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Freitag, 28. Januar 2011

IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2011

This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of Computational Intelligence. With its hosting of over thirty technical meetings in one location, it is bound to attract lead researchers, professionals and students from around the world. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, the 2011 edition follows in the footsteps of the SSCI 2007 meetings held in Honolulu and of the SSCI 2009 series held in Nashville.

The event will take place in the magic town of Paris.

Symposia and Workshops

ADPRL 2011 Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning
Jagannathan Sarangapani, Missouri Univ. of Science and Techn., USA.
Zhang Huaguang, Northeastern Univ., China.
Marco Wiering, Univ. of Groningen, Netherland.

CCMB 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain.
Leonid Perlovsky, Harvard University and Air Force Research Laboratory, USA.
Robert Kozma, Memphis University, USA.
Damien Coyle, University of Ulster, UK

CIASG 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence Applications in Smart Grid
Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

CIBCB 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computat. Biology
Clare Bates Congdon, University of Southern Maine, USA

CIBIM 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management
Qinghan Xiao, Defence R&D, Canada.
David Zhang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China.
Fabio Scotti, University of Milan, Italy

CICA 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and AutomationXiao-Jun Zeng, University of Manchester, UK

CICS 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security
Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, USA.
Justin Zhan, National Center of Infrastructure Protection, USA

CIDM 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data MiningNitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame, USA.
Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.
Alessandro Sperduti, Padova University, Italy

CIDUE 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments
Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK.
Shengxiang Yang, Brunel University, UK.
Robi Polikar, Rowan University, USA

CIFEr 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering & Economics
Han La Poutre, CWI, Netherlands.
Ronald R. Yager, Iona College, USA.
Robert Golan, Dbmind Technologies, USA

CII 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Industry
Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK.
Piero P. Bonissone, GE Global Research, USA.
Jennie Si, Arizona State University, USA

CIMI 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging
Gerald Schaefer, Dpt. Of Computer Science, Loughborough University, UK. .
Sergio Damas, European Center for Soft Computing, Mieres, Asturias, Spain

CIMR 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Mobile Robots: Air-, Land-, and Sea-BasedLyle N. Long, Pennsylvania State University, USA.

CIMSIVP 2011 Symposium on Computational Intellig. for Multimedia, Signal and Vision ProcessingKhan M Iftekharuddin, University of Memphis, USA.
Salim Bouzerdoum, University of Wollongong, Australia

CIPLS 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistic Systems
Bülent Çatay, Sabanci University, Turkey.
Raymond Chiong, Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Australia.
Patrick Siarry, Univ. Paris XII Val de Marne, France

CISched 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling
Rong Qu, University of Nottingham, UK.
Ender Ozcan, University of Nottingham, UK.
Michel Gendreau, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada

CISDA 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications
Slawo Wesolkowski, DRDC, Canada.
Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada,
James R. Dankert, BAE Systems - AIT, USA,
Rami Abielmona, Larus Technologies, Canada

CIVI 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence
Guilherme N. DeSouza, University of Missouri, USA.
Yuanqiang (Evan) Dong, University of Missouri, USA

CIVTS 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Transportation Systems
Danil Prokhorov, Toyota, USA. Dimitar Filev, Ford, USA

CompSens 2011 Workshop on Merging Fields of Computational Intelligence and Sensor Technology
Ivo Bukovsky, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic.
Torsten Wagner, Tohoku University, Japan

EAIS 2011 Workshop on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems
Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK.
Dimitar Filev, Ford, USA.
Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

FOCI 2011 Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence
Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, University of Malaga, Spain.
Carlos Cotta, University of Malaga, Spain.
Francisco Veredas, University of Malaga, Spain

GEFS 2011 International Workshop on Genetic and Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems
Rafael Alcala, University of Granada, Spain.
Yusuke Nojima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

HIMA 2011 Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications
Patricia Melin, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico

IA 2011 Symposium on Intelligent Agents
Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK.
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy

IEEE ALIFE 2011 Symposium on Artificial Life
Terry Bossomaier, Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Hiroki Sayama, State University of New York, USA.
Chrystopher Nehaniv, University of Hertfordshire, UK

IEEE MCDM 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision-Making
Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico.
Piero P. Bonissone, GE Global Research, USA.
Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK

MC 2011 Symposium on Memetic Computing 
Zexuan Zhu, Shenzhen University, China. Maoguo Gong, Xidian University,
China. Ji Zhen, Shenzhen University, China.
Yew-Soon Ong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

OC 2011 Workshop on Organic Computing
Rolf Wuertz, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

RiiSS 2011 Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space
Honghai Liu, University of Portsmouth, UK.
Naoyuki Kubota, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

SDE 2011 Symposium on Differential Evolution
Janez Brest, University of Maribor, Slovenia.
Swagatam Das, Jadavpur University, India.
P. N. Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

SIS 2011 Symposium on Swarm Intelligence 
Yuhui Shi, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

T2FUZZ 2011 Symposium on Advances in Type-2 Fuzzy Logic SystemsHani Hagras, University of Essex, UK.
Jerry Mendel, University of Southern California, USA.
Bob John, De Montfort University, UK

WACI 2011 Workshop on Affective Computational Intelligence
Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
Marie-Jeanne Lesot, LIP6-UPMC, France.
Jean-Claude Martin, University Paris Sud, France

General Chair
Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, LIP6, CNRS-Univ. P. et M. Curie, Paris, France

Honorary Chair
Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy

Finance Chair
Piero Bonissone, General Electrics, USA

Local Arrangement Chair
Maria Rifqi, LIP6, Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France

Publication Chair
Sylvie Galichet, Université de Savoie, France

Registration Chair
Anne Laurent LIRMM Université Montpellier 2, France

Web Master
Christophe Marsala, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Publicity Co-chairs 
 Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
Slawo Wesolkowski, DRDC, Canada

Tutorial, Keynote and Panel Co-chairs
Marios Polycarpou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Ali M.S. Zalzala, Hikma Group Limited, Dubai, UAE

Posters & Local Organization
Marcin Detyniecki, LIP6, CNRS-Université P. et M. Curie, Paris, France
Secretary Adrien Revault d'Allonnes, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Due: Oc tobe r 31, 2010
Notification to Authors: December 15, 2010
Camera-Ready Papers Due: J anua r y 15, 2011

Donnerstag, 1. April 2010

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

Sonntag, 21. März 2010

SIEC 2010 - 1st International Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Emergent Computing

SIEC 2010
The 1st International Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Emergent Computing

In conjunction with the “The 2010 Systemics and Informatics World Network” (SIWN 2010) Chongqing, China, 12-14 July 2010

Complex Adaptive Systems are widespread both in the nature and in socio-economic phenomena. A Multi-Agent Based Complex System has its dynamic behaviour that is inherently emerging as a result of intensive interactions among its massive agents. Examples of Multi-Agent Based Complex Systems include social insects, population aggregations in urbane regions, market based economy, city taxi cabs, etc. Swarm Intelligence represents a methodology for analyzing and modeling Multi-Agent Based Complex Systems, and Emergent Computing is concerned with the methodology for engineering robust, dependable, self-adaptable Multi-Agent Based Complex Systems out of massive, simple, unreliable objects, devices or units. Essentially Emergent Computing represents a new approach which takes a Collective Intelligence point of view upon all types of artificial systems, e.g., web/Internet based systems, social networking, online virtual communities, pervasive/ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence, socio-technical systems, and so forth.

SIEC2010 aims to provide a timely international, multi-disciplinary forum on the latest theories, methods, techniques and applications in Swarm Intelligence and Emergence Computing.

Details can be found at: http://siwn.org.uk/2010/SIEC10.htm

Topics of particular interest include (but not limited to) the followings.

