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CFP: 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents(Agents 2001) , Montreal, Canada, May 29, 2001


                        CALL FOR PAPERS

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          Workshop on Autonomy Oriented Computation (AOC)
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   at 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents(Agents 2001)
                  Montreal, Canada, May 29, 2001

        (http://robotics.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~jiming/aoc01.html)
               (http://isg.enme.ucalgary.ca/aoc01/)


WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

Two interesting areas in autonomous agents, namely (1) synthetic
autonomy
and (2) multiagent approaches to complex systems, are fast growing and
converging. Some examples are ALIVE, Artificial Fish, Boids, SWARM, and
ANT systems. Lifelike behavior and/or emergent intelligence have been
exhibited in these systems by means of constructing and operating 
artifacts. Other research, such as Internet ecology, statistical 
mechanics, immune networks, and dynamic economies, has proposed
approaches
to understand self-organized phenomena by modeling and simulating 
autonomous entities.

While existing approaches to modeling autonomy are successful to some
extent, a generic model or architecture to solve problems in such
complex
systems effectively is still absent. A new and promising concept, namely
Autonomy-Oriented Computation (AOC), is needed to unify the
methodologies
for effective analysis, modeling, and simulation of the characteristics
of such complex systems as ecological systems, social systems,
biological
systems, economical systems, physical and chemical systems, and natural
systems. AOC is an attempt to provide a new computational paradigm that
makes use of the autonomous nature of individual entities in complex
systems. Comparing to other paradigms, such as multiagent-based design/
modeling, artificial life, and evolutionary algorithms, the abilities of 
AOC will be appealing. The intent of this workshop is to highlight and 
start addressing the theoretical and practical issues concerning AOC.


TOPICS

Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following
areas:

* [Methodology, Theory and Perspectives of AOC]  Measurement of
emergence;
measurement of evolvability; self-organization in complex systems;
behavioral monitoring of autonomous societies; performance measurement
for AOC-based systems; formation of roles and social structure in the
communities; embodiment of autonomous entities; and dialectics of
microscopic and macroscopic autonomies

* [Implementation Issues]  Guidelines for designing AOC; simulating
environments and languages for AOC; architectural issues; tractability
and
scalability of algorithms; visualization of activities in the testing
environments; and the design of local and global interaction rules.

* [Applications]  Examples of successful application of AOC to real-life
problems; potential application areas of AOC (e.g. distributed search,
financial market modeling, and data analysis).

* [Comparisons]  Strength and weaknesses of AOC vs. other multiagent
paradigms such as evolutionary computation, multiagent simulation, 
emergent computation, artificial life, L-systems, evolutionary
strategies,
cellular automata; and empirical performance comparison using benchmark 
problems.


PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers should report original work and should not exceed 10 pages
including
all figures in the same format as the main conference proceedings. All 
papers will be reviewed by the program committee, and selected on their
originality, timeliness, relevance and clarity.

Electronic submission is preferred. Please email a PostScript or PDF
copy
of your submission to KC Tsui (tsuikc@comp.hkbu.edu.hk) before March 9,
2001. You may also send hard copies to: 
  Dr. K C Tsui 
  Department of Computer Science 
  Hong Kong Baptist University 
  Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of papers to workshop chairs:     March 9, 2001
Camera-ready copies due to workshop chairs:  April 16, 2001
Workshop date:                               May 29, 2001


PAPER PRESENTATION

All presentations must be between 20 to 25 minutes. This will be
followed
by a directed discussion.

The workshop will be concluded by a panel discussion on the main topics
covered by and issues rising from the presentations.


WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Dr. Jiming Liu & Dr. K. C. Tsui            Dr. Jianbing Wu
Department of Computer Science             Intelligent Systems Group
Hong Kong Baptist University               University of Calgary
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong                    Calgary Alberta, Canada
Email: {jiming,tsuikc}@comp.hkbu.edu.hk    Email: jbwu@enme.ucalgary.ca
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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE research group on 
networks,  and the COSC/Management/Maths research group on stochastic 
simulation, at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New zealand, 
and anybody else interested in research in these areas

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		Associate Professor  Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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