11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (PAAMS'13)

11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (PAAMS'13)

http://www.paams.net
paams@usal.es
Salamanca (Spain), 22nd-24th May, 2013


Plenary Speaker

Longbing Cao - Agent Mining: The Synergy of Multiagent Systems and Data Mining.

SCOPE
Research on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. PAAMS provides an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer. PAAMS started as a local initiative, but has since grown to become THE international yearly platform to present, to discuss, and to disseminate the latest developments and the most important outcomes related to real-world applications. It provides a unique opportunity to bring multi-disciplinary experts, academics and practitioners together to exchange their experience in the development and deployment of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS intends to bring together researchers and developers from industry and the academic world to report on the latest scientific and technical advances on the application of multi-agent system, to discuss and debate the major issues, and to showcase the latest systems using agent based technology. It will promote a forum for discussion on how agent-based techniques, methods, and tools help system designers to accomplish the mapping between available agent technology and application needs. Other stakeholders should be rewarded with a better understanding of the potential and challenges of the agent-oriented approach.

TOPICS
Problems
·    Agent-based simulation and prediction
·    Distributed problem solving
·    Agent cooperation and negotiation
·    Agent societies and social networks
·    Real-time multi-agent systems
·    Human agent interaction, user interfaces
·    Adaptation, learning and personalization
·    Reputation, trust, privacy and security
·    Agent engineering and development tools
·    Evaluation, ethical and legal issues
Domains
·    Information recovery and information systems
·    Knowledge management and data intensive systems
·    Intelligent control and manufacturing systems
·    Embodied agents and autonomous systems
·    Multi-robot systems and real world robotics
·    Internet softbots and web intelligence
·    Virtual agents, animation and games
·    Pervasive agents and ambient intelligence
·    E-learning and educational systems
·    User-centered applications and assisting agents

DEMO AWARD
The best demo paper in PAAMS'13 will be awarded with 2000? and a diploma.

GRANTS
The BISITE research group (http://bisite.usal.es) of the University of Salamanca, organiser of PAAMS 2013, offers 40 grants/awards to facilitate the attendance to doctoral and young doctors both to the event itself (including Workshops and Special Sessions) and to the parallel collocated events.
More information: http://www.paams.net/grants

SUBMISSION
Review process
PAAMS welcomes the submission of application papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least three experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity.
Types of submissions
They must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference.
Submitting papers
All papers must be formatted according to the Springer template, with a maximum length of 10-12 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page.
Publication
Accepted papers will be included in PAAMS 2012 Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS/LNAI series.

IMPORTANT DATES
·    Paper submission deadline: November 26th, 2012
·    Notification of acceptance: January 28th, 2012
·    Camera-Ready papers due: February 25th, 2013
·    Conference Celebration: May 22nd-24th, 2013

COMMITTEES
Scientific
·    Yves Demazeau - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
·    Toru Ishida - Kyoto University (Japan)
Organizing
·    Juan M. Corchado - University of Salamanca (Spain)
·    Javier Bajo - Technical University of Madrid (Spain)

CONTACT
Dr. Juan M. Corchado
Dr. Javier Bajo
Web: http://www.paams.net
Email: paams@usal.es
Tel: +34 923 294400 (Ext:1525)
Tel: +34 618 696589
Fax: +34 923 294514
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http://www.paams.net/sites/default/files/CFP/PAAMS13_Call_For_Papers.pdf

Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems - PRIMA 2012

                                                                              PRIMA 2012

    The 15th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems

                                                                Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

                                                                    September 3-7, 2012

                                                                http://www.prima2012.org/

                                    Co-located with PRICAI 2012, DC 2012 and PKAW 2012

Paper submission: March 30, 2012

Author notification: May 28, 2012

Camera-ready papers: June 15, 2012

Agent computing is an exciting, transformational approach to developing computer systems

that can rapidly and reliably solve real-world problems that usually demand human knowledge

and expertise. The value, power and flexibility of agent and multi-agent systems has been

demonstrated in application areas such as logistics, manufacturing, simulation, robotics,

decision support, entertainment, and especially in online market environments. As one of

the largest and fastest growing research fields of Computer Science, agent research today

includes a wealth of topics. The PRIMA 2012 Program Committee invites submissions of

original, unpublished, theoretical and applied work on any such topic, and encourages

reports on the development of prototype and deployed agent systems, and of experiments

that demonstrate novel agent system capabilities.

PRIMA 2012 proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume in the LNAI series and

proceedings will be available at the conference. Submitted papers should be 12-15 pages

in Springer LNCS format and must be in a form suitable for "double-blind" review.

Each submission will be subject to peer review in two rounds coordinated by an international

Senior Program Committee, and authors will be able to provide a short "rebuttal" of the

reviews before final decisions are made. A broad range of agent topics are of interest,

but all papers should clearly identify how their scientific or technical contributions

advance the state-of-the-art of agent computing practice or have a strong potential to do so.

Submitted papers should not be under review or submitted for publication elsewhere during

the review period.

Springer LNCS Author Instructions: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Submission: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prima2012

Enquiries: prima2012-pc-chairs@cse.unsw.edu.au

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Organization

General Chairs

  Sandip Sen  (University of Tulsa, USA)

  Toshiharu Sugawara (Waseda University, Japan)

Local Arrangements Chairs

  Dickson Lukose (MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia)

  Cheah Wai Shiang (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia)

Sponsorship Chairs

  Longbing Cao (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

  Matthias Klusch (DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany)

  Sarvapali Ramchurn (University of Southampton, UK)

  Jie Zhang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Program Chairs

  Iyad Rahwan (Masdar Institute, UAE and MIT, USA)

  Wayne Wobcke (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Senior Program Committee

  Stephen Cranefield (University of Otago, New Zealand)

  Frank Dignum (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

  Guido Governatori (NICTA, Australia)

  Katsutoshi Hirayama (Kobe University, Japan)

  Kate Larson (University of Waterloo, Canada)

  Rey-Long Liu (Tzu Chi University, Taiwan)

  Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London, UK)

  Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna, Italy)

  Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College London, UK)

 David Pynadath (University of Southern California, USA)

  Alex Rogers (University of Southampton, UK)

  Paolo Torroni (University of Bologna, Italy)

Tutorial Chair

  Edith Elkind (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Workshop Chairs