(1) Biological and Scio-economic Inspirations for Swarms
- artificial life
- biologically inspired computing
- biologically inspired interaction mechanisms
- biologically inspired process algebra and formal specifications
- collective intelligence
- computational pheromones, potential field, economy
- market economy
- models of social insects
- self-organization in biological systems
- social insets
- social intelligence
- stigmergy

(2) Emergence and Interactions
- autonomy based interactions
- cybernetic principles and self-organization
- formal approaches to handling local/global agent behaviors
- game theoretic approaches to emergence in multi-agent systems
- interaction mechanisms for self-organization and adaptation
- models, methods and tools for achieving global coherent behaviors
- multi-agent based complex systems
- principles of emergence, understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent behaviors
- relation between high-level goals and local interactions
- specification based interaction mechanisms
- trust-based interaction mechanisms

(3) Swarm Optimization
- ant colony optimization (ACO)
- ants algorithms
- computational swarm models
- cultural evolution
- evolutionary computing
- particle swarm optimization (PSO)
- social evolution

(4) Emergent Computing
- amorphous computing
- analytic models of emergent behaviors
- cellular automata approaches to emergence in multi-agent systems
- cognitive computing
- collective intelligence/emergence in cloud/Grid computing, service-oriented computing (SOC)
- collective intelligence/emergence in pervasive/ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence
- collective intelligence/emergence in service discovery and delivery, service-oriented architectures (SOA)
- collective intelligence/emergence in social networking, online virtual communities
- collective intelligence/emergence in web/Internet systems
- controllability of emergence
- granular computing
- molecular/cellular computer, DNA computing
- multi-agent based complex systems
- nanocomputing
- natural computing, evolutionary computation
- performance engineering of emergent behaviors in multi-agent systems
- quantum computing

(5) Applications
- industrial automation
- network routing
- socio-technical systems
- traffic scheduling

Submission

SIWN 2010 only accepts manuscripts of original contributions. A manuscript for submission to the Conference should neither have been published nor have been under consideration for publication elsewhere. A manuscript for submission to the Conference should be prepared according to the Instructions for Authors of the Journal that can be found at http://fatech.org.uk/press/ita.htm along with Sample Word Doc and Latex file of Camera-Ready Versions. There is a page limit of 8 formatted pages for the CRV of an accepted paper. Additional pages are subject to over-length charges.

All accepted papers of the Conferences will be included in the electronic Proceedings of SIWN 2010 and at the same time, will be published in the International Journal <> (ISSN 1757-4439).

After the Conferences, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit thoroughly expanded papers for publication at special issues of following International Journals:
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Advanced Engineering Informatics

Important Dates
9 April 2010 Submission of manuscripts
30 April 2010 Notification of acceptance
28 May 2010 Camera-Ready Version (CRV) due
12-14 July 2010 Conference

Program Chairs

Jan Sudeikat
Multimedia Systems Laboratory, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Berliner Tor 7, 20099 Hamburg, Germany
Distributed Systems and Information Systems, Computer Science Department
University of Hamburg, Vogt–Kolln–Str. 30, 22527 Hamburg, Germany
Jan.Sudeikat@haw-hamburg.de

Professor Yu Wu
Network and Computation Research Center
Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Chongqing 400065, China
wuyu@cqupt.edu.cn

Dienstag, 16. März 2010

2nd International Workshop on WEB INTELLIGENCE & VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES (WIVE'10)

CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd International Workshop on WEB INTELLIGENCE & VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES (WIVE'10)
http://www.emse.fr/wive/

to be held at the 11th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE'10)
Saint-Etienne, France, October 11-13, 2010

*Important Dates*

Paper submission deadline: March 30th, 2010
Paper notification : May 15th, 2010
Camera ready paper : June 13th, 2010
Workshop : October 12-13th, 2010
Journal Paper submission deadline : November 15th, 2010
Journal Acceptance notification : January 15th, 2011
Special issue publication : 2011

*KEYNOTE SPEAKER*

We are honoured to welcome Anind Dey (Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) to the WIVE'10 workshop for an invited talk.

