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Subject: Fw: MAMAAW2001 : CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
From: francois bousquet (bousquet@cirad.fr)
Date: mer avr 18 2001 - 14:51:32 CEST
Detailed program
MAAMAW'01 : CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
10th European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems
"Multi-Agent Systems Organisations"
2-4 May 2001, Annecy, France
(http://www-leibniz.imag.fr/MAAMAW2001/)
Under the auspices of AFIA, the French AI association
With support of AgentLink II, European Network of Excellence for
agent-based computing
With support of MAS WG 7.3 GdR-PRC I3, Information - Interaction -
Intelligence
Sanctioned by IFMAS, International Foundation on Multi-Agent Systems
GENERAL DESIGN
MAAMAW'01 will be the 10th issue of the MAAMAW series of workshops, the
major event about Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) research regularly held in
Western Europe since 1989. As the ICMAS series are becoming yearly, the
MAAMAW workshops will move back to their original spirit. The MAAMAW
workshop promotes interdisciplinary grounding, innovative work, recent
results, large place for discussion, for a limited audience (100) in a
convivial site.
The special topic of the 10th European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems
will be devoted to "Multi-Agent System Organisations". Submission of
papers is encouraged to feed the discussion. Pre-proceedings will be
distributed at the workshop as well as a voucher for the final volume to
be published as part of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
color cover subline published by Springer Verlag.
Thanks to the support of our sponsors, and in particular from the
AgentLink Network of Excellence and from the MAS Chapter of the French
AI Association (AFIA), we expect the estimated registration price
(workshop pack including proceedings as well as full lodging and
boarding for three days in a 3* hotel from Tuesday May 1 evening to
Friday May 4 afternoon) to be around 470 EURO (double) or 550 EURO (single).
WORKSHOP TOPICS
MAS theoretical models are often borrowed from Human and Social Sciences
as well as from Life Sciences. MAS computational models are not only
supported by Mathematics but also by Physics. The choice of Multi-Agent
Organisations as the central theme of MAAMAW'01 underlines the
interdisciplinary grounding of Multi-Agent systems. It also promotes
organisations as a key component of Multi-Agent systems.
We will investigate the scientific foundations of organisations from
different cross-disciplinary perspectives. We will work on how
organisations can be represented and processed, from static to dynamic
ones, from programmed to emergent ones. We will evaluate the impact of
organisations in the analysis and design processes, and we will study
how organisations can be developed and deployed in real applications.
Keeping in mind the MAS organisations perspective, the topics of the
workshop include but are not limited to :
.. Scientific foundations
.. Theoretical and computational models
.. Heterogeneous and open multi-agent systems
.. Environmental aspects of multi-agent systems
.. Social aspects of multi-agent systems
.. Interaction mechanisms and protocols
.. Cooperation and conflict resolution
.. Coordination and multi-agent planning
.. Multi-agent systems learning
.. Multi-agent systems methodology
.. Testbeds and benchmarks
.. Innovative applications
As the aim of the workshop is discussion, original papers describing
innovative approaches, original applications, and evaluations
illustrating the progress of ideas and techniques, as well as visionary
papers are particularly welcome.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Paolo Ciancarini, Jacques Ferber, and Les Gasser have accepted to act as
invited speakers at MAAMAW'01. Each of them will address Organisation
respectively from Computer Science, Natural and Life Sciences, and Human
and Social Sciences point of views.
Paolo Ciancarini CS Department, University of Bologna, Italy
Jacques Ferber LIRMM, Université de Montpellier, France
Les Gasser GSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA-IL
PROGRAM DETAILS
Please, see the attached file.
MAAMAW'01 WEB SITE
Detailed and up-to-date travel information, including registration, is
maintained at the workshop's website ( see
http://www-leibniz.imag.fr/MAAMAW2001/ ).
