CALL FOR PAPERS

The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers and videos with summaries concerning autonomous agents in a variety of embodiments and playing a variety of roles in their environments. The Agents '98 conference, like its predecessor, will focus primarily on systems that have been or are being implemented; theory papers are welcome provided that they clearly relate to such systems, for example by helping us to predict their behaviour, explain, or understand them. The submission of pure theory papers is not encouraged: there are other, more appropriate forums for such work. Papers that address isolated agent capabilities (such as planning or learning) are similarly discouraged. Evaluation of agents or multi-agent systems will be a necessary component of each submission.

The conference will include presentations of papers and videos, panel sessions, software and robotic agent demonstrations, and exhibits. More generally, the conference will strive towards an informal atmosphere with plenty of time for presentations, questions, and discussions. Accepted papers will be formally published in a Conference Proceedings. A limited number of student scholarships will be available. The conference will also include tutorials and workshops that will take place May 9, 1998.

CONFERENCE THEMES

• action selection and planning
• agent architectures
• agent communication languages and their semantics
• autonomous robots
• believability
• collaboration between people and agents
• communication between people and agents
• coordinating perception, thought, and action
• expert assistants
• evolution of agents
• human-like qualities of synthetic agents
• information agents
• instructability
• integration and coordination of multiple activities
• knowledge acquisition and accumulation
• life-like qualities
• longer-term adaptation and learning
• artificial market systems
• meta-modeling of an agent by itself
• middle-agents (e.g., matchmakers, brokers, routers)
• mobile agents
• modeling the environment
• modeling the behavior of other agents
• models of emotion
• models of motivation
• models of personality
• multi-agent communication, coordination, and collaboration
• multi-agent simulation
• multi-agent teams
• network and mobile agents
• organization of agent societies
• real-time performance
• synthetic agents
• user modeling

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Paper and video submission is a 2 part process:

• You must send in an electronic title page and abstract. This must be done via the following WWW page:

http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AA98ss/submit.html

Full instructions are provided on this page. Title pages must be submitted no later than 1 October, 1997. If you are genuinely unable to complete the online form (e.g., you do not have WWW access), then please contact the conference program chairs as soon as possible, and in any event before the submission deadline.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The electronic title page site is likely to be very busy on 1 October. You are strongly urged to submit this title page as far in advance of 1 October as possible.

• You must submit hardcopies of your papers -- electronic submission is NOT acceptable. Paper submissions must arrive no later than October 1, 1997. Submissions received after this date will be returned unopened. Authors should submit six (6) copies of papers. All papers will be reviewed by the program committee, and authors will be notified of acceptance by December 15, 1997. Submitted papers must be printed on 8 1/2" x 11" or A4 paper using 12 point type (10 characters per inch for typewriters). Each page must have no more than 38 lines and an average of 75 characters per line. (This corresponds to LaTeX article style, 12 point.) Paper bodies should be no longer than 6500 words, including references and figures (assumed to represent the number of words they replace on the manuscript page). Videos should be no longer than 10 minutes and accompanied by two page summaries, including references and figures, but not including the title page. Over-length papers will either be rejected or penalized in the review process.

Paper and video submissions should be sent to:

AAAI (AGENTS 98)
445 Burgess Drive
Menlo Park CA 94025-3496
USA

IMPORTANT DATES

October 1, 1997	Deadline for receipt of papers and videos
December 15, 1997	Author notifications mailed
February 15, 1998	Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due

CONFERENCE OFFICIALS

General Chair

Katia P. Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University)

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Tim Finin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Mike Wooldridge (Zuno)

Area Chairs

Agents for Entertainment: Clark Elliott (DePaul University)
Robotic agents: Maja Mataric (University of Southern California)
Software agents: Dan Weld (University of Washington)

Finance Chair:

Milind Tambe (Information Sciences Institute)

Local Arrangements Chair:

Maria Gini (University of Minnesota)

Publicity Chair:

Keith Decker (University of Delaware)

Tutorial Chair:

Anand Rao (Australian AI Institute)

Workshops Chair:

Mike Huhns (University of S. Carolina)

Demonstration Chairs:

Software Agents: Henry Kautz (ATT Bell Labs)
Robotic Agents: Robin Murphy (Colorado School of Mines)

Poster Chair:

Afsaneh Haddadi (Daimler Benz)

Exhibits Chair:

David Musliner (Honeywell)

Registration Chair:

Bamshad Mobasher (U. of Minnesota)
For more information, contact Katia P. Sycara at katia@cs.cmu.edu.  Last Modified on