agents '98 held in
Minneapolis, which together attracted some 1000 people.
The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers
and videos with summaries concerning autonomous agents in a variety of
embodiments and playing a variety of roles in their environments. The
Agents'99 conference, like its predecessors, will focus primarily on
systems that have been or are being implemented; theory papers are
welcome provided that they clearly relate to such systems, for example
by helping us to predict their behaviour, explain, or understand
them. The submission of pure theory papers is not encouraged: there
are other, more appropriate forums for such work. Papers that address
isolated agent capabilities (such as planning or learning) are
similarly discouraged. Evaluation of agents or multi-agent systems
will be considered a necessary component of each submission.
In addition to technical presentations of papers and videos, the
conference will include panel sessions involving internationally
recognised experts in the field, software and robotic agent
demonstrations, and an exhibits session. More generally, the
conference will strive towards an informal atmosphere with plenty of
time for presentations, questions, and discussions. Accepted papers
will be formally published in Conference Proceedings. A limited
number of student scholarships will be available. The conference will
also include workshops and tutorials that will take place May 1-2, 1998.
CONFERENCE THEMES
Technical isses to be addressed include, but are not restricted to:
* action selection and planning
* agent architectures
* agent-based software engineering
* agent communication languages
* artificial market systems and electronic commerce
* autonomous robots
* believability
* collaboration between people and agents
* communication between people and agents
* coordinating perception, thought, and action
* designing agent systems
* expert assistants
* evolution of agents
* human-like qualities of synthetic agents
* information agents
* instructability
* integration and coordination of multiple activities
* knowledge acquisition and accumulation
* life-like qualities
* longer-term adaptation and learning
* meta-modeling and meta-reasoning
* middle-agents (e.g., matchmakers, brokers, routers)
* mobile agents
* modeling the environment
* modeling the behavior of other agents
* models of emotion
* models of motivation
* models of personality
* multi-agent communication, coordination, and collaboration
* multi-agent teams
* network agents
* organization of agent societies
* real-time performance
* simulating and verifying agent systems
* synthetic agents
* user modeling
PAPER & VIDEO SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Paper and video submission is a 2 part process:
1. You *must* send in an electronic title page and abstract. This
must be done via the following WWW page:
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AA99ss/submit.html
Full instructions are provided on this page. Title pages must
be submitted no later than **5 October, 1998**. If you are
genuinely unable to complete the online form (e.g., you do not
have WWW access), then please contact the conference program
chairs as soon as possible.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The electronic title page site is likely to be
very busy on 5 October. You are strongly urged to submit this
title page *as far* in advance of 5 October as possible.
2. You *must* submit hardcopies of your papers -- electronic
submission is NOT acceptable. Paper submissions must arrive
no later than **5 October 1998**. Submissions received after
this date will be returned unopened. Authors should submit six
(6) copies of papers. All papers will be reviewed by the
program committee, and authors will be notified of acceptance
by 18 December 1998. Submitted papers must be printed on 8
1/2" x 11" or A4 paper using 12 point type (10 characters per
inch for typewriters). Each page must have no more than 38
lines and an average of 75 characters per line. (This
corresponds to LaTeX article style, 12 point.) Paper bodies
should be no longer than 6500 words, including references and
figures (assumed to represent the number of words they replace
on the manuscript page). Videos should be no longer than 10
minutes and accompanied by two page summaries, including
references and figures, but not including the title page.
Over-length papers will either be rejected or penalized in the
review process.
Paper and video submissions should be sent to:
AAAI (AGENTS 99)
445 Burgess Drive
Menlo Park CA 94035-3442
USA
Double Submission Policy:
Please note that Agents'99 and AAAI'99 will enforce a policy
not to allow double submissions. I.e., a paper that has been
accepted for full presentation at Agents'99 must not be submitted
to AAAI'99. This policy does not apply to submissions accepted
as posters at Agents'99.
TUTORIALS AT AGENTS '99
The program committee invites proposals for the tutorial program, to be
held May 2, 1999. Tutorials will be offered on a variety of aspects of
agent-related research related to the main conference themes. The above
list is by no means exclusive; other agent-related topics will be
considered, but in correspondence with the general direction of the
conference, we especially encourage proposals for tutorials that emphasize
the view of agents as complete autonomous systems.
Anyone interested in presenting a tutorial should submit a proposal to
the Agents '99 Tutorial Chair, Carles Sierra. A tutorial proposal should
contain the following information:
* A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in the
conference registration brochure.