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Olivier Boissier SIMADE, ENS Mines de Saint-Etienne, France
Magnus Boman Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Sweden
Cristiano Castelfranchi Cognitive Science Department, University of
Siena, Italy
Krzysztof Cetnarowicz Institute of Informatics, AGH, Krakow, Poland
Helder Coelho Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Yves Demazeau LEIBNIZ-IMAG, CNRS, Grenoble, France (cochair)
Aldo Dragoni Institute of Computer Science, University of Ancona, Italy
Alexis Drogoul LIP6, University of Paris 6, France
Barbara Dunin-Keplicz Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University, Poland
Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni LIPN, University of Paris 13, France
Ana Garcia AI Department, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
Francisco J. Garijo Telefónica I+D, Madrid, Spain (cochair)
Marie-Pierre Gleizes IRIT, University of Toulouse, France
Vladimir Gorodetski St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and
Automation, Russia
Nick Jennings ECS Department, University of Southampton, UK
Matthias Klusch DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany
Scott Moss CPM, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Jean-Pierre Müller CS Department, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Eugenio Oliveira Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
Andrea Omicini DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy
John Perram MIP, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Jeffrey Rosenschein CS Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Michael Schroeder CS Department, City University London, UK
Carles Sierra AI Research Institute, CSIC Barcelona, Spain
Jan Treur Faculty of Sciences, Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Gerhard Weiss CS Institute, Technical University Munich, Germany
Mike Wooldridge CS Department, University of Liverpool, UK
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
The workshop is organised by the MAGMA Research Group of the
LEIBNIZ-IMAG laboratory in collaboration with the IAD-SMA Working Group
of the AFIA Association.
Christof Baeijs, LEIBNIZ-IMAG (cochair)
Josiane Carry, LEIBNIZ-IMAG, Grenoble, France
Humbert Fiorino, LEIBNIZ-IMAG, Grenoble, France
Rejane Frozza, LEIBNIZ-IMAG, Grenoble, France
Marc-Philippe Huget, LEIBNIZ-IMAG (cochair)
Sylvie Pesty, LEIBNIZ-IMAG, Grenoble, France
Pierre-Michel Ricordel, LEIBNIZ-IMAG, Grenoble, France
Jean-Claude Rigoureau, Annecy, France
Joăo-Luis Tavares, LEIBNIZ-IMAG, Grenoble, France
The organising committee can be reached at night and day by email at
maamaw01-oc@imag.fr or by fax at +33 4 76 57 50 81, or during working
hours by phone at +33 4 76 57 47 76 (Christof Baeijs), +33 4 76 57 49 04
(Marc-Philippe Huget).
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MAAMAW'01
10th European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems
"Multi-Agent Systems Organisations"
2-4 May 2001, Annecy, France
PROGRAM
Tuesday, May, 1st
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17:00-18:00 Registration
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19:30 Dinner
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Wednesday, May, 2nd
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8:00-8:30 Registration
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8:30-9:15 Multi-Agent System Organization. An Engineering Perspective
Francisco Garijo, Jorge Gómez-Sanz, Juan Pavón
This paper analyses the role of Organisation on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE). The results presented have been developed under the Eurescom P907 MESSAGE project, whose purpose is the development of an AOSE methodology. The Organisation Model is defined as a M-2 Layer meta-model using OMG Meta Object Facility (MOF) four-layer architecture. The paper first introduces the concepts, the structure and the notation for defining the Organisation Model. The modelling approach and the guidelines for producing MAS applications are applied in an experimental framework based on a MAS that provides travel information and notification services. The experiences of using the Organisation Model and the guidelines for building applications in the analysis and design phases are described in detail using application examples. Final considerations on the usefulness of the application of models, and open issues are presented in the conclusions.
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9:15-10:00 An organization of Internet agents based on a hierachy of information domains
Sylvie Cazalens, Philippe Lamarre
This paper presents an organization of Internet agents based on the mapping of a structure of agents and a structure of information domains. The notion of group is defined in a structure of agents, according to the interactions between agents. Several groups of same domain form a community. Both the static and dynamic features of the organization are studied. A system based on this organization has been implemented and is currently being tested.
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10:00-10:30 Coffee break
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10:30-11:45 Invited speaker:
Organizations in MAS
Les Gasser
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA
Researchers have been explicitly thinking about MAS/DAI organizations and attempting to link formal (human) organization theory with MAS/DAI models for at least twenty years. Mark Fox's 1981 paper and Dan Corkill's 1983 dissertation are two of the best-known early works, and their motivational and conceptual influences both continue to be felt. Despite this, the idea of organizations has been a peripheral theme in MAS/DAI research --- primarily a specific coordination technique --- not really one of the central intellectual issues of the field. The theory of 'natural' organizations has a somewhat longer, more diverse, and more thorough intellectual history than that of organizations in MAS. It has developed through a number of distinct conceptual, methodological, and theoretical phases, and by now is quite diverse and robust. Beyond recent work in human social and organization theory, some newer research on abstract organizations has been attempting to unify concepts in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and computing theory (e.g. the lambda calculus), with those of natural social organizations and multi-agent systems.