  Sherief Abdallah (British University in Dubai, UAE and University of Edinburgh, UK)

  Hiromitsu Hattori (Kyoto University, Japan)

Publicity Chairs

  Jacob Crandall (Masdar Institute, UAE and MIT, USA)

  Koen Hindriks (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

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Topics

Foundations of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

  Logics of Agency

  Logics of Multi-Agent Systems

  Normative Systems

  Computational Game Theory

  Uncertainty in Agent Systems

  Agent and Multi-Agent Learning

  Agent and Multi-Agent System Architectures

Agent Programming Languages and Platforms

  Multi-Agent System Languages and Platforms

  BDI Architectures and Extensions

  Normative Multi-Agent Systems

  Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

  AOSE Methodologies

  Tools for Agent and Multi-Agent System Development

  Formal Specification and Verification

  Deployed System Case Studies

Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation

  Simulation Languages and Platforms

  Artificial Societies

  Virtual Environments

  Workflow Simulation

  Emergent Behaviour

  Modelling System Dynamics

  Application Case Studies

  Collaboration/Coordination/Communication

  Agent Communication Languages and Protocols

  Distributed Problem Solving

  Teamwork Models

  Coalition Formation

  Argumentation, Negotiation, Bargaining

  Auctions and Mechanism Design

  Trust and Reputation

  Computational Voting Theory

Hybrid Technologies

  Agents in Planning

  Agent-Based Scheduling

  Agent-Based Optimization

  Distributed Constraint Satisfaction

  Agents and Data Mining

  Semantic Web Agents

  Agents and Grid Computing

  Agents and Service Oriented Computing

  Agents and Pervasive Computing

  Robotics and Multi-Robot Systems

Application Domains

  Healthcare

  Transport/Logistics

  Emergency/Disaster Management

  Energy/Utility Management

  Sustainability/Resource Management

  Games/Entertainment

  eBusiness/eCommerce/eGovernment

  eResearch/eLearning

  Security/Surveillance

  Smart Cities

Applications

  Adaptive Personal Assistants

  Embodied Conversational Agents

  Virtual Characters

  Multi-Modal User Interfaces

  Autonomous Systems

  Mobile Agents

  Human-Robot Interaction

  Social Recommender Systems

Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems (OPTMAS V)

Fifth International Workshop on Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems (OPTMAS V)

To be held in conjunction with the *Eleventh International Conference on Autonomous and Multi-Agent Systems  (AAMAS 2012)*

4 or 5 June 2012

cfp at:https://sites.google.com/site/optmas2012

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Call
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This workshop invites works from different strands of the multi-agent systems community that pertain to the design of algorithms, models, and techniques to deal with multi-agent optimisation problems. In so doing, this workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers to discuss common issues that arise in solving optimisation problems in different areas and elaborate common benchmarks to test their solutions.

Invited Talk
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to be announced
(Previous invited speakers include Moshe Tennenholtz (2008), Milind Tambe (2009), Paul Scerri (2010), Sven Koenig (2011) ).

Background
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The number of novel applications of multi-agent systems has followed an exponential trend over the last few years, ranging from online auction design, through in multi-sensor networks, to scheduling of tasks in multi-actor systems. Multi-agent systems designed for all these applications generally require some form of optimization in order to achieve their goal. Given this, a number of advancements have been made in the design of winner determination, coalition formation, and distributed constraints optimization algorithms among others. However, there are no general principles guiding the design of such algorithms that would enable researchers to either exploit algorithms designed in other areas or to ensure that their algorithms conform to some level of applicability to real problems.
This workshop aims to address the above issues by bringing together researchers from different parts of the Multi-Agent Systems research area to present their work and discuss acceptable solutions, benchmarks, and evaluation methods for generally researched optimization problems.
In particular, the main issues to be addressed by the workshop include (but are not limited to):

1. Techniques to model and solve optimisation problems in which the actors
are partly or completely distributed and can only communicate with their peers.
2. Algorithms to compute solutions to mechanisms that deal with different stakeholders who  may  be  self  interested  or  may  have  different computation/communication capabilities from their peers.
3. Techniques to manage and disseminate relevant information across different agents.
4. Dealing with privacy concerns: solving complex  optimization  problems while leaking as little private information as possible
5. Problems that require anytime algorithms.
6. Approximate algorithms that need to provide  guarantees  on  the  quality of the solution.
7. Mechanisms whose properties  can  be  significantly  affected  if  the solution computed is not the optimal one.
8. Techniques to deal with optimizations that have to  be  repeated  with possibly only slight changes in the input data.
9. Techniques to deal  with  situations  where  the  input  data  may  be uncertain or unreliable, requiring that the solution computed be robust to slight differences from the true values.
10. Techniques to deal with agents that are tied to physical devices. This involves computation and communication constraints that need to  be considered in the coordination techniques, as well as the possibility of failures of the devices and communication links.

Keywords
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Topics include but are not limited to:

* Distributed Constraints Optimisation/Satisfaction
* Winner Determination Algorithms in Auctions
* Coalition Formation Algorithms
* Algorithms to compute Nash Equilibrium in games
* Optimisation under uncertainty
* Optimisation with incomplete or dynamic input data
* Algorithms for real-time applications

Workshop motivation
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OPTMAS complements the objectives of the AAMAS conference by providing a forum for multi-agent algorithm designers. The workshop will be attractive to those working in the general areas of distributed optimization, auction design, coordination, learning, and uncertainty and will be a good place to present original work and discuss acceptable benchmarks and evaluation methods for generally researched optimization problems.
The aim of OPTMAS is to complement the theoretical angle taken by work presented in the main conference, and other workshops, by focusing on the implementation issues and the general trends in optimization problems that arise across a variety of multi-agent applications.

Important dates
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* 28th FEBRUARY, 2012 - Submission of contributions to workshops
* 27th MARCH, 2012 - Workshop paper acceptance notification
* 4th or 5th JUNE, 2012 - Workshop takes place in conjunction with AAMAS 2012.

Submission
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Submissions should conform to the ACM SIG style (follow the formatting instructions available at the AAMAS-2012 website) and should not be more than *10* pages long (excluding appendices).

Authors can submit their papers through the OPTMAS 2012 Easychair submission site:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=optmas2012

Reviewing process
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Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Criteria for selection of papers will include: originality, readability, relevance to themes, soundness, and overall quality.

