text_combined: nair ranjit kcomoqrpowhoneywellcom dear friends apologies receive one copy email wanted remind february 1st submission deadline workshop multiagent sequential decision making uncertain domains fifth international joint conference autonomous agents multiagent systems aamas japan may 2006 would like encourage submit papers workshop help ensure success workshop would ideal forum showcase new work get feedback others field please feel free forward cfp think interest thanks help supporting workshop cheers ranjit nair raphen becker call papers workshop multiagent sequential decision making uncertain domains held conjunction fifth international joint conference autonomous agents multiagent systems aamas future university hakodate 9th may 2006 overview sequential decision making uncertainty problem agent faces tries maximize performance interacting environment possibly agents based upon observations world singleagent decisiontheoretic approaches problem centered around two primary models markov decision problem mdp partially observable markov decision problem pomdp depending whether agents knowledge world complete partial mathematically rigorous models used successfully singleagent systems natural apply systems many agents singleagent decisiontheoretic work decisiontheoretic multiagent community focused two kinds models agent complete knowledge state world ii agent partial potentially different knowledge state world high computational complexity finding optimal solutions multiagent models significant barrier much work area relates addressing complexity exploiting problem structure like locality interaction decomposition reward independence agents approximate algorithms converge local optimum instead global optimum purpose workshop bring together researchers field sequential decisionmaking stochastic multiagent systems present discuss promising new work discuss relationships various models use establish important directions goals research collaboration workshop strive develop consensus within community benchmarks evaluation methodology order contrast alternative approaches models study tradeoffs associated use furthermore discuss creation online problem sets testing various algorithms facilitate comparison topics workshop address range topics relating new existing models multiagent systems ie mmdp decmdp decpomdp decmdp_com mtdp commtdp rmtdp emtdp emt ipomdp posg poipsg ndpomdp tidec_mdp including relationships models assumptions algorithms policy generation coordination comparisons algorithms distributed vs centralized planning online vs offline planning communication policy generation communication decisions execution techniques scaling problems identifying subclasses problems complexity cooperative competitive agent systems theoretical empirical results benchmarks evaluation methodologies comparing different approaches important dates submission deadline february 1 2006 acceptance notification february 19 2006 cameraready copy march 8 2006 workshop may 9 2006 submission procedure authors encouraged submit papers 15 pages length standard latex article format 12 pt font submissions sent kcomoqrpowhoneywellcom dqxcwmcsumassedu postscript pdf form submission reviewed least two program committee members organizing committee ranjit nair knowledge services group honeywell laboratories 3660 technology dr 2703 minneapolis mn 55418 usa phone 1612 9517198 fax 1612 951 7438 kcomoqrpowhoneywellcom httpteamcoreuscedunair raphen becker department computer science university massachusetts amherst 140 governors drive amherst 01003 usa phone 14135451985 dqxcwmcsumassedu httpwwwcsumasseduraphen program committee daniel bernstein university massachusetts aurelie beynier université de caen dmitri dolgov university michigan prashant doshi university georgia ed durfee university michigan rosemary emerymontemerlo carnegie mellon university alberto finzi university roma piotr gmytrasiewicz university illinois chicago robert goldman smart information flow technologies claudia goldmanshenhar university haifa eric hansen mississippi state university victor lesser university massachusetts thomas lukasiewicz university roma abdelillah mouaddib université de caen praveen paruchuri university southern california john phelps honeywell laboratories david pynadath information sciences institute zinovi rabinovich hebrew university jeffrey rosenschein hebrew university maayan roth carnegie mellon university jiaying shen university massachusetts milind tambe university southern california pradeep varakantham university southern california brian williams massachusetts institute technology ping xuan clark university makoto yokoo kyushu university shlomo zilberstein university massachusetts wed 06 aug 2008 173953 0600 uai reminder workshop multiagent sequential decision making uncertain domains