All-in-all, the lanscape for thinking about organizations in MAS is growing quite interesting of late. This talk will survey this landscape. It will present and contrast some clear conceptions of organization that have emerged and proven useful, and will show how these have been implemented, experimented with, and applied. It will also project some future directions for research on MAS organizations, and give some personal thoughts on where the most exciting issues lie.
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11:45-12:30 Scalability, Social Simulation and Self Organising Software
Scott Moss
Abstract not available.
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12:30-14:00 Lunch
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14:00-14:45 The possibility to use gift as a paradigm for exchanges between agents
Juliette Rouchier, François Bousquet
Abstract not available.
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14:45-15:30 Agent strategies: for sellers to satisfy purchase orders, for buyers to select sellers
Claudia V. Goldman, Sarit Kraus, Onn Shehory
Electronic trade introduces agents (sellers and buyers) with multiple challenges. In this paper we address one of these challenges. We provide new understandings regarding strategies that agents, representing both buyers and sellers, can use in dynamic electronic markets. In particular, we examine strategies for sellers to decide which purchase orders to satisfy in the face of stock shortages. We also study buyers' strategies for selecting sellers given their order satisfaction. We provide a simulation tool to analyze such strategies and to unravel equilibria among them, in particular in cases where formal analysis is too complex. Findings of experiments we have performed suggest preliminary principles for designing strategies for automated buyers and sellers.
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15:30-16:00 Coffee break
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16:00-18:00 Poster session
a.. K. Mahmoudi, K. Ghédira: Distributed Rescheduling for the Workforce Management Dynamic Aspect
b.. V.Gorodetski, O.Karsayev, I.Kotenko: Multi-agent Computer Network Security System: Case Study Architecture, Performance and Implementation Technology
c.. J. Ferber, O. Gutknecht, C.M. Jonker, J.P. Müller, J. Treur: Organization Models and Behavioural Requirements Specification for Multi-Agent Systems
d.. A. Cardon, A. Munoz-Melendez: Toward multi-agent self-adaptive systems for the representation of complex problems
e.. F. Polat, A. Cakir: Coordination of Intelligent Agents in Real-Time Search
f.. S. Schiaffino, M. Valacco: A. Amandi, Managing an Organization of Interface Agents
g.. M. Rovatsos, G. Weiss: Achieving Multiagent Organisation by Organising Agent Experience
h.. M.P. Gleizes, P. Glize: ABROSE : Multi-Agent Systems for Adaptive Brokerage
i.. M. Le Bars, J.M. Attonaty: A Multi-Agent System to help negotiation in the domain of water between different users and to simulate consequences of a set of rules governing water attribution according to different criteria
j.. A.L. Paredes, C.H. Iglesias, J.P. Gutiérrez: From Human Experiments to Agent-Based Models. Complex Behaviour in Ba Wed 18 Apr 2001 15:56:37 +0200
gaining
k.. J. Pajares, A. López, C. Hernández: Industry as an Organisation of Agents: Innovation and R&D Management
l.. W. de Vries, F.S. de Boer: A Truly Concurrent Model for Interacting Agents
m.. A. Ricci, E. Denti, A. Omicini: Agent Coordination Infrastructures or Virtual Enterprises and Workflow Management
n.. O. Barthelemy, S. Moss, T. Downing, J. Rouchier: Policy Modelling with ABSS: The Case of Water Demand Management
o.. L. Vercouter: Breaking the monopoly of brokers on open multi-agent systems
p.. F. Klügl, A.L.C. Bazzan: Emergent Organisation in a Commuter Scenario Based on Heuristics Learning for Route Choice
q.. J.M. Serrano, S. Ossowski: Towards Structured Libraries of Communicative Acts
r.. F. Balbo: The environment: a privileged intermediary for agent interaction
s.. P. Bonzon: An Abstract Machine for Classes of Communicating Agents Based on Deduction
t.. Z. Guessoum, J.P. Briot, P. Sens, O. Marin: Toward Fault-Tolerant Multi-Agent Systems
u.. F.L. Lopez, M. Luck, M. d'Inverno: A Framework for Agent Architecture, Dependence, Norms and Obligations
v.. L. Brouwers, K. Hansson, H. Verhagen, M. Boman: Agent Models of Catastrophic Events
w.. A.M.C. Campos: Perceptive agents: modeling non intentional interactions
x.. N. Hameurlain: A Formal Framework for Behavioural Reuse of Agent Components: Application to Interaction Protocol
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19:00-19:30 Commentator
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19:30 Dinner
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Thursday , May, 3rd
