(OptMas)
To be held
in conjunction
with the
Tenth Joint Conference on Autonomous and Multi-Agent Systems
Taipei, Taiwan
(AAMAS 2011)
3 May 2011
Aim
This
workshop invites works from different strands of the multi-agent
systems community that pertain to the design of algorithms, models, and
techniques to deal with multi-agent optimisation problems. In so doing,
this
workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers to discuss common
issues that
arise in solving optimisation problems in different areas and elaborate
common
benchmarks to test their solutions.
Programme
9:00 -- 10:30 Opening and 1st Morning session
10:30 -- 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 -- 13:00 2nd Morning session
13:00 -- 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 -- 15:30 1st Afternoon session
15:30 -- 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 -- 18:00 2nd Afternoon session
18:00 Closing.
Invited Talk
Prof. Sven Koenig
Sven Koenig is an associate professor in computer science at the
University of Southern California. Most of his research centers around
techniques for decision making (planning and learning) that enable
single situated agents (such as robots or decision-support systems) and
teams of agents to act intelligently in their environments and exhibit
goal-directed behavior in real-time, even if they have only incomplete
knowledge of their environment, imperfect abilities to manipulate it,
limited or noisy perception or insufficient reasoning speed. Additional
information about Sven can be found on his webpages: idm-lab.org.
Background
The
number of novel applications of multi-agent systems has followed an
exponential
trend over the last few years, ranging from online auction design,
through in multi-sensor
networks, to scheduling of tasks in multi-actor systems. Multi-agent
systems
designed for all these applications generally require some form of
optimization
in order to achieve their goal. Given this, a number of advancements
have been
made in the design of winner determination, coalition formation, and
distributed constraints optimization algorithms among others. However,
there
are no general principles guiding the design of such algorithms that
would
enable researchers to either exploit solutions designed
in other areas or to ensure that their algorithms conform to some level
of
applicability to real problems.
This
workshop aims to address the above issues by bringing together
researchers from
different parts of the Multi-Agent Systems research area to present
their work
and discuss acceptable solutions, benchmarks, and evaluation methods
for
generally researched optimization problems.
In
particular, the main issues to be addressed by the workshop include
(but
are not limited to):
Keywords
Topics
include but are not limited to:
Important
Dates:
Submission
and review
After OPTMAS 2009 the best papers were selected for publication in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Autonomous and Multiagent Systems.
We plan to continue this initiative for the 2011 edition. Therefore, we will negotiate the publication of selected, best papers in a quality journal.
Organising
Committee
Dr. Alessandro Farinelli (University
of Verona, Italy)
Prof.
Nicholas R. Jennings (University
of Southampton, UK)
Dr.
Sarvapali D. Ramchurn
(University of Southampton, UK)
Dr. Juan Antonio Rodriguez
Aguilar (IIIA,CSIC,
Spain)
Dr. Jesus Cerquides Bueno
(IIIA,CSIC,
Spain)
Dr.
Alex Rogers (University
of Southampton, UK)
Primary contact
Dr. Alessandro Farinelli (University of Verona, Italy)
Programme
Committee