* A detailed outline of the tutorial.
* A clear statement of the necessary background and the potential
target audience for the tutorial.
* A description of why the tutorial topic is of interest to a
substantial part of the Agents '99 audience.
* A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should include
- name
- postal address
- phone and fax numbers
- email address
- background in the tutorial area (e.g., teaching experience,
brief cv).
It is suggested that potential tutorial proposers contact the Tutorial
Chair in advance if they have any questions or queries. Those
submitting a proposal should keep in mind that tutorials are intended
to provide an overview of the field; they should present
state-of-the-art information in a balanced way. Tutorials should not
be used to advocate a single avenue of research, nor should they
promote a specific product.
Proposals must be received no later than by November 6, 1998.
Proposals should be submitted by post or electronically (in ascii,
postscript or rtf).
Decisions about topics and speakers will be made by December 18, 1998.
Tutors will be sent a set of guidelines for the preparation
of course materials. Completed course materials must be received for
duplication by February 16, 1999. Please note that Agents '99 will
normally only duplicate up to 200 pages per participant.
NOTE: The tutorial participants are required to register for the Agents'99
main conference. Tutorial registration will be handled by the Agents'99
Committee along with the main conference registration.
Please send proposals and any questions to:
Carles Sierra (AGENTS '99 TUTORIALS)
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, IIIA
Spanish Scientific Research Council, CSIC
Campus UAB,
Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona
Spain
Tel +34-93-5809570
Fax +34-93-5809661
Email sierra@iiia.csic.es
WORKSHOPS AT AGENTS '99
The Program Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held at
Agents '99. Workshops are intended to provide opportunities for
in-depth meetings and informal discussions about particular aspects of
agents. The topics listed above provide an indication of the types of
issues that might be addressed by workshops, though other
agent-related topics are welcome.
Potential Workshop organizers should e-mail the following information
to the workshop chair, Elisabeth Andre (andre@dfki.de) no later than
November 6th, 1998:
* Title of the proposed workshop
* Description of the workshop, including a strategy for recruiting and
selecting papers and participants
* List of workshop organizers
* The name, address, e-mail address, phone number, and fax number of
the person to contact
* Estimated number of participants, and if possible, a list of
tentatively confirmed attendees
* A list of previously-organized related workshops organized by any of the
organizers. This is to help the workshop chair put the
workshop in context (previous experience with similar workshops is not
required)
* Length (half-day/full-day) and suggested format.
All workshops will be held on May 1, 1999. All workshops will be
either half-day or full-day.
The workshop organizers will be responsible for:
* Producing a call-for-participation and distributing it.
* Selecting workshop participants. A list of participants should be
submitted to the Agents '99 Organizing Committee by March 15, 1999.
* Producing the workshop notes. If camera ready copy of the notes is
submitted to the Agents '99 Committee by April 6th, 1999, the Agents '99
Committee will produce copies of the workshop notes for workshop
participants.
The Agents '99 Committee will provide meeting places for the workshops
including nominal refreshments.
NOTE: The workshop participants are required to register for the Agents '99
main conference. Workshop registration will be handled by the Agents '99
Committee along with the main conference registration.
Please send proposals and any questions to the Workshop Chair:
Elisabeth Andre (AGENTS 99 WORKSHOPS)
DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbruecken
Germany
Phone: +49 681 302 5267
Fax: +49 681 302 5341
Email: andre@dfki.de
Important Dates for Workshop Organizers:
Submission Deadline for Workshop Proposals November 6th 1998
Notification of acceptance of Workshop Proposals November 30th 1998
Submission of final copy of Workshop Notes April 6th, 1999
Workshop dates May 1st, 1999
SOFTWARE DEMOS AT AGENTS '99
The Agents '99 conference will include a full session of software
demonstrations, showcasing the latest agent software products and
research projects. All demos will be given in parallel in an informal
setting. Demos should be brief so that they can be shown repeatedly
during the session.
Demo submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their innovation,
relevance, scientific contribution, and potential logistic constraints.
Commercial products are eligible, but sales and marketing activities are
not appropriate.
Submissions will consist of a cover letter indicating the primary
author's name, affiliation, address, phone number, and email address,
and the following (hardcopy submissions should include two copies):
1. A two-page summary of the technical content of the demo. This
summary will be handed out at the conference.
2. A detailed description of hardware and software requirements.
Please indicate what hardware or software you can supply these
yourself. Agents '99 will attempt to provide necessary equipment,
but some demonstrators may be required to provide their own
equipment.
