Call for Participation

ACAI-01 is jointly organized by the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), the Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics (CSKI) and the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI) in cooperation with ECCAI and AgentLink, the European Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing.

The ACAI-01 course will present the current state of the art in theoretical foundations of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) as well as demonstrate the applicability of these systems in many practical tasks. The presentations will highlight different aspects and viewpoints of this recently established and very active scientific field. The course will be formed by

• plenary invited mini-courses (2-6 hours) delivered by internationally leading experts in the MAS field,
• student sessions,
• affiliated events.

ACAI-01 will be of benefit to professionals interested in the emerging technology of MAS as well as researchers and postgraduate students interested in this exciting field.

Student Sessions

The student sessions will provide an opportunity to present results and discuss student work in progress. Students are invited to submit research contributions or practical experience reports related to the following topics: (i) Theoretical Foundations, (ii) Architectures and Negotiations, (iii) Applications. Papers, no longer than 8 pages, must be in English and should conform to the LNCS Authors Instructions on the LNCS Home Page: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
Authors are asked to submit papers electronically (using winzip32 for compression) via email to Ms. Hana Krautwurmová.

Submission of extended abstracts (up to 1000 words) of student papers: March 15, 2001
Notification of student paper acceptance: April 1, 2001
Submission of final student papers in camera-ready format: April 30, 2001
Early registration deadline: May 15, 2001

• Workshop I: Adaptability and Embodiment Using Multi-Agent Systems (AEMAS'01)
  For guidelines on paper submission please see the AEMAS'01 web page: http://miriad.lip6.fr/AEMAS01/
  Early registration deadline: May 15, 2001
• Workshop II: Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW'01)
  For guidelines on paper submission please see the AEMAS'01 web page: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/ESAW01/
• 2000 ECCAI Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award will be presented during ACAI 2001 in Prague. http://www.eccai.org/dissertation_award_2000.html
• AgentLink Meetings
  AgentLink plans to hold a general meeting, including SIG meetings on the 9th, 10th and 11th of July to coincide with the summer school. Details will be available from www.AgentLink.org in due course.

Each invited lecturer was asked to summarize his/her mini-course into a paper. The resulting papers are published in the volume LNCS 2086 and LNAI 2322 (including selected papers of the student sessions and of the AEMAS 2001 workshop) in the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series.