miro@bcsaic.UUCP (Miro Benda) (02/16/89)
Call for Participation
9th Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop
Sponsored by AAAI
September 12 - 14, 1989, Rosario Resort, Orcas Island, Washington
Distributed Artificial Intelligence deals with cooperative solu-
tions to complex problems by decentralized groups of intelligent
agents. The central problem in this field is a design of organi-
zations that promote effective cooperation among the agents: or-
ganizations that enable rather than hinder synergy and where the
interaction among agents achieves more than the agents individu-
ally. The objective of the workshop is to assemble theoreticians
and practitioners in order to:
define the state of the art
share ideas for advancing the state of the art
plan the development of the field in the long term
The workshop will consist of three types of sessions in six
technology subdisciplines of DAI. Presentation sessions 20
minutes long followed by reviewer's comment and a 15 minute dis-
cussion. The expected submission is a technical paper up to 20
pages long.
A poster session consisting of a permanent display in the
workshop area. The expected submission is a set of charts, draw-
ings, cartoons explaining the activity and its results
Technology team sessions consisting of more in-depth
discussion/presentation in a specific technical topic. The ex-
pected submission is a resume showing the wealth of past contri-
butions in the specific technology area.
Besides these session there will be a panel that will summarize
the results of the technology team sessions and provide a forum
for a general discussion.
Contributions are invited for consideration to all types of ses-
sions in the following technology area:
Intelligent Agents
(capability, autonomy, tools for building them, ...)
Coordination
(trade-offs between control and communication, ...)
Negotiation
(interaction of agents, authority, communication, ...)
Distributed Reasoning
(multi-agent planning, shared knowledge, ...)
Distributed Interfaces
(group interfaces, physically separated interfaces,..)
Technology Platform
(distributed operating systems, distributed databases,..)
Three copies of a draft proposals identifying the session type
and the technology area should be sent to Miroslav Benda before
May 15, 1989. Acceptance notices will be mailed by June 15, 1989
and authors will have till August 1, 1989 to submit final ver-
sions of the papers.
There will be a travel-and-expense award of up to $600 for the
best contribution submitted by a graduate student.
Workshop Chairperson
Miroslav Benda for express mail:
Knowledge Systems Lab Knowledge Systems Lab
Boeing, M/S 7L-64 Boeing, M/S 7L-64
P.O.Box 24346 2760 160-th Ave SE
Seattle, Wa. 98124 Bellevue, Wa. 98007
(206)865 3244
Program Committee
L. Gasser, USC, Intelligent Agents
V. Lesser, U. of Mass, Coordination
C. Hewitt, MIT, Negotiation
L. Erman, Teknowledge and
J. Rosenchein, Hebrew U., Distributed Reasoning
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B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State
M. Fox, Carnegie-Mellon
P. Friedland, NASA-Ames
K. Sharma, Boeing Computer Services