2nd CfP: Agent Organizations Theory and Practice workshop

[Stephen Guerin]

AAAI is looking for self-organizing agent systems papers.

>From the CFP:
"Organizational self-design will play a critical role in the development of
larger and more complex MAS. As systems grow to include hundreds or
thousands of agents, we must move from an agent-centric view of coordination
and control to an organization-centric one. "

Submission deadline is March 12.

-Steve

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2nd Call for Papers: AOTP?04
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The AAAI-04 Workshop on
Agent Organizations: Theory and Practice

Held at the
National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04)
July 25-29, 2004, San Jose, California

Submission Deadline: 12 March 2004

The call for papers for the AOTP workshop can be found in
http://www.cs.uu.nl/~virginia/aotp/


Agent organizations are an emergent area of MAS that relies on the notion
of openness and heterogeneity of MAS and poses new demands on traditional
MAS models. These demands include the integration of organizational and
individual perspectives and the dynamic adaptation of models to
organizational and environmental changes. . Organizational self-design
will play a critical role in the development of larger and more complex
MAS. As systems grow to include hundreds or thousands of agents, we must
move from an agent-centric view of coordination and control to an
organization-centric one. Practical applications of agents to
organizational modeling are being widely developed but formal theories are
needed to describe interaction and organizational structure. Furthermore,
it is necessary to get a closer look at the relation between
organizational roles and the agents that fulfil them.

The overall problem of analyzing the social, economic and tech-no-lo-gical
dimensions of agent organizations, and the co-evolution of agent and human
social and personal structures in the organization, provide theoretically
demanding, interdisciplinary research questions at different levels of
abstraction. Organizational research is increasingly recognizing the
advantage of agent-based and other AI models for gaining insight in
organizational issues and in exploring dynamic processes and
configurations. On the other hand, organizational research has been active
in the field of organizational modeling for many years, and has developed
insights and theories that are very useful for MAS researchers.

Following successful recent workshops on social notions of multi-agency
and on the use of MAS approaches to the modeling and simulation of
organizations and societies, this workshop seeks to bring together
researchers on the area between organizational modeling and MAS and to
combine different perspectives on related issues.

Topics
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We are seeking papers that clearly exemplify central notions in a research
field or try to synthesize unified views. Relevant topics include, but are
not limited to, the following:

-Modeling multi-agent organizations
-Social aspects of MAS
-Organization design, monitoring, and adaptation
-Communication and interaction in agent organizations
-Engineering organizational coordination
-Scaling and control issues in agent organizations
-Application of organizational theory to MAS
-Simulation, analysis and verification of dynamics of multi-agent
organizations
-Dynamic, adaptive and emergent organizational structures and dynamics
-Practical application examples for (aspects of) agent-organization
systems -Applications of agent organizations to knowledge management,
CSCW, workflow, etc.
-Implementation and tools for agent organizations
-Human-computer interaction in agent organizations