The Second Annual Symposium on Autonomous Intelligent Networks and
                                  Systems 

         http://path.berkeley.edu/ains http://www.ains.cs.ucla.edu/

        June 30 to July 1 2003, Santa lucia Complex, Bologna, Italy

   The goal of this annual symposium is to explore and encourage research
   that  would support the development of intelligent networks consisting
   of   many   autonmous   agents,  including  UAV's,  UGV's,  or  AUV's,
   interacting  with  the physical world in a distributed but coordinated
   fashion, and also to explore applications of such systems for defense,
   security,  industrial control, environmental monitoring, and planetary
   exploration.  As  in  the first symposium held last year at UCLA, this
   symposium   will   explore  technological  advances  in  a  number  of
   disciplines   that   would   support  such  a  vision;  these  include
   communications  systems,  collaborative  robotic  systems, battlefield
   networks,  and  neuro-biological  systems.  A  major goal is to foster
   collaboration,  on  an international scale, through the identification
   of  common  models,  tools  and methodologies and of opportunities for
   collaboration  among  engineers  and  scientists  working  on  related
   problems with different perspectives.

   This   symposium   will   serve  as  a  forum  for  intelligent  agent
   technologists  and  visionaries  from  academia, industry and research
   labs.  Papers  may describe research or technology advances as well as
   ongoing  prototyping  efforts,  experience  reports, case studies, and
   descriptions  of interesting systems. Submissions that describe future
   visions   as  well  as  practical  technologies  of  significance  and
   relevance  to  this  area  are encouraged. 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 Papers must be unpublished and must not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. 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 (PDF) to ainspapers@path.berkeley.edu.

   Topics include but are not limited to
     * Self-configuring agent-based wireless networks
     * Collaborative robotic systems, including large robotic "swarm"
     * Large-scale emergent behavior
     * Hierarchical    system    organizations    and    dynamic   system
       re-organization
     * Systems informed by advances in neuro-biological networks
     * Distributed sensing and control networks
     * Cooperative behavior in natural and artificial systems
     * Software architecture for large-scale systems
     * Simulation of large scale distributed systems
     * Experimental platforms for the study of autonomous agents
     * Security in distributed systems
     * Fault tolerant distributed agent networks
     * Resource management in autonomous systems

   Important Dates
     * Electronic Abstract Submission February 24th, 2003
     * Acceptance/Rejection Notification March 24th, 2003
     * Camera Ready Manuscripts due April 21st, 2003

   Submission
     * Please  submit  your  abstract  (in  PDF  format) via email to the
       following address: ainspapers@path.berkeley.edu