EXPLANATION-AWARE COMPUTING (ExaCt 2010)

                   FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
               for the 5th International and
                   ECAI 2010 Workshop on

          EXPLANATION-AWARE COMPUTING (ExaCt 2010)

             16-17 August 2010, Lisbon, Portugal

                http://exact2010.workshop.hm

        ** Paper submission deadline: May 7, 2010 **


Both within AI systems and in interactive systems, the ability to explain reasoning processes and results can substantially affect system usability. For example, in recommender systems good explanations may help to inspire user trust and loyalty, increase satisfaction, make it quicker and easier for users to find what they want, and persuade them to try or buy a recommended item.

Current interest in mixed-initiative systems provides a new context in which explanation issues may play a crucial role. When knowledge-based systems are partners in an interactive socio-technical process, with incomplete and changing problem descriptions, communication between human and software systems is a central part. Explanations exchanged between human agents and software agents may play an important role in mixed-initiative problem solving.

Other disciplines such as cognitive science, linguistics, philosophy of  science, psychology, and education have investigated explanation as well. They consider varying aspects, making it clear that there are many  different views of the nature of explanation and facets of explanation to explore. Within the field of knowledge-based systems, explanations have been considered as an important link between humans and machines. There, their main purpose has been to increase the confidence of the user in the system’s result, by providing evidence of how it was derived. Additional AI research has focused on how computer systems can use explanations themselves, for example to guide learning.

This workshop series aims to draw on multiple perspectives on explanation, to examine how explanation can be applied to further the development of robust and dependable systems and to illuminate system processes to increase user acceptance and feeling of control.

If you would like to participate in discussions on this topic or like to receive further information about this workshop you might consider joining the Yahoo!-group
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/explanation-research.
Information on explanation research is also collected here:
 http://on-explanation.net.


GOALS AND AUDIENCE
We invite original contributions to the research on explanations from a variety of areas and communities such as computer science, cognitive science, linguistics, philosophy of science, psychology, and education. In addition to presentations and discussions of invited contributions and invited talks, this workshop will offer organised and open sessions for targeted discussions and creating an interdisciplinary community. Demonstration sessions will provide the opportunity to showcase explanation-enabled/-aware applications.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
Suggested topics for contributions (not restricted to IT views):
* Models for explanations / explanation representation languages
* Integrating application and explanation knowledge
* Explanation-awareness in applications and software design
* Methodologies for developing explanation-aware systems
* Learning to explain
* Context-aware explanation vs. explanation-aware context
* Confidence and explanations
* Security, trust, and explanation
* Requirements and needs for explanations to support human understanding
* Explanation of complex, autonomous systems
* Co-operative explanation
* Explanation exchange among intelligent agents
* Explanation visualisation

Submissions on additional topics are welcome as well.


SUBMISSIONS AND STYLE
Workshop submissions will be electronic, in pdf format only, using the EasyChair submission system linked from the workshop website.

Papers must be written in English and not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS format. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and the ECAI conference and present  the contribution in order to be published in the workshop  proceedings. The organising committee is considering editing a special issue of an appropriate international journal (e.g., Kluwer’s Knowledge-based Systems, Elsevier’s Expert Systems with Applications, or Springer’s Information System Frontiers) depending on the number and quality of the submissions.

Those wishing to participate providing a live system demonstration should submit a proposal (1-2 pages).

Those wishing to participate without paper or demo submission should submit a brief synopsis of their relevant work or at least a brief statement of interest.

All accepted papers will be published as ECAI workshop notes as well as electronically at http://CEUR-WS.org.

If you have questions please contact the chairs using the following email address: chairs@exact2010.workhop.hm.


IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline:                     May 7, 2010
Notification of acceptance:              June 7, 2010
Camera-ready versions of papers:         June 20, 2010
ExaCt Workshop:                          August 16-17, 2010


WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
The schedule will be made available on the workshop website. See the workshop website for an agenda overview and links to past workshops.


INVITED TALKS
Talks by two invited speakers, each representing a different community addressing explanation issues, are planned.


