Ji Ruan - Jimagine » Events http://ac.jiruan.net Information and Society Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:24:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 CFP: The 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA-2010) http://ac.jiruan.net/2010/06/cfp-the-13th-international-conference-on-principles-and-practice-of-multi-agent-systems-prima-2010/ http://ac.jiruan.net/2010/06/cfp-the-13th-international-conference-on-principles-and-practice-of-multi-agent-systems-prima-2010/#comments Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:31:55 +0000 Ji http://ac.jiruan.net/?p=589 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> An interesting venue to submit your papers.

PRIMA is a leading scientific conference for research on intelligent agent and multi-agent systems, attracting high quality, state-of-the-art research from all over the world. The conference endeavours to bring together researchers, developers, and academic and industry leaders, who are active and interested in agents and multi-agent systems, their practices and related areas. The conference has a strong focus on practice, and is focused on becoming the premier forum for prototype and deployed agent systems. Thus PRIMA particularly encourages reports on development of prototype and deployed agent and multi-agent systems, and experiments that demonstrate the capability of agents to handle real-world challenges. In order to facilitate the inclusion of system descriptions, which are often not served well by paper descriptions, PRIMA includes a Multimedia submission track (see below).

For full detail, follow this link: CFP PRIMA2010.

Important dates:

Papers
July 24th, 2010 (abstract)
July 31st, 2010 (paper)

Author Response
August 19-22

Author notification
September 1st, 2010

Camera-ready papers
September 20th, 2010

Conference dates
November 12th – 15th, 2010

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This question—as philosophical and methodological as it is technical—is at the heart of this colloquium / workshop. The aim is to bring together specialists working on the problem of attitude change, from a wide range of paradigms, to present and discuss their views on the objectives of theories of change. The ambition is to identify the main issues for theories of change, and clarify the major positions one could hold concerning the project of understanding or modelling attitude change.

Philosophical and methodological contributions, and technical contributions with methodological or philosophical reflections are welcome.

Relevant questions include:

  1. What are the criteria for evaluating theories / models of change? To what extent to current theories satisfy these criteria?

  2. What are the consequences of understanding these questions descriptively rather than normatively?

  3. What is the relationship between belief change and utility / preference change?

  4. What is the relationship between the problem of attitude change and the general problem of rational action?

  5. What are the different types of change? Is there an important difference between change and learning? Between sudden and gradual change? Are there different triggers for different types of change? How are they to be dealt with by the theory?

  6. Can or should one expect a ‘general’ theory of (eg.) belief revision (covering, for example, the different rules for iterated belief revision)? And a ‘general’ theory of belief change, integrating methods for informational and factual change (for example, belief revision and belief update)?

  7. What is the importance of completeness results / representation theorems / computational results (establishing, for example, the complexity of different revision methods) etc. for the problem of understanding change?

  8. What role can mathematical tools for dealing with change, eg. the notion of continuity, play in theories of attitude change?

The conference website: www.flu.cas.cz/colloquium
The conference mail: colloquium@flu.cas.cz

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