Call for Papers

FROM AGENT THEORY TO AGENT IMPLEMENTATION

A Session at the 14th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems
Research (EMCSR '98)

April 14-17, 1998, Vienna, Austria

<URL:http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/emcsr/>

Submission deadline: November 8, 1997

Agent-based technology has made a fast inroad from highly specialised
workshops on topics such as ``situatedness'' and ``embeddedness'' to
mainstream textbooks. In the course of this development, it has also
been driving the furthering of established notions and frameworks (e.g.,
the shift from ``perfect rationality'' to ``bounded optimality'' or the
introduction of a ``social level'' above the ``knowledge level'') as
well as favouring the intensification of interdisciplinary exchanges of
ideas with as diverse fields as economics, control theory, evolutionary
biology and ethology, or psychology and neurology, taking on
``irrational'' aspects of cognition in open worlds.

This session is to foster the exchange of ideas and experience among
researchers working on theoretical and practical issues of agent
technology, covering both the micro and macro aspects of agent design.

TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE:

o Agent languages and architectures
o Applications
o Communication
o Conceptual and theoretical foundations
o Development and engineering methodologies
o Learning and adaptability
o Safety, security, and responsibility issues
o Single vs. multi-agent systems
o Social issues in agent societies
o Testbeds and evaluations
o User interface issues

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline: November 8, 1997
Notification of acceptance/rejection: December 19, 1997
Final papers due: January 30, 1998

SUBMISSION DETAILS:

For details of how to prepare the draft final paper, see the guidelines
for the main EMCSR conference published on the EMCSR web server
(<URL:http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/emcsr/>). Draft final papers should not
exceed 10 single-spaces A4 pages, final papers must not exceed 6 pages
(10 point, two column).

ACCEPTED PAPERS:

Authors of accepted papers will be notified by December 19, 1997; the
list will also be published on the EMCSR web site. After the event, a
second round of more extensive reviews is planned which is to lead to
the publication of extended versions of selected contributions in an
edited collection.

SESSION CHAIRS:

J.P.Mueller, UK, <jpm@zuno.com>,
P.Petta, Austria, <paolo@ai.univie.ac.at> (local co-chair)

FURTHER INFORMATION:

For any further information on this session please contact the local
co-chair (<paolo@ai.univie.ac.at>).