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8:30-9:15 Towards a Temporal Organizational Structure Language for Dynamic Multi-Agent Systems
T. Carron, O. Boissier
Multi-Agent systems are becoming more and more complex. Nowadays, there is no doubt on the needs of de ning norms, obligations and organizations in order to control them. In order to make agents cooperate in continuously changing environments, a temporal dimension must be explicitly represented in such normative systems. In this paper, we present a de nition of a Temporal Organizational Structure Language (TOSL). This language is based on the MOISE organizational model. It is the component of a larger research dealing with the study of temporal reasoning in multi-agent systems. This work takes place, also, in the building of an organization toolbox with temporal abilities in the context of a Multi-Agent System Toolkit under construction in our laboratory.
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9:15-10:00 Temporal Requirements for Anticipatory Reasoning about Intentional Dynamics in Social Contexts
Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur, Wieke de Vries
In this paper a temporal language is defined in which formulae can be expressed that provide an external temporal grounding of intentional notions. Justifying conditions are presented that formalise criteria that a (candidate) formula must satisfy in order to qualify as an external representation of a belief, desire or intention. Using these conditions, intentional notions can be attributed to agents on the basis of externally observable behaviour.
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10:00-10:30 Coffee break
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10:30-11:45 Invited speaker
Multiagent Coordination: A Computer Science Perspective
Paolo Ciancarini
University of Bologna Italy
Computer networks have now the status of widespread commodities, particularly in large organizations where they are used for building intranet, extranet or Internet applications and services for communities of users. Thus, there is an increasing demand for methods and tools for designing and building groupware, distributed software systems that implement coordination protocols among the members of an organization. In this talk we describe what is a multiagent coordination model from a computer science perspective. We present a simple yet powerful multiagent coordination model and its main features using some simple coordination problems typical of groupware applications
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11:45-12:30 The organisation of sociality: a manifesto for a new science of multi-agent systems
Pietro Panzarasa, Nicholas R. Jennings
In this paper, we pose and motivate a challenge, namely the need for a new science of multi-agent systems. We propose that this new science should be grounded, theoretically on a richer conception of sociality, and methodologically on the extensive use of computational modelling for real-world applications and social simulations. Here, the steps we set forth towards meeting that challenge are mainly theoretical. In this respect, we provide a new model of multi-agent systems that reflects a fully explicated conception of cognition, both at the individual and the collective level. Finally, the mechanisms and principles underpinning the model will be examined with particular emphasis on the contributions provided by contemporary organisation theory.
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12:30-14:00 Lunch
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14:00-14:45 Multi-agent simulation of consumer behaviours in a competitive market
Lamjed Ben Said, Thierry Bouron
Theoretical concepts dealing with consumer behaviours are issued from studies led in various research areas: marketing, psychology, sociology and economics. This paper presents a multi-agent simulation of consumer behaviours based on an integrating approach. Our goal is to create virtual populations including several thousands of artificial consumers that exhibit realistic behaviours in the context of a competitive market. These populations are used to test the effects of marketing strategies. Existing consumer behavioural models are not well suited for the realization of such market simulations including a large number of artificial consumers. In this work a consumer behavioural model based on the concept of behavioural attitude solving this problem is introduced. It proposes to integrate and organize most of the fundamental notions elaborated within the aforementioned research areas. Our model uses a set of basic behavioural primitives such as imitation, conditioning and innovativeness. This paper shows the correlation and the break of our modelling approach compared with the actual marketing studies and describes the realized CUstomer Behaviour Simulator (CUBES) software based on this model.
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14:45-15:30 Emergence of Market Segmentation: A Multi-Agent Model
Maksim Tsvetovat, Kathleen Carley, Katia Sycara
It has been observed in many instances that markets have a tendency to segment themselves into distinct sub-markets. This paper presents a multi-agent model that illustrates emergent market segmentation. The model illustrates the way local optimization processes result in an emergent global behavior.
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16:00-18:00 Social event
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19:00-19:30 Commentator
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19:30 Thematic dinner
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Friday, May, 4th
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8:30-9:15 Coalition Formation among Strong Autonomous and Weak Rational Agents
Guillaume Vauvert, Amal El-Fallah Seghrouchni
Since no optimal structure exists, organizations have to be exible to dynamically react towards environment changes. In an economic context, agents are strongly autonomous and weakly rational and have to deal with cooperation and competition, as in task repartition domain. This paper proposes an open, egalitarian and distributed protocol based on exchange of preferences computed using qualitative and quantitative criteria: agents will agree on coalitions to form in order to full tasks. We are going to prove that our protocol converges to reach consensus. Experimentation shows that the most rigid strategy is not optimal and surprisingly that higher competition leads to easier consensus.
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9:15-10:00 Collective Intention constitutes a group
Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Rineke Verbrugge
In this paper the notion of collective intention in groups of agents involved in cooperative problem solving (CPS) in multiagent systems (MAS) is investigated. Starting from individual intentions, goals, and beliefs, we arrive to an understanding of a collective intention in a group of agents. The presented definitions are rather strong, in particular a collective intention includes that all members intend for all others to share that intention. In this situation, a group of agents is created on the basis of a collective intention, and exists as long as this attitude between team members exists, after which the group may disintegrate. For this reason it is crucial that a collective intention within a group lasts long enough. Within the presented approach, two alternative versions of collective intentions are discussed.They are formalized in a multi-modal logical framework. Completeness of this logic with respect to an appropriate class of Kripke models is proved elsewhere. Presented definitions reflect only vital aspects of motivational attitudes, leaving room for case-specific extensions. This makes the framework exible and not overloaded.
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10:00-10:30 Coffee break
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10:30-11:45 Invited speaker
From Agents to Organizations: an Organizational View of Multi Wed 18 Apr 2001 15:56:37 +0200
Agent Systems
Jacques Ferber
Universite de Montpellier France
Multi-agent systems (MAS) have often been considered as mere aggregations of interacting agents, without considering the overall social structure in which agents are immersed. Recent works on multi-agent standardization, such as what is conducted by the FIPA group, still follow this line of thought which I call an Agent Oriented view on MAS. This view leads to some drawbacks, which seem to be solved by using organizational concepts such as groups, roles, norms, etc.
Considering Agent Oriented MAS as now "classical" MAS, this talk will analyze the issues and solutions for developing true "Organizational Oriented Multi-Agent Systems" or OOMAS, at the conceptual methodological and implementation levels.It will be showed that OOMAS may be described without using any mentalistic items such as intentions, beliefs or goals, using only organizational terms. We will see that this leads to easier software engineering methods which may be considered as extensions of object oriented methodologies.
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11:45-12:30 Generic Simulation Tools Based on MAS Organization
Fabien Michel, Jacques Ferber, Olivier Gutknecht
This paper presents generic simulation tools which rely on an original methodological approach of designing multi-agent simulators. We will see that these tools are generic specially because they are not related to a particular agents scheduling method. On the contrary they aim at providing facilities that allow to design complex activation structures that remain comprehensible, analysable and moreover modifiable, thanks to a problem division. To achieve this, the main idea of this methodology is to express the multi-agent system (MAS) simulator as a particular MAS itself and use explicitly its subjacent organizational structure. We will show how the Aalaadin organizational model enable us to finely apply such a methodology. Precisely, we will present a particular agent of the MadKit (the platform that relies on the Aalaadin model): the Scheduler agent and its tool called Activator.
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12:30-14:00 Lunch
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14:00-14:30 Commentator
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14:30-16:00 Roundtable: MAS hot topics
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16:00 Closing session
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