Topics
The topics and areas to be addressed include, but not limited to:

Applications Computational Models, Architecture, and Infrastructure
  • Agent and multi-agent infrastructure
  • Communication languages
  • Compuatational architectures
  • Heterogeneity and interoperability
  • Models of perception, rationality, intention, emotion, coordination, action, and social behaviors
  • Multi-modal systems and interfaces
  • Ontology models
  • Protocols
  • Scalability
  • Tools and standards
Autonomy-Oriented Computation (AOC) Paradigm
  • Adaptive computation
  • Autonomous societies
  • Chaotic and fractal dynamics
  • Complex behavior characterization and engineering
  • Emergent behavior
  • Feature characterization and classification
  • Formal theories of complexity and computability
  • Self-organized criticality
  • Self-organized intelligence

Learning and Self-Adaptiing Agents

  • Adaptation and self-adaptation
  • Artificial life
  • Behavioral selection
  • Behavioral self-organization
  • Believable lifelike quality
  • Classifier systems
  • Coordinating perception, thought, and action
  • Evolution and learning in dynamic environments
  • Evolutionary computation
  • Integrated exploration and exploitation
  • Uncertainty management in multi-agent systems
Data and Knowledge Management Agents
  • Adaptation and evolution of knowledge networks
  • Data mining
  • Distributed knowledge systems
  • Heterogeneous data integration and management
  • Human-agent interaction
  • Information filtering
  • Knowledge aggregation
  • Knowledge discovery
  • Knowledge sharing
  • Reasoning and planning
Distributed Intelligence
  • Coevolution
  • Collective group behavior
  • Coordination and cooperation
  • Distributed intelligence
  • Dynamics of agent groups and populations
  • Effciency in distributed systems
  • Formal and computational models
  • Market-based computing
  • Population evolution
  • Social integration
  • Swarms