In conjunction with the The 25th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems PRIMA 2024
Kyoto, Japan | November 18-24, 2024.
Description
Causality, Agents and Large Models (CALM) represents three rapidly-growing fields within artificial intelligence research. This workshop aims to bridge the gap between these disciplines by investigating how causal reasoning can enhance the capabilities of multi-agent systems (MAS). The workshop will provide a forum for researchers to discuss theoretical foundations, practical applications, and future directions at the intersection of causal AI, Large Language Models (LLM) and MAS.
Workshop goals
- Explore the role of causal reasoning in enhancing decision-making, coordination, and adaptation in multi-agent systems.
- Discuss technical challenges and opportunities for integrating causal AI techniques and LLM into MAS frameworks.
- Foster interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers in causal reasoning, LLM, and MAS.
- Identify promising directions for future research and development in this emerging area.
Topics
The main topics of the CALM-24 workshop are (but not restricted to):
- Theoretical foundations of causal reasoning in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS)
- Causal reasoning capabilities in Large Models (e.g., Large Language Models, LLMs)
- Applications of causal AI techniques in agent-based modeling and simulation
- Causal inference in complex and dynamic multi-agent environments
- Mechanistic Interpretability of Causality in Large Language Models
- Integration of causal reasoning with decision-making and planning in MAS
- Learning causal models from observational and interventional data in MAS
- Causal reasoning for coordination, cooperation, and communication among agents
- Challenges and opportunities for incorporating causal AI into MAS frameworks
- Case studies and empirical evaluations of causal AI approaches in agents
- Generative AI as preprocessing for MAS
- Exploring causality with deep generative models
- Digital twins and simulators for interpretable synthetic data generation
- Graph neural network causal learning
- Causal reinforcement learning
- Interpretable/Explainable root cause analysis methods
- Explainable AI with active inference techniques
- Logic and argumentation-based approaches to causal reasoning
Important Dates
- Submission deadline:
September 24thOctober 12th (extended), 2024 - Notification:
October 20th, 2024October 24th, 2024 - Final date for camera-ready copy: December 20, 2024
- Workshop: November 18, 2024
Submission
Submissions will be reviewed by 2-3 members of the program committee, who are experts in the field. The acceptance of the submitted papers will depend on their quality, relevance, and originality. All accepted papers will be published in the Springer proceedings Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series devoted to the publication of proceedings of computer science conferences.
Participants are therefore invited to submit papers up to 16 pages in length (incl. references) for Long papers, or up to 5 pages in length (incl. references) for Short papers. All papers will be subject to double-blind review. Papers must be edited using the LNCS format (applying the LNCS post-proceedings template) and have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair submission page: EasyChair
Workshop Chairs
- Dr. Yazan Mualla (Belfort-Montbeliard University of Technology, France). yazan.mualla[at]utbm.fr
- Dr. Liuwen Yu (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg). liuwen.yu[at]uni.lu
- Dr. Davide Liga (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg). davide.liga[at]uni.lu
- Dr. Igor Tchappi (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg). igor.tchappi[at]uni.lu
- Dr. Réka Markovich (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg). reka.markovich[at]uni.lu
Advisory Board
- Prof. Dr. Stéphane Galland (Belfort-Montbeliard University of Technology, France)
- Prof. Dr. Abdeljalil Abbas-Turki (Belfort-Montbeliard University of Technology, France)
Program Committee
- Sukriti Bhattacharya, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg
- Zhi Yan, Belfort-Montbeliard University of Technology, France
- Alaa Daoud, Université Polytechnique de Hauts de France, France
- Alexandre Lombard, Belfort-Montbeliard University of Technology, France
- Tjitze Rienstra, Maastricht University, Netherlands
- Beishui Liao, Zhejiang University, China
- Avleen Malhi, University of Warwick, UK
- Hui Zhao, TongJi University, China
- Stefano Tedeschi, Università della Valle d’Aosta – Université de la Vallée d’Aoste, Italy
- Eskandar Kouicem, Ingenico, France
- Amro Najjar, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg
- Salima Lamsiyah, Laboratoire d’informatique et de modélisation, Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Fès
- Livio Robaldo, Legal Innovation Lab Wales, University of Swansea
- Francesco Sovrano, University of Zurich
- Giuseppe Pisano, University of Bologna, Italy
- Qianbo Zang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Arianna Rossi, Sant’Anna University of Advanced Studies, Italy
- Ephraim Sinyabe, University of Ngaoundere, Cameroon
- Amir Sartipi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Diderot Cidjeu, University of Ngaoundere, Cameroon
- Ilaria Amantea, Università di Torino, Italy
Registration
Please visit the PRIMA-24 Registration Page for more information.
Program
Please visit the PRIMA-24 Program Page for more information.