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@book(AAMAS06-proceedings,
title="Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems",
editor="Peter Stone and Gerhard Weiss",
publisher="Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)",month="May",year="2006",
abstract={
The spread of Internet connectivity and advancement
of computer hardware increases the power of
information technologies to perform practical
services in many areas of our everyday life. Agent
technologies play essential roles in the design of
service-oriented systems such as computer-mediated
collaboration, education and training, electronic
commerce, information retrieval, and data mining.
Agents and multiagent systems also provide a new way
of thinking--conceptualizing performance elements as
autonomous changes the paradigm for analyzing
problems, designing systems, and dealing with
complexity, distribution, and interactivity. Concept
of agents and multiagent architecture are shaping
landscapes of basic research areas including social
simulation, games, pervasive and ubiquitous
computing, robotics, and user interfaces.
The Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
conference series brings together researchers from
around the world to share the latest advances in the
field. It was initiated in 2002 as a merger of three
highly successful related events: the International
Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS), the
International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems
(ICMAS), and the International Workshop on Agent
Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL). The
AAMAS conference series provides a single,
high-profile forum for research in the theory and
practice of autonomous agents and multiagent
systems. AAMAS 2002, the first of the series, was
held in Bologna, followed by AAMAS 2003 in
Melbourne, AAMAS 2004 in New York, and AAMAS 2005 in
Utrecht. AAMAS 2006 is held in Hakodate, Japan.
The five-day event consists of 6 tutorials, 32
workshops, a main conference track, a separate
industry paper track with 15 papers, demonstration
sessions with 17 demonstrations, an exhibition, and
a doctoral mentoring program with 24 students. These
and other conference elements are the result of
great efforts on the part of many dedicated
volunteers. We are grateful to all the AAMAS-06
conference officials and those who worked with them
to put together such a successful research meeting.
AAMAS 2006 received 553 submissions for the main
conference. Each paper was reviewed by at least
three program committee members (guided by a senior
program committee member). 127 papers were accepted
as full 8-page papers, and an additional 123 were
accepted as short 3-page papers (acceptance rates of
23.0\% for full papers and 45.2\% overall).
Several innovations were added to this year's
conference program and review process. In order to
make the review process more interactive, authors
were given the opportunity to respond to their
reviews prior to the discussion phase and final
decisions. In many cases, the reviews, and sometimes
the decisions, were altered as a result. In
addition, we introduced awards for "best program
committee member" and "best senior program committee
member" in recognition of the exceptional time and
effort contributed by our program committee.
At the conference itself, for the first time, the
emphasis was on poster presentations as the main
form of technical exchange. All accepted papers were
presented at poster sessions, with just about half
of the full papers presented orally in two parallel
tracks. The oral presentations were chosen primarily
so as to provide a broad representative of the
accepted papers. The goal of this format was to
allow for more focused oral sessions while
maximizing the opportunity for one-on-one detailed
technical exchanges at the posters.
},
wwwnote={A book based on AAMAS 2006
ISBN: 1-59593-303-4
on-line version from ACM.},
)