Publication
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Best papers from OPTMAS 2008 and OPTMAS 2009 were selected for publication in the
special issue on Optimisation in Multi-Agent System of the Journal of Autonomous and Multiagent Systems (http://www.springerlink.com/content/n7p264t41264 ).

We plan to continue this initiative for the 2010, 2011, 2012 edition. Therefore, we will negotiate the publication of selected, best papers in a quality journal (JAAMAS or similar).

Organizing committee
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Dr. Jesus Cerquides Bueno, IIIA - CSIC, Spain
Dr. Alessandro Farinelli, University of Verona, Italy
Dr. Sarvapali D. Ramchurn University of Southampton, UK
Dr. Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar,IIIA - CSIC, Spain
Dr. Meritxell Vinyals, University of Verona, Italy

Programme Committee
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Mohsen Afsharchi         University of Zanjan
Ana L. C. Bazzan         Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Christian Blum           Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Archie Chapman           University of Sydney
Francesco M. Fave        University of Southampton
Katsutoshi Hirayama      Kobe University
Christopher Krenkintveld University of Texas
Sven Koenig              University of Southern California
Nikos Komodakis          University of Crete
Akshat Kumar             University of Massachusetts
Robert N. Lass           Drexel University
Victor Lesser            University of Massachusetts
Beatriz López            University of Girona
Pedro Meseguer           IIIA-CSIC
Maria Polukarov          University of Southampton
Marc Pujol               IIIA-CSIC
Talal Rahwan             University of Southampton
Norman Salazar           IIIA-CSIC
Onn Shehory              IBM Haifa Research Lab
Eric Shieh               University of Southern California
Sameer Singh             University of Massachusetts
Ruben Stranders          University of Southampton
Greet Vanden             Berghe KaHo Sint-Lieven
William Yeoh             Singapore Management University
Roie Zivan               Ben Gurion University of the Negev
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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 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology

Call for Workshop Proposal

The 2011 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and 
Intelligent Agent Technology

22 � 27 August 2011, Campus Scientifique de la Doua, Lyon, France

http://wi-iat-2011.org

The Program Committees of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT�11) invite proposals for Workshops. The Workshops will be held within the Conference, August, 22, 2011 at Lyon, France.

The main goal of the WI-IAT�11 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction and comparison of approaches, methods and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general areas related to Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology. The workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas.

The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and range of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the workshops.

The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal issues. Workshops may be full-day or half-day. A full-day workshop should select 10-14 regular papers, while a half-day workshop should select 5-7 regular papers, from a large number of submissions. Submissions accepted as workshop papers will be allocated 4 pages in the proceedings. The workshop organizers should ensure the presence of authors of accepted papers at the workshops. Optionally, the workshop may be started or concluded by a panel focusing on interesting aspects, controversial issues, or unsolved problems to stimulate lively, thoughtful, and thought-provoking debate; we expect the workshop organizers to actively engage the audience and help them gain a deeper understanding of the issues. The goal of a panel is to debate and thus panels should always reflect more than one point of view.

Workshop Proposal Submission
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Workshop organizers should submit their proposals (PDF) directly to the three Workshop Chairs via e-mail (see their email addresses below).
Workshop proposals should include the following elements:

- Title of the workshop
- Names of workshop organizers, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address
- Short CV of organizers
- A description of the topics of the workshop (not exceeding 200 words)
- Type of the workshop (full-day or half-day)
- A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of Web Intelligence and/or Intelligent Agent Technology
- A short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers
- Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop.

Topics of Interest
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Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT). The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in these two fields. Suggested, workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

- Intelligent e-Technology (including e-Science, e-Business, e-Things and e-Activities, e-Learning, e-Finance, e-Medicine, e-Government, e-Community)
- Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
- Intelligent Distributed Robots
- Distributed Intelligence
- Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
- Semantics and Ontology Engineering
- Sensing Web and Smart World
- Social Networks and Ubiquitous Intelligence
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Web Agents
- Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
- Web Mining and Farming
- Web Data Management
- Web Scale Commonsense Knowledge Processing
- Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
- Web Services and Grid Services
- Web Support Systems
- World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
- Convergence of email, instant messaging and social-network tools
- Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
- Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
- Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
- Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
- Learning and Self-Adapting Agents

Important Dates
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Workshop proposal submission: December 17, 2010
Notification to workshop proposers: January 7, 2011
Workshop paper submissions: March 21, 2011
Notification of Workshop paper acceptance: June 1, 2011
Workshops and Industry day: August 22, 2011

Workshop Co-Chairs
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Jomi F. Hübner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brasil)
Jean-Marc Petit (INSA, France)
Einoshin Suzuki (Kyushu University, Japan)

Pervasive Health 2011

Pervasive Health 2011 Conference 23rd-26th May, 2011 :: Dublin, Ireland 
http://www.pervasivehealth.org/


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It is with great pleasure that we announce the 5th International Conference
on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare.

The overall goal of the conference remains tightly coupled with the original
aims of the field, to address a set of related technologies and concepts
that help integrate healthcare more seamlessly into everyday life,
regardless of space and time.  To achieve this, it is necessary to take a
multidisciplinary approach to Pervasive Healthcare Technology research and
development. 

The Pervasive Healthcare Community has a broad scope of research topics and
concerns: 
- identifying and understanding problems from a technological, social, and
medical perspective (with a particular emphasis on understanding and
supporting patient needs);
- design, implementation, and evaluation of supporting hardware and software
infrastructures, algorithms, and applications; and
- organisational strategies that facilitate integration of Pervasive
Healthcare Technology into the healthcare enterprise. 

The 2011 Pervasive Healthcare conference aims to gather technology experts,
practitioners, industry and international authorities contributing towards
the assessment, development and deployment of pervasive medical based
technologies, standards and procedures. 

The theme of this year’s conference is: Coping with the Challenges and
Opportunities within Pervasive E-Healthcare (COPE), with a special focus on
pervasive healthcare management and its ability to deliver timely, quality
based information to medical practitioners in providing high levels of
patient care. The challenges and opportunities within e-Healthcare are
immense. A multidisciplinary and coordinated approach is needed from 1) user
requirements, 2) technology development and 3) application integration, to
help deliver a successful pervasive healthcare management system.
Traditional healthcare environments are extremely complex and challenging to
manage, as they are required to cope with an assortment of patient
conditions under various circumstances with a number of resource
constraints. Pervasive healthcare technologies seek to respond to a variety
of these pressures by successfully integrating them within existing health
care environments. 
Technologies, standards and procedures on their own provide little and or no
meaningful service. It is essential that pervasive healthcare environments,
through a combined approach of data collection, data correlation and data
presentation, assist health care professionals in delivering high levels of
patient care, and empower individuals and their families for self-care and
health management.

