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Sequential Decision Making for Intelligent Agents

AAAI Fall Symposium
November 12–14, 2015
Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia adjacent to Washington, DC
http://masplan.org/sdmia

Call for Papers

Sequential decision making under uncertainty (SDM) is a powerful paradigm for probabilistic planning. The emergence of various models that analyze SDM under different sets of assumptions, e.g., as single- and multi-agent Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and Partially Observable MDPs (POMDPs), has gone hand in hand with the split of this field into many subareas, each with a quite distinct research community. The Sequential Decision Making for Intelligent Agents (SDMIA) Fall Symposium aims to bring the researchers of computational sequential decision making under uncertainty together, in order to facilitate the cross-pollination of ideas across these communities and thus accelerate the development of the larger field. The symposium will have ample time for discussions and interaction. Furthermore, we intend to reflect on the current state of the field, both in terms of theory and applications, and, more importantly, ways to shape its future.

Submission deadline: July 15, 2015

Topics

We invite submissions, both original as well as previously published, dealing with the general topic of sequential decision making under uncertainty. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Novel insights in modeling sequential decision making (SDM)
  • Recent advances in solution methods
  • Benchmark problems and benchmarking
  • Real-world applications and application domains
  • Model specification and induction
  • Methods for transferring solutions from one model to another

We particularly encourage contributions that have the potential to make an impact on different sub-fields of SDM, but this is not a requirement.

Submission Instructions

The symposium will accept 1) extended abstracts (2 pages) of previously published papers, 2) papers describing novel work or work in progress (8 pages), and 3) position statements (8 pages). Submissions should be made in the provided LaTeX template. The submission link can be found at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sdmia2015

All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentation and papers will be made available on-line. Selected papers can be published in the AAAI Press Technical Reports series.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the symposium to present the work. A small student travel fund is available.

Overview of the symposium

Sequential decision making under uncertainty has gained significant traction at major AI conferences such as AAAI, IJCAI, AAMAS (Best Paper award 2014 on this topic) and ICAPS. In many applications, dealing explicitly with uncertainty regarding the effects of actions, state of the environment and possibly the behavior of other agents is crucial to achieve satisfactory task performance. Decision-theoretic planning models like the Markov Decision Process (MDP), the Partially Observable MDP (POMDP) and their many multiagent extensions have emerged as the dominant paradigm for this purpose.

Since its emergence as a subfield of Operations Research, sequential decision making under uncertainty has itself split into many subareas. Within AI, for example, computational aspects of this problem have been analyzed by modelling it under a range of assumptions — as fully observable MDPs, partially observable MDPs, multiagent sequential decision making (MSDM), under full and partial knowledge of parameters, etc. — with a distinct community of researchers focusing on each model. Some of these communities meet each other regularly, but there is no forum dedicated to sequential decision making under uncertainty in AI where all these communities meet simultaneously. This AAAI Fall Symposium aims to bring the researchers of computational sequential decision making under uncertainty together, in the hope that their sharing of ideas with each other will lead to breakthroughs that would be unlikely within any single community on its own.

Format

The format of the symposium is designed to maximize the interaction in a relatively large group of experts in the field. We envision the following elements, which will be grouped together in thematic sessions:

  • Invited talks by highly regarded members of one of the sub-communities.
  • Shorter contributed talks (see Submission Instructions).
  • Panel discussions on specific topics, with a focus on the future of the field.
  • Demonstrations of software and tools.
  • Plenty of time for breaks to encourage informal discussions.
Organizing Committee

Matthijs Spaan (chair), Delft University of Technology, m.t.j.spaan@tudelft.nl
Frans Oliehoek, University of Amsterdam / University of Liverpool, fao@liverpool.ac.uk
Christopher Amato, University of New Hampshire, camato@cs.unh.edu
Andrey Kolobov, Microsoft Research, akolobov@microsoft.com
Pascal Poupart, University of Waterloo, ppoupart@uwaterloo.ca

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