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AAMAS-07 (Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems), Honolulu HI, May 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS
                    The Sixth International Joint Conference on
                 AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-07)
                                Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
                                  May 14--18, 2007
                            http://www.aamas2007.org/

Introduction

AAMAS is the premier scientific conference for research in autonomous 
agents and multiagent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated 
in 2002 as a merger of three highly respected individual conferences: the 
International Conference on Autonomous Agents, the International Workshop 
on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, and the International 
Conference on Multi-Agent Systems. The aim of the joint conference is to 
provide a single, high-profile, internationally respected archival forum 
for scientific research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents 
and multiagent systems. (See http://www.aamas-conference.org/ for more 
information.) AAMAS-07 is the Sixth conference in the AAMAS series, 
following enormously successful previous conferences at Bologna, Italy 
(2002), Melbourne, Australia (2003), New York, USA (2004), Utrecht, The 
Netherlands (2005), and Hakodate, Japan (2006). AAMAS-07 will be held at 
the Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Information for Authors

AAMAS-07 encourages the submission of theoretical, experimental, 
methodological, and application papers. Theory papers should make clear 
the significance and relevance of their results to the AAMAS community. 
Similarly, applied papers should make clear both their scientific and 
technical contributions, and are expected to demonstrate a thorough 
evaluation of their strengths and weaknesses in practice. Papers that 
address isolated agent capabilities (for example, planning or learning) 
are discouraged unless they are placed in the overall context of 
autonomous agent architectures or multiagent system organization and 
performance. A thorough evaluation of all hypotheses is considered an 
essential component of any submission. Authors should also make clear the 
implications of any theoretical and empirical results, as well as how 
their work relates to the state of the art in autonomous agents and 
multiagent systems as evidenced in, for example, previous AAMAS 
conferences. All submissions will be peer reviewed rigorously and 
evaluated on the basis of originality, soundness, significance, 
presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality 
of their technical contribution.

In addition to conventional conference papers, AAMAS-07 will also include 
a demonstration track for work focusing on implemented systems, software, 
or robot prototypes; and an industry track for descriptions of industrial 
applications of agents. The submission processes for the demonstration and 
industry tracks will be separate from the main paper submission process.

Topics of Interest for Papers

Agents (Does the research apply to an individual agent?)
    * Architectures: reactive and deliberative (e.g., based on BDI, Bayesian 
networks, or logic)
    * Autonomous or humanoid robots
    * Autonomy
    * Cognitive models, including emotions and philosophies
    * Embodied and believable agents
    * Formal models of agency
    * Learning, evolution, and adaptation
    * Perception and action


Multiagent Systems (Does the research apply to more than one agent?)

    * Argumentation, negotiation, and conflict handling
    * Brokering and matchmaking
    * Communication: languages, semantics, pragmatics, protocols, and 
conversations
    * Cooperative distributed problem solving
          o Coordination, cooperation, and teamwork
          o Task and resource allocation
          o Distributed constraint processing
    * Emergent behavior
    * Mechanism design, auctions, and game theory
    * Modeling other agents and self
    * Multiagent planning
    * Multiagent learning
    * Societal aspects
          o Conventions, commitments, norms, obligations, and social laws
          o Social and organizational structures
          o Trust and reputation
    * Social robots and robot teams


Tools and Techniques (How do we go about creating agents and MAS?)

    * Agent-oriented software engineering, including implementation languages 
and frameworks
    * Computational complexity
    * Mobile agents
    * Ontologies
    * Performance, scalability, robustness, and dependability
    * Verification and validation (e.g., model checking)


Applications and Environments (Where do we use agents and MAS?)

    * Artificial social systems
    * Autonomic computing
    * Case studies and reports on deployments
    * Computational infrastructures (e.g., Grid and P2P)
    * Electronic markets and institutions
    * Pervasive computing
    * Privacy, safety, and security
    * Simulation systems
    * Web services and service-oriented computing


Systemic Matters

    * Ethical and legal issues raised by agents and multiagent systems
    * Standardization efforts in industry and commerce


Important Dates
Oct 20, 2006: electronic abstract submission deadline
Oct 23, 2006: electronic paper submission deadline
Dec 19, 2006: notification