 
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We welcome contributions from the following fields:
- Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health Professions
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer Supported Cooperative Work
(CSCW)
- Sensing Technologies and Distributed Computing
- Hardware and Software Infrastructures

We seek novel, innovative, and exciting work in areas including but not
limited to: 

Pervasive Healthcare Management
- Challenges surrounding data quality
- Standards and interoperability in pervasive healthcare 
- Business cases and cost issues 
- Security and privacy issues
- Training of healthcare professional for pervasive healthcare 
- Legal and regulatory issues
- Insurance payments and cost aspects
- Staffing and resource management 

Understanding Users
- User requirements 
- Identifying and addressing stakeholder conflicts: patient needs, caregiver
needs, health professional needs, organisational needs
- Usability and acceptability
- Barriers to adoption, and enablers 
- Social implications of pervasive health technology, and social inclusion
- Coverage and delivery of pervasive healthcare services 
- Patient empowerment
- Diversity: population and condition-specific requirements 
- Inclusive research and design: engaging underrepresented populations  

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Physiological models for interpreting medical sensor data 
- Activity recognition
- Fall detection
- User modelling and personalization
- Modelling of Pervasive Healthcare environment 

Technology
- Sensor-based decision support systems
- Design and evaluation of patient and ambient-related sensors 
- Wearable and implantable sensor integration 
- Data fusion in pervasive healthcare environments 
- Data mining medical patient records
- Software architectures e.g. Agent, SOA, distributed middleware
- Electronic Health Records (EHR)

Applications
- Autonomous systems to support independent living 
- Clinical applications, validation and evaluation studies 
- Telemedicine
- Chronic disease and health risk management applications 
- Health promotion and disease prevention 
- Home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring 
- Continuous vs  event-driven monitoring of patients 
- Smart homes and hospitals
- Using mobile devices in the storage, update, and transmission of patient
data
- Wellbeing and lifestyle support
- Systems to support individuals with auditory, cognitive, or vision
impairements
- Systems to support caregivers


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Pervasive Health will accept submissions in the following categories: 

1. Full papers (up to 8 pages submissions) - Full papers are submissions
describing results and original research work not submitted or published
elsewhere in one of the four main categories listed below. Full papers
should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and
clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to
the field.

2. Posters (up to 4 pages submissions) - Authors are invited to submit work
in progress whose preliminary results are already interesting to Pervasive
Health audience. The poster track will give Pervasive Health attendees a way
to learn about ongoing research initiatives and will provide presenters with
an excellent opportunity to receive invaluable direct feedback from experts.

3. Demos (2 pages submissions) - The demos track will showcase the latest
developments and prototypes related to the topics of interest of the
conference. The expected demo submissions should describe the technical
details of the demo alongside its contribution to the healthcare domain..

4. Position Papers (2 pages submissions) - Position papers are envisioned to
provide insight into the lessons learnt from current (industrial,
practitioners, government, etc.) pervasive healthcare practice. The position
papers track is envisioned to provide the view of practitioners to the
pervasive health community in order to have a more clear understanding about
the real needs of healthcare operators and in this way shorten the gap
between technologists and the every-day needs of practitioners.

5. Workshops (2 pages submissions) Several workshops will be run in
conjunction with the conference. The purpose of these workshops is to
discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research related
to pervasive healthcare. Proposals for workshops should be submitted
directly to the workshops co-chairs, and proposals should indicate the
preferred duration for the workshop (half/full-day).

6. Doctoral Consortium (4 pages) – We are please to announce the first
Pervasive Healthcare Doctoral Consortium. This one day event will enable
doctoral students to present and reflect on their work alongside other
doctoral students and a panel of experts. Submissions should include a
description of work done, intended future work, alongside a specific
research question or challenge that you would like to be discussed at the
consortium. 


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PUBLICATION
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All accepted submissions will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library
(to be confirmed). 


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Workshops Proposals:           November 19th , 2010

Paper submission deadline:     February 4th, 2011
Notification of acceptance:    April 11th, 2011
Camera-ready Manuscripts:      April 25th , 2011
Conference Dates:              May 23rd – 26th, 2011 


WORKSHOPS AND DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
Please visit the Workshops and Doctoral Consortium pages for detailed
submission requirements and procedures (upcoming).


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SUBMITTING PAPERS
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Please visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and
procedures.
http://www.pervasivehealth.org


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Best Paper Award
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IOS Press will provide a prize, in the form of a free 12 months subscription
to the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, for the
authors of the best Pervasive Health 2011 Conference Paper.


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General Chairs 
John O'Donoghue, University College Cork, Ireland
Gregory O'Hare, University College Dublin, Ireland 

Technical Program Chairs 
Juan Carlos Augusto, University of Ulster, UK
Brian Caulfield, University College Dublin, Ireland
Julie Maitland, National Research Council, Canada 

Local Arrangements Chairs 
Michael O'Grady, University College Dublin, Ireland

Workshops Chairs 
Marilyn McGee-Lennon, University of Glasgow, UK
Maurice Mulvenna, University of Ulster, UK

Demos Chair 
John Barton, CLARITY/Tyndall, Ireland 

Publications Chair 
Paul McCullagh University of Ulster, UK

North America Liason 
Patricia Brennan Project Health Design, USA 

Asia Liason 
Chi-Hung Chi Tsinghua University, China 

Australia Liason 
Gourab Sen Gupta Massey University, NZ 

Publicity Chair 
Paulo Novais University of Minho, Portugal 

Conference Coordinator Chair 
Gergely Nagy ICST 

Doctor Colloquium Chairs 
Tom O'Kane, University College Cork, Ireland
Kelly Caine, Indiana University, USA 


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e-mail:  ph2011@prevasivehealth.org
Website: http://www.pervasivehealth.org/

