Connectionists: 2nd CFP ALA 2010 workshop on Adaptive and Learning Agents @ AAMAS'10

[Marek Grzes]

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Paper deadline: FEBRUARY 2, 2010

* The workshop with a long and successful history now
   in its 10th edition
* ACM proceedings format with up to 8 pages
* Special issue of the Advances in Complex Systems (ACS)
   journal after the workshop

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2nd Call for Papers
ALA 2010: Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop at AAMAS 2010

The ALA workshop has a long and successful history and is now in its
10th edition. The workshop is a merger of European ALAMAS and the
American ALAg series which is usually held at AAMAS. Details may be
found at the workshop web site:
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~grzes/ala10/

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* Submission Deadline:         February 2, 2010
* Notification of acceptance:  March 2, 2010
* Camera-ready copies:         March 15, 2010
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Adaptive and Learning Agents, particularly those in a multiagent 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 multiagent 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 multiagent 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 multiagent 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 multiagent learning
     * Reinforcement learning (single and multiagent)
     * Planning (single and multiagent)
     * Reasoning (single and multiagent)
     * Distributed learning
     * Adaptation and learning in dynamic environments
     * Evolution of agents in complex environments
     * Co-evolution of agents in a multiagent setting
     * Cooperative exploration and learning to cooperate and collaborate
     * Learning trust and reputation
     * Communication restrictions and their impact on multiagent
       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 multiagent systems
     * Game theoretical analysis of adaptive multiagent systems
     * Neuro-control in multiagent systems
     * Bio-inspired multiagent systems
     * Applications of adaptive and learning agents and multiagent
       systems to real world complex systems
     * Learning of Co-ordination

Papers in the workshop that focus on multiagent approaches are eligible
to be extended for inclusion in a special issue of the Advances in
Complex Systems (ACS) journal. A review cycle is scheduled for summer
2010, details will be given on the workshop site. Only papers presented
at the workshop are eligible for inclusion in the special issue.

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Submission Details

Paper submissions may be emailed in the pdf format to
grzes at cs.york.ac.uk with the subject Submission ALA-10. Submissions may
be up to 8 pages in the ACM proceedings format (i.e., the same as AAMAS
papers in the main conference track). Accepted work will be allocated
time for oral presentation during the one day workshop.

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Organization

Workshop chairs:
Marek Grzes (University of York, UK)
Matthew Taylor (University of Southern California, USA)


If you have any questions about the ALA workshop, please contact the
chairs by e-mail: grzes at cs.york.ac.uk

Senior Steering Committee Members:
Franziska Klügl (University of Orebro, Sweden)
Daniel Kudenko (University of York, UK)
Ann Nowé (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
Lynne E. Parker (University of Tennessee, USA)
Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA)
Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Kagan Tumer (Oregon State University, USA)
Karl Tuyls (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)

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