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Donnerstag, 17. März 2011

2nd International Conference on Reputation (ICORE 2011)

2nd International Conference on
                           Reputation
                          (ICORE 2011)
           Montpellier, France, September 19th, 2011

                     http://2011.icore.name

                         co-located with
                           ESSA 2011



IMPORTANT DATES


** Abstract submission: June, 1st, 2011 **
Full papers required on 15 June.
Notification of acceptance: 10 July.
The conference will take place on 19 September.

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The second International Conference on *Reputation*: 'Society,
Economy, Trust' follows the success of the first edition
(http://2009.icore.name) as a point of convergence in the
interdisciplinary study of reputation.

The study of reputation and gossip is paramount in many fields of the
social sciences, for example organization science, policy-making,
(e-)governance, cultural evolution, social dilemmas, socio-dynamics,
and sociobiology. Interest in reputation is increasing in philosophy,
psychology, social psychology, sociology, and cognitive science;
formal models appear in game theoretical, mathematical, and physics
journals; computational reputation systems are among the most studied
subjects in multi-agent technology and social simulations.

Our objective is that of providing a common ground for all the
interested disciplines to share techniques and ideas on a stage where
the selection process approach is founded not on one specific method,
and even less on established practices and rituals, but rather on an
open-minded scientific approach to the the object of study.

This year, the  conference focuses on the foremost of Reputation's
relative, trust, and their effects together on the economy, and on the
society as a whole. What is the link between reputation and trust on
one side, and social well-being, equality and happiness on the other?
We invite contributions on reputation and trust, and how these come to
affect the society of agents that use them, ranging from web
reputation platforms to informal models of gossip. Trust and
reputation as means to build social capital and to overcome inequality
and misunderstandings are deeply needed from society just now.


TOPICS


We invite papers from all scientific communities working on reputation.

Topics for ICORE 2011 include but are not limited to:

   * Theory of reputation
   * Simulation of reputation
   * Computational models of reputation
   * Agent reputation models
   * Ontologies of reputation
   * Logical formalization of reputation
   * Experimental evidence of reputation diffusion
   * Reputation-based e-government, e-learning, e-business
   * Reputation in p2p systems
   * Reputation in grid environments
   * Reputation for partner selection
   * Incentives in reputation mechanisms
   * Image and reputation
   * Reputation management and optimisation
   * Reputation and social networks
   * Reputation and norms
   * Reputation and altruism, reciprocity, and cooperation
   * Reputation and trust
   * Reputation for sabotage tolerance in large-scale applications
   * Reputation and exchange
   * Reputation and institutions
   * Reputation and social capital
   * Corporate and firm reputation
   * Reputation and peer review
   * Reputation, trust, and societal cohesion
   * Reputation, trust and equality


SUBMISSIONS INSTRUCTIONS

Please check the conference website (http://2011.icore.name) where
detailed information on how to submit papers will appear.

Submission is in two steps: extended abstract first, followed by an
open discussion phase, then full paper. See important dates above.

REVIEW CRITERIA

Papers should present novel ideas related to reputation, clearly
motivated by problems from current practice or applied research.
We expect claims to be substantiated by theoretical or formal
analysis, experimental evaluations, comparative studies, and so on.
Authors are also encouraged to submit application papers. Application
papers are expected to address an indication of the real world
relevance of the problem that is solved, including a description of
the deployment domain, and some form of evaluation of performance,
usability, or superiority to alternative approaches.

6th MASTA @ EPIA 2011 - Thematic Track on Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications

6th MASTA @ EPIA 2011
Thematic Track on Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications

10-13 October 2011, Lisbon, Portugal

http://epia2011.appia.pt/masta

Submission deadline: May 10, 2011
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Since 1993, the area of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has been present in all EPIA Conferences, both as individual tracks and as autonomous workshops. Focusing on a fundamental subject of Artificial Intelligence, the 6th edition of Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications - MASTA 2011 Thematic Track, will be a forum for presenting and discussing the most recent and innovative work on MAS.

Departing, from the end of the 1980’s, from the two main branches of Decentralized Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Problem Solving, research on MAS has developed in areas of increasing specialization and autonomy as diverse as agent theories and architectures, cognitive modelling, coordination, negotiation and argumentation, social organization and social simulation, swarm intelligence, and agent-oriented programming.

Agent technology has been used to solve real-world problems in a range of industrial and commercial applications, including manufacturing, supply chain management, process control, telecommunications, air traffic control, transportation systems, and business process management.

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Research on MAS has a vigorous, exciting tradition and has led to important theories and systems. However, new trends and concerns are still emerging and form the basis of current and future research. This thematic track is intended to provide a discussion forum on the most recent and innovative work in all areas of MAS.

The unifying focus of the thematic track will be on methodological aspects. Both theoretical and practical research should be situated in the context of existing or new methodologies. This will not preclude any specific topic, but preference will be given to research work that establishes some connection with the methodological aspects or to successful applications built upon some methodology.

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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

     * Agent theories, Architectures and Languages;
     * Cognitive models, including emotions and philosophies;
     * Formal Methods for Modelling Agents and MAS;
     * Cooperation, Coordination and Teamwork;
     * Automated Negotiation and Computational Argumentation;
     * Multi-Agent Evolution, Adaptation and Learning;
     * Trust and Reputation in MAS;
     * Communication: protocols and languages;
     * Artificial Social Systems;
     * Agent-Oriented Software Engineering;
     * Multi-Agent Simulation and Modelling;
     * Norms and Institutions in MAS;
     * Ethical and Legal issues raised by Agents and MAS;
     * Industrial and Commercial Applications;
     * Scalability and Performance of MAS.

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Submission of papers is made electronically through the Conference website (epia2011.appia.pt). Authors must remove their names from the papers and should take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity (blind reviewing process).

Papers should be no longer than 12 pages, including figures and references, and should be formatted according to the Springer's LNCS/LNAI format, following the instructions on Springer’s website (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Papers of higher quality will be published in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), by Springer (proceedings indexed by the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge). All other accepted papers will be published in the local proceedings.

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     * Full Paper Submission:       May 10, 2011
     * Notification of Acceptance:  June 10, 2011
     * Camera-ready Papers:         July 1, 2011
     * Conference Date:             October 10-13, 2011

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Paulo Urbano
Departamento de Informática
Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
Edifício C6, Piso 3, Campo Grande
1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
pub [at] di [dot] fc [dot] ul [dot] pt

Cesar Analide
Departamento de Informática
Universidade do Minho
Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
analide [at] di [dot] uminho [dot] pt

Fernando Lopes
Departamento de Modelação e Simulação
Laboratório Nacional de Energia (LNEG)
1649-038 Lisbon, Portugal
fernando [dot] lopes [at] ineti [dot] pt

Henrique Lopes Cardoso
Departamento de Engenharia Informática
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
hlc [at] fe [dot] up [dot] pt

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Additional information can be found at the Conference website (epia2011.appia.pt/masta) or asked for by e-mail, using the address masta2011 [at] appia [dot] pt.

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Eugénio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
João Balsa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Luís Reis, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

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Alejandro Hérnandez, Universidad Veracruzana, Spain
Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany
Amal Elfallah, Université Paris VI, France
Amílcar Cardoso, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Ana Paula Rocha, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Andrea Omicini, Università di Bologna, Italy
António Pereira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
António Rocha Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Carlos Martinho, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Christian Lemaître, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Eugénio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
F. Jordan Srour, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Frank Dignum, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Huib Aldewereld, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jaime Sichman, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Javier Bajo, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Spain
Javier Carbó, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain
João Balsa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
João Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
John-Jules Meyer, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jomi Hübner, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Jordi Sabater-Mir, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Jörg Müller, TU Clausthal Institut für Informatik, Germany
Juan Burgillo, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Juan M. Corchado, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Laurent Vercouter, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France
Luís Botelho, ISCTE, Portugal
Luís Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Luís Macedo, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Luís Moniz, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Luís Reis, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Marc Esteva, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool, UK
Murat Sensoy, University of Aberdeen, UK
Neil Yorke-Smith, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Nicoletta Fornara, Università della Svizzera Italiana (University of Lugano), Switzerland
Nuno Lau, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Olivier Boissier, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France
Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Pablo Noriega, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Paolo Torroni, Università di Bologna, Italy
Paulo Ferreira Jr., Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Pavlos Moraitis, Université Paris Descartes, France
Pedro Mariano, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Reyhan Aydogan, Bogazici University, Turkey
Rosa Vicari, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Santiago Ontañón Villar, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Virginia Dignum, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, UK
Wojtek Jamroga, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Ya'akov Gal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Yun-Gyung Cheong, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technologies, South Korea
Yves Demazeau, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France

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Thematic Track @ EPIA 2011                          Lisbon, PORTUGAL
http://epia2011.appia.pt/masta                    masta2011@appia.pt
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Donnerstag, 3. März 2011

CLIMA XII - 12th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems

CLIMA XII
12th International Workshop on
Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems

with special sessions on:
* Norms and Normative Multi-Agent Systems.
* Logics for Games and Social Choice.

http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/events/climaXII/

Barcelona, Spain, July 17-18, 2011.

Affiliated with IJCAI'11.
Submission deadline: April 4/8th.
Proceedings: LNCS/LNAI volume (available at the workshop).

JLC Special Issue: Selected extended papers will be published in a
Special Issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation.

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The purpose of the CLIMA Workshop Series is to provide a forum for
discussing techniques, based on computational logic, for representing,
programming and reasoning about agents and multi-agent systems in a
formal way.

Following the previous ten, very successful, editions, the 12th CLIMA
will be affiliated with IJCAI'11 and will take place in Barcelona, Spain,
on the 17th and 18th of July 2011.

In addition to CLIMA's regular topics and sessions, this edition will
feature two special sessions:

* Norms and Normative Multi-Agent Systems
* Logics for Games and Social Choice

We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original
papers, which have not been accepted for publication nor are currently
under review for another journal or conference.

LNCS Proceedings: CLIMA's Proceedings will be published by
Springer as a volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and
will be available in time for the workshop.

JLC Special Issue: After the workshop, authors of selected papers will
be invited to extend and re-submit their work to be considered for inclusion
in a CLIMA Special Issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation.

Detailed information regarding CLIMA, its topics of interest, the two Special
Sessions, formatting and submission instructions is available at
http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/events/climaXII/

Important dates:
* Submission: April 4th (Abstracts) / April 8th (Papers)
* Notification: May 4th
* Camera Ready: May 16th

CLIMA XII Chairs:
* João Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
* Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy

Special Session Organisers:

Norms and Normative Multi-Agent Systems:
* Guido Boella, University of Turin, Italy
* Leon van der Torre, Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Logics for Games and Social Choice:
* Thomas Ågotnes, University of Bergen, Norway


Please send all enquiries about CLIMA XII to clima2011@easychair.org.

Mittwoch, 2. März 2011

Eighth International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2011)


Eighth International Conference
on Complex Systems (ICCS 2011)

ICCS Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to March 7

June 26 - July 1, 2011
Boston Marriott
Quincy, MA, USA
Host: New England Complex Systems Institute (http://necsi.edu/)

NEW UPDATES


Due to many requests from interested prospective authors, the formal deadline for the submission of abstracts to ICCS 2011 is being extended until March 7, 2011. Authors who have already submitted abstracts may continue to revise them until that date.

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS


Eshel Ben-Jacob (Tel Aviv University)
Johan Bollen (Indiana University)
Steven Bressler (Florida Atlantic University)
Eric Davidson (California Institute of Technology)
Leah Edelstein-Keshet (University of British Columbia)
John Hopfield (Princeton University)
Kunihiko Kaneko (University of Tokyo)
Hod Lipson (Cornell University)
Mark Newman (University of Michigan)
Stuart Pimm (Duke University)
Thomas Schelling (University of Maryland)
Sorin Solomon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Didier Sornette (ETH Zurich)
Gene Stanley (Boston University)
Nassim N. Taleb (New York University)
Elizabeth Tran (National Science Foundation)
Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research)

(More plenary speakers TBA)

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION


For presentation at the conference, authors should submit an abstract through EasyChair, the online submission/reviewing system. Submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee and sorted into four categories: Oral presentation in a plenary session, oral presentation in a parallel session, poster presentation, or rejection. All the accepted abstracts will be published in the online proceedings (with an ISBN) on the conference website. Authors of accepted abstracts may submit full papers for inclusion in the online proceedings. Full paper submission is optional.

IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES


Abstract submission: March 7, 2011
Notification to authors: April 1, 2011
Early registration: April 15, 2011
Camera-ready abstract
& full paper submission:
(full paper submission is optional)
April 30, 2011
Conference: June 26 - July 1, 2011
Online registration is available on the conference website (http://necsi.edu/events/iccs2011/). Space is limited, so please register early.
Contact us at iccs@necsi.edu
New England Complex Systems Institute
If you prefer not to receive messages about this and
future programs please let us know by sending an email to:
cx-web-off@necsi.org.
If this does not work send an e-mail to:
complex@necsi.org
New England Complex Systems Institute
238 Main Street Suite 319
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-547-4100
Fax: 617-661-7711

International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2011)

The 2nd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2011)

19-21 September 2011

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada



Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/

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IMPORTANT DATES

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- Full Paper Submission:      March 15, 2011

- Acceptance Notification:    May   15, 2011

- Camera-Ready Submission:    June  15, 2011



The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2011) is a leading international conference which provides an international forum for researchers, developers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to address research challenges and to present and discuss research ideas, developments and experiences related to the ambient systems infrastructure, models, and technologies.

   The general aim of ambient systems is to provide an environment wherein computing devices exist anywhere and everywhere. In such systems mobile and embedded computing devices form ad hoc collaboration using different communication networks (e.g., wireless networks, RFID, etc) in order to share and exchange information and provide services. Ambient systems pose new research challenges due to the open and unreliable nature of the environment and the complexity and heterogeneity of the computing devices and the underlying communication networks. These characteristics challenge traditional techniques and demand new ways of approaching the problems related to the ambient systems.



TOPICS OF INTEREST

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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers to the following research tracks. Details on topics of each track are available at the conference website.



- Autonomic Networks and Communications

- Systems Software Engineering

- Systems Security and Privacy

- Distributed Artificial Intelligence

- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing

- Multimodal Interfaces

- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications

- Smart Environments and Applications

- Social Networks

- General track: Distributed systems, networks and applications



PUBLICATION

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Papers accepted for the conference will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of:



(1) Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, by Springer

      http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/journal/779

(2) Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, by Springer

      http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652

(3) Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal, by Springer

      http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/13278



PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE

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Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers including all figures and references, and must be formatted according to Elsevier guidelines (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/).



COMMITTEES

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General Chairs

  Nick Cercone, York University, Canada

  Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia



Program Chairs

  Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada

  Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK

  Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan



Advisory Committee

  Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

  Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada

  Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK

  Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy

  Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan

  Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany

  Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

  Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia



Workshops Chairs

  Sajid Hussain, Fisk University, USA

  Senol Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey



Program vice Chairs

  Jiang Li, Howard University, USA

  Ye Tian, Univ. of Science and Technology of China, China

  Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany

  Agustinus Waluyo, Institute for Infocom Research, Singapore

  Farookh Hussain, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

  Javier GarcÆa-Villalba, Universidad Comp. de Madrid, Spain

  Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

  Lars Braubach, University of Hamburg, Germany

  Anis Koubaa, Al-Imam University, Saudi Arabia/CISTER Research Unit, Portugal

  Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia

  Thomas Grill, University of Salzburg, Austria

  Soraya Kouadri MostÄfaoui, The Open University, UK

  Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE

  Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia

  Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada

  Keivan Kian-Mehr, University of Western Ontario, Canada

  Tansel Ozyer, TOBB Econo & Tech University, Turkey



Local Arrangement Chairs

  Nauman Aslam, Dalhousie University, Canada

  Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada



Publicity Chairs

  Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia

  Abdel Ilah Alshbatat, Tafila Technical University, Jordan



International Liaison Chairs

  Imad Saleh, University of Paris VIII, France

  Bernady Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan



Awards Chairs

  Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada

  Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait



Steering Committee Chair

  Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada



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                    ANT-2011 Affiliated Workshops

    http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/#approvedWorkshops



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The ANT-2011 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic from the field of ANT-2011 and its related areas.



PUBLICATION

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All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ANT-2011 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ANT-2011Website. The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues.



IMPORTANT DATES (workshops)

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03/31/2011 - Submission Deadline

05/15/2011 - Author Notification

05/30/2011 - Author Registration Due

06/20/2011 - Final Manuscript Due



ANT-2011 - WORKSHOPS

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ETACC: Emerging Trends and Applications of Cloud Computing

   http://www.peterindia.net/peterworkshop.html

WNCS: International Workshop on Wireless Networked Control Systems

   http://myweb.dal.ca/naslam/wncs-11/

WIAS: International Workshop on Information Assurance and Security

   https://sites.google.com/site/wias2011/

HCUMA: International Workshop on Health Care Using Mobile Apps

   https://sites.google.com/site/hcuma2011/

IST-AWSN: The 6th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Techniques for Ad hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks

   http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ist-awsn11/

EmSeNs: International Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Sensor Networks

   https://sites.google.com/site/emsens2011/

IUPT: Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things

   http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/iupt-11/

DP: Digital Planet

   http://debii.curtin.edu.au/~naeem/dp/index.html

AASNET: The 5th International Symposium on Applications of Ad hoc and Sensor Networks

   https://sites.google.com/site/aasnet11/

GTDS: Green Technology and Digital Sustainability

   http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/#approvedWorkshops

AAC: Autonomic and Agent Computing: Foundations and Applications

   http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~bentahar/AAC2011/AAC2011.htm

ARTIFACT: AmbienT Intelligence at the services of inFo-mobility and Critical Transportation networks

   http://www.graphitech.it/artifact/

GCRE: International Workshop on Green Computing and Renewable Energy
   https://sites.google.com/site/gcre2011/

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2011 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods

MSV'11
The 2011 International Conference on Modeling,
Simulation and Visualization Methods

Date and Location: July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, USA
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

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You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in the MSV conference proceedings (in printed book form; later, the proceedings will also be accessible online) - the proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / Computer Science Bibliography, and others. Those interested in proposing workshops/sessions, should refer to the relevant sections that appear below.

The main keynote lecture will be delivered by Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; MRIA); there will also be 8 other distinguished speakers, 12 planned tutorials and panel discussions as well as about 50 research paper presentations.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

O  Simulation languages
O  Modeling and simulation for computer engineering
O  Modeling and simulation for education and training
O  Molecular modeling and simulation
O  Performance modeling, simulation, and prediction
O  Modeling, simulation, and emulation of large-scale, volatile environments
O  Modeling and simulation tools for nanotechnology
O  Information and scientific visualization
O  Real-time modeling and simulation
O  Geometric modeling
O  Perceptual issues in visualization and modeling
O  Modeling methodologies
O  Specification issues for modeling and simulation
O  Visual interactive simulation and modeling
O  Visualization tools and systems for simulation and modeling
O  Java-based modelers
O  Scalability issues
O  Numerical methods used in simulation and modeling
O  Finite and boundary element techniques
O  Process simulation/modeling
O  Device simulation/modeling
O  Circuit simulation/modeling
O  Performance evaluation and simulation tools
O  Multi-level modeling
O  Simulation of machine architectures
O  Simulation of wireless systems
O  Simulation and modeling with applications in biotechnology
O  CAD/CAE/CAM
O  Prototyping and simulation
O  Biomedical visualization and applications
O  Databases and visualization
O  Interaction paradigms and human factors
O  Parallel and distributed simulation
O  Discrete and numeric simulation
O  Geographic information systems and visualization
O  Internet, web and security visualization
O  Virtual reality and simulation
O  Virtual environments and data visualization
O  Petri nets and applications
O  Finite element methods
O  Soft computing / fuzzy logic
O  Tools and applications
O  Object-oriented simulation
O  Knowledge-based simulation
O  Emerging technologies and applications


USEFUL WEB LINKS:
The DBLP list of accepted papers of MSV 2010 appears at:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/msv/msv2010.html
The main web site of MSV'11 can be accessed via:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/


IMPORTANT DATES:

March 10, 2011:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
April 03, 2011:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
April 24, 2011:    Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 18-21, 2011:  The 2011 International Conference on Modeling,
                   Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'11)


ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The Academic sponsors of the last offering of MSV (2010) included research labs and centers affiliated with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; University of Southern California; University of Texas at Austin; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia; Emory University, Georgia; University of Minnesota; University of Iowa; University of North Dakota; NDSU-CIIT Green Computing & Comm. Lab.; University of Siegen, Germany; UMIT, Austria; SECLAB (University of Naples Federico II + University of Naples Parthenope + Second University of Naples, Italy); National Institute for Health Research; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM); The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; Eastern Virginia Medical
School & the American College of Surgeons, USA.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at:  http://world-comp.org 
Submissions must be uploaded by March 10, 2011 and they must be in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. Finally, the name of the conference (ie, MSV) that the paper is being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page.

The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program committee will be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject) - often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees by using a double-blinded review process. In addition, all papers whose authors included a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).

All proceedings of WORLDCOMP will be published and indexed in: 
Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / CS Bibliography, and others. The printed proceedings will be available for distribution on site at the conference.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a number of research books being proposed/contracted with various publishers (such as, Springer, Elsevier, ... 7247) - these books would be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of sessions and workshops will be forming journal special issues to be published after the conference.


MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

The members of the Steering Committee of The 2010 congress included:
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, USA);
Prof. Hamid Arabnia (ISIBM Fellow & Professor, University of Georgia;
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in
Biomedicine; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer;
Advisory Board, IEEE TC on Scalable Computing); 
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University of California, Berkeley, USA);
Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information Processing Society;
Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology; Professor,
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); 
Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang (IEEE Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC); 
Prof. Andy Marsh (Director HoIP,
Secretary-General WABT; Vice-president ICET and ICMCC, Visiting
Professor, University of Westminster, UK); Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
(Director, S-STEM NSF Supported Scholarship Program and NSF Supported
AUAS, Appalachian State U., USA); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow,
NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA); and
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy of Engineering; IEEE
Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; Director,
BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA).
The list of Program Committee of MSV 2010 appears at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/conferences/msv10/committee

The MSV 2011 program committee is currently being compiled. Many who have already joined the committee are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research labs., members of National Academy of Engineering, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program directors of research funding agencies, deans and provosts as well as members of chapters of World Academy of Science.

Program Committee members are expected to have established a strong and documented research track record. Those interested in joining the Program Committee should email  editor@world-comp.org  the following information for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address, a one-page biography that includes research expertise and the name of the conference (ie, MSV 2011) offering to help with.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

MSV conference is an important track of a federated research conference. It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP). WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate
to have 2,000 or more attendees from over 85 countries.

WORLDCOMP 2011 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler
(known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT),
Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer,
U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a
feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates photos available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789

An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also attempts to connect participants from
institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different branches of computer science, computer engineering,
and applied computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines.


PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops). The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ...
The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books. 

Proposals to organize sessions should include the following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, his/her biography, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, the name of the conference the session
is submitted for consideration (ie, MSV), and a short description on how the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the session proposer).
email your session proposal to  editor@world-comp.org
We would like to receive the session proposals as soon as possible.

Freitag, 28. Januar 2011

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