Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students ============================ First Call for Papers ============================ CLIMA VI Sixth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems City University, London, UK June 27-29, 2005 http://clima.deis.unibo.it/ =============================================================================== Aims and scope -------------- 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 as well as other disciplines. Over recent years, the agent paradigm gained popularity, due to its applicability a full spectrum of domains, 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, agent-related concepts have recently increased their 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 various tasks by individual agents, as well as interaction amongst agents in multi-agent systems, for attending implementations, environments, tools, and standards, and for linking together specification and verification of properties of individual agents and multi-agent systems. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss techniques, based on Computational Logic, for representing, programming and reasoning about Agents and Multi-Agent Systems in a formal way. We solicit unpublished papers that present formal approaches to multi-agent systems based upon or relating to computational logic. The approaches must make a significant contribution to the practice of multi-agent systems. Topics ------ Relevant topics 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 * non-monotonic 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 Submissions ----------- We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, which can be obtained from http://www.springeronline.com, and not exceed 16 pages including figures, references, etc. Important Dates --------------- * Submission: April 7, 2005 * Notification: May 6, 2005 * Camera-Ready: May 27, 2005 * CLIMA VI: June 27-29, 2005 Proceedings and post-workshop publications ------------------------------------------ A printed volume with the proceedings will be available at the workshop. Past editions of CLIMA have been published in journal special issues (Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science vol. 70(5) of 2002, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence vol. 37(1-2) of 2003 and vol. 42(1-3) of 2004), and book series such as the recent vol. 3259 of Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (CLIMA IV) and the forthcoming issue of the same series, featuring the post-proceedings of CLIMA V. Organising committee -------------------- Workshop Chairs * Francesca Toni, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK * Paolo Torroni, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy Local Organisation Chair * Kostas Stathis, Department of Computing, City University London, UK Web Support * Federico Chesani, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy * Fabio Bucciarelli, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy Programme committee ------------------- * José Júlio Alfers, New University of Lisbon, Portugal * Rafael H. Bordini, University of Durham, UK * Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany * Jürgen Dix, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany * Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Klaus Fischer, DFKI, Germany * Michael Fisher, University of Manchester, UK * James Harland, RMIT, Australia * Katsumi Inoue, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * Antonis Kakas, University of Cyprus * Evelina Lamma, University of Ferrara, Italy * João Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal * Paolo Mancarella, University of Pisa, Italy * Paola Mello, University of Bologna, Italy * John Jules Ch. Meyer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands * Leora Morgenstern, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA * Wojciech Penczek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland * Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK * Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA * Fariba Sadri, Imperial College London, UK * Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester, UK * Trao Can Son, New Mexico State University, USA * Kostas Stathis, City University London, UK * Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Manchester, UK * Cees Witteveen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands