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First International Conference on Autonomous Agents
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Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 14:34:16 -0400
From: Pattie Maes
CALL FOR PAPERS
First International Conference on AUTONOMOUS AGENTS (Agents '97)
Mariott Hotel, Marina del Rey, February 5-8, 1997
This conference will bring together researchers interested in modeling and building autonomous agents. Agents are computational systems that inhabit dynamic, unpredictable environments. They interpret sensor data that reflect events in the environment and execute motor commands that produce effects in the environment. An agent is "autonomous" to the degree that it decides for itself how to relate sensor data to motor commands in its efforts to achieve goals, satisfy motivations, etc.
Agents can take many different physical forms, depending in part on the nature of their environments. Agents inhabiting the physical world typically are robots. Agents inhabiting cyberspace (consisting of computers and networks) are often called softbots. Agents that perform primarily computational functions, but interact with the physical world may be called expert assistants. Synthetic agents operate in simulated environments, such as computer animated environments or MUDS.
Similarly, agents can play many different roles in their environments, as illustrated in the following selected examples. Some robots may work in inhospitable physical environments, interacting primarily with other robots and physical objects. Others may work among and assist people in everyday environments, such as offices. Softbots may act as personal assistants running on the workstations of individual users or act as public information brokers running on a network. Expert assistants might work in medical monitoring, industrial control, business process management, or computer integrated manufacturing. Synthetic agents, which emphasize character qualities like believability and personality, rather than deep intelligence or expertise, may play roles in interactive systems for entertainment, art, games, education, or consumer software.
The conference welcomes submissions concerning autonomous agents in a variety of embodiments and playing a variety of roles in their environments. However, it is intended to complement existing related conferences such as the AAAI Conference, IJCAI Conference, and the ICMAS (International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems) by emphasizing "complete" agents that have actually been implemented or are currently under construction. It will deemphasize theory and focused treatments of isolated component capabilities (e.g., planning, pattern recognition, diagnosis, learning).
To reinforce the emphasis on complete agents, the call for papers is structured according to the four application areas: autonomous robots, softbots, expert assistants, and synthetic agents. Submissions must be categorized in one of these areas. In addition, each submission should be annotated to indicate the most important technical issues emphasized in the paper (see list below). However, these issues must be addressed specifically in the context of integrated agents.
At the conference itself, papers from these different application areas will appear in shared sessions to facilitate an appreciation of application-independent issues in the design and implementation of autonomous agents. More generally, the conference will have an informal workshop atmosphere with plenty of time for presentations, questions, and discussions.
Accepted papers and video summaries will be published in a Conference Proceedings.
DETAILS FOR SUBMISSIONS
Summary of important dates:
July 1, 1996 Deadline for receipt of electronic title pages and abstracts July 8, 1996 Deadline for receipt of papers and videos September 9, 1996 Author notifications will be mailed. October 7, 1996 Camera-ready copies due
Researchers are invited to submit papers or videos.
Every submission, paper or video, must be preceded by an electronic message containing a title page and abstract sent to agents-97-submit@isi.edu. The electronic message must be received no later than July 1, 1996. Submissions not preceded by an electronic message prior to July 1, 1996 will be returned unopened.
The electronic message must contain a title page and abstract.
1. Title Page Category (paper or video) Application Area (1 from list below) Technical Issues (1-3 from list below) Title Authors and Their Institutions: First author contact information (telephone, fax, email, regular mailing address) Statement to the effect that the submitted paper has not and will not be submitted to any other conference or journal, (apart from specialist workshops with a limited audience and no formal publication procedure), during the Autonomous Agents review period.
2. Abstract (maximum 150 words)
Papers and videos plus summaries should be sent to:
AA '97 USC / Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292, USA
Submissions must arrive no later than July 8, 1996. Submissions received after this date will be returned unopened.
The title page of every paper or video summary must contain all of the information specified above. 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), but not including the title 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. Authors should err on the side of shorter papers. Over-length papers may be rejected or penalized in the review process.
Application Areas:
autonomous robots softbots expert assistants synthetic agents
Technical Issues:
agent architectures coordinating perception, thought, and action sensing and perception selective perception focus of attention pattern recognition diagnosis action selection and planning real-time performance adaptation to run-time events longer-term adaptation and learning evolution of agents knowledge acquisition and accumulation integration and coordination of multiple activities multi-agent communication multi-agent collaboration organization of agent colonies communication between people and agents collaboration between people and agents modeling the environment modeling the behavior of other agents meta-modeling of an agent by itself user modeling believability life-like qualities models of emotion models of motivation models of personality other human-like qualities instructability mind-body relationship simulation versus implementation
Notifications of acceptance/rejection will be mailed to authors on by September 9, 1996. Camera ready copies of accepted papers and video abstracts will be due October 7, 1996.
Conference Co-Chairs:
W. Lewis Johnson (USC/ISI) Nick Jennings (Queen Mary & Westfield College)
Conference Program Co-Chairs:
Barbara Hayes-Roth (Stanford University) Pattie Maes (MIT)
Conference Program Application Area Chairs: Autonomous Robots: George Bekey (USC) Softbots: Oren Etzioni (University of Washington) Synthetic Agents: Joseph Bates (Carnegie Mellon University) Expert Assistants: Anand Rao (Australia AI Institute)
Demonstration Chairs:
Robotics: R. James Firby (Chicago University) Software: Charles Rich (MERL)
Tutorial Chair:
Joerg P. Mueller (German AI Research Center)
Treasurer:
Paul Rosenbloom (USC/ISI)
Publicity Chair:
Mike Wooldridge (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Local Arrangements Chair: Milind Tambe (USC/ISI)
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further information is available via two mirrored WWW sites, one in the USA and one in Europe:
http://www.isi.edu/isd/AA97/info.html (USA) http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aa97.html (EUROPE)
Additionally, further information is available via email to agents-97-info@isi.edu.
SPONSORED BY ACM SIGART, WITH CO-SPONSORSHIP FROM ACM SIGCHI AND SIGGRAPH. SUPPORTED BY AAAI. ```
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