ALA 2014 - International Workshop on Adaptative and Learning Agents

The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness and interest in adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration and give a representative overview of current research in the area of adaptive and learning agents and multiagent systems. It aims at bringing together not only scientists from different areas of computer science (e.g., agent architectures, reinforcement learning, and evolutionary algorithms) but also from different fields studying similar concepts (e.g., game theory, bio-inspired control, mechanism design).
The workshop will serve as an inclusive forum for the discussion on ongoing or completed work in both theoretical and practical issues of adaptive and learning agents and multiagent systems.
This workshop will focus on all aspects of adaptive and learning agents and multiagent systems with a particular emphasis on how to modify established learning techniques and/or create new learning paradigms to address the many challenges presented by complex real-world problems. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Novel combinations of reinforcement and supervised learning approaches
Integrated learning approaches that work with other agent reasoning modules like negotiation, trust models, coordination, etc.
Supervised multiagent learning
Reinforcement learning (single and multiagent)
Planning (single and multiagent)
Reasoning (single and multiagent)
Distributed learning
Adaptation and learning in dynamic environments
Evolution of agents in complex environments
Co-evolution of agents in a multiagent setting
Cooperative exploration and learning to cooperate and collaborate
Learning trust and reputation
Communication restrictions and their impact on multiagent coordination
Design of reward structure and fitness measures for coordination
Scaling learning techniques to large systems of learning and adaptive agents
Emergent behaviour in adaptive multiagent systems
Game theoretical analysis of adaptive multiagent systems
Neuro-control in multiagent systems
Bio-inspired multiagent systems
Applications of adaptive and learning agents and multiagents systems to real world complex systems
Learning of Co-ordination
Accepted papers from the workshop will be eligible to be extended for inclusion in a special issue of the The Knowledge Engineering Review journal which is published by Cambridge Journals.