Connectionists: 2nd CFP: Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) Workshop @ AAMAS 2014

[Sam Devlin]

Second Call For Papers: Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop 2014 (Paris,
France)
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Paper deadline: JANUARY 22, 2014

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 sixth edition. The workshop is a merger of European ALAMAS and the
American ALAg series which is usually held at AAMAS. Details may be found
on the workshop web site:

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

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 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

The workshop will also include a half day tutorial on multi-agent
reinforcement learning. Previous versions of this tutorial were
successfully run at EASSS 2004 (the European Agent Systems Summer School),
ECML 2005, ICML 2006, EWRL 2008 and AAMAS 2009-2013, and ECML 2013 with
different collaborators. The ALA 2014 edition will include revised and
updated content with a new focus on reward shaping covering in particular
depth - difference rewards and potential-based reward shaping.

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Submission Details
Papers can be submitted through Easychair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ala20140
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.
Papers accepted at the workshop will also be eligible for inclusion in a
special issue published after the workshop.

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* Submission Deadline:  January 22, 2014
* Notification of acceptance:   February 19, 2014
* Camera-ready copies:  March 10, 2014
* Workshop:             May 5 or 6, 2014
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-- 
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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