IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2011

This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of Computational Intelligence. With its hosting of over thirty technical meetings in one location, it is bound to attract lead researchers, professionals and students from around the world. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, the 2011 edition follows in the footsteps of the SSCI 2007 meetings held in Honolulu and of the SSCI 2009 series held in Nashville.

The event will take place in the magic town of Paris.

Symposia and Workshops

ADPRL 2011 Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning
Jagannathan Sarangapani, Missouri Univ. of Science and Techn., USA.
Zhang Huaguang, Northeastern Univ., China.
Marco Wiering, Univ. of Groningen, Netherland.

CCMB 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain.
Leonid Perlovsky, Harvard University and Air Force Research Laboratory, USA.
Robert Kozma, Memphis University, USA.
Damien Coyle, University of Ulster, UK

CIASG 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence Applications in Smart Grid
Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

CIBCB 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computat. Biology
Clare Bates Congdon, University of Southern Maine, USA

CIBIM 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management
Qinghan Xiao, Defence R&D, Canada.
David Zhang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China.
Fabio Scotti, University of Milan, Italy

CICA 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and AutomationXiao-Jun Zeng, University of Manchester, UK

CICS 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security
Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, USA.
Justin Zhan, National Center of Infrastructure Protection, USA

CIDM 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data MiningNitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame, USA.
Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.
Alessandro Sperduti, Padova University, Italy

CIDUE 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments
Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK.
Shengxiang Yang, Brunel University, UK.
Robi Polikar, Rowan University, USA

CIFEr 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering & Economics
Han La Poutre, CWI, Netherlands.
Ronald R. Yager, Iona College, USA.
Robert Golan, Dbmind Technologies, USA

CII 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Industry
Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK.
Piero P. Bonissone, GE Global Research, USA.
Jennie Si, Arizona State University, USA

CIMI 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging
Gerald Schaefer, Dpt. Of Computer Science, Loughborough University, UK. .
Sergio Damas, European Center for Soft Computing, Mieres, Asturias, Spain

CIMR 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Mobile Robots: Air-, Land-, and Sea-BasedLyle N. Long, Pennsylvania State University, USA.

CIMSIVP 2011 Symposium on Computational Intellig. for Multimedia, Signal and Vision ProcessingKhan M Iftekharuddin, University of Memphis, USA.
Salim Bouzerdoum, University of Wollongong, Australia

CIPLS 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistic Systems
Bülent Çatay, Sabanci University, Turkey.
Raymond Chiong, Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Australia.
Patrick Siarry, Univ. Paris XII Val de Marne, France

CISched 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling
Rong Qu, University of Nottingham, UK.
Ender Ozcan, University of Nottingham, UK.
Michel Gendreau, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada

CISDA 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications
Slawo Wesolkowski, DRDC, Canada.
Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada,
James R. Dankert, BAE Systems - AIT, USA,
Rami Abielmona, Larus Technologies, Canada

CIVI 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence
Guilherme N. DeSouza, University of Missouri, USA.
Yuanqiang (Evan) Dong, University of Missouri, USA

CIVTS 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Transportation Systems
Danil Prokhorov, Toyota, USA. Dimitar Filev, Ford, USA

CompSens 2011 Workshop on Merging Fields of Computational Intelligence and Sensor Technology
Ivo Bukovsky, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic.
Torsten Wagner, Tohoku University, Japan

EAIS 2011 Workshop on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems
Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK.
Dimitar Filev, Ford, USA.
Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

FOCI 2011 Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence
Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, University of Malaga, Spain.
Carlos Cotta, University of Malaga, Spain.
Francisco Veredas, University of Malaga, Spain

GEFS 2011 International Workshop on Genetic and Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems
Rafael Alcala, University of Granada, Spain.
Yusuke Nojima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

HIMA 2011 Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications
Patricia Melin, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico

IA 2011 Symposium on Intelligent Agents
Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK.
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy

IEEE ALIFE 2011 Symposium on Artificial Life
Terry Bossomaier, Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Hiroki Sayama, State University of New York, USA.
Chrystopher Nehaniv, University of Hertfordshire, UK

IEEE MCDM 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision-Making
Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico.
Piero P. Bonissone, GE Global Research, USA.
Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK

MC 2011 Symposium on Memetic Computing 
Zexuan Zhu, Shenzhen University, China. Maoguo Gong, Xidian University,
China. Ji Zhen, Shenzhen University, China.
Yew-Soon Ong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

OC 2011 Workshop on Organic Computing
Rolf Wuertz, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

RiiSS 2011 Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space
Honghai Liu, University of Portsmouth, UK.
Naoyuki Kubota, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

SDE 2011 Symposium on Differential Evolution
Janez Brest, University of Maribor, Slovenia.
Swagatam Das, Jadavpur University, India.
P. N. Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

SIS 2011 Symposium on Swarm Intelligence 
Yuhui Shi, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

T2FUZZ 2011 Symposium on Advances in Type-2 Fuzzy Logic SystemsHani Hagras, University of Essex, UK.
Jerry Mendel, University of Southern California, USA.
Bob John, De Montfort University, UK

WACI 2011 Workshop on Affective Computational Intelligence
Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
Marie-Jeanne Lesot, LIP6-UPMC, France.
Jean-Claude Martin, University Paris Sud, France

General Chair
Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, LIP6, CNRS-Univ. P. et M. Curie, Paris, France

Honorary Chair
Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy

Finance Chair
Piero Bonissone, General Electrics, USA

Local Arrangement Chair
Maria Rifqi, LIP6, Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France

Publication Chair
Sylvie Galichet, Université de Savoie, France

Registration Chair
Anne Laurent LIRMM Université Montpellier 2, France

Web Master
Christophe Marsala, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Publicity Co-chairs 
 Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
Slawo Wesolkowski, DRDC, Canada

Tutorial, Keynote and Panel Co-chairs
Marios Polycarpou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Ali M.S. Zalzala, Hikma Group Limited, Dubai, UAE

Posters & Local Organization
Marcin Detyniecki, LIP6, CNRS-Université P. et M. Curie, Paris, France
Secretary Adrien Revault d'Allonnes, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Due: Oc tobe r 31, 2010
Notification to Authors: December 15, 2010
Camera-Ready Papers Due: J anua r y 15, 2011

Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop 2011

Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop 2011

We apologize if you receive more than one copy.
Please share with colleagues and students.
Paper deadline: FEBRUARY 2, 2011

* AAMAS workshop with a long and successful history,
 now in its 11th edition.
* ACM proceedings format with up to 8 pages.
* Accepted papers are eligible for Springer LNAI post-proceedings.

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2nd Call for Papers
ALA 2011: Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop held at AAMAS
2011 (Taipei). The ALA workshop has a long and successful history
and is now in its 11th edition. The workshop is a merger of European
ALAMAS and the American ALAg series which is usually held at
AAMAS. Details may be found on the workshop web site:
http://como.vub.ac.be/ALA2011/
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* Submission Deadline:            February 2, 2011
* Notification of acceptance:     February 27, 2011
* Camera-ready copies:            March 10, 2011
* Workshop:                              May 2, 2011
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Adaptive and Learning Agents, particularly those in a multi-agent setting
are becoming more and more prominent as the sheer size and complexity of
many real world systems grows. How to adaptively control, coordinate and
optimize such systems is an emerging multi-disciplinary research area at
the intersection of Computer Science, Control theory, Economics, and
Biology. The ALA workshop will focus on agent and multi-agent systems
which employ learning or adaptation.
The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness and interest in
adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration and give a
representative overview of current research in the area of adaptive and
learning agents and multi-agent systems. It aims at bringing together not
only scientists from different areas of computer science but also from
different fields studying similar concepts (e.g., game theory,
bio-inspired control, mechanism design).
This workshop will focus on all aspects of adaptive and learning agents
and multi-agent systems with a particular emphasis on how to modify
established learning techniques and/or create new learning paradigms to
address the many challenges presented by complex real-world problems.
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
    * Novel combinations of reinforcement and supervised learning
      approaches
    * Integrated learning approaches that work with other agent
      reasoning modules like negotiation, trust models, coordination,
      etc.
    * Supervised multi-agent learning
    * Reinforcement learning (single and multi-agent)
    * Planning (single and multi-agent)
    * Reasoning (single and multi-agent)
    * Distributed learning
    * Adaptation and learning in dynamic environments
    * Evolution of agents in complex environments
    * Co-evolution of agents in a multi-agent setting
    * Cooperative exploration and learning to cooperate and collaborate
    * Learning trust and reputation
    * Communication restrictions and their impact on multi-agent
      coordination
    * Design of reward structure and fitness measures for coordination
    * Scaling learning techniques to large systems of learning and
      adaptive agents
    * Emergent behaviour in adaptive multi-agent systems
    * Game theoretical analysis of adaptive multi-agent systems
    * Neuro-control in multi-agent systems
    * Bio-inspired multi-agent systems
    * Applications of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent
      systems to real world complex systems
    * Learning of Co-ordination

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Submission Details
Paper submissions may be emailed in the pdf format to
pvrancx@vub.ac.be  with the subject 'Submission ALA-11'. Submissions may
be up to 8 pages in the ACM proceedings format (i.e., the same as AAMAS
papers in the main conference track). Accepted work will be allocated
time for oral presentation during the one day workshop. Papers accepted at
the workshop will also be eligible for inclusion in a Springer LNAI
post-proceedings
volume published after the workshop.

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Organization

Workshop chairs:
Peter Vrancx (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Matt Knudson (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Marek Grzes (University of Waterloo, Canada)

If you have any questions about the ALA workshop, please contact the
chairs by e-mail:pvrancx@vub.ac.be

Senior Steering Committee Members:
Franziska Klugl (University of Orebro, Sweden)
Daniel Kudenko (University of York, UK)
Ann Nowe (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
Lynne E. Parker (University of Tennessee, USA)
Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA)
Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Kagan Tumer (Oregon State University, USA)
Karl Tuyls (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
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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.
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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