Trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems (TruMAS'12)

1st International Workshop on Trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems (TruMAS'12)
KES-AMSTA 2012 Special Session, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 25-27 June 2012
http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~ndra/TruMAS12
Proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in a volume of LNCS/LNAI.

IMPORTANT DATES

5 February 2012  Submission of papers
22 February 2012 Notification of acceptance
7 March 2012 Camera ready
25-27 June 2012 TruMAS and KES-AMSTA

WORKSHOP AIM AND SCOPE

The rapid development of computer-based technologies has made computers more and more complex and ubiquitous. Many computer-based systems are in charge of critical tasks such as, to mention only a few, the management of financial and medical databases, the monitoring of nuclear plants, the flying of airplanes, etc. Multi-agent systems (MAS) have been proposed as a new paradigm for conceptualizing, designing, and implementing open and distributed software systems. The foundational idea behind a Multi-Agent System is to have a loosely coupled network of software agents (i.e., sophisticated computer programs that act autonomously on behalf of their users) which interact to solve problems that are beyond the individual capacities or knowledge of each single agent. Therefore, it is not surprisingly MAS have received a lot of attention as reference computing paradigm to tackle complexity in modern computer-based systems.

However, the complexity of modern computer-based systems as well as their numerous applications has inherently increased the challenges for ensuring trustworthiness. Trustworthiness encompasses vital characteristics of a system such as safety (the non-occurrence of catastrophic consequences for the environment the system works in), security (the non-occurrence of unauthorized disclosure of information), integrity (the non-occurrence of inadequate information alteration), availability (the readiness for correct service of the system), reliability (the property of the system to continuously provide service) or more generically dependability. The overall trustworthiness of a system is connected to all the aforementioned properties and should be regarded holistically. Functional correctness, security, safety, reliability are facets that have to be ensured for the system's components as well as for the system as a whole.

The 1st International Workshop on Trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems (TruMAS 2012) aims at bringing together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in all the different aspects of trust, dependability and security in Multi-Agent Systems. The workshop is expected to stimulate discussions about the future development of appropriate models, methods, notations, languages and tools for trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems. The overall goal is to explore the different facets of trustworthiness in Multi-Agent Systems, how every single aspect can be fostered, and how they relate.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
- Trust and reputation models, metrics and assessment in Multi-Agent Systems
- Dependability facets in Multi-Agent Systems
- Fault-tolerance and robustness in Multi-Agent Systems
- Architectures for trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems
- Robust and secure communication in Multi-Agent Systems
- Robust and secure negotiation in Multi-Agent Systems
- Software engineering methodologies for trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems
- Security and access control in open Multi-Agent Systems
- Self-configuration and adaptation
- Formal methods and frameworks to model, analyze, prove, or measure aspects of trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems
- Industrial experiences in the adoption of trust-based Multi-Agent Systems approaches
- Rigorous software development to ensure trustworthiness in Multi-Agent Systems

Since the overall goal of trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems includes the investigation of several cross- disciplinary issues such as a deep understanding of trust vs. trustworthiness, trust-based approaches, dependability, etc..., a synergy between different scientific communities and research disciplines is needed. For this reason, although the workshop seems naturally focused on multi-agent issues, contributions from different disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, psychology, communication sciences, as well as from computer science specific sub-disciplines such as software engineering and dependability are welcomed and encouraged.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submitted full papers must not exceed 10 pages in length, including bibliography and well-marked appendices. Papers can be submitted using the PROSE Online Paper Submission system available on the KES-AMSTA'12 Web site. Please remember to select the TruMAS invited session entry in the "Session Name" drop-down box when submitting your paper.

Please use the LNCS templates and style files available on the Springer Web site (Information for LNCS Authors).

Submitted papers will be evaluated by the program committee and chosen for presentation based on their scientific contribution and relevance to the topics of the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the workshop and participate presenting the paper.

Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in a volume of LNCS/LNAI.

