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				CALL FOR PAPERS
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Aims and Scope
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The emergence of autonomous agents and multi-agent technology is one of
the
most exciting and important events to occur in computer science during
the
1990s.  It is widely believed that this technology will play a central
role 
in the development of complex distributed systems, networked information 
systems, and computer interfaces during the twenty-first century. The
aim of
the journal is, therefore, to provide a forum for disseminating
significant 
new results in the foundations, development, analysis, and applications
of 
autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. 

The journal will publish original, high quality papers on the theory and
practice of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. While a range of
submissions are welcome, from purely theoretical to
application-oriented,
all submissions should indicate both the consequences of their results
for 
the development of agent systems and the significance of their results
for 
other researchers and practitioners within the field. The journal will
be
multi-disciplinary, in that it will be relevant to many fields that
share
interests with agent systems.  These fields include computer science and
artificial intelligence, software  engineering, distributed systems, 
distributed artificial intelligence, computer-supported cooperative
work, 
knowledge representation and manipulation, information sciences,
ethology,
organizational theory, sociology, linguistics, philosophy, 
economics, and cognitive science.

Specific topics will include, but are not restricted to:

	- Micro-level aspects of multi-agent systems, including agent
	architectures, agent representation formalisms and notations, agent 
	development methodologies, practical reasoning, decision theory and 
	agency, software agents and expert assistants, human-agent interaction,
 	agent learning and adaptivity,  and believable/synthetic agents.

	- Macro-level aspects of multi-agent systems, including 
	cooperation, coordination, conflict detection and resolution, 
	negotiation, organizational structuring and design for multi-agent
	systems, computational market systems, self-organization, emergent
 	functionality and swarm intelligence, multi-agent learning, languages
	for cooperation and coordination, agent communication languages, and
	issues of overall performance of multi-agent systems.
 
	- Agents as a software engineering paradigm, including specification 
	and verification of agent systems, interaction based programming, 
	and agent mobility.
 
        - Exploration of relationships between agents and other
	disciplines such as ethology, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, 
	and human-computer interaction; and the relationship between 
	multi-agent systems and other disciplines such as sociology, economics, 
	game theory, cscw, and organization theory.
 
  	- Significant and novel applications of agent technology, in such
	areas as networks and distributed systems, human-computer interaction, 
	computer-supported cooperative work, process and manufacturing control,
	business process management, information gathering, computer games and 
	virtual environments, and multi-agent simulation of social and 
	organizational phenomena.
 
	- Environments, testbeds, and programming languages for experimentation 
	with, and analysis of, agent systems.
 
	- Best practice in agent system development, including methodology
	of analysis and design for agent systems, evaluations of different 
	approaches to developing agent systems, and practical experiences 
	with agent development.

	- Comprehensive reviews and authoritative tutorials of research
	and practice in agent systems, including annotated literature lists and
	short descriptions of significant agent system projects and research
groups.
 
	- Comprehensive reviews of books dealing with agents and multi-agent
systems.

 
Executive Editors:
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 Nicholas Jennings, University of London, UK. (N.R.Jennings@qmw.ac.uk)
 Katia  Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. (katia@cs.cmu.edu)
 Michael Georgeff, Australian AI Institute, AUSTRALIA.
(georgeff@aaii.oz.au)

Associate Editors:
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 Joseph Bates, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
 Cristiano Castelfranchi, Istituto di Psicologia del Consiglio
Nazionaledelle 
Ricerche, ITALY
 Phil Cohen, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology,USA
 Ed Durfee, University of Michigan,USA
 Dov Gabbay (On-Line Editor), Imperial College, UK
 Les Gasser, National Science Foundation, USA
 Michael Huhns (Book Review Editor), University of South Carolina,USA
 Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, JAPAN
 Victor Lesser, University of Mass., Amherst,USA
 Jeff Rosenschein, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, ISRAEL
 Mike Wooldridge, Queen Mary & Westfield College, UK  

Editorial Board:
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 Keith Decker, University of Delaware, USA
 Yves Demazeau, Institut IMAG, FRANCE
 Jacques Ferber, Universite Montpellier II, FRANCE
 Tim Finin, University of Maryland Baltimore County,USA
 Chris Hankin, Imperial College, UK
 Barbara  Hayes-Roth, Stanford University,USA
 James Hendler, University of Maryland,USA
 Carl Hewitt, MIT, USA
 Tad Hogg, Xerox PARC,USA
 Lewis Johnson, USC,USA
 Henry Kautz, AT&T Labs,USA
 Hiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Lab, JAPAN
 Sarit Kraus, Bar-Ilan University, ISRAEL
 Danny Lange, General Magic Inc.,USA    
 Michael Lewis, University of Pittsburgh,USA
 JyiShane Liu, National Cheng Chi University, TAIWAN
 Pattie Maes, MIT Media Lab,USA
 John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht Univ., THE NETHERLANDS
 Jean-Pierre Mueller, University of Neuchatel, SWITZERLAND
 Joerg Mueller, Zuno Ltd, UK
 Hideyuki Nakashima, Electrotechnical Laboratories, JAPAN
 Toyoaki Nishida, Nara Institute of Science & Technology, JAPAN
 Eugenio Oliveira, University of Porto, PORTUGAL
 Anand Rao, Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, AUSTRALIA
 Yoav Shoham, Stanford University,USA
 Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University,USA
 Gerhard Weiss, Technical University of Munich, GERMANY
 Makoto Yokoo, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, JAPAN


INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
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Authors are encouraged to submit high quality, original work that has
neither 
appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals.
 
 PROCESS FOR SUBMISSION
 1. Authors should submit five hard copies of their final manuscript to:
 
                Mrs. Karen Cullen
                AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
                Editorial Office
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        (Book) D. Marr, Vision, A Computational Investigation into the
Human 
 	Representation & Processing of Visual Information, Freeman:  
	San Francisco, CA,  1982.
      
        (Journal Article) A. Rosenfeld and M. Thurston, "Edge and curve 
 	detection for visual scene analysis," IEEE Trans. Comput. vol. C.-20 
	pp. 562-569, 1971.
 
        (Conference Proceedings) A. Witkin, "Scales space filtering," in
Proc. 
 	Int. Joint Conf. Artif. Intell., Karlsruhe, West Germany, 1983, 
	pp. 1019-1021.
 
        (Lab. memo.) A. L. Yuille and T. Poggio, "Scaling theorems for
zero 
 	crossings," M.I.T. Artif. Intell. Lab., Massachusetts Inst. Technol., 
 	Cambridge, MA, A.I. Memo. 722, 1983.
   
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