Area of Interests
Agent systems are being used in an increasingly wide variety of application areas, ranging from operational
support and diagnosis, electronic commerce, manufacturing, information finding and filtering, planning and resource
allocation, process control, and service integration. There are several paths of research toward fruitful agent
engineering technologies:
- Define agent-oriented requirement engineering methodologies.
- Define multi-agent design process models with several levels of abstraction.
- Provide environments and testbeds for development of, experimentation with, analysis of, understanding of,
and trust of multiple agents, that employ medium to large scale reuse of agent components, agent communication
languages, and interaction protocols.
The objective of this workshop is to assemble theoreticians and practitioners concerned with developing autonomous
agents and multiagent systems. The following is a list of candidate topics, though we do not want to limit the
scope rigorously:
- Agent models and architectures
- Agent-oriented programming
- Believable agents
- Communication issues and protocols
- Cooperation and coordination
- Conflict resolution and negotiation
- Distributed search
- Distributed resource allocation
- Evaluation of multiagent systems
- Game-theoretic approaches
- Intelligent agents
- Market-oriented approaches
- Multiagent planning and learning
- Multiagent vision and robotics
- Organization and social structure
- Practical applications (Enterprise integration, Information gathering, Manufacturing, Electronic Commerce,
Robocup)
- Agent engineering methodologies and tools
