AT2AI-5

Fifth International Symposium "From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation"

April 21, 2006, Vienna, Austria (EU)

Chairs: Jörg Müller and Paolo Petta

<URL: http://www.ofai.at/research/agents/conf/at2ai5/>

Symposium L at the
18th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR 2006)
<URL:http://www.osgk.ac.at/emcsr/>

Petta P., Müller J.P. (ed.): Best of "From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation 4", Applied Artificial Intelligence, 20(2-4), 2006.   Petta P., Müller J.P. (ed.): Best of "From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation 3", Applied Artificial Intelligence, 16(9-10), 2002.   Petta P., Müller J. (ed.): From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation: Best of AT2AI-1, Applied Artificial Intelligence, 14(7), 2000.

The symposium schedule has been published

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Accepted Papers
• Symposium Schedule
• Related Symposium
• Organisation
• Submission Details
• Important Dates
• Other Editions
• Further Information

Introduction

Since its first edition in 1998, the symposium series "From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation" has been not only documenting the progress in agent-related technologies, but also managed to contribute to the rapid development of this area. AT2AI actively promotes the exchange of ideas and experiences between researchers and practitioners working on the whole range of theoretical and application-oriented issues of agent technology, covering both the micro and macro aspects of agent design and the transition from drawing boards and partly idealised models, over modelling tools and frameworks, to deployment, configuration and maintenance of implementations.

AT2AI-3 (http://www.ofai.at/research/agents/conf/at2ai3/) produced a first blueprint of a layered ecology of technologies for the development of agent based applications (cf. the editorial of Applied Artificial Intelligence 16(9-10), 2003). This perspective considers middleware, tools, off-the shelf platforms, integrated development environments (IDEs), and the like, with respect to their practical value to improve the applications delivered. The qualities of these support technologies can in turn be improved and better exploited with the design of architectural frameworks and the deployment of standards. The evolution of these in turn can be assisted by the development of sound theoretical foundations and related formal methods. Methodologies are considered as working know-that and know-how, capturing and maintaining the best practises how to identify, align, and process application- and environment-derived (bottom-up) and support technology related (top-down) requirements and options.

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       |       |       |    off-the-shelf platforms     | | |
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       |       |                   architectures          | |
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       |                        formal methods              |
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AT2AI-4 (http://www.ofai.at/research/agents/conf/at2ai4/) produced an updated inventory against the maturing field: the status of logic-based approaches was addressed in particular in the discussions; but evidence was also provided for how routine consideration of a multitude of perspectives is approaching the requirements posed by serious application needs (including e.g. issues of privacy and flexible access right management). Results have been collected in the forthcoming double issue of Applied AI 20(4-5), 2006 (April).

The present edition of AT2AI gets further leverage by the significant work originated in the AgentLink IIITechnical Forum Group on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (PROMAS). The topics of discussion addressed there bear an immediate close relationship to the main concerns of AT2AI.

Of particular relevance to the symposium is work that provides insights on experiences and lessons learnt when applying specific agent theories or architectures to application problems, and that discusses methods, methodologies, and other tools that can help system designers to successfully accomplish the mapping between available agent technology on the one hand, and application problems on the other.

Topics of interest therefore include

• Conceptual and theoretical foundations
• Agent languages and architectures
• Learning and adaptability
• Communication, coordination and collaboration
• Social issues in agent societies
• Safety, security, and responsibility
• Granularities of system design (single-agent, multi-agent, ant ...)
• Agents vs. Middleware
• Development and engineering methodologies
• User interfaces and usability
• Testbeds and evaluations
• Applications of agent technology in routine use

Submissions should cast the presentation in terms of the above schema (or proposed well-founded changes to it).
As the previous editions of AT2AI (in 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004) have shown, this is a significant aid for the workshop audience to grasp more readily the significance of the work presented and relate it to their own activities: the quality and variety of feedback provided to authors improves accordingly, often leading to persisting fruitful contacts.

Accepted Papers

Jiri Biba, Jiri Vokrinek

Agent Cooperation in Competitive Environments

Luca Ferrari, Franco Zambonelli, Giacomo Cabri

Agents and Ambient Intelligence: the LAICA Experience

Rubén Fuentes-Fernández, Jorge J. Goméz-Sanz, Juan Pavon

Activity Theory Patterns for the Runtime Analysis of Multi-Agent Systems

Luca Gardelli, Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini

Exploring the Dynamics of Self-Organising Systems with Stochastic p-Calculus: Detecting Abnormal Behaviour in MAS

Hela Hachicha, Adlen Loukil, Khaled Ghedira

A CASE Tool supported methodology for the design of Mobile Agent Systems

James Kramer, Matthias Scheutz

ADE: Filling a Gap Between Single and Multiple Agent Systems

João Leite, Luís Soares

Evolving Characters in Role Playing Games

Bruno Mermet, Dominique Fournier, Gaële Simon

An agent compositional proof system

Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini

CArtAgo: An Infrastructure for Artifacts in MAS

Symposium Schedule:

Related EMCSR'06 Symposium:

Organisation

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline:	December	2,	2005
Notifications of acceptance/rejection:	after December	16,	2005
	early January		2006
Camera-ready copies due:	January	30,	2006
Early registration deadline:	January	30,	2006
Symposium date:	April	21,	2006

Other Editions

• For information on previous editions of AT2AI, see: AT2AI-4, AT2AI-3, AT2AI-2, AT2AI-1
• For information on following editions of AT2AI, see: AT2AI-6, AT2AI-7

Further Information

EMCSR 2006

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