Sorry for multiple postings (this includes new PC members).
Note the deadline for submissions is not too far: 15th January 2006.
Regards
Gopal
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CFP: First International Workshop on
Agent Technology for Disaster Management (ATDM)
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To be held in conjunction with the
fifth International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(AAMAS 2006)
URL: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~sdr/atdm/
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Invite
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This workshop invites works from different strands of the multi-agent
systems community that pertain to technologies that can be applied in
disaster management scenarios. In so doing, this workshop aims to provide a
forum for the discussion of issues arising in designing, implementing, or
simulating agent-based disaster management systems.
Background
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In the light of recent events throughout the world ranging from natural
disasters such as the Asian Tsunami and hurricane Katrina in New Orleans,
to the man-made disasters such as the London terrorist attacks, the topic of
disaster management (also known as emergency response) has become a key
concern and there is now an overwhelming need for better
information technology to help support their efficient and effective
management.
Disaster management requires that a number of actors, each with their own
aims, objectives, and resources, be able to coordinate their efforts in a
number of ways to prevent or manage the aftermath of a disaster. The
techniques involved may involve both centralized and decentralized
coordination mechanisms that need to operate in environments prone to
uncertainty given the dynamic nature of disasters. More specifically, the
technical issues that agent-based technologies can deal with include:
* Machine learning algorithms that are efficient and effective in dynamic,
multi-actor environments that are uncertain and incomplete.
* Coordination mechanisms that ensure desirable overall properties emerge
based on local actions and views.
* Coordination mechanisms that enable collectives to plan and act
collaboratively in order to achieve common goals.
* Techniques that enable an actor to effectively balance acting and
information gathering in dynamic, uncertain, multi-actor environments.
* Methods for modelling and predicting the system behaviour that will ensue
from specifications of the local behaviour of the individual actors.
* Techniques that enable an actor to fuse, in a decentralised manner,
inter-related information that is uncertain, incomplete, imprecise and
ambiguous.
* Decentralised system architectures that can operate effectively in
uncertain and dynamic environments and that are robust, scaleable and
flexible in their operation.
Keywords
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**Papers should target applications of agent-based technology to the area
of disaster management**. Also, position statements from ongoing projects
concerned with the application of information technology to disaster
management are also welcome. There are plans to invite authors of selected
best papers to resubmit in a special issue of a relevant journal (more
details will be posted on the website soon).
Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
1. Teamwork, Coordination, and Planning Mechanisms in dynamic and uncertain
environments.
2. Decentralised agent-based architectures.
3. Mechanism Design.
4. Multi-agent learning.
5. Decision making under uncertainty.
6. Autonomous robots and robot teams
7. Agent-based simulation
8. Distributed constraints optimisation.
9. Market Mechanisms
Submission Instructions
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Papers should be formatted using the ACM conference style file
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html) and should be in pdf
format. Position statements should not be more than 2 pages and Full papers
should not be more than 8 pages. All submissions must be emailed to
sdr AT ecs dot soton dot ac dot uk.
Important Dates:
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January 15, 2006:
Deadline for submitting contributions to workshops.
February 19, 2006:
Acceptance notification to workshop authors.
May 9, 2006
Workshop takes place in conjunction with AAMAS 2006.
Paper review process
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Papers will be reviewed by 2 PC members each.
Organising Committee
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Prof. Nicholas R. Jennings (University of Southampton, UK)
Prof. Milind Tambe (University of Southern California, USA)
Prof. Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan)
Dr. Sarvapali D. Ramchurn (University of Southampton, UK)
Programme Committee
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Prof. Austin Tate (AIAI, University of Edinburgh, UK)
Dr. Alex Rogers (University of Southampton, UK)
Prof. H. Levent Akin (Bogaziçi University, Turkey)
Prof. Hitoshi Matsubara (Future University, Japan)
Dr. Itsuki Noda (AIST, Ibaraki, Japan)
Dr. Jeff Bradshaw (IHMC, USA)
Dr. Lin Padgham (RMIT, Australia)
Dr. Paul Scerri (Robotics Institute, CMU, USA)
Dr. Ranjit Nair (Honeywell, USA)
Dr. Stephen Hailes (University College London, UK)
Prof. Victor Lesser (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Prof. Tomoichi Takahashi (Meijo University, Japan)
-- Dr. Sarvapali Ramchurn Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group t: +44 (0) 23 8059 3270 Electronics and Computer Science f: +44 (0) 23 8059 2865 University of Southampton e: sdr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~sdr _______________________________________________ robocup-rescue-s mailing list robocup-rescue-s@mailman.cc.gatech.edu https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/robocup-rescue-sReceived on Fri Nov 25 14:35:22 2005
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