Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems ITMAS 2011

Dear colleagues, I am pleased to invite you to submit a paper to ITMAS 2011, 2nd International Workshop on Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems.

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The 2nd International Workshop on Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems ITMAS 2011 Web page: http://itmas2011.gti-ia.dsic.upv.es

To be held with AAMAS 2011 (http://www.aamas2011.tw/)

2 - 6 May, 2011, Taipei, Taiwan

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DESCRIPTION

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ITMAS aims at bringing together leading researchers from both academia and industry to discuss issues on the design and implementation of infrastructures and tools for Multiagent Systems. When developing applications based on Multiagent Systems, developers and users demand infrastructures and tools which support essential features in Multiagent Systems (such as agent organizations, mobility, etc.) and facilitate the system design, management, execution and evaluation. Agent infrastructures are usually built using other technologies such as grid systems, service-oriented architectures, P2P networks, etc. In this sense, the integration and interoperability of such technologies in Multiagent Systems is also a challenging issue in the area of both tools and infrastructures for Multiagent Systems. A long term goal is the industrial development of infrastructures for building highly scalable applications comprising pre-existing agents that must be organized or orchestrated.

In order for Multiagent Systems to be included in real domains such as media and Internet, logistics, e-commerce and health care, infrastructures and tools for Multiagent Systems should provide efficiency, scalability, security, management, monitorization and other features related to building real applications.

We encourage the submission of papers describing any kind of infrastructures and tools that are used to provide support for Multiagent Systems. We are particularly interested in infrastructures and tools that allow agent-based systems to be adopted by designers and programmers both in academia and industry.

Specific topics for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

* Agent Infrastructures

* Agent Communication Technologies

* Interoperability and Standards

* Integration of technologies to support Multiagent Systems

* Integration of Agent Infrastructures with non-agent Infrastructures

* Efficiency and Scalability Evaluation

* Agent Infrastructure Benchmarks

* Security, Privacy and Identity Management in Multiagent Systems

* Secure Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems

* Infrastructures and tools supporting Social and Organizational Models

* Infrastructures and tools supporting Trust and Reputation Models

* Infrastructures and tools supporting Intelligent Virtual Environments

* Infrastructures and tools supporting Electronic Institutions

* Infrastructures for agent-based Service-Oriented Systems

* Design, Management and Monitoring tools for Multiagent Systems

* Models and Architectures for Designing Agent Infrastructures

* Coordination infrastructures for Multiagent Systems

* Environment infrastructures for Multiagent Systems

* Infrastructure support to Model-driven Engineering in Multiagent Systems

* Infrastructure mechanisms for self-organising Multiagent Systems

* Information Retrieval Tools for Multiagent Systems

* Semantic Web Tools for Multiagent Systems

* Mobile Agent Technologies

* Industry implementations of Multiagent Systems

* Experiences using Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems

* Infrastructures and Tools for Biomedical Multiagent Systems

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IMPORTANT DATES

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* Paper Sumbission Deadline: JANUARY, 30, 2011

* Paper Acceptance Notification: FEBRUARY 27, 2011

* Camera-ready copies due: MARCH 7, 2011

* Workshop Date: MAY 2-3, 2011

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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* Vicent Botti (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Ana Garcia-Fornes (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Michal Pěchouček (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)

* Alessandro Ricci (Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Italy)

* Jose M. Such (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Danny Weyns (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be confirmed)

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* Juan M. Alberola (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Makoto Amamiya (Kyushu University, Japan)

* Matteo Baldoni (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy)

* Fabio Bellifemine (Telecom Italia, Italy)

* Juan A. Botía (University of Murcia, Spain)

* Vicent Botti (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Frances Brazier (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands)

* Nadia Erdogan (I.staurkeynbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Turkey)

* Agustin Espinosa (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Jomi F. Hübner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

* Ana Garcia-Fornes (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Kamalakar Karlapalem (International Institute of Information Technology, India)

* Yasuhiko Kitamura (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)

* Abder Koukam (University of Technology UTBM, France)

* Michal Laclavik (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic)

* Pavlos Moraitis (Paris Descartes University, France)

* Andrea Omicini (Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Italy)

* Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)

