In response to requests from authors, we have decided to extend the submission deadline for the MSDM workshop to *March 6*.
Please see our workshop homepage for a revised schedule of other important dates. ================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS AAMAS 2012 Workshop Multiagent Sequential Decision Making Under Uncertainty (MSDM) ================================================================= The Seventh Workshop in the MSDM series June 4 or 5, 2012 Valencia, Spain http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/~switwicki/msdm2012/ In sequential decision making, an agent's objective is to choose actions, based on its observations of the world, in such a way that it expects to optimize its performance measure over the course of a series of such decisions. In environments where action consequences are non-deterministic or observations incomplete, Markov decision processes (MDPs)and partially observable MDPs (POMDPs) serve as the basis for principled approaches to single-agent sequential decision making. Extending these models to systems of multiple agents has become the subject of an increasingly active area of research over the past decade and a variety of models have emerged (e.g., the MMDP, Dec-POMDP, MTDP, I-POMDP, and POSG). The high computational complexity of these models has driven researchers to develop multiagent planning and learning methods that exploit the structure present in agents' interactions, methods that provide efficient approximate solutions, and methods that distribute computation among the agents. The MSDM workshop serves several purposes. The primary purpose is to bring together researchers in the field of MSDM to present and discuss new work and preliminary ideas. Moreover, we aim to identify recent trends, to establish important directions for future research, and to discuss some of the topics mentioned below such as challenging application areas (e.g., cooperative robotics, distributed sensor and/or communication networks, decision support systems) and suitable evaluation methodologies. Finally, a goal of the workshop is to make the field more accessible to newcomers, by seeking to bring order in the large number of models and methods that have been introduced over the last decade. Topics ------ Multiagent sequential decision making comprises (1) problem representation, (2) planning, (3) coordination, and (4) learning. The MSDM workshop addresses this full range of aspects. Topics of particular interest include: - Challenging conventional assumptions ...model specification: where do the models come from? ...what is an appropriate level of abstraction for decision making? - Novel representations, algorithms and complexity results - Comparisons of algorithms - Relationships between models and their assumptions - Decentralized vs. centralized planning approaches - Online vs. offline planning - Communication and coordination during execution - Dealing with... ...large numbers of agents ...large numbers of / continuous states, observations and actions ...long decision horizons. - (Reinforcement) learning in partially observable multiagent systems - Cooperative, competitive, and self-interested agents - Application domains - Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies - Standardization of software - High-level principles High-level principles in MSDM: past trends and future directions Important Dates ---------------- February 28, 2012 - Paper submission due (strict) March 27, 2012 - Notification of Acceptance April 10, 2012 - Camera-ready copy submission due June 4 or 5, 2012 - Workshop Submission instructions ----------------------- Authors are encouraged to submit papers up to 8 pages in length, as per the instructions on the workshop homepage: http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/~switwicki/msdm2012/. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two Program Committee members. The review process will be "single-blind"; thus authors do not have to remove their names when submitting papers. Organizing Committee -------------------- Prashant Doshi University of Georgia Stefan Witwicki INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico / GAIPS Jun-young Kwak University of Southern California Frans A. Oliehoek Maastricht University Akshat Kumar University of Massachusetts Amherst Program Committee ----------------- Christopher Amato Aptima, Inc. Raphen Becker Google Daniel Bernstein University of Massachusetts Amherst Aurélie Beynier University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6) Alan Carlin University of Massachusetts Amherst Brahim Chaib-Draa Laval University Georgios Chalkiadakis Technical University of Crete François Charpillet INRIA Ed Durfee University of Michigan Alessandro Farinelli University of Verona Alberto Finzi Università di Napoli Claudia Goldman GM Advanced Technical Center Israel Michail Lagoudakis Technical University of Crete Janusz Marecki IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Francisco S. Melo INESC-ID Lisboa Hala Mostafa BBN Technologies Abdel-Illah Mouaddib Universit de Caen Enrique Munoz De Cote National Institute of Astrophysics Optics and Electronics, Mexico Brenda Ng Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Praveen Paruchuri Carnegie Mellon University David Pynadath University of Southern California Xia Qu University of Georgia Zinovi Rabinovich Bar-Ilan University Anita Raja University of North Carolina at Charlott Paul Scerri Carnegie Mellon University Jiaying Shen SRI International, Inc. Matthijs Spaan Delft University of Technology Katia Sycara Carnegie Mellon University Karl Tuyls Maastricht University Pradeep Varakantham Singapore Management University Jianhui Wu Amazon Makoto Yokoo Kyushu University Shlomo Zilberstein University of Massachusetts Amherst _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
