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HUNABC'98
First Hungarian National Conference on Agent Based Computing
May 29-31 (Fri-Sun)
Call For Papers and Participation
URL: http://www.ceu.hu/hunabc
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Goal:
Provide a forum where researchers and developers of agent and multi-agent based
systems can meet and discuss the development of this key technology. Company
presentations will also be held to demonstrate pratical applications.
Organisers: CEU & John von Neumann Computer Society (NJSZT)
Main Sponsor: IQSOFT (Intelligent Software Ltd, Hungary)
Place: Central European University (CEU). Budapest, Nador u. 9. H-1051, HUNGARY
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Tel: 36-1-327-3000 Fax: 36-1-327-3007
Main patron:
Tibor Vamos (MTA/SZTAKI,
Computer and Automation Research Inst. of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Tutorials:
John Campbell (University College London, UK)
Rosaria Conte (Psychology Institute, Rome, Italy)
Mark d'Inverno (University of Westminster, UK)
George Kampis (Lorand Eotvos Univ, Budapest, Hungary)
Nelson Minar (MIT Media Lab, USA)
Tibor Vamos (HAS, CARI)
Chairperson:
Laszlo Keviczky (Secretary General of Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Co-chairs:
Laszlo Gulyas (ELTE)
Department of General Computer Science
Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest
e-mail: 
Gabor Tatai (CEU)
Department of Information Systems
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
e-mail: 
Jozsef Vancza (MTA/SZTAKI)
Computer and Automation Research Institute
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
e-mail: 
Important Dates:
Camera ready paper submission by e-mail and paper: April 30, 1998
Author Notification: May 17, 1998
Format:
The organizers accept extended abstracts (2 A4 pages), short papers (3 pages)
and full papers (5-7 pages). Text should be in one column, layout to A4 paper.
Font: Times Title: 16pt Headings: 12pt Body: 10pt. Single line spacing.
All margins: 25 mm. The text should be justified.
Type:
The organizers accept ONLY electronic submissions that should be in one of
the following formats LATEX, Postscript, Microsoft Word for Windows (2.0-8.0).
Use gzip, zip or arj for compression.
Address:
Submissions should be sent to any of the three co-chairs by the due date by e-m
ail.
Proceedings:
It will be published by NJSZT and/or Springer Hungarica after the conference.
Authors will have the opportunity to review their paper after the conference.
The questions and discussions will be recorded and included in the proceedings!
Language:
The language of the conference and the proceedings is English.
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Registration fees
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Basic conference package (for authors and participants).
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- 3 days participation on the conference (paper presentation, tutorials)
- 3 lunches (1 chinese, 2 hungarian)
- Conference proceedings
Full-time, Hungarian students: 3500 HUF
Full-time foreign students: 25 USD
Other Hungarian participants: 5000 HUF
Other foreign participants: 50 USD
Exhibition package
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- Everything as in the basic conference package
- 1 table with computer and poster space (more than 1 sqmeter)
Hungarian exhibitors: 30.000 HUF
Foreign exhibitors: 150 USD
Company presentation package
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- Everything as in the exhibition package
- 30 minutes presentation in the auditorium (projector, LCD panel provided)
Hungarian company presentation: 60.000 HUF
Foreign company presentation: 300 USD
The organizers welcome any help and support beyond this amounts. Your
registration fees will be automatically calculated by the on-line registration
program.
URL: http://www.ceu.hu/hunabc
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Call for papers
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"Agent" is now a very popular concept in computer science and in commercial
computing. Research and development for software and systems that rely on
various notions of "agent" is a widespread - and growing - activity. Agents
appear in areas as diverse as mediation of human interaction with complex
environments, control of industrial processes (warehouse automation, power
distribution, product inspection, etc.), information retrieval, and assistance
for translation of languages. As the complexity of systems increases, it
becomes increasingly more attractive to view and design software to manage
them in terms of relatively small and decentralised units which deal with
aspects of this complexity, and which communicate and cooperate with each
other to do this job. Hence, the idea of multi-agent systems has arisen: in
particular, systems of "autonomous" agents that make their own decisions and
act in concert with other agents on this basis. Control in these systems can be
viewed as decentralised, democratic and bottom-up, in contrast to the behaviour
of more traditional software systems, which tend to the opposite extreme in
each of these three dimensions.
Multi-agent systems in general can contain components that stand anywhere on
the scale that runs from traditional software modules through objects to
genuine autonomous agents to human participants. Consequently, a wide range
of topics (for example, social psychology, social anthropology, philosophy,
the mathematics of dynamical systems) besides computer science and artificial
intelligence is relevant for a good understanding of the problems and
properties of the systems. Developing this understanding will be an essential
part of any large-scale success in the use of multi-agent systems in the next
century.
HUNABC is the first national forum specifically devoted to the study of
agent-based computing, in its most general sense, and the properties,
implementation and use of multi-agent systems. It welcomes contributions
from all the disciplines mentioned above, where these deal with any aspect
of agency, autonomous agents, and multi-agent systems. In particular,
contributions on the nature of agency that are relevant to interactions
between agents and to the behaviour of agents in multi-agent environments are
encouraged. This relevance extends to questions of languages and properties of
software that promote effective versions of such behaviour.
In addition to advancing research and development for automomous agents and
multi-agent systems, the organisers have the particular aims of stimulating
interest and work in these topics in Hungary and in Central Europe, where they
have not yet received as much attention as elsewhere, and in providing a forum
where people from this region can meet and study issues of common interest.
However, the conference is not intended to be geographically exclusive.
Participation from all countries is invited.
A list of particular topics for which contributions are now solicited is given
below. The list is a guide to issues of interest; papers that emphasise other
points concerning agents and agency are also appropriate.
Micro-level aspects of multi-agent systems
* Agent architectures
* Agent representation formalisms and notations
* Practical reasoning, decision theory and agency
* Software agents and expert assistants
* Agent learning and adaptivity
* Believable/synthetic agents
* Relationships between agents and other disciplines such as ethology,
psychology, linguistics, and philosophy
Macro-level aspects of multi-agent systems
* Cooperation
* Coordination
* Conflict detection and resolution
* Negotiation
* Organizational structuring and design for multi-agent systems
* Computational market systems
* Self-organization, emergent functionality and swarm intelligence
* Multi-agent learning,
* Issues of overall performance of multi-agent systems
* The relationship between multi-agent systems and other disciplines such
as sociology, economics, game theory, cscw, and organization theory
Agents as a software engineering paradigm
* Specification and verification of agent systems
* Methodology of analysis and design for agent systems
* Evaluations of different approaches to developing agent systems
* Interaction based programming
* Agent mobility
* Practical experiences with agent development
Practical applications of agent technology
* Networks and distributed systems
* Human-computer interaction
* Computer-supported cooperative work
* Process and manufacturing control
* Business process management
* Agents in electronic commerce
* Cooperative information systems
* Information agents on the Internet
* Computer games and virtual environments
* Multi-agent simulation of social and organizational phenomena
* Multi-agent robotics
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