Workshop on Emergent Intelligence

on Networked Agents (WEIN’06)

 

Workshop at the Fifth International Joint Conference on

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS 2006)

 

Future University, Hakodate, JAPAN

May 8-12, 2006, Date of Workshop: May 8, 2006 

 

WEIN06 has successfully finished!!

 

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We plan to publish the post-proceedings form Springer new series “Studies in Computational Intelligence:

http://www.springer.com/series/7092”.

  

Important Dates:

Submission deadline:      July 31, 2006

Submission deadline:      August 18, 2006

 

The submission should not exceed 15 pages in the Springer-Verlag LNCS

style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html), either in PDF format.

 

The submission should not exceed 15 pages in the Springer-Verlag ‘’Studies in Computational Intelligence Series’’ style (http://www.springer.com/east/home/engineering?SGWID=5-175-69-173623546-0&detailsPage=contentItemPage&contentItemId=149813&CIPageCounter=CI_FOR_AUTHORS_AND_EDITORS_PAGE1), in PDF format.

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Workshop Chair:

Akira Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan

 

Workshop Organizers:

Robert Axtell, Brookings Institution, and Santa Fe Institute, USA

Giorgio Fagiolo, University of Verona, Italy

Satoshi Kurihara, Osaka University, Japan

Hideyuki Nakashima, Future University - Hakodate.

Akira Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan

 

Scope and Theme:

This workshop is concerned with emergence of intelligent behaviors over networked agents and fostering the formation of an active multi-disciplinary community on Multi-agent systems and Complex Networks. We especially intend to increase the awareness of researchers in these two fields sharing the common view on combining agent-based modeling and complex networks in order to develop insight and foster predictive methodologies in studying emergent intelligence on of networked agents.

Research on complex networks focuses on scale-freeness of various kind of networks.  We intend to turn this into an engineering methodology to design complex agent networks. Multi-agent network dynamics involves the study of many agents, constituent components generally active ones with a simple structures and whose behavior is assumed to follow local rules, and their interactions on complex network. A basic methodology is to specify how the agents interact, and then observe emergent properties that occur at the collective level in order to discover basic principles and key mechanisms for understanding and shaping the resulting behavior on network dynamics.

The hardware developments will soon make possible the construction of very large scale (one million to 100 million agents) models. The software bottleneck, what rules to write for our agents, is the primary challenge facing our research community on multi-agent. This workshop will also focus on the issue of very large-scale multi-agent systems combining the tools of complex networks

 

Topics of Interests:

We will invite high quality contributions on a wide variety of topics relevant to the wide research areas of Multi-agent network dynamics. We will especially cover in-depth of important areas including:

- Adaptation and evolution in complex networks

- Economic agents and complex networks

- Emergence in complex networks

- Emergent intelligence in multi-agent systems

- Collective intelligence

- Learning and evolution in multi-agent systems

- Web dynamics as complex networks

- Multi-agent based supply networks

- Network-centric agent systems

- Scalability in multi-agent systems

- Scale-free networks

- Small-world networks

 

Scientific Program Committee Members

- Yukio Hayashi (JAIST, Japan)

- David Green, (Monash University, Australia)

- Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy, Japan)

- Hideyuki Nakashima (Future University - Hakodate, Japan)

- Frank Schweitzer (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland)

- David Wolpert (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)

- Satoshi Kurihara (Osaka Univ., Japan)

- Kiyoshi Izumi (AIST, Japan)

- Kensuke Fukuda (NTT Network Innovation Labs., Japan)

- Hidenori Kawamura (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)

- Wataru Souma (ATR, Japan)

- Taisei Kaizouji (ICU, Japan)

- Keiki Takadama (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

- Yutaka Matsuo (AIST, Japan)

- Lada Adamic (HP Labs., USA)

- Denis Phan (University of Rennes, France)

- Shu-Heng Chen (National Chengchi University)

- Jon Sakker (Australian Defense Academy, Australia)

- Robert Stocker, (Charles Sturt University, Australia)

- Robert Axtell (Santa Fe Institute, USA)

- Giorgio Fagiolo (University of Verona, Verona, Italy)

- Peter Mika (Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

- Sung-Bae Cho (Yosei University, Korea)

- Dirk Heilbing (Dresden Technical University, Germany)

 

Important Dates:

Submission deadline:      Feb 1, 2006

Notification of acceptance:   Feb 19, 2006  Feb 24, 2006.

Each contributed paper will be peer reviewed according to AAMAS standards.

Camera-ready deadline:    March 10, 2006

 

Submission:

The submission should not exceed 15 pages in the Springer-Verlag LNCS

style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html), either in

PostScript or PDF format.

 

Submit your full paper (ps or pdf, pdf is preferable) written in

English, by e-mail to wein06@ai.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp

 

We plan to publish the post-proceedings form Springer new series “Studies in Computational Intelligence:

http://www.springer.com/series/7092”.

 

Work Shop Program 

 

9:00 – 9:10 Opening

9:10 - 9:30

Desirable Design of Queueing Networks Excluding Linking Costs

Yusuke Matsumura, Hidenori Kawamura, and Azuma Ohuchi

9:30 – 9:50

Using an agent based simulation to evaluate scenarios in customers' buying behaviour

Filippo Neri

9:50 – 10:10

Collective Intelligence of Networked Agents

Akira Namatame

10:10 – 10:30

Regret-Based Multi-Objective Planning

Abdel-Illah Mouaddib

10:30 – 11:00  Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:20

Extracting Users’ Interests of Web-watching Behaviors Based on Site-Keyword Graph

Tsuyoshi Murata, and Kota Saito

11:20 – 11:40

Topological aspects of protein networks

J.C. Nacher, M. Hayashida, and T. Akutsu

11:40 – 12:00

An Evolutionary Rulebase Based Multi-agents System

Hiroshi Ouchiyama, Runhe Huang, and Jianhua Ma

12:00 – 12:20

Navigational Information as Emergent Intelligence of Spontaneously Structuring Web Space

Takashi Ishikawa

12:20 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 Invited Talk 1 (Prof. Frank Schweitzer)

14:30 – 15:00 Invited Talk 2 (Prof. Taisei Kaizoji)

15:00 – 15:20

The effects of market structure on a heterogeneous evolving population of traders

Dan Ladley, and Seth Bullock

15:20 – 15:40

The Structure of Networks are constructed by intention of node: growing network model with multi-agent approach

Kosuke Shinoda, Yutaka Matsuo, and Hideyuki Nakashima

15:40 – 16:10 Coffee Break

16:10 – 16:30

Emergence and Software development Based on a Survey of Emergence Definitions

Joris Deguet, Laurent Magnin, and Yves Demazeau

16:30 – 16:50

Analysis on Transport Networks of Railway, Subway and Waterbus in Japan

Takahiro Majima, Mitujiro Katuhara, and Keiki Takadama

16:50 – 17:10

Auction-Based Resource Reservation Game in Small World

Zhixing Huang, and Yuhui Qiu

17:10 – 17:30

Network as a Chaotic Dynamical System  - Small World and Large Deviations –

Syuji Miyazaki, Yasushi Nagashima, and Kei Ejima

17:30 – 17:40 Closing