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Subject: [docmas] TR: ECOMAS 2002
From: Olivier BARRETEAU (barreteau@montpellier.cemagref.fr)
Date: mer déc 19 2001 - 18:16:05 CET
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>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Robert E. Smith [mailto:robert.smith@uwe.ac.uk]
>Envoyé : mercredi 12 décembre 2001 23:46
>À : frederic.amblard@cemagref.fr
>Objet : ECOMAS 2002
>
>
>Dear Frédéric,
>My apologies if you receive this more than once. I hope it is of interest to
>you.
>
>Rob.
>
>------------------------------------
>Call for Participation:
>
>Evolutionary COmputation and Multi-Agent Systems
>
>(ECOMAS 2002)
>
>A Birds-Of-A-Feather Workshop At
>GECCO 2002
>
>Description Of The Workshop Topic
>=====================================
>
>Multi-agent systems (MAS) are collections of interacting autonomous
>entities. The behaviour of the MAS is a result of the repeated asynchronous
>action and interaction of the agents. Understanding how to engineer
>adaptation and self-organisation is thus central to the application of
>agents on a large scale. Moreover, multi-agent simulations can also be used
>to study emergent behaviour in real systems.
>
>Desirable self-organisation is observed in many biological, social and
>physical systems. However, fostering these conditions in artificial systems
>proves to be difficult and offers the potential for undesirable behaviours
>to emerge. Thus, it is vital to be able to understand and shape emergent
>behaviours in agent based systems. Current mathematical and empirical tools
>give only a partial insight into emergent behaviour in large, agent-based
>societies. EC provides a paradigm for addressing this need. Moreover, EC
>techniques are inherently based on a distributed paradigm (natural
>evolution), making them particularly well suited for adaptation in agents.
>
>At the same time, ideas from natural ecosystems or economies, such as
>resource flows, niches, and spatial context or neighbourhood can contribute
>both to the development of MAS and to the improvement of EC techniques. The
>interaction between these different sources of natural inspiration and the
>two computing disciplines of MAS and EC is beginning to stimulate a range of
>systems with properties that extend the MAS and EC concepts in new and
>interesting directions.
>Notable examples of systems of that begin to examine the issues of EC in MAS
>include Holland's ECHO system, Tierra, Avalanche, Egglets, Amalthaea,
>InfoSpiders, and many others.
>
>
>The workshop follows ECoMAS 2001, which was conducted at GECCO-2001. With
>more than 70 attendees, ECoMAS 2001 was, in our opinion, a great success. As
>a result of that workshop (and in order to address a pressing need shared by
>the majority of the attendees), we have created, organised and launched a
>new Internet interested community: the ECoMAS Community.
>
>
>Community homepage: www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/~rsmith/ECOMAS/index.htm
>
>
>There is also a discussion forum associated to the community:
>
>
>Forum homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ecomas
>
>
>The goal of the workshop is to maintain a dialog among researchers and
>practitioners who are examining EC in MAS. The workshop represents an
>important opportunity for those active or interested in this area to hear
>about current work, discuss future directions and priorities, and form
>invaluable research contacts. We also see the workshop as the natural
>location for reporting and enhancing ECoMAS Community activities.
>
>Interest To The GEC Community
>=====================================
>
>With the advance of computational power and communications speed, we now
>live in a computational world where a large number of agents may be working
>on behalf of any given user. A large number of Internet software agents may
>be acting on behalf of even the most casual user: searching for music,
>comparing pension schemes, purchasing good and services, identifying chat
>partners, etc. Moreover, these agents may be collaborating with those of
>other users, while spawning and managing agents of their own. In more formal
>settings, a business, academic, or government user may simultaneously employ
>many software agents to manage workflow, trade goods or information,
>collaboratively solve problems, etc. In the future, even relatively simple
>household appliances may play a role in this churning system of interacting,
>computational agents.
>
>
>In this world, EC theories and practices have new implications. Agents that
>interact according to these theories are no longer locked inside the
>laboratory conditions imposed by EC researchers and users. The interest in
>merging the EC and MAS research communities is certainly growing. In the
>opinion of the organizers, it is important to the GEC community that there
>is a forum to discuss the particular issues of EC in MAS. Simultaneously,
>such a forum allows ideas from contemporary MAS research to spread to the
>GEC community, providing the community itself with a chance to address the
>need of EC embodiment in a real environment.
>
>
>Accordingly, the organizers see GECCO 2002 as the natural location to hold
>the ECoMAS 2002 workshop.
>
>Workshop Format
>=====================================
>
>In the opinion of the organizers, it is important that a workshop involve
>more than talks and presentations. Therefore, the workshop will be focused
>on an extensive, directed discussion on the future of EC in MAS. Other
>aspects of the workshop will be directed at facilitating this discussion:
>
>
>1) The workshop will allow the selected presenters to post
>"mini-posters." Much of this material will be available before the workshop,
>via this web site.
>
>
>2) The first segment of the workshop will consist of
>"mini-presentations" to preview the mini-poster session. Authors will be
>allowed to present a strictly limited number of transparencies. Time
>constraints will be adjusted, depending on the number of presenters
>selected, but a limit will be maintained, to allow for the sessions outlined
>below.
>
>
>3) The second segment of the workshop will consist of a mini-poster
>session.
>
>
>4) The third segment of the workshop will focus on a discussion of the
>future of EC in MAS.
>
>
>5) The final, and perhaps most important, segment of the workshop will
>be a discussion focused on action items for advancing EC in MAS. The
>organizers feel that explicitly providing time to discuss agendas in the
>fashion will give the workshop an atypical, meaningful outcome.
>
>Submission Instructions
>=====================================
>If you would like to present material at the workshop please submit a four
>page extended abstract in Postscript or PDF form to cefn.hoile@bt.com by
>February 11th, 2002. If your submission is accepted, expect to submit a
>camera-ready version of the extended abstract by April 8th, 2002, and to
>submit a web-based presentation (PowerPoint, HTML, PDF, etc.) by June 1st,
>2002. We may also accept poster-only submissions (that do not include a
>document for the proceedings), depending on the number of submissions and
>the subsequent reviewing process.
>
>If you would like to participate without presenting a poster or paper,
>please notify cefn.hoile@bt.com by February 11th, 2002, as GECCO requires
>us to submit a participants list.
>
>Important Dates:
>=====================================
>
>Submissions Due: February 11, 2002
>
>Review Decisions To Authors: March 11, 2002
>
>Camera Ready Due: April 8, 2002
>
>Web Materials Due: June 1, 2002
>
>GECCO 2002 Dates: July 9-13, 2002
>
>
>Workshop Organizers
>=====================================
>
>
>
>Claudio Bonacina, Robert Smith
>Intelligent Computing Systems Centre
>University of The West of England
>Coldharbour Lane, Frenchay
>Bristol BS16 1QY, UK
>
>
>
>
>Cefn Hoile, Paul Marrow
>Intelligent Systems Laboratory, BTexaCT
>Admin 2 PP 5, Adastral Park
>Ipswich IP5 3RE, UK
>
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