* Michal Pechoucek (Agent Technology Center, Czech Republic)

* Alessandro Ricci (Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Italy)

* Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)

* Murat Sensoy (University of Aberdeen, UK)

* Carles Sierra (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)

* Michael Shumacher (University of Applied Sciences Western, Switzerland)

* Jose M. Such (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Pavel Vrba (Rockwell Automation Research Center, Czech Republic)

* Danny Weyns (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

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SUBMISSION and REVIEW DETAILS

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Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers from the Program Committee. Criteria for the selection of papers will include: high quality, clear presentation, novelty of research, relevance to the topics, coverage of relevant state of the art and the practical implementation of the infrastructures and tools presented.

Submissions must follow the Springer LNCS paper format and should be a maximum of 12 pages.

Papers must be submitted in pdf format via the conference management system, available at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itmas2011

As in previous editions, we are negotiating the publication of extended versions of selected papers as a volume for a special issue in a journal indexed in the SCI.

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CONTACT

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Ana Garcia-Fornes (agarcia(at)dsic(dot)upv(dot)es)

Trading Agent Competition, July 16 - 17, 2011

Call for Participation: TAC-2011

Twelfth Annual Trading Agent Competition, July 16 - 17, 2011

Barcelona, Spain --- Co-located with IJCAI 2011, the 22nd
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

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Trading in electronic markets is an increasingly commonplace economic
activity, as well as a topic of special interest within the AI,
Electronic Commerce, and Multiagent Systems (MAS) research
communities.

We invite you to participate in the Twelfth Annual Trading Agent
Competition (TAC-11), to be held in June and July of 2011, with the
finals taking place during the IJCAI-11 conference in Barcelona,
preceded by qualifying and seeding rounds in June and early July. You
may register for the competition starting 15 December 2010 through 30
April 2011 at http://www.sics.se/tac/intent.php.

Building on the success of previous Trading Agent Competition events,
this year's event is again designed to spur research on common
problems, promote definitions of benchmarks and standard problem
descriptions, and showcase current technologies. In addition to the
events of 2010, we have two new events this year: Power TAC, which
studies retail electric power markets, and the Lemonade Stand Game,
a subtle abstract strategy game.

The competition will pit software agents, developed by research
groups, students, and others from all over the world, against each
other in challenging competitive simulation scenarios.  These
scenarios are designed to present competing agents with difficult
decision problems and admit a wide variety of potential bidding and
negotiation strategies.

The 2011 competiton will include five games:

1. Power TAC. Sustainable energy systems of the future will need more
than efficient, clean, low-cost, renewable energy sources; they will
also need efficient price signals that motivate sustainable energy
consumption as well as a better real-time alignment of energy demand
and supply. In Power TAC, agents act as retail brokers in a local
power distribution region, purchasing power from a wholesale market as
well as from local sources, such as homes and businesses with solar
panels, and selling power to local customers and into the wholesale
market. Retail brokers must solve a supply-chain problem in which the
product is infinitely perishable, and supply and demand must be
exactly balanced at all times.

- Power TAC Game Master is Wolf Ketter, Erasmus University,
  Rotterdam. Preliminary information is available at
  www.powertac.org. Full documentation and software available soon.

2. Lemonade Stand Game. It is summer on Lemonade Island, and you need
to make some cash. You set up a lemonade stand on the beach
(which goes all around the island), as do two other
entreupeneurs. There are twelve
places to set up, evenly spaced around the island. Your
price is fixed, and all customers go to the nearest lemonade stand.
Every night, everyone moves under cover of darkness
(simultaneously) and in the morning, their locations are fixed. There
is no cost to move. After 100 days of summer, the game is over. The
utility of the repeated game is the sum of the utilities of
single-shot games.

- This is an "affiliated" game, organized by Martin
  Zinkevich. Information is available at
  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/lemonadegame/

3. TAC Ad Auctions (AA). In the TAC/AA game, agents representing
Internet advertisers bid for search-engine ad placement over a range
of interrelated keyword combinations. A back-end search-user model
translates placement over each simulated day to impressions, clicks,
and sale conversions, yielding revenue for the advertiser. Advertiser
strategies combining online data analysis and bidding tac tics compete
to maximize profit over the simulated campaign horizon.

