| Leon van der Torre 2005-05-09, 4:01 pm |
| We invite extended extended abstracts and position statements for three tracks of the 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium on Roles, an interdisciplinary perspective:
Track 1. Roles in multiagent systems
Track 2. Ontologies of roles
Track 3. Roles in programming languages and software engineering
Submission deadline: June 1. Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the proceedings and offer the opportunity to give a presentation at the symposium. Accepted position statements are invited to the discussion.
Track descriptions.
Track 1. Roles in multiagent systems. In agent oriented software methodologies and programming languages like GAIA, TROPOS, 3APL, etc, roles are used to define the organizational structure of the multiagent systems: roles allow to distribute responsibilit
ies and obligations, and to require the suitable know how to their players. Open problems are how to transform organizational theories of roles in computational theories and exploring mechanisms about how to assign agents to roles, how to design organizat
ions in terms of roles, monitoring of roles, etc.
Track 2. Ontologies of roles. Besides the notions of relation and individual, which are present in most knowledge representation languages, more recently ontologies postulate that the notion of role is another fundamental basic concept. Many questions rem
ain open on the role of roles in knowledge representation: Which are the properties distinguishing roles from relations and individuals? How do these properties help in costructing well founded ontologies? Can thematic roles, functional roles and social r
oles find a common foundation?
Track 3. Roles in programming languages and software engineering. Roles are usually modelled as dynamic classification (e.g., the Fibonacci language) or as instances to be adjoined to the entities which play the role (e.g., DOOR). However, no consensus ye
t has been reached on how roles can be introduced as a construct in programming languages, which are their properties, what roles are useful for, and how they are compatible with the current Object Oriented systems. Finally, how do ontologically well foun
ded definitions of roles help in introducing roles in programming languages?
Submission information
All submissions should be uploaded at http://roles05.di.unito.it/
Questions should be sent to Guido Boella (guido [at] di.unito.it).
Abstract will be published in the symposium proceedings and the best papers of the symposium will be selected for publication on some renowed journal. Participants from all parts of the AI community as well as from other fields are encouraged. Instruction
s for authors can be found at website http://aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fall-symposia.html
Deadlines
* June 1, 2005: Submission due to organizers
* June 10, 2005: Notifications of acceptance sent by organizers
* November 3-6, 2005: Symposium
Symposium information
2005 AAAI Fall Symposium
Roles, an interdisciplinary perspective
November 3-6, 2005, Hyatt Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia
With this symposium we propose to gather researchers working across the boundaries of their subfields to explore new formal and computational techniques and research methodologies for integrating research results. For this reason this symposium will provi
de time for discussion besides paper presentations.
http://normas.di.unito.it/zope/roles05
<http://normas.di.unito.it/zope/events/roles05.pdf>
Organizing Committee
Guido Boella - Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Torino
guido[at]di.unito.it
James Odell - Agentis, Ann Arbor (MI) USA
mailbox[at]jamesodell.com
Leendert van der Torre - CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands
torre[at]cwi.nl
Harko Verhagen - DSV, KTH/SU, Sweden
verhagen[at]dsv.su.se
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