Technical Themes of Interest

The topics and areas addressed by IAT 2009 (also addressed by IAT 2008) include, but are not limited to:

1.      Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)

·        Agent-Based Complex Systems Modeling and Development

·        Agent-Based Simulation

·        Autonomy-Oriented Modeling and Computation Methods

·        Behavioral Self-Organization

·        Complex Behavior Characterization and Engineering

·        Emergent Behavior

·        Hard Computational Problem Solving

·        Nature-Inspired Paradigms

·        Self-Organized Criticality

·        Self-Organized Intelligence

·        Swarm Intelligence

2.      Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents

·        Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining

·        Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery And Sharing

·        Autonomous Information Services

·        Distributed Knowledge Systems

·        Emergent Natural Law Discovery in Multi-Agent Systems

·        Evolution of Knowledge Networks

·        Human-Agent Interaction

·        Information Filtering Agents

·        Knowledge Aggregation

·        Knowledge Discovery

·        Ontology-Based Information Services

3.      Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology

·        Agent Interaction Protocols

·        Cognitive Architectures

·        Cognitive Modeling of Agents

·        Emotional Modeling

·        Fault-Tolerance in Multi-Agent Systems

·        Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Systems

·        Information Exchanges in Multi-Agent Systems

·        Learning and Self-Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems

·        Mobile Agent Languages and Protocols

·        Multi-Agent Autonomic Architectures

·        Multi-Agent Coordination Techniques

·        Multi-Agent Planning and Re-Planning

·        Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems

·        Reinforcement Learning

·        Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems

·        Task-Based Agent Context Task-Oriented Agents

·        Multi-Agent self-organization

·        Sensor robotic agents

·        Hybrid Multi-Agent Systems

4.      Distributed Problem Solving

·        Agent-Based Grid Computing

·        Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving

·        Collective Group Behavior

·        Coordination and Cooperation

·        Distributed Intelligence

·        Distributed Search

·        Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations

·        Efficiency and Complexity Issues

·        Market-Based Computing

·        Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments

5.      Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation

·        Agent-Based Marketplaces

·        Auction Markets

·        Combinatorial Auctions

·        Hybrid Negotiation

·        Integrative Negotiation

·        Mediating Agents

·        Pricing Agents

·        Thin Double Auctions

6.      Applications

·        Agent-Based Assistants

·        Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise

·        Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications

·        Interface Agents Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems

·        Perceptive Animated Interfaces

·        Scalability

·        Social Simulation

·        Socially Situated Planning

·        Software and Pervasive Agents

·        Tools and Standards

·        Ubiquitous Systems and E-Technology Agents

·        Ubiquitous Software Services

·        Virtual Humans

·        XML-Based Agent Systems