Nature Inspired Distributed Computing

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                       The 14th International Workshop on 
                    Nature Inspired Distributed Computing 
                                  (NIDISC'11)
    http://nidisc2011.gforge.uni.lu/


                           held in conjunction with
                     The 25th IEEE International 
   Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium  (IPDPS'2010)
                            16-20 May 2011
                        
                         Anchorage (Alaska) USA
                          http://www.ipdps.org
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Workshop Theme :
=============

Techniques based on metaheuristics and nature-inspired paradigms can
provide efficient solutions to a wide variety of problems. Moreover,
parallel and distributed metaheuristics can be used to provide more
powerful problem solving environments in a variety of fields, ranging,
for example, from finance to bio- and health-informatics. This
workshop seeks to provide an opportunity for researchers to explore
the connection between metaheuristics and the development of solutions
to problems that arise in operations research, parallel computing,
telecommunications, bioinformatics, and many others. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Nature-inspired methods (e.g. ant colonies, GAs, cellular automata,
DNA and molecular computing, local search, etc) for problem solving
environments.
* Parallel and distributed metaheuristics techniques (algorithms,
technologies and tools).
* Applications combining traditional parallel and distributed
computing and optimization techniques as well as theoretical issues
(convergence, complexity, etc).
* Other algorithms and applications relating the above mentioned
research areas.

Prospective authors of high quality research contributions are invited
to submit an electronic copy of their manuscript not exceeding 8
two-column pages including figures and references in the traditional
IEEE format used in IPDPS. Please, use Postscript or PDF when
possible. In your email, please indicate paper title, author(s), and
the corresponding author.

A selected group of papers from the workshop will be invited to
submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of an
international scholarly journal. Further announcements will be made
during the workshop.

General Chair :
============
- Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney -Australia- (zomaya@it.usyd.edu.au)


Program Co-chairs :
==============

- Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg -Luxembourg- ( pascal.bouvry@uni.lu )
- Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences -Poland- ( sered@ipipan.waw.pl )
- El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA -France- ( talbi@lifl.fr )


Program Committee (to be completed) :
=====================================

E. Alba, University of Màlaga, Spain
M. Affenzeller, Univ. of Hagenberg, Austria
A. Al-Dubai, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
A. Al-Jumaily, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
L. Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy 
A. Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada
P. Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
J. Branke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
E. Cantù-Paz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
C. Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
T. Crainic, Univ. of Montreal, Canada
B. Di Martino, Univ. of Naples, Italia
T. El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA
P. Herrero, UPM, Spain
A. Lewis, Griffith University, Australia
M. Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany
N. Melab, University of Lille, France
M. D. Moore, Texas A & M - Corpus Christi, USA
S. Mostaghim, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany
A. J.Nebro, Univ. of Malaga, Spain
C. Ribeiro, Univ. of Fluminense, Brazil
H. Sarbazi-azad, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy
Z. Tari, RMIT University, Australia
M. Tomassini, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
F. Xhafa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Publicity Chair:
==============================
- Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg -Luxembourg- (gregoire.danoy@uni.lu)


Papers should be submitted to:
==============================

- P. Bouvry, University of Luxembourg -Luxembourg- ( pascal.bouvry@uni.lu )
- F. Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences  -Poland- ( sered@ipipan.waw.pl )
- E-G. Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA -France- ( talbi@lifl.fr )

 
Important Dates:
================
- Submission Deadline   - December 4, 2010
- Notification of Acceptance  - January  8, 2011
- Final Copy Due     - February 1, 2010




=========================
Gregoire Danoy, PhD
Scientific Collaborator
University of Luxembourg
FSTC - CSC - ILIAS
=========================

International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2010)

C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

The 8th @WAS International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2010)

   8-10 November, 2010
      Paris, France

Conference Website: http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2010/
   email: momm2010@iiwas.org



*** IMPORTANT DATES ***
June 21, 2010 (EXTENDED)   : Full papers submission
August 30, 2010            : Acceptance Notification
September 15, 2010         : Camera-Ready Papers and Registration
November 08-10, 2010       : Conference


The speed and the quality of expanding and creating a vast variety of multimedia services like voice, email, short messages, Internet access, m-commerce, to mobile video conferencing, streaming video and audio has brought true mobile multimedia experiences to mobile customers. Due to constant changing environments, limited battery life and diverse data types, Mobile Multimedia implies considerable challenges to operators, infrastructure builders in terms of ensuring fast, reliable services and accommodating the quick growing global customer needs.
MoMM2010 aims to provide an international forum by researchers, students, and professionals for presenting recent research results on mobile computing and multimedia, and to bring together experts from both academia and industry for the exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges in mobile computing and multimedia.


*** TOPICS OF INTEREST ***
Conference program will include invited talks, peer reviewed technical program, demos, short papers, posters, tutorials, panels, workshops and invited sessions on the same or related topics, industrial presentations, exhibitions around but not limited to the following topics:

Mobile Computing Track

- Mobile Applications & Services
- Mobile Computing Software Architectures
- Mobile Network Traffic Engineering, Performance & Optimization
- Wireless & Mobile Network Management and Service Infrastructure
- Database and Data Management Mobile Computing
- Regulatory and Societal Issues of Mobile Computing
- Mobile Computing Markets & Business Models
- Provisioning of Mobile Services
- Personalization, Privacy and Security in Mobile Computing
- Mobility and Location Management
- Transaction Processing in Mobile Environments
- Integration and Interworking of Wired and Wireless Networks 
- Distributed Systems Aspects of Mobile Computing 
- Operating System and Middleware Support for Mobile Computing 
- Security and Privacy of Mobile/Wireless Systems 

Multimedia Track

- Multimedia Databases
- Multimedia streaming and services
- Multimedia Coding and Encryption
- Multimedia for Learning
- Multimedia Description Language and Standard
- Image Clustering
- Content-Based Image Retrieval
- Interfaces for Multimedia Creation
- Media Fusion for Communication and Presentation
- Audio Analysis, Modeling, Processing and Transformation
- Video Analysis, Modeling, Processing and Transformation
- Video Mining and MPEG
- Image Modeling and Editing
- AI and Image Recognition
- Distributed Multimedia System

