C A L L  F O R  P A P E R S	

	Intelligent Agent Systems: Theory, Design and Implementation
		Special Session in conjunction with
	      The 17th International FLAIRS Conference

May 17-19, 2004 ~ Miami Beach, Florida, http://www.flairs.com/flairs2004
	 Track URL: http://www.cs.siu.edu/~rahimi/flairs04/


Intelligent agent technology is emerging as one of the most rapidly 
advancing areas in information technology. There is a fast pace in the 
conceptualization and development of agent-based applications in a variety 
of fields such as electronic commerce, supply chain management, resource
allocation, project management, intelligent manufacturing, industrial 
control, information retrieval and filtering, computational science, 
collaborative work, decision support, and computer games. While research 
on various aspects of intelligent agent technology and its application is 
progressing at a very fast pace, this is only the beginning. There are 
still many issues that have to be explored in terms of agent design, 
implementation, and deployment. The purpose of this track is to provide 
a forum for academics and practitioners to identify and explore the issues,
opportunities, and solutions related to intelligent agent theory, design 
and implementation.

Track welcomes submissions of original high-quality papers. The technical 
issues to be addressed include, but not limited to:

* Applications:

 - Data and knowledge intensive domains (e.g., large databases,
   Internet, digital libraries, financial engineering, business
   information systems, CSCW)
 - Interaction with software/interface agents (e.g., E-commerce,
   personal assistant, information filter, tutor)
 - Computational intelligence (e.g., pattern analysis and
   recognition, imaging, optimization, resource allocation,
   constraint satisfaction, planning)
 - Physically embodied systems (e.g., autonomous robots)
 - Very-large, complex, integrated intelligent systems

* Computational Architecture and Infrastructure:

 - Computational architectures, virtual machines, tools and standards
 - Ontology models, multimodal systems and interfaces
 - Agent-level and multiagent-level infrastructure
 - Communication languages and protocols
 - Heterogeneity and interoperability
 - Scalability

* Learning and Adaptation:

 - Uncertainty management in multiagent systems
 - Integrated exploration and exploitation
 - Neural networks, Artificial life, Evolutionary computation
 - Behavioral selection, behavioral self-organization, emergent behavior
 - Coordinating perception, thought, and action
 - Evolution and learning in dynamic environments
 - Adaptation and self-adaptation
 - Human-agent interaction

* Data and Knowledge Engineering/Communication:

 - Distributed knowledge systems
 - Adaptation and evolution of knowledge networks
 - Data mining, information filtering
 - Heterogeneous data integration and management
 - Knowledge discovery, Knowledge sharing, Knowledge aggregation
 - Reasoning and planning

* Distributed Intelligence:

 - Dynamics of groups and populations
 - Coevolution
 - Collective group behavior
 - Coordination and cooperation
 - Social integration
 - Market-based computing

* Abstract Models for Agent Systems:

 - Coordination models (channel-based, tuple-based)
 - Distributed objects, active objects, actors
 - Locality-centric models (mobile ambients, ...)
 - Process algebras (pi-calculus, join calculus, fusion calculus)
 - High-level programming models
 - Specification languages and model checking
 - Formal reasoning, techniques for correctness, automatic support
 - Modelling and simulation by discrete events systems

Track Organizers:

	Shahram Rahimi (Chair), Southern Illinois University, USA 
	rahimi@cs.siu.edu
	
	Gabriel Ciobanu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
	gabriel@comp.nus.edu.sg
	
	Dursun Delen, Oklahoma State University, USA 
	delen@okstate.edu
	
	Sabin Corneliu Buraga (Web Master), University of Iasi, Romania
	busaco@infoiasi.ro 	
	
	
Submission and Publication:

Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting 
guidelines (http://www.aaai.org/publications/Author/authorinstructions.pdf). 
All submissions will be done electronically via FLAIRS web submission system, 
which will be available through the conference web site. Papers will be 
refereed and all accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings 
which will be published by AAAI Press.ÿ Selected authors will be invited to 
submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of the 
International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) to be 
published in 2005.

Important Dates:

Paper submissions:		October 24, 2003
Acceptance notification:	January 7, 2004
Camera-ready final papers:	February 6, 2004

Program Committee:

Giacomo Cabri,			Univ. di Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy		
Norman F. Carver III		Southern Illinois University, USA
Brahim Chaib-draaLaval,	 	Laval University, Canada
Barbara Dunin-Keplicz		Warsaw University, Poland
Stan Franklin,			University of Memphis, USA				
Violetta Galant,		Wroclaw Univ. of Economics, Poland 				
Henry Hexmoor,			University of Arkansas, USA 				
Ryszard Kowalczyk,		Swinburne University of Technology, Australia    			
Sofiane Labidi,			Federal University of Maranho, Brazil			
Vincenzo Loia,			University of Salerno, Italy 			 
Beniamino di Martino,		University of Naples, Italy			
John Morrison 			University College Cork, Ireland	
James Odell  			James Odell Associates, USA	
Julian Padget 			University of Bath, UK	
Marcin Paprzycki 		Oklahoma State University, USA		
Paolo Petta               	Austrian Research Institute for AI, Austria             
Thomas E. Potok, 		Oak Ridge National Lab. USA		
Omer F Rana, 			Cardiff University, UK		
Tatyana Yakhno, 		Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey		
Arkady Zaslavsky, 		Monash University, Australia