- TAC AA Game Master is Patrick R. Jordan, Yahoo! Labs.
  Documentation and software for participating in the AA
  Tournament are accessible at  http://aa.tradingagents.org/

4. TAC Market Design (reverse TAC, or "CAT"). CAT software agents
represent market makers whose goals are to attract potential buyers
and sellers as customers, and then to match buyers with sellers. The
market makers compete with one another in doing this, such as the
London Stock Exchange competes with the NYSE for the business of stock
traders.

- CAT Game Master: Tim Miller, University of Melbourne. 
  Documentation and software for participating in the CAT Tournament
  are accessible via sourceforge. Access details and other CAT
  information is available at
  http://www.marketbasedcontrol.com/blog/index.php?page_id=5

5. TAC Supply Chain Management (SCM). TAC/SCM simulates a dynamic
supply chain environment where agents compete to secure customer
orders and components required for production of these orders. The
game captures many of the complexities of actual supply chains, where
both demand and supply fluctuate and each manufacturer has limited
production capacity. There are also two SCM Challenge events that can
be run if there is a clear expressed interest: a Procurement Challenge
and a Prediction Challenge; these will take place if enough teams
(minimum 6) register for them.

- TAC SCM Game Master: Vedran Podobnik, University of Zagreb.
  Documentation an open source agent framework for TAC SCM, and sample
  agents, are available for download at http://www.sics.se/tac/. An
  updated SCM server and log-analysis tool, with examples, are
  available at http://tac.cs.umn.edu/controlled-server.shtml.

The qualifying and seeding rounds will be held in June and early July,
and the first day of the final rounds is scheduled to coincide with
the Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA) workshop to be held at
IJCAI'11.

To register for TAC-11, please fill out the registration form before
30 April 2011 at:

    http://www.sics.se/tac/intent.php

The entry fee will be US$250 per team to enter one game, or $400 for
all TAC games, except that there is no fee for the Lemonade Stand
Game. For TAC SCM the entry fee is the same independently of
the number of challenge events in which a team competes.

The entry fee is waived for teams who send a representative to the TAC
finals at IJCAI 2011, if that representative registers for the TADA
workshop. A given individual may represent one team for one game.

Note: Please send any questions regarding the fees to tac [at]
tradingagents.org. Groups unable to afford the entry fee may also
contact tac [at] tradingagents.org for special consideration.

General information about TAC can be found at:

    http://www.sics.se/tac/

Exact dates for the qualifying and seeding rounds will soon be posted
on this site, and sent to the tac-discuss mailing list. You may
subscribe by sending an email to tac-discuss-request (at) umich.edu,
subject "subscribe".

More information about the Trading Agent Analysis and Design (TADA)
workshop is at:

    http://issel.ee.auth.gr/tada2011/

Information about the Association for Trading Agent Research, the
organization responsible for TAC, is at:

    http://tradingagents.org

Please circulate this announcement to anyone who may be interested in
participating. Inquiries may be directed to

    tac-support [at] cs.umn.edu

5th International Conference on Agents and Multi-agent Systems – Technologies and Applications

KES-AMSTA-2011,The 5th International Conference on Agents and Multi-agent Systems – Technologies and Applications,

29 June – 1 July 2011, Manchester, United Kingdom

http://amsta-11.kesinternational.org/

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KES-AMSTA-2011 is an international scientific conference for research in the field of agent and multi-agent systems.
The conference will take place in the city of Manchester (United Kingdom), internationally known for its sporting, cultural and scientific achievements. The conference will consist of keynote talks, paper and poster presentations, invited sessions and workshops on the theory and application of Agent-based Systems and related areas.
-- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------
PAPER SUBMISSION NOW OPEN - SUBMIT PAPERS VIA THE WEB SITE