CHAIRS

Nicola Dragoni
DTU Informatics
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
ndra@imm.dtu.dk

Manuel Mazzara
School of Computing Science
Newcastle University, UK
manuel.mazzara@newcastle.ac.uk

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Faycal Abouzaid, CRAC, Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, Canada
Enrico Denti, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy
Nicoletta Fornara, Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Katsuhide Fujita, Institute of Engineering Innovation, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Mauro Gaspari, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy
Paolo Giorgini, Information Engineering and Computer Science Department (DISI), University of Trento, Italy
Nathan Griffiths, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK
Koji Hasebe, Academic Computing & Communications Center, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Hiromitsu Hattori, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
Takayuki Ito, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Waqar Jaffry, Department of Artificial Intelligence, VU University, The Netherlands
Andrew J I Jones, Department of Informatics, King's College London, UK
Steve Marsh, Communications Research Centre, Canada
Hernan Melgratti, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Paul Scerri, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Eugen Staab, imc AG, Germany
Daniel Villatoro, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spanish Scientific Research Council, Spain
Mirko Viroli, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy

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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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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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 Information
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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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Important Dates
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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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Organizing Committee
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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
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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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Steering Committee
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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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Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE 2011

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                              CALL FOR PAPERS

6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE 2011

                        Website: http://www.enase.org

                             June 8 - 11, 2011 
                                Beijing, China


Hosted by Beijing Jiaotong University

Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI


Submission deadline: January 24, 2011.

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Dear Colleague,

We would like to draw your attention to the 6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2011), which has currently an open call for papers.
ENASE 2011 will be held in Beijing, China next June 8-11 and will be hosted by the Beijing Jiaotong University. It will be held in conjuction with ICEIS 2011 (http://www.iceis.org) and registration to ENASE will allow free access to ICEIS.

ENASE is interested in promoting high quality research as it can be confirmed by last year acceptance rates, where from 70 submissions, 27% were accepted as full papers and 16% were presented as short papers.

Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. CXCS

Revised and extended versions of all full paper which are presented at the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book. 

All papers presented at the conference venue will also be available at SciTePress' Digital Library (www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).

Workshops and special sessions are also invited. If you wish to propose a workshop or a special session, for example based on the results of a specific research project, please send a proposal to the ENASE secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea.

Please check further details at the conference website (http://www.enase.org). 


Should you have any question or suggestion please don't hesitate to contact me.


Kind regards,
Helder Coelhas
ENASE Secretariat
Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2 esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5433
Email: enase.secretariat@insticc.org




ENASE Website: http://www.enase.org
June 8 - 11, 2011
Beijing, China

IMPORTANT DATES:            
Regular Paper Submission: January 24, 2011
Authors Notification (regular papers): March 25, 2011
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: April 4, 2011


TOPICS OF INTEREST:

    * Software and Systems Development Methodologies
    * "3A" (Agile, Aspect-oriented and Agent-oriented) Software Engineering
    * Service-oriented Software Engineering and Management
    * Component-based Software Engineering and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Systems
    * Model-driven Engineering
    * Meta Programming Systems and Meta-modeling
    * Knowledge Management and Engineering
    * Architectural Design and Meta Architectures
    * Business Process Management, Engineering and Reengineering
    * Process-centric Paradigms
    * Service-oriented Architectures
    * Service Science
    * Application Integration Technologies
    * Enterprise Integration Strategies and Patterns
    * e-Business Technologies
    * Requirements Engineering Frameworks and Models
    * Collaborative Requirements Management Systems
    * Business and Software Modeling Languages
    * Software Quality Management
    * Software Change and Configuration Management
    * Geographically Distributed Software Development Environments
    * Cross-feeding between Data and Software Engineering
    * Design Thinking as a Paradigm for Software Development
    * Formal Methods
    * Software Process Improvement
 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Harold Krikke
Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Xuewei Li
Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Kecheng Liu
University of Reading, U.K.