CHAIRS
Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
thomas.roth-berghofer at dfki de

David B. Leake, Computer Science Department, Indiana University, USA
leake at cs indiana edu

Nava Tintarev, University of Aberdeen
n.tintarev at abdn ac uk

DEMO CHAIR
Daniel Bahls, MIMOS BERHAD, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
daniel.bahls at mimos my


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
David W. Aha, Navy Center for Applied Research in AI, Washington DC, USA
Martin Atzmüller, University of Würzburg, Germany
Patrick Brézillon, LIP6, France
Jörg Cassens, University of Lübeck, Germany
Babak Esfandiari, Carleton University, Canada
Ashok Goel, Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Pierre Grenon, KMI, The Open University, UK
Anders Kofod-Petersen, SINTEF, Norway
Deborah McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
Hector Muñoz-Avila, Lehigh University, USA
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, University of Texas, El Paso, USA
Enric Plaza, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Michael M. Richter, University of Calgary, Canada
Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France
Sven Schwarz, DFKI, Germany
Gheorghe Tecuci, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Douglas Walton, University of Windsor, Canada

Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing - Building Smart Worlds in Real and Cyber Spaces -

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                             CALL FOR PAPERS

    The 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
              - Building Smart Worlds in Real and Cyber Spaces -

                   UIC 2010 (http://www.nwpu.edu.cn/uic2010/)

                       Xi'an, China, October 26-29, 2010
                     Technically Sponsored by IEEE CS TCSC

         Co-located with ATC 2010 (http://www.nwpu.edu.cn/atc2010/)

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What's New:
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1. Due to many requests, the submission deadline of UIC 2010 is extended to May 15.

2. Selected best papers of UIC 2010 will be published in the special issues of:
   * Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (Springer, SCI-E)
   * International Journal of Information Acquisition (World Scientific)
   * International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (Inderscience)

3. Six workshops have been accepted by UIC 2010. Workshop paper submission deadline is May 30.

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Ubiquitous sensors, devices, networks and information are paving the way towards a smart world in which computational intelligence is distributed throughout the physical environment to provide reliable and relevant services to people. This ubiquitous intelligence will change the computing landscape because it will enable new breeds of applications and systems to be developed and the realm of computing possibilities will be significantly extended. By enhancing everyday objects with intelligence, many tasks and processes could be simplified, the physical spaces where people interact like the workplaces and homes, could become more efficient, safer and more enjoyable. Ubiquitous computing, or pervasive computing, uses these many “smart things or u-things” to create smart environments, services and applications.

A smart thing can be endowed with different levels of intelligence, and may be context-aware, active, interactive, reactive, proactive, assistive, adaptive, automated, sentient, perceptual, cognitive, autonomic and/or thinking. Research on ubiquitous intelligence is an emerging research field covering many disciplines. A series of grand challenges exist to move from the current level of computing services to the smart world of adaptive and intelligent services. Started in 2005, the series of UIC conferences has been held in Taipei, Nagasaki, Three Gorges (China), Hong Kong, Oslo and Brisbane. UIC 2010 will include a highly selective program of technical papers, accompanied by workshops, panel discussions and keynote speeches. Established as a premier venue in the area of ubiquitous intelligence and computing, UIC 2010 will offer a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and experiences in developing intelligent/smart objects, environments and systems.


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TOPICS:
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1. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Systems
* Sensor, Ad Hoc, Mesh & P2P Networks
* Social Networking and Computing
* Knowledge Representation and Ontology
* Wearable, Personal and Body Area Systems
* Middleware and Intelligent Platforms
* Intelligent Services and Architectures
* Agents, Swarm and Context-aware Systems
* Nature-inspired Intelligent Systems

2. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Environments
* Smart Room, Home, Office, Laboratory
* Smart Shop, Hospital, Campus, City, etc.
* Smart Vehicle, Road, Traffic & Transportation
* Healthcare and Elder/Child Care Services
* Pervasive/Ubiquitous Media and Services
* Pervasive Learning, Games, Entertainment
* Other Intelligent/Smart Applications

3. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Objects
* Electronic Labels, Cards, E-Tags and RFID
* Embedded Chips, Sensors & Actuators
* MEMS, NEMS, Micro & Biometric Devices
* Smart Appliances and Wearable Devices
* Material, Textile, Cloth, Furniture, etc.
* Embedded Software and Agents
* Interaction to Smart Objects/Devices
* Smart Object OS and Programming

4. Personal/Social/Physical Aspects
* Real/Cyber World Modeling and Semantics
* User/Object Identity and Activity Recognition
* Adaptive User Interfaces and Tools
* Security, Privacy, Safety and Legal Issues
* Emotional, Ethical and Psychological Factors
* Implication & Impact of Ubiquitous Intelligence
* Relations between Real and Cyber Worlds


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WORKSHOPS AND AFFILIATED EVENTS:
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The UIC 2010 Organizing Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Submit workshop proposals to workshops chairs via email (robertchh@gmail.com and mieso08@gmail.com) by 31 January 2010. Besides workshops, UIC 2010 will also include a special track, demo/exhibitions and a panel. Please visit the conference website for details.


