Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological Innovation: IMETI 2010

The 3rd International Multi-Conference on               
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            Notifications of Acceptance: April 28th, 2010               
            Camera Ready or Final version of Full Papers: May 19th, 2010
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              The SUMMER 4th International Conference on                
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    The 3rd International Symposium on Academic Globalization: AG 2010  
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       The 2nd International Symposium on Peer Reviewing: ISPR 2010     
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Participants in any conference can attend the sessions of other collocated conferences, and will receive electronic proceedings, in a CD, which includes the papers presented at all conferences and symposia

Submissions for Face-to-Face or for Virtual Participation are both accepted. Both kinds of submissions will have the same reviewing process and the accepted papers will be included in the same proceedings.

Pre-Conference and Post-conference Virtual sessions (via electronic forums) will be held for each session included in the conference program, so that sessions papers can be read before the conference, and authors presenting at the same session can interact during one week before and after the conference. Authors can also participate in peer-to-peer reviewing in virtual sessions.

All Submitted papers/abstracts will go through three reviewing processes: (1) double-blind (at least three reviewers), (2) non-blind, and (3) participative peer reviews. These three kinds of review will support the selection process of those papers/abstracts that will be accepted for their presentation at the conference, as well as those to be selected for their publication in JSCI Journal.

Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their papers/abstracts, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers. Non-registered authors will not have access to the reviews of their respective submissions.

Registration fees of an effective invited session organizer will be waived according to the policy described in the web page  (click on 'Invited Session', then on 'Benefits for the Organizers of Invited Sessions'), where you can get information about the ten benefits for an invited session organizer.

Authors of the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference (included those virtually presented) will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.

IMETI 2010 Organizing Committee

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11th Intl. Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA XI)

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                 Preliminary Call for Papers

                          CLIMA XI
               11th International Workshop on
         Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems

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

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

            Lisbon, Portugal, August 16-17, 2010.

                  Affiliated with ECAI'10.
                Submission deadline: May 7th.

Proceedings: LNCS/LNAI volume (available at the workshop).

AMAI Special Issue: Selected extended papers will be published in a
Special Issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence.

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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 11th CLIMA
will be affiliated with ECAI'10 and will take place in Lisbon, Portugal,
on the 16th and 17th of August 2010.

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 Strategic Reasoning

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.

AMAI 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 Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence.

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/climaXI/

Important dates:
* Submission: May 7th
* Notification: June 4th
* Camera Ready: June 16th

CLIMA XI Chairs:
* Jürgen Dix, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany
* João Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal

Special Session Organisers:
* Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia (Norms and Normative Multi-Agent Systems)
* Wojtek Jamroga, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Logics for
Games and Strategic Reasoning)

Please send all enquiries about CLIMA XI to clima2010@easychair.org.

Eighth German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies (MATES 2010)

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Eighth German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies 

September 21 - 23, 2010, 
Karslruhe, Germany

http://www.alg.ewi.tudelft.nl/mates2010

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 
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AIMS & SCOPE

The German Conference on Multi-Agent system Technologies (MATES) provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, users, and developers to present and discuss latest advances in research work as well as prototyped or fielded systems of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. The conference covers the whole range of agent- and multi-agent technologies and aims to promote its theory and applications. For the eighth time, the German special interest group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence organizes this international conference in cooperation with the steering committee of MATES and thereby continues this successful track of events. 

Building on the successful predecessors from 2003 to 2009, MATES 2010 will be co-located with the 33st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2010) and will take place from September 21 to 24, 2010 in Karlsruhe. The participants of MATES 2010 will also have full access to the concurrently running program of the KI 2010 conference. 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest of MATES 2010 include all aspects of agent-oriented computing and agent technologies. We solicit both basic as well as applied research papers on recent advances in the area of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems in general. 

Also papers reporting on the successful application of agent technologies in any kind of domain are very welcome. 
MATES 2010 encourages especially submissions from recent and emerging areas of interest such as autonomic computing, distributed coordination and robust multi-agent systems.  Additionally, we encourage the submission of elaborated vision and challenge papers that discuss mid-term and long-term directions for research and application. 

Topics of interest for MATES 2010 include, but are not limited to: 

• Adaptive agents and multi-agent learning
• Advanced theories of collaboration:
• Modelling and formation of teams, coalitions, groups, and organizations
• Agents and autonomic computing
• Agent and multi-agent architectures
• Agents and peer-to-peer computing
• Agents and pervasive computing
• Agents for Ambient Intelligence
• Agent-based service discovery, matchmaking, brokering, and composition
• Agent communication languages
• Agents for e-business and e-government
• Agent technologies in the context of service-oriented computing and architectures
• Agent to non-agent interoperability
• Agents in novel applications
• Application of agent-technologies in industrial practice
• Artificial social systems: Conventions, norms, institutions; trust and reputation
• Autonomous robots and robot teams
• Commitment, delegation, responsibility, and obligations in artificial and hybrid societies
• Complex systems and their management
• Coordination, negotiation, argumentation, and conflict resolution
• Deployed agent-based business applications
• Hybrid human and agent societies
• User modelling and interface agents
• Embodied conversational actors and believable agents
• Mobile agents
• Model-driven design of multi-agent systems
• Multi-agent planning and scheduling
• Multi-agent platforms and tools
• Multi-agent (social) simulation and (cognitive) modelling with agents
• Practical aspects of programming agent systems: Robustness, fault tolerance, scalability and performance measurement
• Roles and structures, adaptive learning and cognition in organizational models
• Semantics of the dynamics of organizational models
• Standards for agents and multi-agent systems

DOCTORAL MENTORING PROGRAM

MATES 2010 will include a doctoral mentoring program, chaired by Ingo Timm, aimed at PhD students at advanced stages of their research. 
This program will provide an opportunity for students to interact closely with established researchers in
their fields, to receive feedback on their work and to get advice on managing their careers.


PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings of MATES 2010 will appear in the Springer-Verlag series,
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).

AWARDS

MATES will issue a "MATES 2010 Best Paper Award".


SUBMISSION DETAILS

For the preparation of papers to be submitted, please follow the instructions for authors available at the Springer LNCS Web page:http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
The length of each paper, including figures and references, should not exceed 12 pages. Papers that have been accepted or are under review by other conferences or journals are not eligible for submission. However, we encourage interdisciplinary contributions submitted or presented in part to a forum outside of agent technology. The only acceptable document format is PDF. All papers must be written in English. Submissions not conforming to the above requirements may be rejected without review. Papers are to submit by the EasyChair system. 
Please follow the link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2010

Important Dates

 Submission Deadline:         9. 4. 2010 
 Notification of Acceptance:  28. 5. 2010
 Camera Ready Copy:           11. 6. 2010
 Conference Date:           21. 9. 2010


CONFERENCE OFFICIALS

Program Co-Chairs:

Juergen Dix  (TU Clausthal, Germany) 
Cees Witteveen (TU Delft, The Netherlands)


Steering Committee:

Hans-Dieter Burkhard (HU Berlin, Germany)
Stefan Kirn (U Hohenheim, Germany)
Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
Jˆrg P. M¸ller (TU Clausthal, Germany)
Rainer Unland (U Essen, Germany)
Gerhard Weiss (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)


Program Committee:

Klaus-Dieter Althoff
Federico Bergenti
Ralph Bergmann
Vicent Botti
Lars Braubach
Longbing Cao
Torsten Eymann
Klaus Fischer
Maria Ganzha
Paolo Giorgini
Christian Guttmann
Koen Hindriks
Benjamin Hirsch
Wiebe van der Hoek
Stefan Kirn
Franziska Klügl
Gabriela Lindemann
Stefano Lodi
Beatriz López
Viviana Mascardi
Mirjam Minor
Daniel Moldt
Joerg Mueller
Peter Novák
Andrea Omicini
Sascha Ossowski
Marcin Paprzycki
Alexander Pokahr
Alessandro Ricci
Abdel-Badeeh Salem
Amal Seghrouchni
Ingo Timm
Rainer Unland


Doctoral Consortium:

Ingo Timm (U. Frankfurt, Germany)


CONTACTS 

Juergen Dix
Clausthal University of Technology
38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Germany

Tel: +49 5323 727180
Fax: +49 5323 727189
Email  dix"at"tu-clausthal.de


Cees Witteveen
Delft University of Technology
Dept. of Software Technology

Tel. +31-15-2782521                  
Fax. +31-15-2786632
Email: C.Witteveen"at"tudelft.nl

BIONETICS 2010 - Call for Workshop Proposals

http://www.bionetics.org
Boston, Massachusetts, December 1-3, 2010

Sponsored by ICST
Technical cooperation with Create-Net 

BIONETICS 2010, the 5th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems, is soliciting proposals for one-day and half-day workshops. These workshops should address emerging research directions, specific topics and interdisciplinary themes in the field of bio-inspired network, information and computing systems.

Workshop proposals should be submitted via email to the Workshop Chair Marc Pomplun (marc at cs.umb.edu), and should include:

- Name of the proposed workshop
- Tentative theme, scope and topic areas of interest
- Tentative list of workshop organizers and program committee members
- Preliminary plan for workshop organization, such as paper solicitation, paper selection and time frame.

BIONETICS workshops will be co-located at the BIONETICS conference. Workshop papers will be published in the BIONETICS proceedings published by Springer. 

Important Dates:

Workshop proposal due:               May 7
Notification of proposal acceptance: May 14
Workshop paper due:                  September 10 (approx.)
Paper notification:                  September 24 (approx.)
Camera ready paper due:              October 10
Workshop Date:                       December 1-3

4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2010)

4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2010)


Call for Papers

Bressanone/Brixen, Italy
September 22-24, 2010

http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010

Co-located with the Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications
and Perspectives (SWAP) 2010.


The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is
a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning
Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2010 builds on the success of the
first three International Conferences on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems
(see http://www.rr-conference.org), held in Innsbruck, Austria (2007),
Karlsruhe, Germany (2008), and Chantilly, Virginia, USA (2009), which
received enthusiastic support from the Web Reasoning community. In 2010,
RR will continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract
the best Web Reasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world.

Suggested topics include the following (but are not limited to):

*  Representation techniques for Web-based knowledge
*  Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction
*  Combining open and closed-world reasoning
*  Combining rules and ontologies
*  Design and analysis of reasoning languages
*  Efficiency and benchmarking
*  Implemented tools and systems
*  Foundations and applications related to relevant standardization
     bodies such as the W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF), Web
     Ontology Language (OWL2) and SPARQL working groups, or the
     W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the WWW Incubator Group, etc.
*  Ontology usability
*  Ontology languages and their relationships
*  Querying and optimization
*  Rules and ontology management (such as inconsistency handling
     and evolution)
*  Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency
*  Reasoning with constraints
*  Rule languages and systems
*  Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages
*  Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the Web
*  Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web
*  Integration of statistical methods and symbolic reasoning
*  Stream reasoning
*  Semantic Web Services modeling and applications
*  Web and Semantic Web applications and experience papers


PUBLICATION

The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes
in Computer Science (LNCS) series (acceptance pending) and will
be available at the conference. After the conference, there will
be a special issue of the (new IOS Press) journal "Semantic Web
- Interoperability, Usability, Applicability" with selected
papers from the conference.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Submissions must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e
style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (see
http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html), and
must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2010).

The length should not exceed 15 pages for full papers,
9 pages for short papers, 4 pages for posters, and 6 pages
for system descriptions (for system demos at the conference).
The stated lengths include title, abstract, and references.
Short papers, posters, and system descriptions should be
clearly marked as such in the title and in the easychair
submission system. Submissions that deviate substantially
from these guidelines may be rejected without review.
Original research and application papers are welcome;
submissions will especially be judged for originality and
scientific quality. All accepted papers, posters, and
system descriptions will be included in the proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2010
Paper/poster/demo submission deadline: May 22, 2010
Paper/poster/demo accept/reject decisions: June 24, 2010
Camera-ready due: July 15, 2010
Last day for early registration fee: July 15, 2010


CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS

Georg Gottlob (Oxford University, UK)


GENERAL CHAIR

José Júlio Alferes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)


PROGRAM CHAIRS

Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA)
Thomas Lukasiewicz (Oxford University, UK)


LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS

Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Mariano Rodríguez-Muro (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)


SPONSORSHIP CHAIR

Krzysztof Janowicz (Pennsylvania State University, USA)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Grigoris Antoniou (University of Crete, Greece)
Marcelo Arenas (PUC Chile, Chile)
Jie Bao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA)
Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University, Canada)
Andrea Calì (Oxford University, UK)
Vinay Chaudri (Stanford Research Institute, USA)
Kendall Clark (Clark & Parsia, USA)
Claudia d'Amato (University of Bari, Italy)
Carlos Damasio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Wlodek Drabent (IPI PAN Warszawa, Poland)
Sergio Flesca (University of Calabria, Italy)
Christine Golbreich (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin, France)
Claudio Gutierrez (University of Chile, Chile)
Stijn Heymans (TU Vienna, Austria)
Rinke Hoekstra (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Giovambattista Ianni (University of Calabria, Italy)
Krzysztof Janowicz (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Domenico Lembo (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)
Francesca A. Lisi (University of Bari, Italy)
Gergely Lukácsy (DERI Galway, Ireland)
Jan Maluszynski (University of Linköping, Sweden)
Wolfgang May (University of Göttingen, Germany)
Ralf Möller (TU Hamburg, Germany)
Boris Motik (Oxford University, UK)
Wolfgang Nejdl (LS3 and University of Hannover, Germany)
Matthias Nickles (University of Bath, UK)
Andrea Pugliese (University of Calabria, Italy)
Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China)
Sebastian Rudolph (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Alan Ruttenberg (ScientificCommons, Switzerland)
Michael Sintek (DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy)
Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Terrance Swift (SUNY Stony Brook, USA)
Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bozen, Italy)
Dirk Vermeir (University of Brussels, Belgium)
Zhe Wu (Oracle, USA)


FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information refer to the RR 2010 web site at

  http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010

AAMAS-2010 Call for Registration

NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON 
AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-2010)
http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/


May 10 - 14, 2010
Toronto, Canada

Registration is now open, at 
http://www.aaai.org/Forms/torontoregistration-form.php
!!!EARLY REGISTRATION: 12 March 2010!!!

You can find a preliminary conference schedule at http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/
or go directly to
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~wiebe/AAMAS/timetable.shtml 

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AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous 
agents and multiagent systems.

This year, AAMAS-2010 has joined forces with DL, FOIS, ICAPS, KR, and NMR. This has materialized in the possibility to register for events jointly, and at AAMAS there will be KR/AAMAS and ICAPS/AAMAS paper sessions, as well as combined invited talk sessions.

PROGRAM: The list of accepted long and short papers is available through the website (see above)

Among the invited talks are

KR/AAMAS talk:
Ron Brachman and Hector Levesque: Great moments in KR

ICAPS/AAMAS talk:
Daniele Nardi: Robotic Agents for Disaster Response Robotics

On top of this, the program will include talks of winners of the ACM/SIGART Award and the IFAAMAS Dissertation Award, demos, posters of all accepted papers, an industrial track session, sessions on virtual agents, and many others. While the main conference program is on 12, 13 and 14 May, there are also possibilities to attend 13 tutorials, 30 workshops and a doctoral  training consortium for PhD students on the days before.

See you in Toronto!

Wiebe van der Hoek

Knowledge Engineering Review

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The Knowledge Engineering Review

-- Cambridge University Press --

**NEW** Call for Tutorial Papers
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The Knowledge Engineering Review (KER) seeks to publish high-quality
tutorials on various topics related to Artificial Intelligence and
knowledge-based systems. All contributions within the scope of the
journal are welcome.

Tutorial papers fill a gap in the literature by addressing timely
topics for which a book-length account is still premature (e.g.
because the area is developing too rapidly). As such, tutorials play
an important role in developing and promoting new ideas.

Tutorial papers differ somewhat from survey papers. A survey aims at
providing balanced but critical presentations of the primary concepts
in an area. A tutorial, on the other hand, provides a detailed
introduction to an area, possibly focusing on one specific approach or
technique. It is hoped that the tutorial would focus on helping the
reader become familiar with particular techniques, and so would make
use of examples and, possibly, exercises.

Tutorial papers will be reviewed for value, quality and style, and if
accepted, will be published and indexed as is the case with normal KER
articles.

For further queries, please contact the Associate Editor for
tutorials, Iyad Rahwan (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/irahwan/)

This call for papers online:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displaySpecialPage?pageId=1848