MSDM 2012 - The Seventh Workshop Multiagent Sequential Decision Making Under Uncertainty (MSDM)

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Deadline: March 06, 2012 | Date: June 05, 2012

Venue/Country: Valencia, Spain

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Call For Papers - CFP

Multiagent Sequential Decision Making Under Uncertainty (MSDM)

The Seventh Workshop in the MSDM series

June 5, 2012

Valencia, Spain

http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/~switwicki/msdm2012/

In sequential decision making, an agent's objective is to choose

actions, based on its observations of the world, in such a way that it

expects to optimize its performance measure over the course of a

series of such decisions. In environments where action consequences

are non-deterministic or observations incomplete, Markov decision

processes (MDPs)and partially observable MDPs (POMDPs) serve as the

basis for principled approaches to single-agent sequential decision

making. Extending these models to systems of multiple agents has

become the subject of an increasingly active area of research over the

past decade and a variety of models have emerged (e.g., the MMDP,

Dec-POMDP, MTDP, I-POMDP, and POSG). The high computational complexity

of these models has driven researchers to develop multiagent planning

and learning methods that exploit the structure present in agents'

interactions, methods that provide efficient approximate solutions,

and methods that distribute computation among the agents.

The MSDM workshop serves several purposes. The primary purpose is to

bring together researchers in the field of MSDM to present and discuss

new work and preliminary ideas. Moreover, we aim to identify recent

trends, to establish important directions for future research, and to

discuss some of the topics mentioned below such as challenging

application areas (e.g., cooperative robotics, distributed sensor

and/or communication networks, decision support systems) and suitable

evaluation methodologies. Finally, a goal of the workshop is to make

the field more accessible to newcomers, by seeking to bring order in

the large number of models and methods that have been introduced over

the last decade.

Topics

Multiagent sequential decision making comprises (1) problem

representation, (2) planning, (3) coordination, and (4) learning. The

MSDM workshop addresses this full range of aspects. Topics of

particular interest include:

- Challenging conventional assumptions

...model specification: where do the models come from?

...what is an appropriate level of abstraction for decision making?

- Novel representations, algorithms and complexity results

- Comparisons of algorithms

- Relationships between models and their assumptions

- Decentralized vs. centralized planning approaches

- Online vs. offline planning

- Communication and coordination during execution

- Dealing with...

...large numbers of agents

...large numbers of / continuous states, observations and actions

...long decision horizons.

- (Reinforcement) learning in partially observable multiagent systems

- Cooperative, competitive, and self-interested agents

- Application domains

- Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies

- Standardization of software

- High-level principles High-level principles in MSDM: past trends and

future directions

Important Dates

March 6, 2012 - Paper submission due

March 27, 2012 - Notification of Acceptance

April 10, 2012 - Camera-ready copy submission due

June 4 or 5, 2012 - Workshop

Submission instructions

Authors are encouraged to submit papers up to 8 pages in length, as

per the instructions on the workshop homepage:

http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/~switwicki/msdm2012/. Each submission will be

reviewed by at least two Program Committee members. The review process

will be "single-blind"; thus authors do not have to remove their names

when submitting papers.

Organizing Committee

Prashant Doshi University of Georgia

Stefan Witwicki INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico / GAIPS

Jun-young Kwak University of Southern California

Frans A. Oliehoek Maastricht University

Akshat Kumar University of Massachusetts Amherst

Program Committee

Christopher Amato Aptima, Inc.

Raphen Becker Google

Daniel Bernstein University of Massachusetts Amherst

Aurélie Beynier University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6)

Alan Carlin University of Massachusetts Amherst

Brahim Chaib-Draa Laval University

Georgios Chalkiadakis Technical University of Crete

François Charpillet INRIA

Ed Durfee University of Michigan

Alessandro Farinelli University of Verona

Alberto Finzi Università di Napoli

Claudia Goldman GM Advanced Technical Center Israel

Michail Lagoudakis Technical University of Crete

Janusz Marecki IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Francisco S. Melo INESC-ID Lisboa

Hala Mostafa BBN Technologies

Abdel-Illah Mouaddib Universit de Caen

Enrique Munoz De Cote National Institute of Astrophysics Optics and

Electronics, Mexico

Brenda Ng Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Praveen Paruchuri Carnegie Mellon University

David Pynadath University of Southern California

Xia Qu University of Georgia

Zinovi Rabinovich Bar-Ilan University

Anita Raja University of North Carolina at Charlott

Paul Scerri Carnegie Mellon University

Jiaying Shen SRI International, Inc.

Matthijs Spaan Delft University of Technology

Katia Sycara Carnegie Mellon University

Karl Tuyls Maastricht University

Pradeep Varakantham Singapore Management University

Jianhui Wu Amazon

Makoto Yokoo Kyushu University

Shlomo Zilberstein University of Massachusetts Amherst