Papers are invited from prospective authors with interests in the areas of: Agent Systems, Multi-agent Systems; Development Tools for Agent-based Systems and their Applications.
All contributions must original and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period. Please see the web site for details of the required paper format. To ensure high quality, all papers must be submitted using the PROSE online system, and will be thoroughly reviewed by the Programme Committee. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in LNCS/LNAI.
Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in the KES Journal and the International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems. Authors will be limited to one paper per registration.
-- CALL FOR INVITED SESSIONS ----------------------------------------
Scientists, engineers and researchers who would like to organise an invited session of six papers, or a parallel workshop of a half or full day, on some topic falling within the scope of the conference, are invited to contact the KES Secretariat enclosing the title and content of the proposed session. We also welcome suggestions for other activities that will appeal to our delegates.
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-- General Sessions -- Submission of papers: 20 Dec. 2010
Notification of acceptance: 11 Feb. 2011
Final paper publication files to be uploaded by: 11 Mar. 2011
-- Invited Sessions -- Submission of Papers: Set by Session Chair
Notification of Acceptance: Set by Session Chair
Upload of Final Publication Files: 11 March 2011

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Honorary Chair: J. Brooks, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
General Co-Chairs: J. D. O’Shea, Manchester Metropolitan University, N.T. Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, L.C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Executive Chair: R.J. Howlett, Bournemouth University, UK
Program Co-Chairs: Z. Bandar, Manchester Metropolitan University, K Crockett, Manchester Metropolitan University, Dariusz Krol, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Local Organizing Chair: J. D. O’Shea, Manchester Metropolitan University
Publicity Co-Chairs: D. McLean, Manchester Metropolitan University and K. Crockett, Manchester Metropolitan University
Special Session Chair: I. Czarnowski, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Doctoral Track Chair: D. Król, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
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2011 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology

Call for Workshop Proposal

The 2011 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and 
Intelligent Agent Technology

22 � 27 August 2011, Campus Scientifique de la Doua, Lyon, France

http://wi-iat-2011.org

The Program Committees of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT�11) invite proposals for Workshops. The Workshops will be held within the Conference, August, 22, 2011 at Lyon, France.

The main goal of the WI-IAT�11 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction and comparison of approaches, methods and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general areas related to Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology. The workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas.

The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and range of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the workshops.

The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal issues. Workshops may be full-day or half-day. A full-day workshop should select 10-14 regular papers, while a half-day workshop should select 5-7 regular papers, from a large number of submissions. Submissions accepted as workshop papers will be allocated 4 pages in the proceedings. The workshop organizers should ensure the presence of authors of accepted papers at the workshops. Optionally, the workshop may be started or concluded by a panel focusing on interesting aspects, controversial issues, or unsolved problems to stimulate lively, thoughtful, and thought-provoking debate; we expect the workshop organizers to actively engage the audience and help them gain a deeper understanding of the issues. The goal of a panel is to debate and thus panels should always reflect more than one point of view.

Workshop Proposal Submission
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Workshop organizers should submit their proposals (PDF) directly to the three Workshop Chairs via e-mail (see their email addresses below).
Workshop proposals should include the following elements:

- Title of the workshop
- Names of workshop organizers, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address
- Short CV of organizers
- A description of the topics of the workshop (not exceeding 200 words)
- Type of the workshop (full-day or half-day)
- A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of Web Intelligence and/or Intelligent Agent Technology
- A short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers
- Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop.

Topics of Interest
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Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT). The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in these two fields. Suggested, workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

- Intelligent e-Technology (including e-Science, e-Business, e-Things and e-Activities, e-Learning, e-Finance, e-Medicine, e-Government, e-Community)
- Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
- Intelligent Distributed Robots
- Distributed Intelligence
- Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
- Semantics and Ontology Engineering
- Sensing Web and Smart World
- Social Networks and Ubiquitous Intelligence
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Web Agents
- Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
- Web Mining and Farming
- Web Data Management
- Web Scale Commonsense Knowledge Processing
- Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
- Web Services and Grid Services
- Web Support Systems
- World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
- Convergence of email, instant messaging and social-network tools
- Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
- Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
- Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
- Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
- Learning and Self-Adapting Agents

Important Dates
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Workshop proposal submission: December 17, 2010
Notification to workshop proposers: January 7, 2011
Workshop paper submissions: March 21, 2011
Notification of Workshop paper acceptance: June 1, 2011
Workshops and Industry day: August 22, 2011

Workshop Co-Chairs
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Jomi F. Hübner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brasil)
Jean-Marc Petit (INSA, France)
Einoshin Suzuki (Kyushu University, Japan)

Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE 2011

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                              CALL FOR PAPERS

6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE 2011

                        Website: http://www.enase.org

                             June 8 - 11, 2011 
                                Beijing, China


Hosted by Beijing Jiaotong University

Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI


Submission deadline: January 24, 2011.

