========================================================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS CLIMA V Fifth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems September 29 and 30, 2004, Lisbon, Portugal http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jleite/climaV/index.htm Submission Deadline: June 25th (abstracts due June 20th) Co-located with JELIA'04 =========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Multi-agent systems are communities of problem-solving entities that can perceive and act upon their environments to achieve their individual goals as well as joint goals. The work on such systems integrates many technologies and concepts in artificial intelligence and other areas of computing. For this reason, over recent years, the agent paradigm gained popularity in many sub-fields of computer science. A full spectrum of multi-agent systems applications have been and are being developed; from search engines to educational aids to electronic commerce and trade, e-procurement, recommendation systems, simulation and routing, to cite only some. Although commonly implemented by means of imperative languages, mainly for reasons of efficiency, the agent concept has recently increased its influence in the research and development of computational logic based systems. Computational logic provides a well-defined, general, and rigorous framework for studying syntax, semantics and procedures, for attending implementations, environments, tools, and standards, and for linking together specification and verification of properties of computational systems. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss techniques, based on computational logic, for representing, programming and reasoning about multi-agent systems in a formal way. Following the workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in Logic Programming affiliated with ICLP'99, the first CLIMA workshop took place in London, UK, affiliated with CL'2000. The 2001 edition of CLIMA, took place in Paphos, Cyprus, affiliated with ICLP'01. CLIMA'02 took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was affiliated with ICLP'02 and part of FLOC'02. The fourth edition of the workshop, CLIMA IV, took place in Fort Lauderdale, USA, and was co-located with LPNMR-7 and SAIM'04. We solicit unpublished papers that address formal approaches to multi-agent systems. the approaches as well as being formal must make a significant contribution to the practice of multi-agent systems. relevant techniques include, but are not limited to, the following: * logical foundations of multi-agent systems * knowledge and belief representation and updates in multi-agent systems * agent and multi-agent hypothetical reasoning and learning * extensions of logic programming for multi-agent systems * nonmonotonic reasoning in multi-agent systems * theory and practice of argumentation for agent reasoning and interaction * operational semantics and execution agent models * model checking algorithms, tools, and applications for multi-agent logics * semantics of interaction and agent communication languages * distributed constraint satisfaction in multi-agent systems * temporal reasoning for multi-agent systems * modal logic approaches to multi-agent systems * logic based programming languages for multi-agent systems * distributed theorem proving for multi-agent systems * logic based implementations of multi-agent systems * decision theory for multi-agent systems * specification and verification of formal properties of agent systems SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Please refer to the workshop web pages for further instructions concerning the submission procedures. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of Abstracts: June 20th, 2004 * Submission of Papers: June 25th, 2004 * Notification of Acceptance: July 30th, 2004 * Final version due: September 6th, 2004 * CLIMA IV: September 29-30th, 2004 PROCEEDINGS The post-proceedings of the previous edition of CLIMA were published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series. We are currently negotiating the publication of the post-proceedings of CLIMA V. Please watch the website for more information. PROGRAM COMMITTEE * José Alferes, New University of Lisbon, Portugal * Gerd Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany * Jürgen Dix, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany * Klaus Fischer, DFKI, Germany * Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool, UK * James Harland, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia * Katsumi Inoue, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * Sverker Janson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden * João Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal * Yves Lespérance, York University, Canada * John Jules Ch. Meyer, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands * Leora Morgenstern, IBM, USA * Wojciech Penczek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland * Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College, UK * Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA * Fariba Sadri, Imperial College, UK * Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK * Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA * Francesca Toni, Imperial College, UK * Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy * Wiebe Van Der Hoek, University of Liverpool, UK * Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University, Japan * Cees Witteveen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: * João Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal (jleite@di.fct.unl.pt) * Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy (ptorroni@deis.unibo.it) INQUIRIES: Please send program suggestions and inquires to either of the organizers.