DM: CFP: Workshop on Machine Learning and Intelligent Agents (ACAI-99)

[Nick Zacharis]

Apologies for possible multiple copies of this announcement.
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                Call For Papers

                Workshop on
      Machine Learning and Intelligent Agents
  
        MACHINE LEARNING AND APPLICATIONS
   Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence 1999 (ACAI'99)
          5-16 July 1999, Chania, Greece
    (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99)

  European Coordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI)
                (http://www.eccai.org)
                        &
  Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society (EETN)
     (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn)

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Workshop Background
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Machine Learning in single and multi-agent systems is a relatively
new but significant and promising topic in Artificial Intelligence. 
Intelligent agents and agent-based computer systems represent an 
important, fundamentally new way of dealing with many important 
software application problems for which mainstream computer science 
techniques offer no obvious solution in recent dynamic and 
distributed 
nature of both data and applications.

Topics to be covered during this workshop must be applications which 
concern the development of intelligent agent architectures which 
exhibit 
machine learning capabilities. These architectures must apply some 
learning strategy (learning from examples, from instruction, by
discovery or analogy, etc.), some learning feedback method 
(supervised, 
reinforcement, unsupervised learning, etc.), and must be safely
characterized as intelligent agent systems.

Examples of topics : Single-agent or isolated Learning, multi-agent
or interactive learning, Mutual learning, cooperative learning,
collaborative learning, etc.

Workshop Objectives
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The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners with an active interest in machine learning problems
in environments inhabited by single intelligent agents and/or shared
by multiple intelligent agents. Also, this workshop will provide a 
forum for discussing existing approaches and results and developing
new ideas and perspectives.


Organizing Committee
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Ass. Prof. T. Panayiotopoulos, 
University of Piraeus, Dept of Computer Science 
Email: themisp@unipi.gr

Dr. N. Zacharis 
University of Piraeus, Dept of Computer Science 
E-mail: nzach@unipi.gr 


Submission Format
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Interested authors are requested to submit a paper, of no more 
than 10 pages, before 23 February 1999

Authors of accepted papers will be asked to provide a camera-ready
version of their paper before 1 April 1999. Submission should be 
sent by e-mail to:

Assist. Prof. Themis Panayiotopoulos Themis, 
University of Piraeus,
Department of Computer Science
Karaoli & Dimitriou 80
Piraeus - 18534, Greece 
Tel     : (+301) 4222193 
Fax     : (+301) 4221520 
E-mail  : themisp@unipi.gr 


Organisational Issues
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Up to 10 accepted papers will be presented. The Workshop will take
place during the afternoon sessions of ACAI-99, from 14:30 to 18:00.
The exact date of the workshop will be finalized by the ACAI-99 
organizing committee by the end of December 1998.

Anyone registered for the main ACAI-99 event can also attend all the 
workshops. For the Workshop participants who will not be registered 
for 
the whole ACAI-99 there will be a fee of 100 ECUs. 

Proceedings will be published as a technical report in collaboration
with the ACAI-99 organization committee. 


Important Dates
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23 February, 1999    Deadline for paper submission 
13 March, 1999 Notification of acceptance 
1 April, 1999 Deadline for final camera ready papers 
5-16 July, 1999 The exact date will be finalised soon