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			         F I R S T	
		         C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

         SECOND AUSTRALIAN WORKSHOP ON DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

			   in conjunction with

    Fourth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 
                                (PRICAI'96) 

                            Cairns, Australia

			 TUESDAY 27 AUGUST 1996 
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1. Topics and Issues

Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) is the study of the  design  and  
implementation of agents that can make decisions on their own or in interaction 
with other agents. Agents act autonomously and  rationally  in time-constrained,
open, multi-agent environments. The aim of this workshop is to bring together  
researchers interested  in  the  micro and macro aspects  of this emerging 
technology.  The workshop will address the issues of: agent specification via 
agent theories, modelling of agents, decisions in multi-agent environments, 
development of coordination strategies, negotiation mechanisms, conflict 
detection and resolution strategies, communication protocols, and mechanisms 
whereby agents can maintain autonomy while still contributing to overall system 
effectiveness. The workshop will explore agent architectures, methodologies for 
realising agents, agent decision-making theories, inter-agent communication and 
natural language discourse, software tools for  programming  and experimenting  
with  agents.  

This is the second workshop in this series. The first was held in 1995 in 
conjunction with the 8th Australian Joint Conference in Artificial Intelligence 
(AI'95) in Canberra, Australia. The proceedings of the first workshop is being
published by Springer Verlag in its Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 
(LNAI) series.


2. Programme Committee

Chengqi Zhang   Co-Chair UNE, AUSTRALIA         chengqi@neumann.une.edu.au
Dickson Lukose  Co-Chair UNE, AUSTRALIA         lukose@peirce.une.edu.au
Victor Lesser            UMASS, USA             lesser@cs.umass.edu
Jeff Rosenschein         HU, ISRAEL             jeff@cs.huji.ac.il
Nicholas Jennings        QMW, UK                N.R.Jennings@qmw.ac.uk
Toshiharu Sugawara       NTT, JAPAN             sugawara@square.ntt.jp
Rose Dieng               INRIA, FRANCE          dieng@sophia.inria.fr
Norbert Glaser           CRIN-INRIA, FRANCE     Norbert.Glaser@loria.fr
Keith S. Decker          CMU, USA		decker@cs.cmu.edu
Mark d'Inverno		 UW, UK			dinverm@westminster.ac.uk


3. Workshop Outline

This workshop will be a full-day workshop on TUESDAY, 27 AUGUST 1996 in Cairns, 
Australia. The cost of this workshop is $60. 

Only people who register for the main conference will be allowed to register 
for a PRICAI workshop.

Conditions of accepting workshop papers are:
* recommendation of at least two international reviewers; and
* at least one of the authors register for the workshop by July 19, 1996.


4. Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers describing both theoretical and practical
work in any areas of distributed artificial intelligence. (Papers accepted or 
under review by other conferences or journals are not acceptable.)
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Artificial life (from a multiagent perspective)
Cooperation, coordination, and conflict-resolution
Communication issues
Conceptual and theoretical foundations of multiagent systems
Development and engineering methodologies
Distributed consensus and algorithms for multiagent interaction
Evaluation of multi-agent systems
Integrated testbeds and development environments
Intelligent agents in enterprise integration systems and similar types of
applications
Multiagent cooperative reasoning from distributed heterogeneous databases
Multiagent planning and planning for multiagent worlds
Negotiation strategies - in both competitive and cooperative situations
Organization, organizational knowledge, and organization self-design
Practical applications of multi-agent systems
Resource allocation in multiagent systems
Social structures and their significance in multiagent systems
User interface issues for multiagent systems
Security Issues in multiagent systems


5. Preparation of Manuscript

The manuscript must be formatted using 10-point font size for the main text 
the printing area should be 12.2 x 19.3 cm. Each submission must have a separate 
title page and a body. The title page must include a title, a 300-400 word 
abstract, a list of keywords, the names and addresses of all authors, their 
email addresses, and their telephone and fax numbers. The length of submitted 
papers (excluding the title page) must be no more than 15 single-spaced, 
single-column pages including all figures, tables, and bibliography. Papers not 
conforming to the above requirements may be rejected without review. 


6. Manuscript Submission

Only ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION of the paper will be accepted. Electronic submission
must be in POSTSCRIPT format. All papers must be written in English, and each 
paper will be refereed by at least two referees.

FTP the POSTSCRIPT submission to:
		turing.une.edu.au:incoming
and send an email to:
		dai96@turing.une.edu.au
to inform us that you have FTPed your submission to our site.


7. Workshop Contact

All queries on this workshop should be directed to:

		dai96@turing.une.edu.au

Co-chairs of the programme committee will respond to your queries.


8. Workshop Proceedings

We are currently negotiating with Springer Verlag to publish the proceedings of
this workshop in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.


9. Important Dates

31 May  1996		Deadline for Paper Submission
1  July 1996		Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
19 July 1996		Deadline for camera-ready version
27 August 1996		Workshop