Due to the interdisciplinary nature of my current research, it is
difficult to find a single research community that defines my interest.
Actually, I may have to adjust the focus of my research to suit a research
community.
At this moment, the following two research communities draw my attention:
First, the community of computer science researchers focusing on artificial intelligence (AI), especially intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. Most researchers in this community are associated with ACM and IEEE. AAAI is the leading organization for American AI researchers.
For AI and intelligent agent researchers, there are two types of publication venues: one type is dedicated AI venues, such as AAAI's annual conference, IJCAI, AAMAS, the International Journal of Intelligent Systems and the Artificial Intelligent Journal; the other type is not dedicated to AI but often has publications that apply AI techniques to specific problems. For example, AI researchers have been active in ACM E-commerce conference (EC), Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (KDD), International Semantic Web Conference, ACM Transaction on Modeling and Computer Simulation, etc.
Second, the community of scientists who use agent-based computational approach to study social, organizational, business, epidemiologic or geographical problems. Research in this community can be found in venues such as the World Congress of Social Simulations, the NAACSOS conference, Computational and Mathematical Organizational Theory, Advances in Complex Systems, etc. As the computational part is often considered as a research method, researchers also tend to publish papers in outlets that focus on their own research domain, such as Organization Science, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, American sociological review, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, etc.
The boundary of the two communities is obvious most of the time and few researchers are active in both communities. Therefore, I may have to choose one as the major community that I would like to belong to. Depending on the topic on my dissertation, I may have to explore other research communities.
At this moment, the following two research communities draw my attention:
First, the community of computer science researchers focusing on artificial intelligence (AI), especially intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. Most researchers in this community are associated with ACM and IEEE. AAAI is the leading organization for American AI researchers.
For AI and intelligent agent researchers, there are two types of publication venues: one type is dedicated AI venues, such as AAAI's annual conference, IJCAI, AAMAS, the International Journal of Intelligent Systems and the Artificial Intelligent Journal; the other type is not dedicated to AI but often has publications that apply AI techniques to specific problems. For example, AI researchers have been active in ACM E-commerce conference (EC), Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (KDD), International Semantic Web Conference, ACM Transaction on Modeling and Computer Simulation, etc.
Second, the community of scientists who use agent-based computational approach to study social, organizational, business, epidemiologic or geographical problems. Research in this community can be found in venues such as the World Congress of Social Simulations, the NAACSOS conference, Computational and Mathematical Organizational Theory, Advances in Complex Systems, etc. As the computational part is often considered as a research method, researchers also tend to publish papers in outlets that focus on their own research domain, such as Organization Science, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, American sociological review, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, etc.
The boundary of the two communities is obvious most of the time and few researchers are active in both communities. Therefore, I may have to choose one as the major community that I would like to belong to. Depending on the topic on my dissertation, I may have to explore other research communities.
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