From: Michael Brenner (brenner@informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
Date: Mon 15 Apr 2002 - 14:15:18 GMT
Dear Colleagues,
please notify me until April 23 if you'd like to participate in the
AAAI 2002 Workshop on PLANNING WITH AND FOR MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS.
The 1.5-day workshop will feature an invited talk by Milind Tambe,
topically grouped and moderated presentations of submitted papers, and
above all, extensive panel and open discussions on key topics of MAP and
directions for joint post-workshop efforts. It will be limited to 40-60
invited participants. Please send a brief statement of interest to
brenner@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
AAAI 2002 Workshop on
PLANNING WITH AND FOR MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS
Edmonton, Canada, July 28/29, 2002
http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~brenner/MAP-workshop/
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Multiagent Systems (MAS) have become an important sub-field of AI, and
several classical AI topics are now broadly studied in their MAS (i.e.
distributed) variants. Multiagent Planning (MAP) extends classical AI
Planning to domains where several agents can plan and act together.
Application areas of MAP include multi-robot environments, cooperating
Internet agents, logistics, manufacturing, military tasks etc.
While related MAS disciplines (e.g. Distributed Constraint Satisfaction)
have benefited from standardized problem specifications and benchmarks,
existing work on MAP is still very heterogeneous. Approaches differ for
example in their emphasis on either the distributed planning or the
distributed plan execution process, in the ways communication and
perception are used, and in whether a global plan for all agents or a
local plan for each agent is produced. Some of the underlying questions
have been recently addressed in related fields, such as in extensions
of Classical Planning to concurrent plan models or in distributed
versions of heuristic search algorithms, but the diversity of MAP
approaches makes it difficult for MAP research as a whole to benefit
from these developments.
Therefore, this workshop intends to bring together researchers working
on any form of Multiagent planning or in related fields to discuss their
common and differing goals and research methods, and to identify
potentials for collaboration and cross-fertilization.
Topics include:
o Formalizations of the Multi-Agent Planning Problem
o Description languages for MAP
o Distributed planning algorithms
o Centralized planning algorithms for concurrent MA domains
o Distributed plan execution
o Distributed scheduling
o Communication in MAP
o Privacy issues in MAP
o Deliberative vs. reactive planning in (highly dynamic) MAS
o MAP applications: systems and domains
o Evaluation, benchmark problems, standards
Important Dates:
April 23, 2002 Statements of interest due
July 28/29, 2002 Workshop
Chairs:
Michael Brenner, Institut fuer Informatik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet
Freiburg, Georges-Koehler-Allee Geb. 52, D-79110 Freiburg,
Germany. Email: brenner@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Marie desJardins, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Department
of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, 1000 Hilltop Circle,
Baltimore, MD 21250, USA. Email: mariedj@cs.umbc.edu
Comittee:
Joerg Denzinger, University of Calgary; Edmund Durfee, University of
Michigan; Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University; Marius
Silaghi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
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