Mobile Multimedia Track

- Mobile Multimedia Applications & Services
- Communication and Cooperation through Mobile Multimedia
- Mobile Multimedia Software Architectures
- Wireless & Mobile Multimedia Network Management
- Mobile Multimedia Network Traffic Engineering & Optimization
- Enabling Infrastructures for Mobile Multimedia
- Regulatory and Societal Issues of Mobile Multimedia
- Mobile Multimedia Markets & Business Models
- Provisioning of Mobile Multimedia Services
- Personalization, Privacy and Security in Mobile Multimedia

*** PUBLICATION ***
MoMM2010 Proceedings will be published by ACM (pending approval) in cooperation with the Austrian Computer Society as a volume set in the books@ocg series and will be indexed and included in ACM Digital Library. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of :
[1] Journal of Mobile Multimedia 
[2] International Journal of Mobile Information Systems
[3] International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communication
[4] Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP)
[5] Springer Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (MSJ)
[6] International Journal of Wavelets, Multi-resolution and Information Processing (IJWMIP)
[7] … more to come


*** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***
Papers must be submitted electronically in Postscript, PDF, or RTF/DOC format at (http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2010/)
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submitted papers will be blindly peer reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM (pending approval) and the Austrian Computer Society in books@ocg book series. The submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages and must follow the ACM guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).

*** COMMITTES ***
http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2010/committee.html

*** ORGANIZATION ***
The conference is endorsed by the international organization for information integration and web based applications and services (@WAS) in cooperation with ACM SIGWEB (approval pending), hosted and organized by the University of Paris 8, France and supported by Monash University, Australia, La Trobe University, Australia and will be held in conjunction with the 12th international conference on Information Integration and Web-based applications & Services (iiWAS2010 - http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2010/).

*** CONTACT ***
David Taniar
@WAS Scientific Committee Chair
Clayton School of Information Technology
Monash University
Clayton, VIC 3800
Australia
Email: david@iiwas.org

International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2010)

C A LL   F O R   P A P E R S

The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2010) 
  
                                               8-10 November, 2010
                                                  Paris, France

                       Conference Website:  http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/ant2010    
****************************************************************************

IMPORTANT DATES
===============---------
• Full Paper Submission:      June 21, 2010    (Extended)
• Acceptance Notification:    August 30, 2010     
• Camera-Ready Submission:    September 15, 2010         

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceeding to be published by ACM in-cooperation with ACM SIGART and the Austrian Computer Society in book series. All accepted papers will be included and indexed in ACM digital library and selected papers will be invited for publication in the special issues of:

(1) Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652 
(2) Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Applications
http://www.springer.com/computer/communications/journal/11761 
(3) Journal of Multiagent and Grid Systems
http://www.iospress.nl/loadtop/load.php?isbn=15741702 
(4) Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/journal/779 


Conference Tracks:
==================
- Ambient-oriented Autonomic Networks and Communications
- Ambient Systems Software Engineering
- Ambient Systems Security and Privacy
- Distributed Ambient Artificial Intelligence
- Emerging Ambient Networking, Tracking & Sensing Technologies
- Multimodal Interfaces for Ambient Systems
- Service Oriented Computing for Ambient Systems
- Smart Environments and Applications in Ambient Systems
- Social Networking in Ambient Environments


ANT2010 Organizing Committee
============================
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
Ismail Khalil, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Special Issue on: Distributed Intelligence and Data Fusion for Sensor Systems

Call for Papers

Special Issue on:
Distributed Intelligence and Data Fusion for Sensor Systems

in IET Communications (SCI Indexed)
http://scitation.aip.org/IET-COM

===========================================================

Scope

Use of intelligence, data mining and data fusion has provided new momentum in 
the use of sensors and converted WSNs into a new brand of dynamic, autonomous 
and intelligent Distributed Sensor Systems. These features enable new smart 
sensors to play new roles as intelligent nodes gathering, manipulating and 
decimating data for more reliable and secure communication whilst performing 
more efficiently using less energy and number crunching.

This special issue aims at presenting innovative and signifi cant research 
papers on the design, implementation and evaluation of wireless sensors, 
especially for use of distributed intelligence and data fusion. 



Topics of primaryinterest include, but are not limited to:
 
* applications and deployment of intelligence in sensor systems and distributed 
  data fusion
* sensor networking protocols and algorithms
* sensor network management protocol and systems
* cross-layer design and sensor network management protocols
* security of distributed intelligence in sensor networks
* inter-connection between distributed sensor systems
* testbed, experimental measurements & performance analysis
* systems for context sensing and context awareness
* tools and methodologies for sensory data fusion
* QoS provisioning protocols with data fusion technology
* collaborative in-network processing and data sharing
* use of Intelligence and data in energy harvesting



IMPORTANT DATES

* Deadline for Submission of Paper:   01 July 2010
* Authors to receive a 1st decision:  30 September  2010
* Final notification of acceptance:   31 January 2011
* On-line and print publication:      Q1/Q2 2011



Paper Submission:
All papers must be submitted through the journal's Manuscript Central system:




Guest editors:
 
 Dr. Lei Shu (Corresponding)
 Nishio Lab., Department of Multimedia Engineering
 Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
 Osaka University, Japan
 E-mail: lei.shu@ieee.org
 
 Prof. Jaime Lloret Mauri
 Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
 E-mail: jlloret@dcom.upv.es

 Prof. Joel Rodrigues
 University of Beira Interior, Portugal
 E-mail: joeljr@ieee.org

 Prof. Min Chen
 Seoul National University, Korea
 E-mail: minchen@ieee.org



IET Publishing Dept. contact:
 Paul Rowley
 Editorial Assistant
 IET Communications
 E-mail: prowley@theiet.org
 
 Professor Habib F. Rashvand
 Series Editor
 IET Communications
 E-mail: h.rashvand@warwick.ac.uk

Workshop on Servise-Oriented Computing and Multi-Agent Systems (SOCMAS 2010)

   IEEE 2010 First International Workshop on Servise-Oriented Computing and Multi-Agent Systems (SOCMAS 2010)

Miami, Florida, USA, one day between July 5-10, 2010
in conjunction with SERVICES 2010

Description

The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the recent significant developments at the intersections of Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Technologies, and Service-oriented Computing, and to promote the cross-fertilization between these research areas. In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from Multi-agent System and Semantic Technology research that will have the greatest impact on automating service-oriented application construction and management, focusing on critical challenges such as service quality assurance, reliability, flexibility, and adaptability.

