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Bohdan Durnota				PO Box 197
Department of Software Development	Caulfield East 3145
Monash University			Australia

email:	bdurnota@monash.edu.au
phone:	+61-3-9032041
fax:	+61-3-9032745
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Workshop Comparing Reactive (ALife-ish) and Intentional Agents
(see http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/~bdurnota/ComparingAgents96.html)

	Part of the Third Australian Complex Systems Conference
	(see http://life.csu.edu.au/complex/cs96no2.html)

	Call For Papers and Expressions of Interest

	Thursday 19th July, 1996, Albury, Australia

	Hosted By Charles Sturt University


PURPOSE

This workshop aims at exploring commonalities and differences in opposing
conceptions of an *agent*. On the one hand, areas such as
complex adaptive systems, artificial life and evolutionary computation
often conceive of agents as relatively simple, but adaptive reactive entities
in which emergent phenomena arise through interactions between these agents
and with their environment.
On the other hand, a more classical artificial intelligence approach to agents
emphasises an engineered construction of intelligent/software agents, using
the machinery of planning, machine learning, and so forth.
The aim of this workshop will be to contrast the various conceptions of
agenthood, including what applications the contrasting conceptions are
best suited for.

The workshop will be a combination of some formal presentation of papers,
together with informal discussions, presentations of position papers
and cv's, and posters.

Chris Langton from the Santa Fe Institute will be attending
the workshop. Chris is well-known for his work on artificial life and his
current role in developing the *Swarm* software system to assist in
the exploration of complex adaptive systems.

Together with the Third Australian Complex Systems Conference,
it is intended to run a hands-on workshop introducing the Echo and Swarm aLife 
simulation systems, as well as provide an introduction to complex adaptive systems.

We hope the workshop will:
1. establish links amongst researchers in these areas in Australasia with those overseas; and
2. encourage researchers to explore the links between artificial life and complex adaptive systems with those of software/intelligent agents and classical areas of artificial intelligence.

We invite the submission of papers, position papers and cv's on the theme
of the workshop, including both theoretical and practical papers.
We encourage papers from postgraduate students working in these areas.

The workshop is timed to follow the Third Australian Complex Systems Conference
being held in Albury, Australia, on 14-18 July.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The program committee for the workshop is the same as that for the Complex 
Systems Conference.


WORKSHOP OUTLINE

This workshop will be a full-day workshop on 19th July, with a
tutorial workshop on Echo and Swarm probably held in the evening of 18 July. 
The workshop will be held in Albury, Australia. 
We intend to keep the number of participants to around 20-30 to give scope for all attendees to actively participate in the workshop.


WORKSHOP COSTS

An indication of the approximate cost of the workshop is:

	$100 (Australian) for attendees of the Complex Systems Conference;
	 $50 (Australian) for student attendees of the Complex Systems
				Conference;
	$200 (Australian) for non-attendees to the Complex Systems Conference;
	$100 (Australian) for student non-attendees to the Complex Systems
				Conference.


WORKSHOP FORMAT

We intend to alternate formal and informal presentation of papers and positions with informal discussion sessions on a number of topics. Presentations will be limited to around 15 minutes.


PAPER SUBMISSION

Submission of Full Papers

Follow the instructions as for the Complex Systems Conference.

Submission of Extended Abstracts, Position Papers, Poster Abstracts and CVs

These should be no more than three A4 pages, printed single spaced in 12 point font on A4 paper. The first page should include the paper title, author(s) name(s), complete addresses including email address and fax number. Also
indicate the type of submission (extended abstract, ...).


MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

Only electronic submission of the paper will be
accepted. Electronic submission of papers must be in TeX or LaTeX
format, whilst position papers and cv's can be in plain text. All submissions must be written in English. A full paper will be refereed in the same manner
as papers submitted to the Complex Systems Conference.

If possible, please submit ahead of the submission date 
so that we can be sure that the file is printable:  if we cannot
print your file by the submission date it may be rejected without review.

Abstracts and expressions of interest can be submitted via the form
present in the Complex Systems Conference page.

Papers should be submited by sending email to:

	bdurnota@fcit.monash.edu.au


PROCEEDINGS

All accepted papers and abstracts will appear in the proceedings of the
Complex Systems Conference.  Subsequently, a printed summary of the 
informal discussions will be distributed to participants.


ACCOMODATION & AIRLINE ARRANGEMENTS

For information on accommodation and airline arrangements, look at the information for the Conference on Complex Systems.


WORKSHOP CONTACT

All queries on this workshop should be directed to:

	bdurnota@fcit.monash.edu.au


IMPORTANT DATES

15 March 1996		Deadline for Submiting Papers, Abstracts, Position 
				Papers and CVs
17 March 1996		Notification of Receipt
29 March 1996		Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
12 April 1996		Deadline for camera-ready version of papers and 
				abstracts
19 July  1996		Workshop

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