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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
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Papers need to be prepared according to the LNCS format, and submitted in PDF format via the UIC 2010 submission site: http://www.nwpu.edu.cn/uic2010/Submission/


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IMPORTANT DATES:
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Paper submission:    May   15, 2010 (extended)
Author notification:     Jun.  30, 2010
Camera-ready due:    Jul.  30, 2010


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PAPER PUBLICATION:
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Accepted conference papers are planned to be published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. Distinguished Selected papers, after further extensions and revisions, will be published in special issues of prestigious journals including Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (Springer), International Journal of Information Acquisition (World Scientific), and International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (Inderscience).


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AWARDS:
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As in the past, UIC 2010 will present a Best Paper Award. A best demo or exhibition will also be selected.


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COMMITTEE:
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Honorary Chairs
Yaoxue Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA
Lionel M. Ni, Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. and Tech., HK

General Chairs
Daqing Zhang, Institute TELECOM SudParis, France
Xingshe Zhou, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., China
Sajal Das, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA

Program Chairs
Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., China
Ramiro Liscano, Univ. of Ontario Inst. of Tech., Canada
Guanling Chen, University of Massachusetts, USA

Program Vice Chairs
Waltenegus Dargie, Tech. Univ. of Dresden, Germany
Tatsuya Yamazaki, NICT, Japan
Yu Chen, Tsinghua University, China

Advisory Committee Chairs
Norio Shiratori, Tohoku University, Japan
Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Max Muehlhaeuser, Darmstadt Univ. of Tech., Germany

Workshop Chairs
Robert C. Hsu, Chung Hua Univ., Taiwan
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada

Publicity Chairs
Bessam Abdulrazak, Univ. Sherbrooke, Canada
Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea
Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China
Artur Lugmayr, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland
Hongbo Ni, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., China
Evi Syukur, University of New South Wales, Australia

Panel Chairs
Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany
Ren-Hung Huang, National Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan

Demo/Exhibition Chairs
Gang Pan, Zhejiang University, China
Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia, China

Award Chairs
Frode Eika Sandnes, Oslo University College, Norway
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK

Special Track Chairs
Zheng Yan, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia

International Liaison Chairs
Marius Portmann, University of Queensland, Australia
Yo-Ping Huang, National Taipei Univ. of Tech., Taiwan
Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan
Tao Mei, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea
Judith Symonds, Auckland Univ. of Tech., New Zealand

Industrial Liaison Chairs
Wei Han, China Aeronautical Computing Institute, China
Nagula Sangary, RIM, Canada
Yan Zhang, Simula Lab, Norway

Local Arrangement Chair
Yuying Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., China

Web Administration Chair
Haipeng Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., China

Steering Committee
Jianhua Ma (chair), Hosei University, Japan
Laurence T. Yang (chair), St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Sci. & Tech., China
Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Germany
Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia
Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Advisory Committee and Program Committee
See UIC 2010 website: http://www.nwpu.edu.cn/uic2010/

Workshop on Goal-based Business Process Engineering

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                    WGBP 2010 - Call for Papers

International Workshop on Goal-based Business Process Engineering (WGBP 2010)
at the Fourteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (The Enterprise Computing Conference)

Vitória/ES – Brazil
25-29 October 2010

Papers submission deadline: 17 April 2010
Web site: http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br/wgbp2010

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- ABOUT THE WORKSHOP -
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Competitive businesses and an ever changing market have demanded that current organizations constantly evolve. To achieve that, it becomes necessary to develop a deep understanding of the organizational practices and systems. This motivates an increasing interest in business processes engineering. Such interest has the benefit to allow a deep understanding of the processes that generate the main products and services offered by the organization. This may lead to: a) enhance these processes to obtain higher quality both in products and services; b) develop information systems which are more in line with the current processes, so that such systems more appropriately satisfy user requirements; and c) provide documentation of the applied practices, reading to more efficient knowledge management, which enables the integration of newcomers within the organization.

However, to guarantee that business process engineering is applied to its full potential, keeping the organization competitive, it is necessary to understand how these processes achieve the local and strategic goals of the organization. This may guide the decision regarding which activities and processes should be the priorities of that particular organization.

Goal modeling has gained a lot of attention in the past few years, especially in the field of Requirements Engineering. In this context, goals are applied as a natural modeling construct to capture the requirements of a system to-be. Within the Business Process Engineering community, some works have included the concept of goal as modeling primitive, acknowledging its importance to motivate processes that underlie organizations. However, up to very recently, such goal models have remained peripheral and often ignored in current business process engineering practices.

The International Workshop on Goal-based Business Process Engineering (WGBP 2010) is the first of what we hope to be many events that bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of goals and business process engineering to discuss how these two complementary areas may be integrated. This way, we hope to contribute to the development of each of these areas, as well as to create a forum where works that combine them may be published and discussed.


- TOPICS -
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The workshop encourages submissions on the relation of Goals and Business Process Engineering with the following topics, but not limited to:
• Methodologies for Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Goal-based Organizational Modeling
• Enterprise Architectures
• Viewpoint Alignment in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Ontologies in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Semantics in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Service-oriented architectures in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Simulations of Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Monitoring of Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Formal Description, Verification and Validation in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Reengineering in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Requirements Engineering in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Knowledge Management in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Security issues in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Quality of service in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Norms and Regulations in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Autonomic Systems in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Product Line in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Industrial Case Studies in Goal-based Business Process Engineering


- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -
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This workshop accepts two kinds of papers: short papers (up to 4 pages long) and full papers (up to 8 pages long). All submissions to workshops must comply with the IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings format guidelines (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) (please use the latest template as there have been updates recently). Submissions must be in English and must be made using EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wgbp2010).

Workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be accessible through IEEE Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. In order to have the paper published, at least one author of each accepted workshop paper will have to register for the whole EDOC 2010 conference and attend the workshop to present the paper. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the workshop.

All papers will be refereed by at least 3 members of the international program committee. Reviews are based on originality, relevance, technical soundness and presentation  (all paper sections are considered for review, not only an extended abstract).


- IMPORTANT DATES -
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Paper submission due (extended!!!!): 2 May 2010
Paper notification: 4 June 2010
Paper camera-ready paper due: 16 June 2010
Workshop held: 25th or 26th October 2010 (in one of the two first days of EDOC’10)


- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -
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Renata S.S. Guizzardi (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil), rguizzardi@inf.ufes.br
Anna Perini (FBK-IRST Trento, Italy), perini@fbk.eu
Jaelson Castro (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil), jbc@cin.ufpe.br


- PROGRAM COMMITTEE -
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Alberto Siena (CIT, FBK-IRST Trento, Italy)
Angelo Susi (CIT, FBK-IRST Trento, Italy)
Anthony Finkelstein (UCL, UK)
Carson Woo (UBC, Canada)
Claudia Cappelli (NP2TEC/UNIRIO, Brazil)
Collete Rolland (Univ. Paris I Panthéon-Sourbonne, France)
Daniel Amyot (Univ. Ottawa, Canada)
Dimitris Karagiannis (Univ. Wien, Austria)
Eric Yu (Univ. Toronto, Canada)
Fernanda Baião (UNIRIO, Brazil)
Fernanda Alencar (UFPE, Brazil)
Gerd Wagner (Cottbus Univ. Technology, Germany)
Giancarlo Guizzardi (UFES, Brazil)
João Paulo A. Almeida (UFES, Brazil)
John Mylopolous (Univ. Toronto, Canada)
Jolita Ralyte (Univ. Geneva, Switzerland)
Julio Leite (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Lin Liu (Tsinghua, China)
Lucineia Heloísa Thom (UFRGS, Brazil)
Luiz Olavo Bonino (Univ. Twente, The Netherlands)
Manfred Reichert (Ulm Univ., Germany)
Maria Beatriz Felgar de Toledo (IC/UNICAMP, Brazil)
Maria-Eugenia Iacob (Univ. Twente, The Netherlands)
Oscar Pastor (UPV, Spain)
Paul Johannesson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Xavier Franch (UPC, Spain)
Yiyun Yu (Open Univ., UK)
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Workshop on New Frontiers in Service-Oriented Computing

Workshop on New Frontiers in Service-Oriented Computing
 
                                 In conjunction with
                        The Fifth International Conference on
                 P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud, and Internet Computing 
                                   (3PGCIC'2010)
 
                          November 4-6, 2010, Fukuoka, Japan
                 
                   http://serviceware.insa-lyon.fr/nfsoc/index.html 
 

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES 
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The widespread use of Internet technologies has an important impact on the way organizations deal with their partners and customers. To remain competitive, organizations are under pressure to take advantage of the information revolution that the Internet and the Web have brought about. Most organizations are adopting Web-based approaches for more automation, efficient business processes, personalization, and worldwide visibility.
 
