Connectionists: Call for Participation: Adaptive Learning Agents Workshop @ AAMAS 2014

[Sam Devlin]

*Call For Participation*


*Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop 2014 *

*at AAMAS 2014 (Paris, France)*

*May 5-6*


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Register at: http://aamas2014.lip6.fr/registration.php


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ALA 2014: Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop held at AAMAS 2014 (Paris,
France). The ALA workshop has a long and successful history and is now in
its 14th 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 18 oral presentations, an invited
speaker and 2 tutorial sessions on multi-agent reinforcement learning and
reward shaping (difference rewards and potential-based reward shaping).


More details may be found on the workshop web site:


http://swarmlab.unimaas.nl/ala2014/


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* Early Registration Deadline: March 25, 2014

* Workshop: May 5-6, 2014

Register at: http://aamas2014.lip6.fr/registration.php


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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:*


Samuel Barrett (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Sam Devlin (University of York, UK)
Daniel Hennes (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)


If you have any questions about the ALA workshop, please contact the
organizers at:
ala.workshop.2014 AT gmail.com



*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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-- 
Dr Sam Devlin
Research Associate
York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis
The University of York
Deramore Lane, York, YO10 5GH

w: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~devlin/

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