Call For Papers -- ICMAS '95

First International Conference on Multiagent Systems - ICMAS '95

June 12 - 14, 1995
San Francisco, California

Multiagent Systems are computational systems in which several semi-autonomous agents interact or work together to perform some set of tasks or satisfying some set of goals. These systems may involve computational agents that are homogeneous or heterogeneous, they may involve activity on the part of agents having common goals or goals that are distinct, and they may involve participation on the part of humans and intelligent computational agents. Research and practice on these systems generally focuses on problem solving, communication, and coordination aspects, as distinct from low-level parallelization or synchronization issues that are more the focus of distributed computing.

The design, implementation, and assessment of multiagent systems raises many specific issues. These include how to develop coordination strategies that enable groups of agents to solve problems effectively, negotiation mechanisms that serve to bring a collection of agents to an acceptable state, conflict detection and resolution strategies, protocols by which agents may communicate and reason about inter-agent communications, and mechanisms whereby agents can maintain autonomy while still contributing to overall system effectiveness.

Researchers and developers in many areas of the world have contributed to multiagent systems over the last decade. The First International Conference on Multiagent Systems will be held in June of 1995 in San Francisco. Organized as a joint effort of the North American Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) community, the Japanese Multi-Agent and Cooperative Computing (MACC) community, and the European Modeling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World (MAAMAW) community with support from AAAI and sanctioned by ECCAI, this conference solicits papers concerning multiagent systems.

ICMAS-95 will be a three-day conference combining a strong technical program of submitted papers with plenary sessions that serve to encourage synthesis of ideas from multiple segments of this interdisciplinary area. There will also be tutorials presented on June 11, the day before the official start of the conference. The program committee wishes to encourage representation of a broad spectrum of perspectives in the conference program. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Submissions (Note the changed due date)

Authors should submit five (5) copies of papers and an email version of the abstract postmarked by December 5, 1994 to one of the conference co-chairs. All papers will be reviewed by the program committee and authors will be notified of acceptance by March 1, 1995. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its scientific contribution, and the problems, domains, or environments to which it is applicable.

Paper Format for Review

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.) Each paper should have a single title page which includes a 150-word abstract and up to two topic areas covered by the paper. (These will be used to focus reviewing and ultimately to structure the technical program.) The body of the paper, including all figures, tables, and diagrams but excluding title page and bibliography must be no more than 12 pages in length. Papers that do not conform to these guidelines will be rejected without review and no electronic submissions will be accepted.

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