Leszek A. Maciaszek
Macquarie University, Australia / University of Economics, Poland

Yannis A. Phillis
Technical University of Crete, Greece

Shoubo Xu
Chinese Academy of Engineering / Beijing Jiaotong University, China


For more information please visit the conference website: http://www.enase.org/keynote_speakers.asp


CONFERENCE CHAIR:
Joaquim Filipe
Polytechnic Institute of Setubal / INSTICC, Portugal


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Leszek A. Maciaszek
Macquarie University ~ Sydney, Australia and University of Economics ~ Wroclaw, Poland

Kang Zhang
University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Available at http://www.enase.org/call_for_papers.asp#program_committee

ACT4SOC 2010 - Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing

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WORKSHOPS IMPORTANT DATES
    Regular Paper Submission: April 06, 2010
    Authors Notification: May 04, 2010
    Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 19, 2010
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ACT4SOC 2010
4th International Workshop on
Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/ACT4SOC.htm 
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Co-chairs:
Marten van Sinderen
University of Twente
The Netherlands

Brahmananda Sapkota
University of Twente
The Netherlands

Supported by IICREST and seekda!

Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

    * Service Foundation and Design Issues
          o Principles of SOC/SOA, Service Science
          o Service Modelling Approaches
          o Formal Specification and Analysis
          o Reasoning Approaches
          o Model-driven Development, Platform-independence
          o Service Interoperability (Semantic, Pragmatic), Matching and (Dynamic) Composition
          o Ontology-centered Design
          o Requirements-functionality (Business-IT) Alignment
          o Web 2.0, Social Networking, Mash-ups
          o Rest vs WS
          o Repeated Aggregation of Services into Composite Applications and Business Processes

    * Service Technology and Infrastructure Issues
          o Architectural Patterns
          o Service Registry Management
          o Requirements Management, Service Evolution
          o Quality-of-Service Management
          o Cross-domain Service Delivery
          o Specific Technology Platform Solutions
          o Language-specific Solutions
          o Tool Support
          o Applicability and Performance Experiences
          o Service Level Agreements

    * Service Usage Issues and Applications of SOC/SOA
          o Service Registration, Update, de-Registration
          o Service Discovery, Matching, Selection, Replacement
          o Service Invocation, Interaction, Monitoring
          o Service Choreography, Mediation, Orchestration
          o Traceability of Technology Changes in Requirements and Vice versa
          o Mobile and Ubiquitous Applications
          o Health and Homecare Applications
          o Supply Chain Management Applications
          o e-Commerce Applications


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ACES 2010
1st International Workshop on
Autonomic Computing for Enterprise Systems 
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/ACES.htm 
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Co-chairs:
Frances Brazier
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands 

Martijn Warnier
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands

Areas / Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1 - Software Engineering Methods for Building Autonomic Systems
2 - QoS Management in Autonomic and Dynamic Environments
3 - Emergent Behavior, Emergent Configurations
4 - Service Agreements and Negotiation
5 - Legal Implications of Self-management/autonomy in Networked Systems


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DMIA 2010
1st International Workshop on
Data Management and Information Analytics
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/DMIA.htm
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Co-chairs:

Markus Helfert
School of Computing, Dublin City University
Ireland

Brian Donnellan
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Ireland

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * Managing Large Data Manufacturing Systems
    * Organizational Concepts and Best Practice
    * Architectural Concepts
    * Data and Information Quality
    * Data Modeling
    * Methods for Data Management
    * Modeling and Analyzing Relationship Data
    * Modeling Large Data Manufacturing Systems
    * Data Warehousing and Data Cleansing
    * Data Visualization
    * Data Privacy and Integrity
    * Management of Uncertain Data
    * Accessibility of Data
    * Mobile Data Management
    * Management of Sensor Data
    * Data Integration
    * Integration and Analyzing Semi-structured and Unstructured Data
    * Text Analytics
    * Business Cases and Cost/Benefit Analysis of Data Management Approaches