List of Topics:

We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of Agent Technology, Semantic Web services, and Service-oriented Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Agent-oriented architectures, frameworks, and infrastructures for distributed service-oriented software and Semantic Web systems
* Agent-oriented modeling and design methods and tools for service-oriented software and Semantic Web development
* Web services and Semantic Web technologies and standards for multi-agent system design, development and integration
* Agent-enabled adaptation, evolution, and optimization of services and processes
* Agent-based service description, advertisement, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering
* Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography
* Agent-based monitoring and exception-handling for service execution and delivery
* Agent-based negotiation and management of Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements
* Deployment and distribution of agent-based service systems and service-oriented agent systems
* Agent-based service business models, application scenarios and demos (e.g. in e-Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom, etc.), and lessons learned
* Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration, composition, and execution
* Ontology generation, learning and reasoning, and ontology-oriented dynamic mediation among agents
* Use of agent-based technology in service-oriented computing (applications)

Important Dates

• Submission deadline 15 April 2010
• Acceptance notification April 22 2010
• Camera-ready deadline 30 April 2010
• Workshop held on 5-10 July 2010

 

Paper Submission, Review Process, and Publication

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Please note that the same paper should NOT be submitted to other conferences or events simultaneously. Such duplicate submissions will be rejected without review.

Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and required to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings Formatting Information page. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, and review process can be found at www.servicescongress.org. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the workshop and present the paper.

Only the accepted and presented papers will appear in the CD proceedings of the workshop. It is intended to publish after workshop proceedings with Springer LNCS. Extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for potential publication in the IOS Press International Journal of Multiagent and Grid Systems (MAGS).

Workshop Organizers

Rainer Unland (primary contact), University of Duisburg-Essen,
Email: Rainer.Unland   at  icb.uni-due.de
Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology

Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing IDC-2010

******************************* IDC-2010 ********************************

4th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing IDC-2010
=========================================================================
                  September 16-18, 2010, Tangier, Morocco

                       http://www.ieee.ma/~idc2010/


Organized by
  IEEE Morocco Section
  Software Engineering Department, University of Craiova, Romania


News
====
A special issue with best papers accepted and presented at IDC'2010 will be prepared using "Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience" journal, Wiley InterScience, http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/.


Topics
======
Intelligent computing covers a hybrid palette of methods and techniques derived from classical artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, and intelligent agents. Distributed systems contain loosely-coupled components running on different networked computers that communicate and coordinate their actions by message transfer. The emergent field of intelligent distributed computing is expected to pose special challenges of adaptation and fruitful combination of results of both areas with a great impact on the development of new generation intelligent distributed information systems. The aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers involved in intelligent distributed 
computing to allow cross-fertilization and synergy of ideas and to enable advancement of researches in the field.

The symposium welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of intelligent distributed computing ranging from concepts and theoretical developments to advanced technologies and innovative applications. Papers acceptance and publication will be judged based on their relevance to the symposium theme, clarity of presentation, originality and accuracy of results and proposed solutions. 

Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Intelligent service composition and orchestration
- E-service and Web intelligence
- Multi-agent systems
- Information extraction and retrieval in distributed environments
- Data mining and knowledge discovery in distributed environments
- Semantic and knowledge grids
- Intelligent integration of data and processes
- Distributed problem solving and decision making
- Distributed search and constraint satisfaction
- Ontologies and meta-data for describing heterogeneous resources and services
- Autonomic, adaptive and self-organising distributed computing and systems
- Intelligence in mobile, ubiquitous and pervasive computing
- Intelligence in cooperative information systems, groupware and workflows, virtual enterprises, social networks
- Intelligent distributed applications: e-business/e-commerce, e-learning, e-health, e-science, e-government, crisis/disaster/emergency management, social networks
- Peer-to-Peer systems
- Emerging behaviours in complex distributed systems
- Distributed nature-inspired and bio-inspired computing
- Modelling and simulation of intelligent distributed systems
- Knowledge integration and fusion from distributed sources
- Trust, reputation, security and privacy


Paper Submission and Publication
================================
All accepted papers will be included in the Symposium Proceedings, which will be published by Springer as part of their series Studies in Computational Intelligence: http://www.springer.com/series/7092. Papers should have at most 10 pages length and must be formatted according to Springer format.

Submissions and reviews are automatically handled by a system provided by the organizers. Please submit your paper here: 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=idc2010

Extended versions of the best papers accepted and presented at this symposium may be considered for publication in a Special Issue of an internationally recognized journal.


Important dates
===============
Full paper submission: April 2, 2010
Notification of acceptance: May 7, 2010
Final (camera ready) paper due: June 4, 2010
Symposium: September 16-18, 2010


Committees
==========
http://www.ieee.ma/~idc2010/committees.html


On behalf of the IDC-2010 PC,
* Mohammad Essaaidi, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco
* Michele Malgeri, University of Catania, Italy
* Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania

ICSOFT 2010 (Int'l Conference on Software and Data Technologies)

Following up previous information on ICSOFT 2010 (Int'l Conference on Software and Data Technologies) we would like to draw your attention to the following specialized events that will be held in conjunction with the conference.
Please see below their information.

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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 & 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 feed back

    * 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

14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications

The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications
AIMSA 2010 - AI and Knowledge Societies: Learning, Sharing, Amplifying -

Varna, Bulgaria, 8-10th September, 2010
http://www.aimsaconference.org

**** Submission deadline: April 15th, 2010 ****

**** Proceedings published by Springer/LNCS ****

**** Keynote Speakers ****
John Domingue, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
Wolfgang Wahlster, German Research Center for AI, DFKI, Germany

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SCOPE
The AIMSA conference series has provided a biennial forum for the presentation of Artificial intelligence research and development since 1984. The conference, which is held in Bulgaria, covers the full range of topics in Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines and provides an ideal forum for international scientific exchange between Central/Eastern Europe and the rest of the world.

The AIMSA conference series has provided a biennial forum for the presentation of AI research and development since 1984. The conference, which is held in Bulgaria, covers the full range of topics in Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines and provides an ideal forum for international scientific exchange between Central/Eastern Europe and the rest of the world. AIMSA 2010 is supported by ECCAI, European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence.

