[ACT-R-users] AAAI 2004 Workshop Announcement

[Christian Lebiere]

AAAI 2004 Workshop Announcement
Submission deadline: March 12, 2004

Intelligent Agent Architectures: Combining the Strengths of Software
Engineering and Cognitive Systems

We invite research and position papers from people interested in the
development of intelligent agent architectures that build on existing
traditions and expertise in cognitive systems, intelligent systems,
and software engineering.

The Intelligent Agent Architectures: Combining the Strengths of Software
Engineering and Cognitive Systems workshop will focus on issues in the
development of intelligent agent architectures that combine the functional
structures and mechanisms of cognitive architectures with the software
engineering principles that have been applied in various types of agent
systems. Workshop presentations and discussions will focus on developing
a common vision for agent architecture frameworks that allow for the
categorization, evaluation, and comparison of advanced agent architectures
in a unified way. Such frameworks will aid the development of agent
systems with human-level capabilities that incorporate significant amounts
of knowledge.  These frameworks will also facilitate the rapid development
and efficient maintenance of knowledge-intensive agent models.


Topics

We invite position papers (2 to 6 pages in length) from all members
of the research and engineering community who have experience and ideas
relevant to developing such frameworks. In order to help translate current
experience into formal engineering advances, papers will ideally include
analytical descriptions of particular data structures and processes
supported by one or more agent/cognitive architectures, include comments
and descriptions of how to compare and evaluate architectures, and/or
comment on experiences or methods for applying software engineering
principles to knowledge-intensive intelligent agents.

We particularly encourage the participation of active researchers
and developers in cognitive science, intelligent agents, and software
engineering, and we most strongly encourage participants with experience
in two or more of these areas.


Submissions

Please send submissions in a common electronic format (PDF, PostScript,
Word, or plain text) to rjones at colby.edu.


Committee

Randolph M. Jones, Colby College and Soar Technology (rjones at colby.edu);
Robert E. Wray, Soar Technology (wray at soartech.com);
Matthias Scheutz, University of Notre Dame (mscheutz at cse.nd.edu)