Workshop on Agent Modeling

Agent modeling--the ability to model and reason other agents' knowledge, beliefs, goals, and actions--is central to intelligent interaction. The Workshop on Agent Modeling, held as part of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, was organized to bring together researchers working in these areas to assess the state of the art and discuss the common issues in representation and reasoning with models of agents. Agent modeling--the ability to model and reason about other agents' knowledge, beliefs, goals, and actions--is central to intelligent interaction, and it is being investigated in a variety of research areas, including distributed AI and multiagent systems, plan recognition, natural language discourse, intelligent tutoring, and user interfaces, as well as in related areas, such as game theory and cognitive science and psychology. The Workshop on Agent Modeling, held as part of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, was organized to bring together researchers working in these areas to assess the state of the art and discuss the common issues in representation and reasoning with models of agents. The workshop succeeded in drawing together researchers from a surprising variety of backgrounds and diverse concerns about agent modeling.