Service-Oriented Computing design principles and their implementation technologies such as Web services, JBI, and SCA could help organizations to become more Web-oriented. This should result in building interoperable business applications that can cross organizational boundaries. The development of different industry standards, products and tools for supporting service-based  system design and development is advancing at a very rapid rate. Despite all the efforts that are put into Service-Oriented Computing research and development, many organizations still struggle with how to make their core business operations comply with Service-Oriented Computing principles.
 
The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the recent and significant developments in the field of Service-Oriented Computing. The workshop will provide a forum for articles that tackle challenges related to specification, modeling, design, development and deployment of Service-Oriented Computing-based solutions.
 
TOPICS
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Topics of interest for each of the main research tracks of the 2009 conference edition include, but are not  limited to:
  * Foundations of Services Computing
       Formal methods for services computing
       Services composition
       Services delivery
       Services discovery
       Services modeling
       Services science 
 
  * Service-centric Computing Models
       Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
       SOA industry solutions
       SOA industry standards
       SOA solution stack
 
  * Service Computing Management 
  Service Governance
  Service Monitoring 
  Trust and Security
  Risk assessment and Mitigation  
  Performance and Evaluation
 
 
  * Service Applications
  Software as a Service 
 Business, Educational and finance Services
    Application integration services
       Service computing process modeling
 Service transformation and integration
       Service level automation and orchestration
 Software architecture development and deployment
       
 
PAPER SUBMISSION
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers. All submissions should comply with the IEEE 8.5 two-column format. Papers should contain up to 5 keywords. Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness, and will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. All papers are to be submitted in PDF electronically via the workshop
Web site and will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee.
 
IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission: April 30, 2010 
Notification of Acceptance: June 31, 2010 
Camera-Ready Submission: September 15, 2010
Conference days: November 4-6, 2010 
 
ORGANIZERS
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Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Zhongjie Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
 
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For more information about FSOC please visit the workshop home page at
http://serviceware.insa-lyon.fr/nfsoc/index.html 

Special Issue on: FORMAL MODELS OF NORM CHANGE

Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logic

Special Issue on:

FORMAL MODELS OF NORM CHANGE

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Formal models of norm change have been drawing attention since the seminal work of Alchourrón and Bulygin on normative systems, and that of Alchourrón, Gärdenfors and Makinson on the logic of theory change. Research trends in Artificial Intelligence have recently revived this attention emphasizing the importance of a formal analysis of the type(s) of dynamics involved in systems of norms, and norm change has become the topic of a dedicated international workshop: http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/normchange2/index.html

This special issue aims at providing an up to date account of this recent and lively research area at the interface of logic, philosophy, computer science and legal theory.

We invite submissions on any topic in the following, not exclusive, list:

  * Dynamic logic approaches to norm change
  * AGM-like approaches to norm change
  * Deontic logic and the dynamics of informational attitudes
  * Deontic logic and game theory
  * Formal analysis of legal procedures
  * Norm change in legal theory
  * Norm change and multi-agent systems


SUBMISSION
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The papers can be submitted via email to Davide Grossi (d.grossi@uva.nl ).

The paper must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions will be refereed according to the usual high standards of JANCL.

Submissions exceeding 25 pages will require a specific justification and the agreement of the editors.

The paper must be prepared in LaTeX. Typing instructions and style files can be obtained:
- in .ZIP format from: http://www.irit.fr/JANCL/Styles/Latex/Jancl_style_V2.1.6.zip
- in TAR.GZ format from: http://www.irit.fr/JANCL/Styles/Latex/Jancl_style_V2.1.6.tar.gz

Any further information about submission can be asked to Davide Grossi (d.grossi@uva.nl ).


