The scale of future Augmented Worlds range from small environments and augmented individual artifacts, up to large augmented realities and aggregates, including buildings, neighborhoods, or entire cities. Intelligent agents and related technologies represent a natural way to model the citizens living on the digital side of these augmented worlds, as either the soul of smart/augmented objects, or as the smart assistants of human users inhabiting these worlds, or rather as distributed and situated teams helping human coordination and cooperation. Pervasive computing, IoT and the Cloud, as well as mobile augmented/mixed reality frameworks, represent the enabling technologies on top of which the agent-oriented layers are based.
The objective of the workshop is to be an interdisciplinary forum where to discuss any aspect that concerns agent-based augmented worlds, from their conceptual and theoretical foundations, to their design and engineering, and their applications to specific domains.
The workshop aims at exploring the impact that these augmented worlds can have on making individual and collective human/agent actions more effective, on enhancing human/agent reasoning capability, imagination, learning, sociality, and so on; on how human activities and processes can be (re-)shaped while the physical environment where these Augmented Worlds are instantiated is (re-)shaped too. Agent-based augment worlds can be a lab where to explore novel forms of human augmentation - besides reality augmentation - along different dimensions, such as augmented cognition and augmented sociality. Novel forms of interaction can be studied inside them, enabling humans communicating/cooperating - either explicitly or implicitly - with other humans and with the intelligent agents populating and shaping such augmented worlds.
The objective of the workshop is to be an interdisciplinary forum where to discuss agent-based "augmented worlds", from their conceptual and theoretical foundations, to their design and engineering, as well as their applications to specific domains.
In particular, it aims at exploring:
The list of topics of interest for the workshop includes:
The workshop welcomes any research contribution in the form of either a demonstration exhibit (submitted as a 2 pages abstract) or to submit a position paper (8 pages) or regular paper (12 pages) which would allow to solicit the discussion and brainstorming about any relevant aspect related to agents living in an augmented worlds, either theoretical/conceptual and practical.
All ALAW accepted papers (including demonstration abstracts) will be published in a volume of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) serie, by Springer (to be confirmed).
Selected extended papers will be invited for publication in a leading academic journal (under definition) with the purpose to set up a publication about agents living in augmented worlds vision, providing an overview about the state-of-the-art, starting from the research and discussion originated during the workshop.
All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using EasyChair following link.
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alaw2018
All papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS format, following the guidelines. The maximum number of pages (including references, figures, tables and appendix) is limited to:
ALAW welcomes the submission of application papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least two experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance and quality.
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