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RTABIS 2010
1st International Workshop on
Recent Trends in Aspect based Information Systems
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/RTABIS.htm
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Co-chairs:

Philippe Lahire
Laboratoire I3S, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis
France

Jean-Yves Tigli
I3S Laboratory, Polytech'Nice Sophia Antipolis, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
France

Valérie Monfort
Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne / ISIG, Kairouan University
France / Tunisia

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Software Engineering

    * Requirements Engineering
    * Analysis and Design Modeling
    * Domain Engineering
    * Software Architectures
    * Evaluation and Metrics
    * Modular Reasoning
    * Testing and Verification
    * Interference and Composition
    * Traceability
    * Software Development Methods
    * Process and Methodology Definition
    * Patterns

- Programming Languages

    * Language Design
    * Compilation and Interpretation
    * Verification and Static Program Analysis
    * Formal Languages and Calculi
    * Execution Environments and Dynamic Weaving
    * Dynamic and Scripting Languages
    * Domain-specific Aspect Languages

- Related Paradigms

    * Model-driven Development
    * Generative Programming
    * Software Product Lines
    * Meta-programming
    * Contracts and Components
    * View-based Development

- Tool Support

    * Aspect Mining
    * Evolution and Reverse Engineering
    * Crosscutting Program Views
    * Refactoring

- Applications

    * Distributed/Concurrent Systems
    * Middleware, Services, and Networking
    * Pervasive Computing
    * Runtime Verification
    * Performance Improvement SOA and Aspects
    * Multi Agent Systems and Aspects
    * E-learning and Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Aspect

- Industrial Feedback

    * Project Management with AOP
    * Success Story or Failure
    * Other Applications Experiences


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RTSE4CAA 2010
1st International Workshop on Recent Trends
in Software Engineering for Context-Aware Applications
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/RTSE4CAA.htm
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Co-chairs:
Yacine Atif
College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University
U.A.E.

Olivier Camp
ESEO, Angers
France

Slimane Hammoudi
ESEO, Angers
France

Zakaria Maamar
College of Information Technology, Zayed University
U.A.E.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * Modelling of Context and of Context Aware Applications
    * Model Driven Engineering of Context Aware Applications
    * Ontologies for Context-aware Applications
    * Dynamic Adaptation in Context Aware Applications
    * Discovery, Composition and Adaptation of Services in Context-aware Applications
    * Intelligent Context Aware Applications
    * Programming Paradigm and Software Architectures for Context Aware Applications
    * Benchmarking and Performance of Context Aware Applications
    * Specification, Verification and Test of Context Aware Applications
    * Context Aware Business Processes
    * Database and Knowledge Management in Context-aware Applications
    * Trust, Privacy and Security Issues in Context Aware Applications
    * Human-computer Interaction in Context-aware Applications


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S2C 2010
1st International Workshop on
Software and Simulation Components
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/S2C.htm
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Co-chairs:

Alexander Verbraeck
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands

Mamadou Seck
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands


Areas / Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1 - Theory Formation for Hierarchical and Component-based Modeling
2 - Component-based and Hierarchical Modeling in the Software Engineering Field
3 - Component-based and Hierarchical Modeling in the Simulation Field
4 - Use of Libraries of Components to Enhance (Distributed) Systems Development
5 - Best Practices for Component Development, Reuse, and Hierarchical Systems Development


Kind regards,
Monica Saramago
ICSOFT Workshops Secretariat
Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5433
Email: icsoft.workshops.secretariat@insticc.org
Website: http://www.icsoft.org

CALL FOR TUTORIALS -- EASSS 2010

      !!!   CALL FOR TUTORIALS -- EASSS 2010   !!!

The twelfth edition of the European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS 2010) will be in conjunction with MALLOW 2010 and take place at

  Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne
                  Saint-Etienne, France
                   23-27 August, 2010
                http://easss2010.emse.fr

Researchers and lecturers in the field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems are invited to submit a proposal for a state-of-the-art course in the twelfth edition of the European Agent Systems Summer School. Like its very successful predecessors, EASSS 2010 aims to offer a valuable forum for knowledge exchange between various research groups in this field for the benefit of students and researchers at both beginner and advanced level. The success of this summer school is essential not only for the mutual benefit of research groups, but also in forming future generations of researchers to maintain the excellence of Agents research and development in Europe.

