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Subject: Fwd: CfP: Agent Organizations Theory and Practice workshop
From: BARRETEAU Olivier (Olivier.Barreteau@montpellier.cemagref.fr)
Date: Fri Nov 21 2003 - 10:32:47 CET
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>AOTP¹04
>
>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
>------
>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
>--