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Dear Colleague,

We would like to draw your attention to the 6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2011), which has currently an open call for papers.
ENASE 2011 will be held in Beijing, China next June 8-11 and will be hosted by the Beijing Jiaotong University. It will be held in conjuction with ICEIS 2011 (http://www.iceis.org) and registration to ENASE will allow free access to ICEIS.

ENASE is interested in promoting high quality research as it can be confirmed by last year acceptance rates, where from 70 submissions, 27% were accepted as full papers and 16% were presented as short papers.

Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. CXCS

Revised and extended versions of all full paper which are presented at the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book. 

All papers presented at the conference venue will also be available at SciTePress' Digital Library (www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).

Workshops and special sessions are also invited. If you wish to propose a workshop or a special session, for example based on the results of a specific research project, please send a proposal to the ENASE secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea.

Please check further details at the conference website (http://www.enase.org). 


Should you have any question or suggestion please don't hesitate to contact me.


Kind regards,
Helder Coelhas
ENASE Secretariat
Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2 esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5433
Email: enase.secretariat@insticc.org




ENASE Website: http://www.enase.org
June 8 - 11, 2011
Beijing, China

IMPORTANT DATES:            
Regular Paper Submission: January 24, 2011
Authors Notification (regular papers): March 25, 2011
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: April 4, 2011


TOPICS OF INTEREST:

    * Software and Systems Development Methodologies
    * "3A" (Agile, Aspect-oriented and Agent-oriented) Software Engineering
    * Service-oriented Software Engineering and Management
    * Component-based Software Engineering and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Systems
    * Model-driven Engineering
    * Meta Programming Systems and Meta-modeling
    * Knowledge Management and Engineering
    * Architectural Design and Meta Architectures
    * Business Process Management, Engineering and Reengineering
    * Process-centric Paradigms
    * Service-oriented Architectures
    * Service Science
    * Application Integration Technologies
    * Enterprise Integration Strategies and Patterns
    * e-Business Technologies
    * Requirements Engineering Frameworks and Models
    * Collaborative Requirements Management Systems
    * Business and Software Modeling Languages
    * Software Quality Management
    * Software Change and Configuration Management
    * Geographically Distributed Software Development Environments
    * Cross-feeding between Data and Software Engineering
    * Design Thinking as a Paradigm for Software Development
    * Formal Methods
    * Software Process Improvement
 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Harold Krikke
Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Xuewei Li
Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Kecheng Liu
University of Reading, U.K.

Leszek A. Maciaszek
Macquarie University, Australia / University of Economics, Poland

Yannis A. Phillis
Technical University of Crete, Greece

Shoubo Xu
Chinese Academy of Engineering / Beijing Jiaotong University, China


For more information please visit the conference website: http://www.enase.org/keynote_speakers.asp


CONFERENCE CHAIR:
Joaquim Filipe
Polytechnic Institute of Setubal / INSTICC, Portugal


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Leszek A. Maciaszek
Macquarie University ~ Sydney, Australia and University of Economics ~ Wroclaw, Poland

Kang Zhang
University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Available at http://www.enase.org/call_for_papers.asp#program_committee

IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences on WEB INTELLIGENCE and INTELLIGENT AGENT TECHNOLOGY

Call for Demonstrations
The 2011 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences on WEB INTELLIGENCE and
INTELLIGENT AGENT TECHNOLOGY
22-27 August 2011, Lyon, France

http://wi-iat-2011.org/

The 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2011)
is a premier event for the Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent community. The two fields continue to experience
rapid growth and manifest interesting synergies in both theoretical and practical terms. While the WI-IAT 2011 main
conference provides an outstanding forum for the discussion of theoretical and conceptual achievements, its demonstration
track aims at exploring applications and practical results.

This call for demonstrations invites researchers and practitioners from academia and industry
alike to submit proposals for the WI-IAT 2011 demo track.