Tutors are encouraged to submit a 1-page course proposal including:
the topic and its importance for the field, intended audience and their required background knowledge, outline of the topics to be presented, how the course material will be prepared, the tutors and their experience, level of the course (beginners/advanced), duration (typically 4 or 6 hours), and any special equipment requirements. Proposals will be evaluated based on the importance and quality of the topic description, the quality of the presentation material, and the teaching ability of the proposed speakers.

Deadline for proposals:         April 18, 2010
Notification:                   May 24,   2010
material for reader (< 26 pp)   July 4,   2010

A typical course has 4 hours in total, but variations are possible. Courses should be broad enough to provide a general introduction to the chosen topic, but it should also cover the most important contributions in depth. Courses are expected to take a wider perspective than one specific approach practised by an individual or group. For an impression, the courses given in 2001 are collected in a volume of Springer's LNAI series (No 2086), and programmes of previous editions of EASSS can be found via the webpage of EASSS09 (http://agents009.di.unito.it/EASSS.html).

The summer schools attract about 100 students each year. We intend to give a modest contribution towards tutors' expenses by providing free accommodation, but EASSS would not normally cover tutors' travel costs. Please note that this year EASSS is in conjunction (but not co-located) with MALLOW 2010 for the third time and takes place one week before that event. MALLOW 2010 will be in Lyon (very close to Saint-Etienne).

Submissions of tutorial proposals should be sent to Mehdi Dastani (mehdi@cs.uu.nl).

The EASSS-2010 Committee members are:

Local Chairs:
Olivier Boissier                Saint-Etienne, France
Gauthier Picard                 Saint-Etienne, France
Laurent Vercouter               Saint-Etienne, France

Program Committee:
Mehdi Dastani (chair)           Utrecht, Netherlands
Rafael Bordini                  Durham, UK
Catholijn Jonker                Delft, Netherlands
Barbara Keplicz                 Warszawa, Poland
Nicolas Maudet                  Paris, France
Andrea Omicini                  Bologna, Italy
Michal Pechoucek                Prague, Czech Republic

For information about local organisation please contact
Laurent Vercouter (easss2010@emse.fr).

POSSIBLE TOPICS:

* action selection and planning in multi-/agent systems
* adaptation, evolution and learning in multi-/agent systems
* agent-based simulation and modeling
* agent communication, agent dialogues and agent argumentation
* agents, ontologies, web services and semantic web
* agent-oriented software engineering and development methodologies
* agent programming languages and development tools   
* agent standardizations in industry and commerce
* applications and deployment for agents and multi-agent systems
* architectures for multi-agent systems
* artificial market systems, auctions, trading agents and electronic commerce, electronic institutions
* autonomous robots and robot teams
* believability, human-like qualities of synthetic agents, humanoid and sociable robots
* game theory and coalition formation for agents based systems
* computational complexity in agent systems
* conventions, commitments, norms, social laws and legal issues in multi-agent systems
* coordination, cooperation, and collaboration in multi-agent systems
* emergence, self-organisation and collective behavior in agent-based systems
* foundational issues and theories of agency     
* information agents, routers, brokering and matchmaking
* logics for specification, verification and validation of multi-agent systems
* mobile agents
* negotiation, task and resource allocation, and conflict handling in multi-agent systems
* privacy, safety and security in multi-agent systems
* scalability, robustness and dependability of multi-agent systems
* social and cognitive models for agents   
* social and organizational structures of multi-agent systems
* trust and reputation in multi-agent systems
* Multi-agent systems and/for Web Intelligence
* Multi-agent systems and/for Ambient Computing

