gasser%pollux.usc.edu@oberon.usc.edu (Les Gasser) (12/29/87)
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WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
8th Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Lake Arrowhead Conference Center
Lake Arrowhead, CA.
May 22-25, 1988
The 8th Distributed AI Workshop will address the problems of
coordinated action and problem-solving among reasonably sophisticated,
intelligent computational "agents." The focus will be be synthetic and
pragmatic, investigating how we can integrate theoretical and
experimental ideas about knowledge, planning, negotiation, action,
etc. in multi-agent domains, to build working interacting agents.
Participation is by invitation only. To participate, please submit an
extended abstract (5-7 double-spaced pages, hard copy only) describing
original work in DAI to the workshop organizer at the address below.
Preference will be given to work addressing basic research issues in
DAI such as those outlined below. A small number of "interested
observers" will also be invited. If you are interested in being an
observer, please submit a written request to attend (hard copy), with
some justification. Participation will be limited to approximately 35
people.
A number of submitted papers will be selected for full presentation,
critique, and discussion. Other participants will be able to make
brief presentations of their work in less formal sessions. There will
be ample time allowed for informal discussion. All participants should
plan to submit a full paper version in advance, for distribution at
the workshop.
Suggested topics include (but are not necessarily limited to):
Describing, decomposing, and allocating problems among a
collection of intelligent agents, including resource allocation,
setting up communication, dynamic allocation, etc.
Assuring coherent, coordinated interaction among intelligent agents,
including allocating control, determining coherence, organization
processes, the role of communication in coherence, plan
synchronization, etc.
Reasoning about other agents, the world, and the state of the
coordinated process, including plan recognition, prospective
reasoning, knowledge and belief models, representation techniques,
domain or situation specific examples, etc.
Recognizing and resolving disparities in viewpoints, representations,
knowledge, goals, etc. (including dealing with incomplete,
inconsistent, and representationally incompatible knowledge) using
techniques such as communication, negotiation, conflict resolution,
compromise, deal enforcement, specialization, credibility assessment,
etc.
Problems of language and communication, including interaction
languages and protocols, reasoning about communication acts
inter-agent dialogue coherence, etc.
Epistemological problems such as joint concept formation, mutual
knowledge, situation assessment with different frames of
reference, etc.
Practical architectures for and real experiences with building
interacting intelligent agents or distributed AI systems.
Appropriate methodologies, evaluation criteria, and techniques for
DAI research, including comparability of results, basic assumptions,
useful concepts, canonical problems, etc.
For this DAI workshop, we specifically discourage the submission of
papers on issues such as programming language level concurrency,
fine-grained parallelism, concurrent hardware architectures, or
low-level "connectionist" approaches.
We intend that revised versions of a number of the best papers from
this workshop will be included in a second monograph on "Distributed
Artificial Intelligence," edited by Mike Huhns and Les Gasser, and
that a workshop proceedings will be published.
Please direct inquiries to the workshop organizer at the address below.
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DATES:
Deadline for submission of extended abstracts: February 15, 1988
Notification of acceptance: March 21, 1988
Full papers due (for distribution at the workshop): April 25, 1988
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZER:
Les Gasser
Distributed AI Group
Computer Science Department
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA. 90089-0782
Telephone: (213) 743-7794
Internet: gasser@usc-cse.usc.edu
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WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE:
Miro Benda (Boeing AI Center) Phil Cohen (SRI)
Lee Erman (Teknowledge) Michael Fehling (Rockwell)
Mike Genesereth (Stanford) Mike Georgeff (SRI)
Carl Hewitt (MIT) Mike Huhns (MCC)
Victor Lesser (UMASS) Nils Nilsson (Stanford)
N.S. Sridharan (FMC Corp)
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Support for this workshop and for partial subsidy of participants'
expenses has been provided by AAAI; other support is pending.
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