[alife] CFP Cognitive Agents for Virtual Environments, Workshop at AAMAS 2012

[Cyril Brom]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Cognitive Agents for Virtual Environments
Workshop at AAMAS 2012
http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~dignu101/CAVE12/
Valencia, Spain
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Important dates:
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  Deadline for submissions:     28 February 2012 (24:00 UTC)
  Notification of acceptance:    27 March 2012
  Camera-ready copy of papers:  10 April 2012
  Workshop:                 4 or 5 June 2012

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General Information
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The workshop builds upon the AAMAS AGS 2009/10, EduMAS 2009 and AEGS 
2011 workshops where the main issue has been to incorporate elements of 
agent technology in games and similar virtual environments such as 3D 
training and educational applications to create more flexible and 
realistic game play. Although some of the technical issues have been 
overcome and middleware (such as Pogamut [http://pogamut.cuni.cz], EIS 
and CIGA [Creating Intelligent Games with Agents]) has been developed to 
connect agent platforms to games like Unreal Tournament there are a 
number of fundamental challenges both on the technical as well as on 
conceptual and design level.

We intend to bring people working on virtual characters together with 
those working on agent platforms and languages and cognitive 
architectures. All three communities have important parts of solutions 
for creating agents for games and similar applications, but very little 
is currently being done to combine these solutions. Thus the workshop 
will encourage all submissions that connect the different communities 
and show the benefits from this combination.

There is a wide range of activity within the agent community considering 
various aspects of multi-agent systems, both theoretical as well as 
practical. This includes communication, team work, coordination and 
cooperation of agents. We want to explore how these results might be 
used in the context of games and other virtual applications that require 
interaction with real users and perhaps identify any additional 
requirements that should be imposed for these contexts. We also want to 
explore similarities between solutions developed within the agent 
community with those used by people studying cognitive architectures.

Finally, we would like to promote the testing and evaluation of suitable 
frameworks such that it will be clear which works best for the various 
types of game or application of gaming.

The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

-- Real-time reactive behaviour
-- Balancing reactive and pro-active behavior
-- Cognitive approaches to agents for real-time systems (RTS) and games
-- BDI-based agents for RTS and games
-- Cognitive architectures used in the context of RTS and games
-- Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
-- Spatial and Cognitive maps for games
-- Ontologies for RTS and games
-- Episodic memory for agents in games and RTS
-- Interfacing agent platforms and cognitive architectures to real-time 
systems and games
-- Design of Level of Detail of agent-gaming interfaces
-- Scalability of agent technology and cognitive architectures
-- Integrating agent architectures, cognitive architectures and IVA 
architectures
-- Gaming middleware
-- Approaches and methods for evaluating the agent platforms for RTS and 
games
-- Benchmarks and test beds for evaluating agent technology for games
-- Programmability of complex systems of agents interfaced with RTS and 
games
-- Development and Design tools for engineering agents for RTS and games
-- Teamwork approaches for agents in RTS and games
-- Communication and coordination approaches for multi-agent systems for 
RTS and games


We welcome both theoretical papers that indicate how the theory can be 
used in practice as well as practical and empirical papers that provide 
solutions for theoretical issues. We also welcome in particular any 
papers that discuss experiences and lessons learned related to the 
application of agent technology in real-time systems and games. Both 
successes and "failures" are welcome as they both can help us to better 
understand the key issues in combining agents with real-time systems and 
games.

To have a look on what kind of papers were presented last years have a 
look at the website of AGS09 
[http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~dignu101/AGS09/], AGS10 
[http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~dignu101/AGS10/] and AEGS11 
[http://www.windmill-cottage.net/AEGS-11/index.html]. The proceedings of 
those workshops are available from Springer LNAI-5920, LNAI-6525 and 
forthcoming.



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Submissions
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Submissions should be submitted through the EasyChair system website for 
CAVE 2012 in PDF format 
[https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=cave2012].

The deadline for receipt of submissions is end of February 28, 2012. 
Papers received after this date will not be reviewed.


The proceedings of the workshop will be published as an LNAI volume with 
Springer if quality is as high as last year.

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Workshop Organizers
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Frank Dignum
Martin Beer
Cyril Brom
Koen Hindriks
Deborah Richards

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Program Committee
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http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~dignu101/CAVE12/

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Cyril Brom
Charles University in Prague
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Department of Software and Computer Science Education
http://ksvi.mff.cuni.cz/~brom/