Special Track on Virtual Agents at AAMAS 08

SPECIAL TRACK ON VIRTUAL AGENTS
AT AAMAS-08

May 12-16, 2008
Estoril, Portugal

To provide an opportunity for interaction and cross-fertilization
between the AAMAS community and researchers working on virtual agents,
AAMAS-08 will feature a Special Track on Virtual Agents.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- verbal and non-verbal expressiveness
- models of personality, emotions and social behavior
- multi-user/multi-virtual-agent interaction
- advanced 3D modeling and animation technologies
- applications, experience reports and user studies

Papers for this will be reviewed by specially recruited reviewers within
the sub-community.

Special Track Chair:
Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany

Senior Programme Committee:

Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Marc Cavazza, University of Teeside, UK
Stacy Marsella, Univ. of Southern California - ISI, USA
Ana Paiva, INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Catherine Pelachaud, Universite de Paris 8, France
Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Katia Sycara, CMU, USA
Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
R. Michael Young, North Carolina State University, USA

Key Dates:

Tuesday, October 23, 2007: Electronic abstract due
Friday, October 26, 2007: Full electronic paper submissions due
November 27 - 28, 2007: Author feedback opportunity
Wednesday, December 19, 2007: Accept/reject notifications

Information on the Special Track will be regularly updated on the AAMAS
main pages: http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas2008/index.html