Demonstration papers will be printed in the main conference proceedings, while the actual
demonstrations will be highlighted in a specially arranged venue at the conference, facilitating
the interaction between conference attendees and demonstration presenters.

Demonstration submissions should include a title, a short description of the system, a summary
of its novel characteristics, and the functions and features to be demonstrated. Submissions must
be in English, must not exceed two (2) pages, and must be formatted according to the main
conference's submission guidelines.

The demonstration papers will be 2 pages in length including the bibliography, and must
be submitted online at the conference website.

Demo proposals can be submitted via the Online Submission system (see http://wi-iat-2011.org/).

Important dates

Demo submissions: April 4, 2011
Notifications: May 23, 2011
Camera-ready versions: June 10, 2011
Demonstrations: August 23-25, 2011

Demo chairs
Florian Daniel (University of Trento, Italy)
Gauthier Picard (ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France)

Technical Forum Group on Agent- and Multi-Agent Based Simulation (TFGSIM)

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Technical Forum Group on Agent- and Multi-Agent Based Simulation (TFGSIM)
Co-located with EUMAS 2010 

15 December 2010, Paris, France
Call for Participation & Position Statements
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http://www.irit.fr/TFGSIM


Following the tradition of Agent Link Technical Forum Groups, we
announce the first edition of a Simulation Technical 
Forum Group focussing discussions on methodological and technical 
aspects of agent- and multi-agent-based simulation. 
We will work on identification of and solution suggestions for challenges 
of agent- and multi-agent-based simulation. We also want to 
establish links between members of the agent-based simulation community 
which could lead to common research activities and projects.

Topics of interest are (but are not limited to):
* Can modelers creativity be supported by engineering?
* What are the particular challenges in agent-based simulation engineering?
* Suggestions for design, testing, calibration, verification and validation 
  strategies, methods, tools?
* Can we come up with a shared meta model of an agent-based simulation model?
* Challenges and solutions for multi-scale modeling?
* Can AOSE specification languages be used for simulations?
* Is a simulation problem more than just a particular set of requirements?
* What kind of AOSE models for supporting Agent-based simulation design?
* How can we systematically involve human experts and stakeholders?
* What kind of tools do we need for supporting agent-based simulation and 
  modelling?
* What are the particular properties that a modeller must be able to 
  expect from a simulation platform/engine?

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Preliminary Program

The meeting will be held on December 15th at University of Jussieu in 
Paris, France, near the location where EUMAS 2010 
(http://lipade.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/eumas10/index.html) will be held directly 
after the Technical Forum - that will this year consist of a groups working 
on Self-Organisation and on Agent-based Software Engineering in addition to
this group on agent- and multi-agent based simulation.
 
The initial agenda for this meeting plans sessions with talks focussed on 
particular challenges followed by a general panel session. In the first part, a small 
number of focussed presentations will be given followed by discussions on 
the topics raised by the presentations. 
In the second one, a broad panel-like discussion on most relevant topics 
for participants will be held.
The speakers for each panel are to be selected and will be announced through 
the Simulation TFG web page. Suggestions are welcome. Schedule, contributions 
(both in form of papers and presentation slides) and other working documents 
will also be published on this web page.

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Contributions

Participants are strongly encouraged to submit position papers. The deadline 
for contributions related to talks to be held during the meeting is 
November 15th 2010. Papers should be sent to the working group chairs (see below). 
They will be made available for all participants well before the meeting in order to 
prepare discussions. We accept position papers, papers illustrating new researches 
in the area as well as any other scientific relevant contribution (also demonstration 
of prototypes) in the area the above listed topics or others suitable for discussing 
in the frame of the TFG. There will be no formal proceedings therefore already published 
papers are welcome too (provided that in this way no existing copyright is infringed).
The format and length of position papers are open.

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Registration for TFGSIM is free. Unfortunately, there will be no funding for 
attendants in this edition. For any question or comment, do not hesitate to 
contact the TFGSIM chairs.

See you in Paris,

Franziska Klügl 
Modeling and Simulation Research Center, Örebro University, Sweden 
franziska.klugl@oru.se

and

Carole Bernon
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, University of Toulouse III, France
bernon@irit.fr