International Workshop on Agent-based Collaboration, Coordination, and Decision Support (ACCDS 2009)

Nagoya, Japan
December 13, 2009

in conjunction with12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems ( PRIMA 2009).

Note: We update final program, and send the email for it.

The autonomy and intelligence of software agents have greatly enhanced automation in many operational domains. Benefits of using software agents are the ability to assist in the collaboration among humans and software mechanisms, coordination among software agents and systems, and decision support on knowledge discovery. In general, agents may perform different behaviors for different kinds of expectations. In cooperative systems, agents will perform tasks more cooperatively in order to achieve their common goals, while in competitive systems, agents may compete with others in order to reach individual aims. However, in most real world situations, both cooperation and competition exist between agents. Agents need to be carefully organized and managed in order to maximize the efficiency of the whole system, and to balance benefits between others.
This workshop is in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2009). The goal of this workshop is to bring together world-wide scientists who are either conducting researches in agent-based collaboration or coordination or decision support to share their knowledge and experiences, and to spread their future researches on new challenges over these or related topics.

All topics related to the interdisciplinary aspects of agent-based collaboration, coordination, and decision support are welcome as much as these are in some way relevant for or applicable to software agents and multi-agent systems. The following incomprehensive listing gives examples of such potential topics:

• Agent-based collaboration

• Agent-based coordination

• Methodologies, languages and tools to support agent collaboration

• Protocols and approaches for agent-mediated collaboration and decision support

• Teamwork, coalition formation and coordination in multi-agent systems

• Distributed problem solving

• Electronic markets and institutions

• Game theory (cooperative and non-cooperative)

• Auction and mechanism design

• Argumentation, negotiation and bargaining

• Trust and reputation

• Agent-based decision support

• Agent-based knowledge discover

• Agent-based collective intelligence

• Agent-based situation awareness

These issues are being explored by researchers from different communities in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent systems, distributed problem solving, complex systems as well as agent-based applications. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from these communities to learn about each other's approaches, form long-term collaborations, and cross-fertilize the different areas to accelerate progress towards scaling up to larger and more realistic applications.

• Submission Due: September 15, 2009-->September 30, 2009
• Notification: October 5, 2009--> October 16, 2009 --> Octorber 20, 2009
• Camera-ready: October 31, 2009--> November 02, 2009
• Early registration deadline: November 4, 2009--> November 16, 2009
  
• Registration deadline: December 1, 2009
  
• Workshop: December 13, 2009
  

Submission is entirely automated by a paper management tool, which is available from the main web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=accds2009. Authors must first register their own account by obtaining a password, and then follow the instructions.

All accepted papers will be provided an oral presentation at the conference. Each paper needs to be reviewed by at least two PC members or experts in the field.

Multiple submission policy for papers: Papers that are being submitted to other conferences, whether verbatim or in essence, must reflect this fact on the title page. Papers that do not meet this requirement are subject to rejection without review.

Formatting Guidelines

We encourage submission in Springer SCI format. You can find the format requirements on Springer SCI website: http://www.springer.com/series/7092 The length of papers should not be more than 16 pages long.

All submissions must include the author's name(s), affiliation, complete mailing address, phone number, fax number and email address.

All papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the PRIMA'09 Workshop Proceedings published by Springer.

Dayong Ye, Minjie Zhang and Danny Sutanto	DGF: Decentralized Group Formation for Task Allocation in Complex Adaptive Systems
HADYA BOUFERA and FATIMA BENDELLA	Blackboard architecture to aid breast cancer diagnosis based on multi agent system
Duncan Coulter and Elizabeth Ehlers.	Cellular Automata and Immunity Amplified Stochastic Diffusion Search
Tetsuya Oishi, Tsunenori Mine, Ryuzo Hasegawa, Hiroshi Fujita and Miyuki Koshimura	Related Word Extraction Algorithm for Query Expansion - an Evaluation -
Aniruddha Dasgupta and Aditya Ghose	BDI agents for real-time decision making using user-given constraints and objectives
Takuya Yamamoto and Takayuki Ito	Verification of the effect of introducing an agent in a prediction market
Yuan Miao	A Cognitive Ecosystem Model
Abdeslem Boukhtouta, Jean Berger, Ranjeev Mittu2 and Abdellah Bedrouni	Coordination Distributed Intelligent Systems Applications
Alireza Davoodi and Ali Nasri Nazif	BDI Agents in Environment Coverage Using a Single Query Roadmap: A Swarm Intelligence Approach
InWoo Jang and Chong-Woo Woo	An approach towards personalize context-awareness system by adapting user feedback
Minjie Zhang, Quan Bai, Dayong Ye, Danny Sutanto, Kashem Muttaqi and Colin Parker.	A Hybrid Multi-Agent Framework for Load Management in Power Grid Systems

Please register the workshop via PRIMA 2009 web page.

Session Program
Each presentation will be allocated 30 minutes including Q&A (5 minutes).
PRIMA will provide coffee and tea in morning and afternoon breaks but no lunch.

Program Chairs
Fenghui Ren, University of Wollongong, Australia
Katsuhide Fujita, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

Organizing Chair
Quan Bai, CSIRO, Australia

Advisories
Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology/MIT, Japan/USA
Minjie Zhang, Wollongong University, Australia
Tokuro Matsuo, Yamagata University, Japan

• Jun Yan, University of Wollongong, Australia
• Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia
• Zili Zhang, Deakin University, Australia
• Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan
• Chun-Hua Tian, IBM Research, China
• Hiromitsu Hattori, Kyoto University, Japan

• Fenghui Ren, fr510@uow.edu.au
• Katsuhide Fujita, fujita@itolab.mta.nitech.ac.jp