samarth swarup iwrgjruiucedu international workshop emergent languages multiagent systems elmas2006 call papers may 8 2006 future university hakodate japan conjunction aamas2006 httpwwwisrluiuceduamagelmas06 recent years witnessed explosion interest problem language emergence evolution scientific light shining issues development change human language see eg httpwwwisrluiuceduamaglangev language evolution computation information repository maintained university illinois general rise interest reflected specifically growing number papers related topic many conferences including aamas growth interest accompanied mas growing sense known approaches developing using coordinating communication representations standards conceptual ontologies collective semantics mascurrently significant segments aamas conferencehave serious limitations brittleness rigidity lack scalability openness science emergent language communication promises shed new light central mas problems equally interesting techniques models emergent language addressed mas many potential applications emerging related fields bioinformatics genetic regulatory networks cell signaling descriptiondiscovery regimes web services information systems interoperability wide external relevance core mas issue broaden impact mas research bring new scientific problems new researchers realm mas helping grow field importance number researchers rate publication recognition relevance increased need community building knowledge sharing specifically area emergent languages artificial computational agents also grown time ripe workshop topic aiming assemble researchers recently making important advances aspects problems thorough discussions work initiate new collaborations build new syntheses elmas2006 workshop bring together researchers working automated emergence evolution language multiagent systems mas open mas autonomously create converge continuously adapt concepts languages use representing communicating critical information used planning reasoning coordination joint activity papers invited address issues emergent language context artificial computational mas following broad areas precursors collective language emergence collective emergence concepts symbols ontologies representing objects events language compositionality structure language convergence coherence utility emergent language interactions language emergence planning learning coordination language emergenceevolution general model practical foundation adaptive information systems see elmas06 workshop website httpwwwisrluiuceduamagelmas06 suggestions details technical topics workshop submissions language workshop english materials submitted must written english three types submssions encouraged 1 full papers 8 pages presenting mature work 2 extended abstracts two pages presenting either earlystage mature work 3 short abstracts one page describing proposed work possible applications material submitted pdf formatted according acm style guidelines found httpwwwacmorgsigspubsproceedtemplatehtml aamas06 papers please identify type submission making papers sent via email workshop email address elmas06isrluiucedu papers reviewed organizers program committee members proceedings published available workshop followup publication lnai special journal issue pursued least one author accepted submission must register attend workshop organizers alphabetically les gasser university illinoisurbanachampaign us sidtoruiucedu piotr gmytrasiewicz university illinoischicago us xtuytcsuicedu claudia goldman univ haifa israel efiycrihaifaacil takashi hashimoto japan advanced institute science technology japan iasjjaistacjp samarth swarup university illinoisurbanachampaign us iwrgjruiucedu important dates deadline submissions january 15 2006 notification february 19 2006 submission final cameraready version march 6 2006 workshop may 8 2006 hakodate japan wed 06 aug 2008 131420 0600 uai cfp international workshop emergent languages multiagent systems