IMPORTANT DATES

Papers Due on:	February 14, 2001
Author Notification:	April 31, 2001
Final version Due on:	June 31, 2001
Special Issue:	December 2001

About the Special Issue Editors:

Juergen Dix is is Reader at The University of Manchester, UK. He is also member of the CS Department at the Technical University of Vienna, where he is lecturing regularly. He worked since 1989 in several areas of Computational Logic (nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming, deductive databases, knowledge representation) and, lately, also in Multi-Agent Reasoning. He has published more than 30 papers in journals, presented more than 40 papers in conferences and gave more than 40 invited talks/tutorials. He has also co-authored/edited nine books and two special issues of Annals of Math and AI.

Fariba Sadri is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computing at Imperial College, London, where she is a member of the Logic Programming Research Group. She finished her PhD in deductive databases in 1988, and since then she has worked and published papers in a variety of areas, including temporal reasoning, knowledge representation with rules and exceptions and logic-based agents.

Ken Satoh is an associate professor of Division of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan. He has done research on theoretical foundations of AI such as nonmonotonic reasoning, preference-based reasoning and case-based reasoning. He is also interested in formalization of multi-agent systems and application of the above reasoning to multi-agent systems.

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About Annals of Math and AI

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI) is devoted to reporting significant contributions on the interaction of mathematical and computational techniques reflecting the evolving disciplines of artificial intelligence. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence publishes edited volumes of original manuscripts, survey articles, monographs and well refereed conference proceedings of the highest caliber within this increasingly important field. All papers will be subject to the peer reviewing process with at least two referees per paper.

ASCII Call for Papers

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                              Call for Papers

   for a Special Issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

             on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems

    Special Issue Editors: Juergen Dix, Fariba Sadri, Ken Satoh

      http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~dix/AMAI_SPECIAL/AMAI.html

Multi-agent systems (MAS) have become an increasingly important area
of research, not least because of the advances in the Internet and
Robotics.  However multi-agent systems can become very complicated,
and, consequently, reasoning about the behaviour of such systems can
become extremely difficult. Therefore, it is important to be able to
formalise multi-agent systems and, to do so in such a way that allows
automated reasoning about agents' behaviour. The purpose of this
Special Issue is to present techniques, based on computational logic
(CL), for reasoning about multi-agent systems in a formal way. This is
clearly a major and exciting challenge for computational logic. We
have to develop techniques to deal with real world issues and
applications. We solicit papers that address CL-related formal
approaches to multi-agent systems . The approaches as well as being
formal must make a significant contribution to the practice of
multi-agent systems. Relevant techniques include the following (but
are not limited to):

   * Nonmonotonic reasoning in MAS
   * Planning in MAS
   * Adaptability and learning in MAS
   * Knowledge representation in MAS
   * Temporal reasoning in MAS
   * Negotiation, co-operation, competition and communication in MAS
   * Verification of MAS
   * Decision theory for MAS
   * Distributed problem solving in MAS
   * Significant applications of MAS

Submission Details

We are expecting full papers to describe original, previously
unpublished research, be written in English, and not be simultaneously
submitted for publication elsewhere (previous publication of partial
results at workshops with informal proceedings is allowed).

Papers should be formatted according to the Instructions for AMAI
submissions (see below) and should be between 20 and 40 pages long:

   * http://www.baltzer.nl/amai/submit.html and
   * http://www.baltzer.nl/authors/

We also require the following issues to be adressed:

 1. CL:      An introduction that includes statements about how the paper
             addresses
             the exploitation of CL for MAS
 2. MAS :    An explanation of which aspect/functionality of MAS the paper
             formalises,

 3. Examples:Example(s) which give an intuitive motivation and explanation
             of the formalisation.

Please submit a PostScript or PDF file of your paper to
dix@uni-koblenz.de by the 31st of January 2001.

IMPORTANT DATES

Papers Due on:        January 31, 2001

Author Notification:  March 31, 2001

Final version Due on: May 31, 2001

Special Issue:        December 2001

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