Special Session on "Data Mining in Cloud Computing" in RSKT2010

Special Session on "Data Mining in Cloud Computing" in RSKT2010

Brief Description
The ‘Data Mining in Cloud Computing Session’ of the Fifth International Conference on Rough Set and Knowledge Technology (RSKT 2010) invites the submission of original high-quality research papers. The goal of this session is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of Cloud computing, Data mining and Knowledge Technology together to addresses the problems and emerging opportunities about Cloud Computing in the era of Knowledge Technology. Submissions will be in Springer LNCS style. Accepted and registered papers will be included in the Springer LNAI proceedings available at the conference. Extensions of selected papers from the RSKT2010 proceedings will be considered for publication in special issues of some international journals, such as Fundamental Informatics (EI, SCI indexed), International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (SCI indexed), etc.

Scope and Topics
Topics of interest include but not limited to:
* Knowledge technology in cloud computing
* Compute and storage cloud architectures and implementations
* Data intensive scalable computing
* Distributed data intensive computing
* Service models
* Programming models
* Charging models
* Virtual appliance management and composition
* Models, frameworks and systems for cloud security
* New applications on cloud

Important Dates
Full paper submission due: Apr.15.2010 
Paper acceptance/rejection notification: May 20, 2010
Camera ready submission and registration: July 6, 2010

Instructions for Authors
Articles should be submitted electronically. PDF format are acceptable and submissions should be according to the instruction for authors (see http://rskt2010.bjtu.edu.cn/paper.htm). Please specify that the paper is for the Knowledge Technology meet Cloud Computing session, and send an electronic copy of paper in PDF format in English to cqupt.yangyong@gmail.com. Same electronic copy must also be submitted online at EasyChair Login Page for RSKT 2010（https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?a=a03a9c904a6d;iid=19053）.

Special session cochiars:
Prof. Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R.China
Prof. Dr. Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R.China
Prof. Dr. Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
Dr. Yong Yang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R.China

Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2010)

Call for Papers

Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2010)
http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/tada2010/index.html

June 7th or 8th, 2010, Cambridge, MA
Held in conjunction with ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC10)


**Submission Deadline: April 1, 2010**

Trading agents have become a prominent application area in Artificial Intelligence because of their potential benefits in electronic commerce, and because they present a stiff challenge to models of rational decision-making. A wide variety of trading scenarios and agent approaches have been studied, creating a broad and rich research area. This workshop will focus on the design and evaluation of trading agents. Papers on trading agent architectures, decision-making algorithms, theoretical analysis, empirical evaluations of agent strategies in negotiation scenarios, and game-theoretic analyses, are all within the scope of the workshop.


This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2010 Trading Agent Competition (TAC-2010) http://www.sics.se/tac with finals held during the 11th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-2010)  http://www.sigecom.org/ec10/, but paper submissions need not be directly related to TAC. In fact, we encourage submissions related to other trading scenarios.


**Important Dates and Deadlines**

Deadline for submission of full papers: April 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 23, 2010
Early registration deadline for EC 2010: May 7, 2010
Camera Copy Deadline: May 15, 2010
Workshop: June 7th or 8th, 2010


**Submission Instructions**

Papers should be 8 two-column pages, including references. Manuscripts are exptected to be in English, and should be in PDF format. You should use the ACM SIG proceedings template http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.

Papers are to be submitted through the EasyChair Conference System website
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=tada2010.

**Program Committee**

Michael Benisch, Carnegie Mellon University
John Collins, University of Minnesota
Enrico Gerding, University of Southampton
Maria Gini, University of Minnesota
Sverker Janson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS)
Patrick Jordan, University of Michigan
Wolf Ketter, RSM Erasmus University
Kate Larson, (Chair) University of Waterloo
Peter McBurney, University of Liverpool
Tracy Mullen, Pennsylvania State University
Victor Naroditskiy, University of Southampton
Jinzhong Niu, City University of New York
David Pardoe, University of Texas
Michael Wellman, University of Michigan
Dongmo Zhang, University of Western Sydney