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Multi-Agent Systems for Education and Interactive Entertainment (MASEIE)Tuesday, 22nd December 2009
AAMAS Workshop 2010 Monday, 10 May 2010 – Tuesday, 11 May 2010 Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 2 February 2010 Location: Toronto, Canada Discipline: artificial intelligence, interactive systems http://www.windmill-cottage.net/MASEIE Multi-Agent Systems for Education and Interactive Entertainment (MASEIE) Toronto, Canada, May 10 or 11, 2010 Web Site http://www.windmill-cottage.net/MASEIE Rationale and technical description Interest in the role of artificial intelligence in interactive systems has grown rapidly in recent years, in part because increasingly powerful consumer hardware makes research-level AI usable in real-world games and/or immersive learning environments. Accompanying this, there has been a sharp escalation in the number of research questions related to the use of agent technologies to shape human experiences in complex environments. Unlike fully author-controlled experiences such as films and plays, or fully scripted computer-aided instructional systems, dynamic interactive experiences require a world that can appropriately and meaningfully respond to the user - a natural fit for intelligent and believable agents. Within this area of research, there is a design space that ranges from complete autonomy for agents to complete control for a human operator. A primary goal of the International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems for Education and Interactive Entertainment (MASEIE) is to foster a dialog among researchers who are exploring the complex tradeoffs that must be made in designing agent systems, particularly for education and interactive entertainment, and especially to bring together researchers working on collaborative human/AI systems that leverage the intelligence and creativity of a human operator. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: · Software that assists the teaching/learning process - everything from software to help construct multi-agent systems, simulate cooperative environments, manage trading games to software substrates that can be used by students to do projects including: models of agency and control, levels of agent autonomy, models of user autonomy and control Important Dates FEBRUARY, 2, 2010 - Submission of contributions to workshops MARCH 2, 2010 - Workshop paper acceptance notification MARCH 10, 2010 - Camera Ready Copy MARCH 19, 2010 - Deadline for posting a Call for Participation MAY 10-11, 2010 - AAMAS-2010 WORKSHOPS Submission Procedure Paper Submission The workshop welcomes submissions of original works relevant to the topics described above. This year, the workshop will accept submissions of both full papers (maximum 8 pages) and short papers (maximum 4 pages). Short papers are encouraged as a mechanism for the timely reporting of interesting but preliminary work, that may not as yet have the level of evaluation or detail that would be expected for a regular paper. The program chairs may, at their discretion, accept papers that were submitted as regular papers as short papers, if the authors have explicitly agreed to this when registering their papers. All accepted regular papers will receive a slot for oral presentation in the conference. Submissions will be peer reviewed rigorously and evaluated on the basis of adherence, originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality of their technical contribution. More details about the review process can be found in the conference page. Full instructions and style files are available from the AAMAS Conferece Web Site. Final Papers must be submitted on US letter in PDF format. Your paper should not include page numbers. All final manuscripts should be uploaded to easychair no later than 2nd February 2009 The submission web site is http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=meieaamas10 Submissions violating the formatting guidelines will be excluded from the reviewing process. At least one author of all accepted papers is expected to attend the Workshop. All accepted papers will be informally published in the Workshop proceeedings, and the organisers intend to organize either a special journal issue or an edited book based on the MASEIE workshop submissions. All accepted authors will be invited to extend their papers for submission to this publication (details to be confirmed). Paper review process and acceptance standards Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the committee. Submissions will be reviewed based on the following criteria: the novelty of the presented work, quality of writing and argumentation, and clarity of the analysis of reported experiences and relevence to the objectives of the workshop. Preliminary Workshop Agenda The workshop will consist of a series of presentations of the accepted papers as well as discussion among the participants. The aim of this workshop is to disseminate good practice and encourage discussion on issues pertinent to the use of multi-agent systems for education and entertainment. The organizing committee plan to group the submitted papers based on the topics covered and include a brief discussion led by the presenting authors at the end of each session so that these topics can be further debated. In addition, the organizing committee plans to include a panel discussion session towards the end of the workshop on issues and questions which will be derived from the participant's submissions. Organizers Primary contact: Martin Beer Maria Fasli Debbie Richards Program Committee: To be arranged |