CALL FOR PAPERS - ICMAS'96 WORKSHOP
Animal societies as an alternative metaphor basis for
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI)
December 10th, 1996 (Keihanna Plaza, Kyoto, Japan)
- http://www-laforia.ibp.fr/~drogoul/eng/ICMAS96.html -
SCOPE:
When designing computational organizations, DAI research
generally gives more attention to sociological metaphors
than to biological ones. However, it is worth noting that
most of the issues being addressed in DAI (e.g., cooperation,
coordination, organization, social interaction) have a
significant intersection with the goals and interests of a
variety of research communities (ethology, primatology,
behavioral ecology, or artificial life) that study the social
mechanisms that occur in non-human societies - i.e. animal
societies.
This worshop aims at bringing together researchers who are
interested in:
- modeling and simulating animal societies using multi-agent
techniques,
- cooperative processes or distributed problem-solving
mechanisms inspired by those observed in animal societies
- designing agents or robots societies based on social
mechanisms observed in animal societies
Of particular interest are issues that have not yet received
much attention in the DAI litterature, such as
self-organization, emergence of collective behaviors,
swarm intelligence (social insects), ethological and
pre-cognitive models of social interactions, machiavellan
intelligence (primate societies), ... etc.
More generally this workshop is a first step towards answering
the following questions:
- To what extent are the social processes observed in animal
societies of interest for the DAI community ?
- To what extent can the multi-agent paradigm provide a support
for a better understanding of animal societies?
ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
--------------------------------
Alexis Drogoul University Paris 6, France
Anne Collinot University Paris 6, CNRS, France
Rosaria Conte IP/Cnr, Roma, Italy
Bruno Corbara Universite Clermont-Ferrand I, France
Jim Doran University of Essex, UK
Toshio Fukuda Nagoya University, Japan
Maja Mataric Brandeis University, USA
CONTACT PERSON: Alexis Drogoul
-------------- LAFORIA - Case 169
Universite Paris 6
4 Place Jussieu
75232 PARIS CEDEX 05 France
mailto: drogoul at laforia.ibp.frhttp://www-laforia.ibp.fr/~drogoul
Tel: +33 1 44 27 71 39,
Fax: +33 1 44 27 70 00
SUBMISSION: An extended abstract (up to five A4 pages in english, with
----------- 12pt fonts) should be sent by e-mail, no later than
September 1st, 1996, to the contact person.
Hardcopy or fax submissions will also be accepted, within the
same deadline. The first page should include the full
coordinates of the authors. The e-mail submissions should
at least include the following information :
To: drogoul at laforia.ibp.fr
Subject: ICMAS96 Workshop on Animal Societies
Title: <paper title>
Author: <name of one of the authors>
Address: <address of the author>
Email address: <email address of the author>
Key words: <3 or 4 key words>
The extended abstract must be attached to the mail and
encoded either with Binhex or UUencode. The following formats
will be accepted :
- Postscript file
- Word 4,5,5.1,6 for Mac or Windows
- WordPerfect 3.1 for Mac
- FrameMaker 4
Please do not submit LaTex files !
PUBLICATION: Authors will be advised as to the acceptance of their
------------ paper around October 8th, 1996 by email. Camera ready copies
are due no later than October 30th, 1996. These papers will
be made available at the workshop.
DATES: September 1st, 1996: Paper Submission
------ October 8th, 1996: Notification of Acceptance
October 30th, 1996: Camera Ready Paper
December 10th, 1996: Workshop
December 11-13th, 1996: ICMAS-96 Main Conference
****************************************************************************
--
---
Alexis DROGOUL - LAFORIA - Boite 169 - UPMC - 75232 PARIS CEDEX 05
Tel: 33-1-44 27 71 39; Fax: 33-1-44 27 70 00; e-mail: drogoul at laforia.ibp.fr
www: http://www-laforia.ibp.fr/~drogoul
"[La tache finale de reduction serait de] montrer comment un systeme decrit en termes physiologiques pourrait autoriser une interpretation comme systeme intentionnel realise physiquement" - D. Dennett, La strategie de l'Interprete.