3. A demo storyboard with at least six screen dumps (not more than
six pages, including pictures).
Submissions should be sent to Keith Golden, Software Demos Chair, at
the address below, and must be received by Tuesday, February 2,
1999. Email submissions are acceptable. To aid mail sorting, please
include the string "Agents 99 software demo" in the subject line of
email submissions. Authors will be notified of acceptance by February
23, 1999. If your travel plans require an earlier decision, please
indicate this on your application.
Authors of accepted Agents '99 papers will be invited to demonstrate
their systems at the conference, assuming appropriate equipment can
be arranged. Authors of accepted papers must still provide items (1)
and (2) above by the deadline if they wish to present software demos.
Submissions (email or hardcopy) should be sent to:
Keith Golden / Agents 99 Software Demo Chair
NASA Ames Research Center
Mail Stop 269-2
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
USA
phone: (650) 604-3585
fax: (650) 604-3594
email: kgolden@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
ROBOTICS DEMOS AT AGENTS '99
The Agents '99 conference will include a full session of robotics
demonstrations, featuring the lastest and most innovative systems that
are directly related to the theme of this conference --- robots that
can perceive and act in open, unpredictable environments. Examples of
such systems include, but not limited to, soccer robots (such as those
in RoboCup97 and RoboCup98), autonomous flying machines (i.e.,
miniature helicopters), and self-reconfigurable robots (such as Sony's
home entertainment pets).
All demos will be given in parallel in an informal setting. Demos may
be required to shown repeatedly during the conference. A schedule of
demos will be published during conference for the most visibility.
Limited financial support will be provided to teams that need the
most.
Demo submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their innovation,
relevance, scientific contribution, and potential logistic constraints.
Commercial products are eligible, but sales and marketing activities are
not appropriate.
Submissions will consist of a cover letter indicating the primary
author's name, affiliation, address, phone number, and email address
and the following (hardcopy submissions should include two copies):
1. A two-page summary of the technical content of the demo. This
summary will be handed out at the conference.
2. A short vedio tape that shows the highlights of the demo.
3. A detailed description of resource requirements, such as space,
site set ups, power supplies, monitors, keyboards, or other
necessary hardware or software. The final conference support
for these requirement will be negotiated before the conference.
4. An estimation of financial support for robot travelling and setup.
Submissions should be sent to Wei-Min Shen, Robotics Demos Chair, at
the address below, and must be received by Tuesday, February 2, 1999.
Email submissions are acceptable.
To enhance the scientific aspects of these demos, all accepted robot
demos will be requested to submit a paper to describe their research
and robots, and we will consider to publish these papers, possibly
through AAAI Press, in a collection similar to workshop proceedings.
Submissions (email or hardcopy) should be sent to:
Wei-Min Shen / Agents 99 Robotics Demo Chair
USC Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
USA
phone: (310) 822-1511
fax: (310) 822-0751
email: shen@isi.edu
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE VENUE
Seattle is an internationally known tourist destination; a major
city in a most scenic region. It provides easy access to Puget
Sound and the San Juan Islands, to Victoria and Vancouver, to
Mount Rainier, Olympic National Park, and the North Cascades
National Park. Many diverse restaurants and shopping areas exist in
all price ranges. Local attractions include the Space Needle
and Pacific Science Center; the Pike Place Market, the Aquarium, and
waterfront piers; theaters, opera house, concerts, and night clubs;
Woodland Park Zoo; the University of Washington and arboretum; the Seattle
Art Museum, and the Museum of Flight. The Washington State Historical
Museum and Point Defiance Park and zoo are in Tacoma. In recent years, the
Boeing plant in Everett (north of Seattle) has become the single most popular
tourist attraction in the state. The Everett factory is the world's largest
building in enclosed volume and is the final assembly site for Boeing's wide
body jets (747, 767, and 777).
Agents'99 is going to be held in the HYATT REGENCY BELLEVUE hotel in
Seattle. The hotel is located on the fashionable Eastside, directly
across from Bellevue Square, the Northwest?s largest shopping mall,
close to Microsoft, Boeing, U.S. West and Bellevue?s Meydenbauer
Convention Center; 10 miles to Seattle, 17 miles to SeaTac Int?l Airport.
The single conference room rate at the HYATT is US$ 149 per night.
Double rooms will be $159/night.