PLANNED SCHEDULE
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Deadline for submissions:               15 June 2010
First referee reports:                  15 August 2010
Submission revision (if necessary):     15 September 2010
Notification:                           30 September 2010
Final version:                          30 October 2010


GUEST EDITORS
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Jan Broersen, Utrecht University (broersen@cs.uu.nl )
Davide Grossi, University of Amsterdam (d.grossi@uva.nl )
Leendert van der Torre, University of Luxembourg (leon.vandertorre@uni.lu )


URL of the CFP: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~grossi/SpecialIssue/NormChangeJANCL





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Davide Grossi
ILLC, University of Amsterdam
phone: +31 020 525 8254
_www.illc.uva.nl/~grossi_
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Special Issue on: Distributed Intelligence and Data Fusion for Sensor Systems

Call for Papers

Special Issue on:
Distributed Intelligence and Data Fusion for Sensor Systems

in IET Communications (SCI Indexed)
http://scitation.aip.org/IET-COM

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Scope

Use of intelligence, data mining and data fusion has provided new momentum in 
the use of sensors and converted WSNs into a new brand of dynamic, autonomous 
and intelligent Distributed Sensor Systems. These features enable new smart 
sensors to play new roles as intelligent nodes gathering, manipulating and 
decimating data for more reliable and secure communication whilst performing 
more efficiently using less energy and number crunching.

This special issue aims at presenting innovative and signifi cant research 
papers on the design, implementation and evaluation of wireless sensors, 
especially for use of distributed intelligence and data fusion. 



Topics of primaryinterest include, but are not limited to:
 
* applications and deployment of intelligence in sensor systems and distributed 
  data fusion
* sensor networking protocols and algorithms
* sensor network management protocol and systems
* cross-layer design and sensor network management protocols
* security of distributed intelligence in sensor networks
* inter-connection between distributed sensor systems
* testbed, experimental measurements & performance analysis
* systems for context sensing and context awareness
* tools and methodologies for sensory data fusion
* QoS provisioning protocols with data fusion technology
* collaborative in-network processing and data sharing
* use of Intelligence and data in energy harvesting



IMPORTANT DATES

* Deadline for Submission of Paper:   01 July 2010
* Authors to receive a 1st decision:  30 September  2010
* Final notification of acceptance:   31 January 2011
* On-line and print publication:      Q1/Q2 2011



Paper Submission:
All papers must be submitted through the journal's Manuscript Central system:




Guest editors:
 
 Dr. Lei Shu (Corresponding)
 Nishio Lab., Department of Multimedia Engineering
 Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
 Osaka University, Japan
 E-mail: lei.shu@ieee.org
 
 Prof. Jaime Lloret Mauri
 Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
 E-mail: jlloret@dcom.upv.es

 Prof. Joel Rodrigues
 University of Beira Interior, Portugal
 E-mail: joeljr@ieee.org

 Prof. Min Chen
 Seoul National University, Korea
 E-mail: minchen@ieee.org



IET Publishing Dept. contact:
 Paul Rowley
 Editorial Assistant
 IET Communications
 E-mail: prowley@theiet.org
 
 Professor Habib F. Rashvand
 Series Editor
 IET Communications
 E-mail: h.rashvand@warwick.ac.uk

BWSS 2010 - SECOND BRAZILIAN WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL SIMULATION

BWSS 2010 -  SECOND BRAZILIAN WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL SIMULATION

[Workshop co-located with the 20th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence - SBIA, the XI Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Neural Network - SBRN, the IV Intelligent Robotics Meeting - JRI (with IX Latin American Robotics Competition - LARC, and Latin American Robotics Symposium - LARS)]

São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil, 23-28 October, 2010

The BWSS 2010 Website is http://www.ncc.furg.br/bwss2010 .

BWSS 2010 - Social simulation has a dialectical relationship to Artificial Intelligence, in general, and Multi-agent Systems, in particular. It is both an area for the application of methods, techniques and technologies of AI and MAS, as well as a source of inspiration for new theories, models and methods for AI and MAS, as it draws upon the theories, models and methods of the social sciences (anthropology, sociology, political science, economy, government, management, etc.).

This one-day workshop will address theoretical, methodological, technical and instrumental issues concerning the area of simulation of social systems. The workshop will thus have an interdisciplinary character.

Theories and models of societies and smaller social systems that embody a computational concern are at the center of area.

Micro-level and macro-level issues concerning structures and processes at the social and individual levels, as well as the mutual influence between such conceptual levels, and problems of upward and downward causation between them should also be contemplated.

Techniques, tools and computational environments for the simulation of those models, specially those based on agent and multi-agent technology, and AI methods in general, should be of primary concern.

