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Agents-2000 Workshop |
http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/ac2000/
Introduction | Topics | Preliminary program | Program Committee | Submissions | Registration | Proceedings | Important Dates | Organizing Committee
In recent years the interest in multi-agent systems (MAS) has grown tremendously. The applications of MAS ranges from digital libraries through cooperative engineering to electronic commerce. All these applications have one thing in common. The agents operating within these systems have to communicate. A first attempt to come to a standardised agent communication language (ACL) came forth from the DARPA knowledge sharing project and produced KQML. Up till now KQML is the only ACL that is implemented and (widely) used (at least in the academic world). More recently another effort to come to a standard ACL has started through the FIPA initiative.
Although some work has been done on the semantics of individual speech acts, little is known about the semantics of conversations and the relations between speech acts and the conversations of which they form a part.
The workshop this year builds on two successful predecessors:
1. The Agents-99 workshop on Specifying and Implementing Conversation Policies
2.
The
IJCAI-99 workshop on Agent Communication Languages:
From Speech Acts to Conversations
For this year, we are going to combine these workshops into a single one at Agents 2000.
The workshop will be held on Saturday, June 3, 2000. Starting at 9:00 and finishing at 18:00. Each speaker will get 20 minutes for presentation, which gives enough time for discussion.
The format of the workshop will be a combination of contributed presentations and discussion among the participants. There will be a small number of sessions, each focused on a specific topic selected among the ones listed above, each including a set of brief presentations and ample opportunities for discussion.
We want this workshop to provide an organized opportunity for different researchers who are grappling with these questions to come together. The two prior workshops included significant (and well-used!) periods for discussion of issues. We again hope that vigorous discussion will be the rule throughout this workshop!
The final program is now also available. It also has links to the selected papers.We encourage participants to submit a short paper (10 pages max), describing their work on one or more of the topics mentioned above. All non-presenting participants will need to submit a one-page position statement which presents their view on agent conversation policies relative to the workshop topics. We plan to post all accepted submissions and position statements on the workshop's web site by 4/21/00, so that participants may familiarize themselves with them
in advance of the workshop.
Hard-copy submissions need to arrive by 3/17/00, and should be mailed to:
Mark Greaves
Mathematics and Computing Technology
The Boeing Company
P.O. Box 3707 MC 7L-43
Seattle, WA 98124-2207
USA
Email submissions (standard postscript or MS Word) are strongly preferred,
and should be sent by 3/17/00 to:
mailto:mark.t.greaves@boeing.com
All submissions must include the author's name(s), affiliation, complete mailing address, phone number, fax number and email address. Please be aware that accepted papers will need to be in the ACM SIG proceedings format, which can be found at:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
All accepted submissions and position statements will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Registration for the
workshop is possible for all participants of the Agents-2000 conference.
However, the number of participants is limited to a maximum of 40 persons.
Authors of (accepted) papers are given priority.
A publication of a book on agent communication is planned based on selected articles from the workshop.
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Submission deadline: |
17 March 2000 |
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Notification of acceptance: |
7 April 2000 |
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Camera ready copy |
14 April 2000 |
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Workshop: |
3 June 2000 |
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Mark Greaves Mathematics and Computing Technology The Boeing Company P.O. Box 3707 MC 7L-43 Seattle, WA 98124-2207 USA |
B. Chaib-draa
(Laval University, Canada) |
Eindhoven University of Technology |