For more information about the venue and host city, see the
conference WWW site.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Like its predecessors, Agents'99 will comprise a high-quality
selection of tutorials, workshops, software demos, robotics demos,
and exhibitions. Check out the Agents'99 web page
http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/agents99
for details.
IMPORTANT DATES
October 5, 1998 Paper submission deadline
(includes electronic title pages,
papers and videos)
November 6, 1998 Workshop proposals due
Tutorial proposals due
December 18, 1998 Paper/video notifications mailed
Tutorial notifications will be mailed
February 2, 1999 Software demo submission deadline
Robotics demo submission deadline
February 16, 1999 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due
Tutorial material due
Workshop papers due
May 1-2, 1999 Workshops and tutorials
May 2-5, 1999 Conference technical sessions
AGENTS'99 MAILING LIST
You can register to the AGENTS'99 mailing list
(agents-99@cs.umbc.edu)
for up-to-date information about the conference.
Subscribe by sending an email message to
agents-99-subscribe@cs.umbc.edu.
NOTE: The mailing list is moderated, i.e., only
appropriate emails will be transmitted.
CONFERENCE OFFICIALS
General Chair:
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Associate Technical Fellow
Intelligent Agent Technology
The Boeing Company
P.O. Box 3707, MC 7L-44
Seattle, WA 98124-2207
USA
Email: jeffrey.m.bradshaw@boeing.com
Phone: (425)865-6086
Fax: (425)865-2965
Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Oren Etzioni
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98195
USA
Email: etzioni@cs.washington.edu
Phone: (206)685-3035
Fax: (206)543-2969
Joerg P. Mueller
John Wiley & Sons
4th Floor International House
London W5 5DB, UK
Tel: ++44 181 832 1510
Fax: ++44 181 579 6368
Email: jpm@wis-dev.wiley.co.uk
Senior Program Committee:
Ed Durfee (University of Michigan, USA)
Nick Jennings (Queen Mary & Westfield College, UK)
Lewis Johnson (University of Southern California, USA)
Henry Lieberman (MIT Media Laboratory, USA)
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras (AI Research Institute - CSIC, Spain)
Eugenio Oliveira (University of Porto, Portugal)
Mike Pazzani (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Martha Pollack (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Jeff Rosenschein (Hebrew University, Israel)
Tuomas Sandholm (Washington University St. Louis, USA)
Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Mike Wooldridge (Queen Mary & Westfield College, UK)
Publicity Chair:
Craig Knoblock
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
USA
Email: knoblock@isi.edu
Phone: (310)822-1511 x786
Fax: (310) 822-0751
Workshops Chair:
Elisabeth Andre
DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbruecken
Germany
Email: andre@dfki.de
Phone: +49 681 302 5267
Fax: +49 681 302 5341
Tutorials Chair:
Carles Sierra
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, IIIA
Spanish Scientific Research Council, CSIC
Campus UAB,
Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona
Spain
Email: sierra@iiia.csic.es
Phone: +34-93-5809570
Fax: +34-93-5809661
Software Demos Chair:
Keith Golden
NASA Ames Research Center
Mail Stop 269-2
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
USA
Email: kgolden@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
Phone: (650) 604-3585
Fax: (650) 604-3594
Robotics Demos Chair:
Wei-Min Shen
Information Sciences Institute
and Compter Science Department
University of Southern California
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Email: shen@isi.edu
Phone: (310)822-1511
Fax: (310)822-0751
URL: http://www.isi.edu/~shen
Videos Chair:
Maria Gini (University of Minnesota, USA)
Email: gini@cs.umn.edu
Posters Chair:
Frank Dignum
Faculty of Mathematics & Computing Science
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Email: dignum@win.tue.nl
Phone: +31-40-2473705
Fax: +31-40-2463992
Treasurer:
Daniela Rus (Dartmouth College, USA)
Email: rus@cs.dartmouth.edu
Local Arrangements Chair:
Gene Ball
Microsoft Research
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
USA
Email: geneb@microsoft.com
Phone: (425)936-5653
Sponsorship Chair:
Mark Greaves
Applied Research and Technology
The Boeing Company
P.O. Box 3707 MC 7L-43
Seattle, WA 98124-2207
Email: mark.t.greaves@boeing.com
Phone: (425) 865-2140
Fax: (425) 865-2965
Agents99 Web Site:
Ying Sun (Amy)
Applied Research and Technology
The Boeing Company
P.O. Box 3707 MC 7L-44
Seattle, WA 98124-2207
Email: amy.sun@boeing.com
Phone: (425) 865-3415
Fax: (425) 865-2965
