Call for Papers
http://www.carc.aist.go.jp/ANDI05/

Agent Network Dynamics and Intelligence (ANDI'05)

June 13th-14th, 2005
The Kitakyushu International Conference Center, Kitakyushu city, Japan

The First International Workshop on Agent Network Dynamics and
Intelligence (ANDI'05) will be held as a part of the 19th Annual
Conference of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI2005) .

Scope of workshop

Recently, the study of intelligence emerged from the behavior of many
simple agents, such as collective intelligence, group intelligence, and
Swarm-made architecture, become popular. A network structure made by the
agents plays an important role in these research areas.

On the other hand, recent studies have revealed that various networks
made by human beings, the most intelligent subsistence, have a
scale-free structure. This has suggested that some kind of network
structures, such as scale-free network and small-world network, are
desirable to the emergence of behavior or intelligence.

In multi-agent coordination problems, even if each the agent's structure
is homogeneous, the scale-free structures (for example, the structure of
the Internet and link structure of WWW) created by the agents' rational
behavior may generate intelligence and/or intelligent cooperation.

This workshop aims at the investigation of "network structures of agents",
"network structure made by agents", and "network structure and phenomena
made by the agents' rational behavior". And it focuses on "the
intelligence from the viewpoint of a network structure, and "the
intelligence emerged from the network."

Topics

- Scale-free network
- Small world
- Collective intelligence
- Collective learning
- Multi-agent network system
- Swarm-made architecture
- Web dynamics
- Web intelligence and web science
- Social intelligence
- Complex systems

Submissions
Workshop participants are asked to submit their papers electronically in
PostScript or PDF format. Please send your paper by March 31st, 2005 as
a PostScript or PDF file to : [log in to unmask]
Submitted papers should consist of the maximum of 7 pages with the LaTeX
style file (downloaded here).

Working notes with ISBN will be published by JSAI for the workshop.
Outstanding papers will be published in a post proceedings book as
lecture notes in Artificial Intelligence from Springer.

Important dates
- Deadline of the first paper submission: March, 31, 2005
- Notification of acceptance: April, 18, 2005
- Deadline of camera ready submission: April, 30, 2005
- Workshop: June, 13-14, 2005

Workshop chairs
- Satoshi Kurihara (Osaka Univ.)
- Kiyoshi Izumi (AIST)
Program commitee
- Eizo Akiyama (Tsukuba Univ.)
- Kensuke Fukuda (NTT Network Innovation Labs.)
- David Green (Monash Univ.)
- Nobuyuki Hanaki (Columbia Univ.)
- Takashi Hashimoto (JAIST)
- Hidenori Kawamura (Hokkaido Univ.)
- Koichi Kurumatani (AIST)
- Yutaka Matsuo (AIST)
- Akira Namatame (National Defence Academy)
- Itsuki Noda (AIST)
- Hiroshi Sato (National Defence Academy)
- Takayuki Shiose (Kyoto Univ.)
- Wataru Souma (ATR)
- Keiki Takadama (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Contact address
Kiyoshi Izumi
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