The First Annual Symposium on Autonomous Intelligent Networks and
Systems

                                                 www.ains.cs.ucla.edu

                                                  UCLA, May 8-9, 2002

The First Annual Symposium on  Autonomous Intelligent Networks and Systems,
sponsored by  the Office of Naval  Research and by the  IEEE Communications
Society (pending approval) will take place at UCLA May 8-9, 2002.

This  Symposium will  explore research  issues  in the  area of  Autonomous
Intelligent Networks  and Systems with applications  in several disciplines
including  Communications Systems,  Controls, Wireless  Self-configuring Ad
Hoc  Networks, Battlefield  Networks, Biologic  Systems and  related areas.
Continued technological advances have brought us  to the point where in the
near future  autonomous systems  with hundreds  or thousands  of autonomous
agents  will  interact  with  the  physical  world  in  a  distributed  but
coordinated  fashion, for  such purposes  as defense,  security, industrial
control,  environmental  monitoring,  or   planetary  exploration.  One  of
the  key  themes  will  be  the  identification  of  common  models,  tools
and  methodologies  that   may  be  transferred  from   one  discipline  to
another,  and  of  opportunities  for  collaboration  among  engineers  and
scientists  with different  backgrounds, working  on related  problems with
different perspectives. A  panel discussion will focus  on homeland defense
applications of such networks and systems.

This symposium  will serve as  a forum for intelligent  agent technologists
and  visionaries from  academia,  industry and  research  labs, to  present
current  research,   advanced  technology,  ongoing   prototyping  efforts,
experience reports, case studies, and descriptions of interesting systems.

Authors are encouraged  to submit papers describing their  future vision as
well as practical technologies of  significance and relevance to this area.
Papers, written  in English, should not  exceed 3000 words. Papers  must be
unpublished  and  must  not  be  submitted  for  publication  elsewhere.  A
selection of the papers will be published  as a Reference Book by MIT Press
Perspective authors  should submit  an extended abstract  (max 3  pages), a
complete  list of  authors and  their  affiliations, a  contact person  for
correspondence, and  e-mail addresses.  Papers may  be accepted  either for
oral or poster presentation. Both Abstract  and Papers must be submitted in
electronic form (Postscript or PDF).

     Topics include, but are not limited to:

o Self-configuring agent-based wireless networks
o Dynamic control of wireless mobile networks
o Distributed sensing and control networks
o Cooperative behavior in natural and artificial systems
o Software architecture for large-scale systems
o Simulation of large scale distributed systems
o Experimental platforms for the study of autonomous agents
o Security in distributed systems
o Fault tolerant distributed agent networks
o Resource management in autonomous systems

     Important Dates

o Electronic Abstract Submission March 1st, 2002
o Acceptance/Rejection Notification March 30th, 2002
o Camera Ready Manuscripts due April 20th, 2002


General Chairs: Allen Moshfegh, ONR, and Mario Gerla, UCLA, Henry
Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

Program Co-Chairs: John Villasenor, Greg Pottie and Izhak Rubin, UCLA, Henry
Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

Please submit your abstract via email to the following address:
ains@cs.ucla.edu


     Technical Program Committee

o Rajive Bagrodia, UCLA
o Babak Danesrad, UCLA
o Mario Gerla, UCLA
o Allen Moshfegh, ONR
o Greg Pottie, UCLA
o Izhak Rubin, UCLA
o Mani Srivastava, UCLA
o John Villasenor, UCLA