ICLP'01 Workshop on
Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
(CLIMA-II)

1st December, 2001

in association with ICLP'01 (Nov 26th -- Dec 1st, 2001)

Coral Beach Hotel and Resort, Paphos, Cyprus


Purpose of the Workshop

Multi-agent systems (MAS) have become an increasingly important area of research, not least because of the advances in the Internet and Robotics. However multi-agent systems can become very complicated, and, consequently, reasoning about the behaviour of such systems can become extremely difficult. Therefore, it is important to be able to formalise multi-agent systems and, to do so in such a way that allows automated reasoning about agents' behaviour. The purpose of this Special Issue is to present techniques, based on computational logic (CL), for reasoning about multi-agent systems in a formal way. This is clearly a major and exciting challenge for computational logic. We have to develop techniques to deal with real world issues and applications.
We have already organized CLIMA-I at CL2000 . At CLIMA-I, we had eight presentations of papers and two discussion sessions. We will continue this kind of workshop for further ICLP conferences so that this research direction is pursued further.

Submission Details

We solicit unpublished papers that address CL-related formal approaches to multi-agent systems. The approaches as well as being formal must make a significant contribution to the practice of multi-agent systems. Relevant techniques include the following (but are not limited to):

We are expecting full papers to describe original, previously unpublished research, be written in English, not exceed 10 pages (A4 or letter format, up to 3,500 words), and not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere.
We also require the following issues to be adressed:
1. CL: An introduction that includes statements about how the paper addresses
the exploitation of CL for MAS
2. MAS : An explanation of which aspect/functionality of MAS the paper formalises,
3. Examples: Example(s) which give an intuitive motivation and explanation of the formalisation.

We are also planning to have a demonstration session where people can present their implemented systems. For people who would like to give a demonstration, they should submit 2 page abstract for a description of their systems.

Please submit a PostScript file or a PDF file of a paper to dix@cs.man.ac.uk by the 20th of August, 2001.

It is the author's responsibility to ensure that the PostScript file or PDF file is printable (and can be ftped if the author provides an address for ftp). Only if electronic submission is impossible, please notify the above address by the 1st of August, 2001.


Proceedings

Workshop proceedings will be available at ICLP'01. We are also considering on-line proceedings.



Workshop Co-chairs

Ken Satoh, National Institute for Informatics, Japan
Juergen Dix, The University of Manchester, UK


Programme Committee

Massimo Benerecetti, Universita di Napoli ``Federico II'', Italy
Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool, UK
Katsumi Inoue, Kobe University, Japan
Leora Morgenstern, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Luis Moniz Pereira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Henry Prakken, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Cees Witteveen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands


Home page of CLIMA-II: http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/clima01.html