-Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement-
Dear colleague,
The deadline for MSDM 2011 has been extended. The updated CFP can be
found below. Please forward it to anyone who might be interested.
With kind regards,
Frans Oliehoek
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CALL FOR PAPERS
AAMAS 2011 Workshop
Multiagent Sequential Decision-Making in Uncertain Domains (MSDM)
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Sixth Workshop in the MSDM series
May 3, 2010
Taipei, Taiwan
http://teamcore.usc.edu/junyounk/msdm2011/
In sequential decision making, an agent's objective is to choose
actions, based on its observations of the world, that will maximize its
performance over the course of a series of such decisions. In worlds
where action consequences are nondeterministic or observations
incomplete, Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and Partially-Observable
MDPs (POMDPs) serve as the basis for principled approaches to
single-agent sequential decision making. Extending these models to
systems of multiple agents has become the subject of an increasingly
active area of research over the past decade and a variety of different
multiagent models have emerged (e.g., the MMDP, Dec-POMDP, MTDP,
I-POMDP, and POSG). The high computational complexity of these models
has also driven researchers to develop multiagent planning and learning
methods that exploit structure in agents' interactions, methods geared
towards efficient approximate solutions, and decentralized methods that
distribute computation among the agents.
The primary purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers in
the field of MSDM to present and discuss new work, to identify recent
trends in model and algorithmic development, and to establish important
directions and goals for further research and collaboration. A secondary
goal is to help address an important challenge; in order to make the
field more accessible to newcomers, and to facilitate multidisciplinary
collaboration, we seek to bring order in the large number of models and
methods that have been introduced over the last decade. The workshop
also aims to discuss interesting and challenging application areas
(e.g., cooperative robotics, distributed sensor and/or communication
networks, decision support systems) and suitable evaluation methodologies.
Topics
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Multiagent sequential decision making comprises (1) problem
representation, (2) planning, (3) coordination, and (4) learning during
execution. The MSDM workshop addresses this full range of aspects.
Topics of particular interest include:
- Novel representations, algorithms and complexity results.
- Comparisons of algorithms.
- Relationships between models and their assumptions.
- Decentralized vs. centralized planning approaches.
- Online vs. offline planning.
- Communication and coordination during execution.
- Dealing with...
...large numbers of agents.
...large numbers of / continuous states, observations and actions.
...long decision horizons.
- (Reinforcement) learning in partially observable multiagent systems.
- Cooperative, competitive, and self-interested agents.
- Application domains.
- Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies.
- Standardization of software.
- Past trends and future directions of MSDM research.
- High-level principles in MDSM.
Important Dates
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January 31, 2011 - Submission deadline
February 27, 2011 - Notification of Acceptance
May 3, 2011 - Workshop
Submission instructions
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Authors are encouraged to submit papers up to 8 pages in length in the
AAMAS2011 format. Submissions should be uploaded in PDF form at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msdm2011. Each submission
will be reviewed by at least two Program Committee members. The review
process will be "single-blind"; thus authors do not have to remove their
names when submitting papers.
Organizing Committee
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Prashant Doshi University of Georgia
Abdel-Illah Mouaddib University of Caen Basse-Normandie
Stefan Witwicki University of Michigan
Jun-young Kwak University of Southern California
Frans A. Oliehoek MIT
Program Committee
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Martin Allen University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
Christopher Amato Aptima, Inc.
Aurelie Beynier University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6)
Brahim Chaib-draa Laval University
Georgios Chalkiadakis University of Southampton
Alessandro Farinelli University of Verona
Piotr Gmytrasiewicz University of Illinois Chicago
Rajiv Maheswaran University of Southern California
Francisco S. Melo INESC-ID Lisboa
Hala Mostafa University of Massachussetts, Amherst
Enrique Munoz de Cote University of Southampton
Brenda Ng Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Simon Parsons Brooklyn College
David Pynadath Institute for Creative Technologies, USC
Xia Qu University of Georgia
Zinovi Rabinovich University of Southampton
Paul Scerri Carnegie Mellon University
Matthijs Spaan Institute for Systems and Robotics - Lisbon
Karl Tuyls Maastricht University
Pradeep Varakantham Singapore Management University
Jianhui Wu Amazon
Makoto Yokoo Kyushu University
Shlomo Zilberstein University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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