Connectionists: Multi-Agent Workshop at NIPS - Call for submissions

[guy lever]

NIPS 2016 Workshop on Learning, Inference and Control of Multi-Agent Systems

10 December 2016, Barcelona, Spain

https://sites.google.com/site/malicnips2016

Submission deadline: 21 October 2016


Organizers: Thore Graepel, Marc Lanctot, Joel Leibo, Guy Lever, Janusz 
Marecki, Frans Oliehoek, Karl Tuyls


Multi-agent learning is of crucial importance to the future of 
computational intelligence and poses difficult and fascinating problems 
that need to be addressed across disciplines. The paradigm shift from 
single-agent to multi-agent systems will be pervasive and will require 
efforts across different fields including machine learning, cognitive 
science, robotics, natural computing, and (evolutionary) game theory. In 
this workshop we aim to bring together researchers from these different 
fields to discuss the current state of the art, future avenues and 
visions for work regarding theory and practice of multi-agent learning, 
inference, and decision-making.


1. Call for Papers


Authors can submit a 2-6 pages paper (excluding references) that will be 
reviewed by the organization committee. The papers can present new work 
or give a summary of recent work of the author(s). All papers will be 
considered for the poster sessions. Outstanding long papers (4-6 pages) 
will also be considered for a 20 minutes oral presentation.


Topics considered for contribution include:

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    Multi-agent reinforcement learning

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    Deep multi-agent learning

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    Theory of Mind

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    Multi-agent communication

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    POMDPs, Dec-POMDPS and partially observable stochastic games

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    Multi-agent robotics, human-robot collaboration, swarm robotics

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    Game theory, mechanism design, algorithms for computing Nash
    equilibria and other solution concepts

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    Bioinspired approaches, swarm intelligence and collective intelligence

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    Co-evolution, evolutionary dynamics and culture

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    Ad hoc teamwork

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    Learning from demonstrations, apprenticeship learning, and inverse
    reinforcement learning


Submissions should be sent per email to malic.nips2016 at gmail.com 
<mailto:malic.nips2016 at gmail.com>


Please use the standard NIPS style-file for the submissions. Your 
submission should be anonymous, so please do not add the author names to 
the PDF.


2. Format


The workshop will serve as a platform to bring researchers from the 
different relevant communities together and foster discussions about the 
next necessary developments for multi-agent systems. The workshop will 
consists of six invited talks, a few contributed talks and a poster session.


3. Confirmed Speakers

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    Chris Amato

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    Michael Bowling

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    Josh Tenenbaum

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    Manuela Veloso

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    Shimon Whiteson

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    Richard Watson


4. Program Committee

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    Daan Bloembergen

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    Sander Bohte

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    Chrisantha Fernando

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    Vicenç Gómez

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    Bert Kappen

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    Michael Littman

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    Gerhard Neumann

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    Ann Nowé

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    Olivier Pietquin

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    Matt Taylor

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    Kagan Tumer

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    Gerhard Weiss

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