Application of social simulation to the various areas of social sciences (anthropology, sociology, political science, economy, government, management, etc.) should also be of interest to the audience.

BWSS 2010 will have two invited speakers:

- Prof. Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK) Title: Intra & inter-network dynamics, and the 'semantics' of the links
- Prof. Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Title: Modelling complex social systems: opportunities and challenges

We are cordially inviting you to submit a paper to BWSS 2010. The topics of interest are (not exclusively):

- theoretical foundations of social simulation
- methods and models for social simulation
- AI and MAS tools, techniques, models and environments for social simulation
- applications of social simulation (in research, government, management, education, etc.)


Important dates:

- Deadline for paper submission: June 28, 2010
- Notification to authors: July 28, 2010
- Camera-ready copies of papers: August 12, 2010
- Workshop date: co-located with SBIA, 23-28 October, 2010 (day yet to be announced)


Paper format:

Papers should be written in English, with at most 12 pages, and submitted in PDF format, following the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The submission system will be JEMS/SBC, through the BWSS 2010 website.  At least one author of any accepted paper should attend the workshop.


Proceedings:

The papers accepted for the workshop will be published in the Workshop Proceedings.


Best Paper:

An extended version of the best paper presented at the workshop, selected by the Program Committee, will be invited to be submitted for the JBCS - Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society. (http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?language=2&subject=309)


Post-Proceedings:

Depending on the number of submissions, we are planning to propose a special issue on Social Simulation of the JBCS, where the authors of a selection of best papers presented at workshop, among other possible submissions, would be invited to submit extended versions of their papers, including the discussions and suggestions arised at the workshop oral presentations and working meetings.


Organizing committee:

* Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro, FURG, Brazil (corresponding chair, email:
gracaliz@gmail.com)
* Diana Francisca Adamatti, FURG, Brazil
* Jaime Sichman, USP, Brazil
* João Balsa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
* Luis Antunes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
* Patricia Tedesco, UFPE, Brazil

Program committee (preliminary list):
 

*Alessandro de Lima Bicho (FURG, Brazil)
*Alexei Sharpanskykh (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
*Ana Lucia Cetertich Bazzan (UFRGS, Brazil)
*André Maurício Cunha Campos (UFRN, Brazil)
*Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa (FURG, Brazil)
*Armando Geller (George Mason University, USA)
*Bruce Edmonds (Centre for Policy Modelling, UK)
*Claudio Cioffi-Revilla (George Mason University, USA)
*Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
*Diana Francisca Adamatti (FURG, Brazil)
*Fabio Yoshimitsu Okuyama (FTEC, Brazil)
*Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto (UPE)
*Fernando Lopes (INETI, Portugal)
*Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Brescia, Italy)
*Frederic Amblard (Universite Toulouse 1, France)
*Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro (FURG, Brazil)
*Gustavo Lugo (UTFPR, Brazil)
*Harko Verhagen (Stockholm University, Sweden)
*Helder Coelho (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
*Iqbal Adjali (Unilever R&D Colworth Lab, UK)
*Jaime Sichman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
*Jean-Daniel Kant (University of Paris Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
*João Balsa (University of Lisbon, Portugal
*Jorge Louçã (ISCTE, Portugal)
*Juan Pavón (Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain)
*Julie Dugdale (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France)
*Juliette Rouchier (Greqam/CNRS, France)
*Keith Sawyer (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
*Klaus Troitzsch (University of Koblenz, Germany)
*Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
*Laszlo Gulyas (AITIA Intl. Inc., Lorand Eotvos University, Hungary)
*Maíra Ribeiro Rodrigues (UFMG, Brazil)
*Maria das Graças Bruno Marietto (UFABC, Brazil)
*Mario Paolucci (ISTC/CNR, Italy)
*Nick Gotts (Macaulay Institute, Scotland, UK)
*Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK)
*Nuno David (ISCTE, Portugal)
*Patrícia Restelli Tedesco (UFPE, Brazil)
*Paulo Roberto Ferreira Junior (UFPel, Brazil)
*Paulo Trigo (ISEL, Portugal)
*Pedro Andrade (INPE, Brazil)
*Pietro Terna (University of Torino, Italy)
*Ricardo Rodrigo Stark Bernard (UFSC, Brazil)
*Rino Falcone (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
*Rosaria Conte (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
*Samer Hassan (Univ. Complutense Madrid, Spain)
*Tibor Bosse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
*Wander Jager (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)