Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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4th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S)
"Engineering Complex Systems through Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation"

to be held at
MALLOW (Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated
Workshops) 2010, Lyon (France), 30 Aug.-03 Sept.


Multi-agent systems (MASs) provide powerful models for representing both real-world systems and applications with an appropriate degree of complexity and dynamics. Several research and industrial experiences have already shown that the use of MASs offers advantages in a wide range of application domains (e.g. financial, economic, social, logistic, chemical, engineering). When MASs represent software applications to be effectively delivered, they need to be validated and evaluated before their deployment and execution, thus methodologies that support validation and evaluation through simulation of the MAS under development are highly required. In other emerging areas (e.g. ACE, ACF), MASs are designed for representing systems at different levels of complexity through the use of autonomous, goal-driven and interacting entities organized into societies which exhibit emergent properties The agent-based model of a system can then be executed to simulate the behavior of the complete system so that knowledge of the behaviors of the entities (micro-level) produce an understanding of the overall outcome at the system-level (macro-level). In both cases (MASs as
software applications and MASs as models for the analysis of complex systems), simulation plays a crucial role which needs to be further investigated.

Areas of Interest
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MAS&S'10 aims at providing a forum for discussing recent advances in Engineering Complex Systems by exploiting Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation. In particular, the areas of interest are the following (although this list should not be considered as exclusive):

* Agent-based simulation techniques and methodologies
* Discrete-event simulation of Multi-Agent Systems
* Simulation as validation tool for the development process of MAS
* Agent-oriented methodologies incorporating simulation tools
* MAS simulation driven by formal models
* MAS  simulation toolkits and frameworks
* Testing vs. simulation of MAS
* Agents as modeling concept enabling communication between domain experts and simulation experts
* Industrial case studies based on MAS and simulation/testing
* Agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS)
* Agent Computational Economics (ACE)
* Agent Computational Finance (ACF)
* Agent-based simulation of networked systems
* Scalability in agent-based simulation 

Program Chairs
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Carole Bernon - Université Paul Sabatier, IRIT (France) - carole.bernon@irit.fr
Alfredo Garro - Università della Calabria (Italy) - alfredo.garro@unical.it 
Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz - Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) - jjgomez@sip.ucm.es 


International Program Committee
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Jean-Paul Arcangeli, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Juan Antonio Botía Blaya, Universidad de Murcia, Spain 
Paul Davidson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Paolo Giorgini, Università di Trento, Italy
Samer Hassan, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Vincent Hilaire, Université de Belfort-Montbéliard, France
Franziska Klügl, Örebro Universitet, Sweden
Adolfo López-Paredes, University of Valladolid, Spain 
Muaz Niazi, Foundation University, Pakistan
Michael J. North, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Andrea Omicini, Università di Bologna, Italy
Paolo Petta, OFAI, Austria
Gauthier Picard, ENSM, Saint-Etienne, France
Sébastien Picault, LIFL, Lille, France
Luca Sabatucci, ITC-irst, FBK, Italy
Valeria Seidita, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
Pietro Terna, Università di Torino, Italy
Erwan Tranvouez, LSIS, France
Giuseppe Vizzari, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy


Steering Committee
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Massimo Cossentino - ICAR/CNR, Italy 
Giancarlo Fortino - University of Calabria, Italy
Juan Pavon - Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
Marie-Pierre Gleizes - Université Paul Sabatier, France
Wilma Russo - University of Calabria, Italy


Web Site and Contact Email for Inquiries
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http://lisdip.deis.unical.it/workshops/mass10/
MALLOW web site: http://mallow2010.emse.fr/


Submission Guidelines
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Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered. Please submit full papers: 8 pages maximum in IEEEtran style and PDF format. You can find styles for LaTeX, BibTeX and documentations at the following address: http://www.michaelshell.org/tex/ieeetran/. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the International Program Committee. The submission link will be at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mass10atmallow10

Publication
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The workshop proceedings will be published and distributed at the conference. 

Journal Special Issue
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Selected papers presented at the workshop will be invited to a special issue on “Engineering Complex Systems through Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation” of a premier International Journal which is under selection; the chosen journal  will be communicated on the Workshop Web Site.

Important Dates
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May 30, 2010:        Submission of Papers
July 08, 2010:        Notification of Acceptance/ Rejection
July 30, 2010:         Submission of Camera-Ready Copies
30 Aug - 03 Sept, 2010: Workshop Takes Place