As its name indicates, the conference is dedicated to Artificial Intelligence in its entirety. However, for AIMSA 2010, we would like to put the emphasis on the application and leverage of Artificial Intelligence technologies in the context of knowledge societies where knowledge creation, accessing, acquiring, and sharing empower individuals and communities. A number of AI techniques play a key role in responding to these challenges. Artificial Intelligence is extensively used in the development of systems for effective management and flexible and personalized access to large knowledge bases, in the semantic web technologies that enable sharing and reuse of and reasoning over semantically annotated resources, in the emerging social semantic web applications that aid humans to collaboratively build semantics, in the construction of intelligent environments for supporting (human and agent) learning, etc. In building such intelligent applications, Artificial Intelligence techniq
ues are typically combined with results from other disciplines such as the social sciences, distributed systems, databases, digital libraries, information retrieval, service oriented applications, etc.  AIMSA 2010 aims to reflect this plethora of avenues with special attention to works that demonstrate the potential of AI for supporting learning, sharing, and amplifying of knowledge.

TOPICS
The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to:

   * AI in education
   * Ambient intelligence
   * Automated reasoning
   * Collaborative knowledge construction
   * Computer vision
   * Data mining and data analysis
   * Data semantics
   * Dialogue management and argumentation
   * Distributed AI
   * Information integration
   * Information retrieval
   * Intelligent decision support
   * Intelligent techniques for personalization and recommendation
   * Intelligent user interfaces
   * Knowledge engineering
   * Knowledge representation and reasoning
   * Large scale knowledge management
   * Logic and constraint programming
   * Machine learning
   * Multi-agent systems
   * Multimedia systems
   * Natural language processing
   * Neural networks
   * Ontologies (creating, learning, mapping, merging, alignment, evolution)    * Planning
   * Robotics
   * Semantic interoperability
   * Semantic peer-to-peer and grid systems
   * Semantic web content creation and annotation
   * Semantic web for desktops or personal information management
   * Semantic web for e-learning, e-business, e-culture, e-government, healthcare    * Semantic web inference schemes
   * Semantic web services (description, invocation, composition)    * Semantic web technologies for collaboration and cooperation    * Social network analysis, including community discovery and structure
   * Social networks and processes on the semantic web
   * Trust, privacy, and security on the web
   * Visualization and modelling and AI

All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least two members of the program committee. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the conference to present the paper.

The best paper of the conference, as selected by the AIMSA 2010 programme committee, will receive the Best Paper Award during the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
   Submission deadline: April 15, 2010     Notification of acceptance: June 05, 2010
   Deadline for camera-ready: June 25, 2010
   Conference: September 8-10, 2010

SUBMISSION DETAILS
Papers have to be submitted electronically (in PDF format) on the address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aimsa2010.

Papers should be written in English and should be no more than 10 pages, font Times 11pt. Authors are requested to follow the LNCS Style. The first page should contain the title of the paper, names and addresses of all authors (including e-mail), an abstract (100-150 words) and a list of keywords.

Submissions should describe original research. Papers accepted for presentation at AIMSA 2010 cannot be presented or have been presented at another meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work.

Over lengthy or late submissions will be rejected without review. Notification of receipt and acceptance of papers will be sent to the first author.

PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence subline of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.

LOCATION
AIMSA will be held at the Golden Sands Tourist Complex, 18 km from the north-east of Varna and 24 km from Varna airport. More information is available in the brochure at the conference web site.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR
Darina Dicheva Winston-Salem State University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
dichevad@wssu.edu
http://myweb.wssu.edu/dichevad/
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR
Danail Dochev Institute of Information Technologies
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Acad. G. Bonchev 29A, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
E-mail:  dochev@iinf.bas.bg

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Gennady Agre (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)  Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)   Grigoris Antoniou (ICS-FORTH, Heraklion, Greece)     Annalisa Appice (University of Bari, Italy)  Sören Auer (University of Leipzig, Germany) Franz Baader (Technical University Dresden, Germany)  Roman Barták (Charles University, Czech Republic)  Petr Berka (University of Economics, Prague)   Mária Bieliková (Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia) Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy) Paulo Bouquet (University of Trento, Italy) Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Valerie Camps (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, France)  Yves Demazeau (CNRS, LIG Laboratory, France) Christo Dichev (Winston-Salem State University, USA)
Ying Ding (Indiana University, USA) Danail Dochev (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Peter Dolog (Aalborg University, Denmark)  Ben du Boulay (University of Sussex, UK) Stefan Edelkamp (TZI, Bremen University, Germany) Floriana Esposito (University of Bari, Italy) Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France)  Dragan Gasevic (Athabasca University, Canada)  Chiara Ghidini (FBK, Center for Information Technology, Italy)  Enrico Giunchiglia (University of Genova, Italy) Vania Dimitrova (University of Leeds, UK)   Martin Dzbor (Open University, UK)  Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool, UK) Harry Halpin (University of Edinburgh, UK) Dominikus Heckmann (Saarland University, Germany) Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA) Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Irena Koprinska (University of Sydney, Australia)  Atanas Kyriakov (Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group Corp., Bulgaria) H. Chad Lane (USC/Institute for Creative Technologies, USA)  Ruben Lara (Telefonica R&D, Spain) Dominique Longin (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, France)  Pierre Marquis (University of Artois, France) Erica Melis (German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany) Michela Milano (University of Bologna, Italy) Tanja Mitrovic (University of Canterbury , New Zealand)  Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Radoslav Pavlov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)  Marco Pistore (FBK, Center for Information Technology, Italy)  Enric Plaza (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute – CSIC, Spain) Allan Ramsay (University of Manchester, UK)  Zbigniew Ras  (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA) Ioannis Refanidis (University of Macedonia, Greece) Francesca Rossi (University of Padova, Italy) Paolo Rosso (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain) Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari, Italy)  Luciano Serafini (FBK, Center for Information Technology, Italy)       Pavel Shvaiko (TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy)  Giorgos Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Umberto Straccia (Institute of Information Science and Technologies - CNR, Italy) York Sure (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Valentina Tamma (University of Liverpool, UK)    Annette ten Teije (Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands)  Klaus Tochtermann (Know-Center Graz, Austria) Dan Tufis (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Romania) Petko Valtchev (University of Montréal, Canada) Julita Vassileva (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) Johanna Voelker (University of Mannheim, Germany)

ORGANISERS
Bulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association
Institute of Information Technologies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IIT – BAS)