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ALA 2012 - Workshop at AAMAS 2012

Adaptive Learning Agents encompasses diverse fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Biology, as well as Cognitive and Social Sciences. The ALA workshop will focus on agents and multiagent systems which employ learning or adaptation.

This workshop is a continuation of the long running AAMAS series of workshops on adaptive agents, now in its twelfth year. Previous editions of this workshop may be found at the following urls:


The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness and interest in adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration and give a representative overview of current research in the area of adaptive and learning agents and multiagent systems. It aims at bringing together not only scientists from different areas of computer science (e.g., agent architectures, reinforcement learning, and evolutionary algorithms) but also from different fields studying similar concepts (e.g., game theory, bio-inspired control, mechanism design).

The workshop will serve as an inclusive forum for the discussion on ongoing or completed work in both theoretical and practical issues of adaptive and learning agents and multiagent systems.


This workshop will focus on all aspects of adaptive and learning agents and multiagent systems with a particular emphasis on how to modify established learning techniques and/or create new learning paradigms to address the many challenges presented by complex real-world problems. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Novel combinations of reinforcement and supervised learning approaches
  • Integrated learning approaches that work with other agent reasoning modules like negotiation, trust models, coordination, etc.
  • Supervised multiagent learning
  • Reinforcement learning (single and multiagent)
  • Planning (single and multiagent)
  • Reasoning (single and multiagent)
  • Distributed learning
  • Adaptation and learning in dynamic environments
  • Evolution of agents in complex environments
  • Co-evolution of agents in a multiagent setting
  • Cooperative exploration and learning to cooperate and collaborate
  • Learning trust and reputation
  • Communication restrictions and their impact on multiagent coordination
  • Design of reward structure and fitness measures for coordination
  • Scaling learning techniques to large systems of learning and adaptive agents
  • Emergent behaviour in adaptive multiagent systems
  • Game theoretical analysis of adaptive multiagent systems
  • Neuro-control in multiagent systems
  • Bio-inspired multiagent systems
  • Applications of adaptive and learning agents and multiagents systems to real world complex systems
  • Learning of Co-ordination

Accepted papers from the workshop will be eligible to be extended for inclusion in a special issue of the The Knowledge Engineering Review journal which is published by Cambridge Journals. A review cycle is scheduled for Summer 2012, details will be provided on this workshop site at that stage.

 

Submission

Papers can be submitted through Easychair. Submissions may be up to 8 pages in the ACM proceedings format (i.e., the same as AAMAS papers in the main conference track) and will be evaluated for relevance, originality, significance, and clarity in a single blind review by at least 2 PC members. Accepted work will be allocated time for oral presentation during the one day workshop.

Important Dates

  • Submission Deadline
February 28, 2012
  • Notification of acceptance:
 March 27, 2012
  • Camera-ready copies:
April 10, 2012
  • Workshop:
June 4, 2012

 

Venue

The ALA workshop will be held at AAMAS 2012, the eleventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems which will take place in Valencia, Spain.

Registration

Registration is handled directly by AAMAS.

 

Program

TBA

 

Program Committee

  • Adrian Agogino, UCSC, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
  • Bikramjit Banerjee, The University of Southern Mississippi, USA
  • Ana L.C. Bazzan, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • Vincent Corruble, University of Paris 6, France
  • Sam Devlin, University of York, UK
  • Marek Grzes, University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Todd Hester, University of Texas at Austin, USA
  • Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Yahoo Labs Bangalore, India
  • Franziska Klügl, University of Orebro, Sweden
  • W. Bradley Knox, University of Texas at Austin, USA
  • Daniel Kudenko, University of York, UK
  • Ann Nowé, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
  • Liviu Panait, Google Inc Santa Monica, USA
  • Matthew Taylor, Lafayette College, USA

Organization

This year's workshop is organized by:

Questions about the ALA workshop should be directed to the chairs by email:


Senior Steering Committee Members:
  • Franziska Klügl (University of Orebro, Sweden)
  • Daniel Kudenko (University of York, UK)
  • Ann Nowé (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
  • Lynne E. Parker (University of Tennessee, USA)
  • Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA)
  • Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
  • Kagan Tumer (Oregon State University, USA)
  • Karl Tuyls (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)

 

Contact

For inquiries please feel free to contact the chairs by e-mail: