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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
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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

Montag, 24. Januar 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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Samstag, 11. Dezember 2010

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:

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)