Over the last few years, game theory has proved to be a powerful tool with which to understand interactions in systems composed of multiple autonomous artificial agents. It has been employed in the design of algorithms and strategies for interaction, coordination, communication, negotiation, coalition formation, fair voting techniques, market-based resource management systems, and industrial-scale information economies. More recently, decision theory has been adopted by a number of authors as a way of handling the uncertainty that rational agents inevitably face in any moderately complex environment.
As a result, there seems to be much to gain from bringing together researchers interested in game theory and decision theory to present recent work on the application of these techniques in the construction of agent systems and to discuss the cross-over between the fields, and the Workshop on Game Theoretic and Decision Theoretic Agents provides a forum in which to do this.
This year the workshop will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS 2000). It will take place on Friday 7th July in Boston.
Papers are solicited dealing with, but not limited to, the following areas:
Descriptions of deployed systems are particularly welcome, and we are especially interested in the use of non-standard variants of decision theory (including qualitative and logical approaches).
Authors are invited to submit original papers of at most 15 pages standard LaTeX article style by e-mail to one of the email address below, using "GTDT00 Submission" as the subject line. Please submit the paper in postscript.
There is no particular format for the submission, but the cover page should include title, authors, and the coordinates of the corresponding author. Authors should also indicate in the first page which of the thematic areas best describes the content of the paper (if none is appropriate, please give a set of keywords that best describe the topic of the paper).
To be considered, submissions must be received no later than 17th March. Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their papers by 5th May.
All accepted papers will appear in the working papers distributed at the workshop. The format guidelines for the final paper version will be announced later. Final camera-ready copies of accepted papers will be due by 2nd June.
We also intend to published revised versions of the workshop papers, as a special issue of the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
| Submission of papers | 17th March 2000 |
| Notification of acceptance | 5th May 2000 |
| Final submissions | 2nd June 2000 |
| Workshop | 7th July 2000 |
Direct correspondence, inquiries and submissions relating to this workshop should be addressed to: