Connectionists: Call for Participation: Adaptive Learning Agents Workshop @ AAMAS 2013

[Sam Devlin]

*Call For Participation***

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*Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop 2013 *

*at AAMAS 2013 (Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA)*

*May 6-7*





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* Register at: http://aamas2013.cs.umn.edu/node/41



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ALA 2013: Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop held at AAMAS 2013 (Saint
Paul, Minnesota, USA). The ALA workshop has a long and successful history
and is now in its 13th edition. The workshop is a merger of European ALAMAS
and the American ALAg series which is usually held at AAMAS.



Our technical program will include 19 oral presentations, 2 invited
speakers and a joint panel held in collaboration with the MSDM workshop (
http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/~switwicki/msdm2013/). For which, the panelists
confirmed so far include Prof. Peter Stone, Prof. Shlomo Zilberstein, and
Prof. Milind Tambe.



More details may be found on the workshop web site:



http://swarmlab.unimaas.nl/ala2013/

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* Early Registration Deadline:     March 27, 2013

* Workshop:                              May 6-7, 2013

* Register at: http://aamas2013.cs.umn.edu/node/41



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Adaptive and Learning Agents, particularly those in a multi-agent setting
are becoming more and more prominent as the sheer size and complexity of
many real world systems grows. How to adaptively control, coordinate and
optimize such systems is an emerging multi-disciplinary research area at
the intersection of Computer Science, Control theory, Economics, and
Biology. The ALA workshop will focus on agent and multi-agent systems which
employ learning or adaptation.



The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness and interest in adaptive
agent research, encourage collaboration and give a representative overview
of current research in the area of adaptive and learning agents and
multi-agent systems. It aims at bringing together not only scientists from
different areas of computer science but also from different fields studying
similar concepts (e.g., game theory, bio-inspired control, mechanism
design). This workshop will focus on all aspects of adaptive and learning
agents and multi-agent systems with a particular emphasis on how to modify
established learning techniques and/or create new learning paradigms to
address the many challenges presented by complex real-world problems.





The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

     * Novel combinations of reinforcement and supervised learning
approaches

     * Integrated learning approaches that work with other agent reasoning
modules like

       negotiation, trust models, coordination, etc.

     * Supervised multi-agent learning

     * Reinforcement learning (single and multi-agent)

     * Planning (single and multi-agent)

     * Reasoning (single and multi-agent)

     * Distributed learning

     * Adaptation and learning in dynamic environments

     * Evolution of agents in complex environments

     * Co-evolution of agents in a multi-agent setting

     * Cooperative exploration and learning to cooperate and collaborate

     * Learning trust and reputation

     * Communication restrictions and their impact on multi-agent
coordination

     * Design of reward structure and fitness measures for coordination

     * Scaling learning techniques to large systems of learning and
adaptive agents

     * Emergent behaviour in adaptive multi-agent systems

     * Game theoretical analysis of adaptive multi-agent systems

     * Neuro-control in multi-agent systems

     * Bio-inspired multi-agent systems

     * Applications of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems
to real world complex

       systems

     * Learning of Co-ordination



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Organization



*Workshop chairs:*



Sam Devlin (University of York, UK)

Daniel Hennes (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)

Enda Howley <http://endahowley.ie/> (National University of Ireland,
Galway, Ireland)



If you have any questions about the ALA workshop, please contact Enda
Howley at:

enda.howley AT nuigalway.ie

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*Senior Steering Committee Members:*



Daniel Kudenko (University of York, UK)

Ann Nowé (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)

Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Matthew Taylor (Lafayette College, USA)

Kagan Tumer (Oregon State University, USA)

Karl Tuyls (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)

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