************************************************************************ * CALL FOR PAPERS * * 7th Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation @AAMAS 2012 * * 4 or 5 June 2012 - Valencia, Spain * * Website: http://www.ia.urjc.es/att2012 * ************************************************************************ Building effective and user-friendly transportation systems is one of the big challenges for engineers in the 21st century. The rapid change of location, enabled by plane, high-speed rail, sea and road travel, has constantly become easier and more natural. These days we travel without any of the difficulties that accompanied taking a trip less than a century ago. All we have to do is to organize and to pick up the transport mode that comes closest to our objectives. In much the same way, many new opportunities for the delivery of goods are being explored and commercially exploited. The purpose of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together in order to set up visions on how agent technology can be and is used for today's isolated IT-tools so as to model, simulate, and manage large-scale complex transportation systems. Therefore, we are interested in research papers, case studies and practitioners' reports on the implementation and use of Autonomous Agents in all areas related to transportation, traffic and logistics. Besides running real-world applications, we are also interested in papers concerning demonstrators or testbed that are still under development. Conceptual papers and those reporting on particular components of transportation systems are also welcome. This is the seventh of a well established series of workshops since 2000. Most of them have published post-proceedings in special issues of journals such as Transportation Research C. ************************************************************************ Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): - applications of multiagent technology in traffic, transportation, and transport logistics - coordination in multiagent transportation systems - agent-based traffic control - distributed decision making in traffic, transportation and transport logistics - multi-agent systems for intelligent vehicles - mobile devices and agents in transportation systems - intelligent monitoring of transportation systems using agents - data collection, filtering and distribution of traffic information - autonomous vehicles and collaborative driving - cognitive approaches to modeling traffic participants - machine learning approaches to transportation systems - agent-based approaches to modelling driver behaviour - agent-based simulation of traffic and transportation systems - agent-based pedestrian and crowd simulation - future technologies: opportunities for multiagent systems - vehicle2vehicle communication and multiagent systems - requirements and issues involved in electromobility For ATT2012 we specially encourage submissions on real-world applications using a minimum of assumptions about future equipments and using novel techniques from the area of Autonomic Traffic Control and Management. ************************************************************************ Submission Details Contributions should not exceed ten pages in English. For preparation of papers to be submitted please use the IFAAMAS template and follow the formatting instructions for authors available at the AAMAS-2012 website. Contributions should carry the title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation including e-mail address, and should include an abstract. Electronic submission via the conference management system is mandatory: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=att2012 Submissions are accepted as documents in PDF only. ************************************************************************ Important Dates Paper submission deadline: 28 February 2012 Notifications of acceptance/rejection: 27 March 2012 Camera-ready copies due: 10 April 2012 Workshop Date: 4 or 5 June 2012 ************************************************************************ Organizing Committee Matteo Vasirani, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), matteo.vasirani@urjc.es Eduardo Camponogara, Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil), camponog@das.ufsc.br Hiromitsu Hattori, Kyoto University (Japan), hatto@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Franziska Klügl, Örebro University (Sweden), franziska.klugl@oru.se ************************************************************************* PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THE WEBSITE FOR UPDATED INFORMATION *************************************************************************
Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012
Agents in Traffic and Transportation
Montag, 28. März 2011
Ambient Intelligence Environments (AmI Environments 2011)
---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AmI_Environments@EPIA2011 :: CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Special Track on Ambient Intelligence Environments (AmI Environments 2011) 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA 2011 10th-13th October, 2011 :: Lisbon, Portugal http://epia2011.appia.pt ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Submission deadline: 10th May, 2011 ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a paradigm emerging from Artificial Intelligence (AI), where computers are used as proactive tools assisting people with their day-to-day activities, making everyone's life more comfortable. These environments should be aware of the needs of people, customizing requirements and forecasting behaviours. AmI environments may be highly diverse, such as homes, offices, meeting rooms, schools, hospitals, control centers, transport facilities, tourist attractions, stores, sport installations, music devices, etc. In the track on AmI Environments we will create a multi-disciplinary discussion forum that will bring together researchers from the different fields addressed discussing issues in Artificial Intelligence topics included in the Ambient Intelligence environments. Researchers are welcome to present both theoretical and practical works as well as the lessons learned with their application in the varied range of domains. Emphasis will be placed on the presentation of concrete systems, discussion of implementation and development challenges and sharing of conclusions achieved and relevant results. ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTRIBUTIONS ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In order to fulfill these objectives, submissions of substantial, original and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of Ambient Intelligence. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Applications - Ambient Assisted Living - Ubiquitous Computing - Artificial Intelligence for AmI - Intelligent Environments - Pervasive Computing - Context Aware Computing - Agent & Multiagent Systems for AmI - Mobile Computing - Sentient Computing - e-Health - Context Modelling - AmI for e-Learning - On-line Dispute Resolution - Memory Assistant ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS and PAPERS FORMAT ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will not be accepted in any other format. Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically without a review. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. More information about the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) are available on the Springer LNCS Web site http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SUBMITTING PAPERS ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In order to submit a paper, authors must register at the EPIA 2011 conference management system (available soon), using the entry of the AmI_Environments. ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Submission deadline: 10th May, 2011 Notification of acceptance: 10st June, 2011 Camera-ready papers: 1st July, 2011 EPIA 2011 Conference: 10th - 13th October, 2011 ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PUBLICATION ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - As usual in the EPIA conference series, a set of the best full accepted papers will be published in a volume of the LNAI series published by Springer, edited by EPIA 2011 Conference Chairs. All other accepted papers presented at the conference appear in a published book. ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal (pjon@di.uminho.pt) Ana Almeida, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal (ana@dei.isep.ipp.pt) Sara Rodriguez, University of Salamanca, Spain (srg@usal.es) ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACTS AmI_Environments@EPIA2011 ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://epia2011.appia.pt http://isrt.di.uminho.pt/ae2011/ email: amie2011@appia.pt
Affective Computing (AC’2011)
---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AC@EPIA2011 :: CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Special Track on Affective Computing (AC’2011) 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA 2011 10th-13th October, 2011 :: Lisbon, Portugal http://epia2011.appia.pt --------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Submission deadline: 10th May, 2011 ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The workshop on Affective Computing (AC) will focus on the role of affect, social behaviour, and related issues in the development of computer systems. Relevant topics include the consideration of factors like emotions, mood, personality traits, and attitudes in human-computer, human-robot, and human-environment interaction, especially insofar as they provide better or more "natural" support for humans. Also relevant is the role of such factors in facilitating access to the knowledge essential for making better decisions in response to interactions between individuals and the environments (e.g. facilitating social interaction among humans or among humans and artificial characters). Affective Computing is a multidisciplinary field that draws upon such areas as sociology, psychology, human-machine interaction, virtual environments, and, obviously, Artificial Intelligence. It is also a field with a wide range of applications, including virtual reality, decision support, computer games, and ambient intelligence, social robotics, and ECAs (Embodied Conversational Agents). The purpose of this workshop on Affective Computing is to bring together researchers to discuss theories, architectures and applications which are based on a combination of cognitive and affective considerations and that can be applied to groups of individually different persons and their interactions. ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTRIBUTIONS ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In order to fulfill these objectives, submissions of substantial, original and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of Affective Computing. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Computational models of emotions Individual Emotion recognition Social Web Personality in Agents Architectures Group Emotion Emotion and learning Artificial characters Affect and emotion recognition Emotion and memory Emotion content classification and affect content classification, used to evaluate or analyse human-X interaction; Using reputation and trust models in social interactions Using negotiation and persuasion in social interactions Infrastructure and policy for affective computing Understanding and Modelling groups and other social systems Social aspects of globally distributed computing and new cooperative work technologies New forms of education, entertainment and social relations based on cooperation technologies ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS and PAPERS FORMAT ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will not be accepted in any other format. Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically without a review. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. More information about the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) are available on the Springer LNCS Web site http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. --------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SUBMITTING PAPERS ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In order to submit a paper, authors must register at the EPIA 2011 conference management system (available soon), using the entry of the Affective Computing. ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Submission deadline: 10th May, 2011 Notification of acceptance: 10st June, 2011 Camera-ready papers: 1st July, 2011 EPIA 2011 Conference: 10th - 13th October, 2011 ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PUBLICATION --------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - As usual in the EPIA conference series, a set of the best full accepted papers will be published in a volume of the LNAI series published by Springer, edited by EPIA 2011 Conference Chairs. All other accepted papers presented at the conference appear in a published book. ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Goreti Marreiros, goreti@dei.isep.ipp.pt(ISEP, Portugal) Andrew Ortony, ortony@northwestern.edu(Northwestern University, USA) Ana Paiva, Ana.Paiva@inesc-id.pt, (INESC-ID and IST, Portugal) ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACTS goreti@dei.isep.ipp.pt
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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6th Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications - MASTA @ EPIA 2011
Thematic Track @ EPIA 2011 Lisbon, PORTUGAL
http://epia2011.appia.pt/masta masta2011@appia.pt
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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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Introduction
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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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Aims and Scope
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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
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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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Program Committee
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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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6th Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications - MASTA @ EPIA 2011
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.
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. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 | |||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||
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