*JOURNAL PUBLICATION FOR POST-PROCEEDINGS*

A selection of an extended version of workshop papers will be published as post-proceedings in a special issue of the International Journal of Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (http://www.iospress.nl/loadtop/load.php?isbn=15701263).

*SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP*

Internet is a medium allowing services and information exchange in an open and decentralized environment, notably with numerous applications for virtual enterprises. It concerns enterprise information systems, local, regional and governmental organizations but it also involves more and more common users in the so-called web 2.0. The main stake is to use Internet as a technological support to communication, information exchange, service composition personalisation and access by all and anywhere. In this perspective, some work has been done these last years to combine classical techniques of information management with artificial intelligence technologies thus creating a new research domain called Web Intelligence. Research in Web Intelligence contributes to the development of algorithms, models and tools to handle the social and economic impact of the web usages.

The workshop will provide presentation and discussion opportunities for researchers working on web intelligence applied to collaborative networks, such as virtual enterprises and organizations. The possibilities and consequences of the web usage for collaborative networks are tremendous and new tools are required to satisfy users and service providers. Thus, Web Intelligence brings new research problems related to information and service access, quality of service, personalization, privacy preserving, trust as well as other issues.

The workshop Web Intelligence and Virtual Enterprises (VE) expects contributions on topics such as:

   * Multi-agent models and tools for VE
   * Services and Grid Services for VE, Service oriented architectures
   * Web information mining, filtering and retrieval within/for VE
   * Web-based applications and plate-forms for VE
   * Intelligent web interaction, querying, diffusion
   * Semantics and ontology engineering for VE
   * Self-* models and techniques for VE
   * Social networks modelling, virtual communities, social intelligence
   * Context-based approach, profile management, personalization and recommendations for/through VE
   * Privacy preserving, security, trust-based computing & reputation systems
   * Applications: E-* (market, procurement, technologies, health, government, etc.) and VE
   * VE and content and knowledge repositories, behaviour modelling and exchange
   * Web intelligence, mobility and VE, Ambient Intelligence, Pervasive computing
   * Performances evaluation, experiments, user feed-back
   * Surveys on WI and VE

The organization of the Web Intelligence & Virtual Enterprises workshop at PRO-VE'10 is supported by the Web Intelligence project from the French Rhône-Alpes regional cluster ISLE.

*SUBMISSIONS*

The Web Intelligence and Virtual Enterprises workshop welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological as well as application papers. Papers may report on completed work, descriptions of work in progress or discussion papers.

Submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process. Papers will be published into the CD-Rom of the conference. In addition, a selection of the workshop papers will be published as post-proceedings in a special issue of the International Journal of Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (http://www.iospress.nl/loadtop/load.php?isbn=15701263).

Submitted papers should be 16 pages maximum in length, including figures and references. The paper must be formatted according to the double column style guidelines for A4 papers available here: http://wi-consortium.org/wias/submissionInst.html

All papers should be prepared in pdf format and submitted on the web site
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wive2010

*CO-CHAIRS*

   * Christo El Morr, York University, Toronto, Canada
   * Pierre Maret, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne, France
   * Laurent Vercouter, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France

*LOCAL ORGANIZERS*

   * Philippe Beaune, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France
   * Olivier Boissier, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France
   * Jacques Fayolle, Telecom Saint-Étienne, France
   * Christine Largeron, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne, France

*PROGRAM COMMITTEE*

   * Aknine Samir, LIRIS, University of Lyon 1, France
   * Altmann Joern, Seoul National University, South Korea
   * Bataille Fabien, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France
   * Boissier Olivier, G2I/EMSE, France
   * Calmet Jacques, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
   * Favre Cecile, ERIC, University of Lyon 2, France
   * Framling Kary, University of Technology of Helsinki, Finland
   * Gandon Fabien, INRIA, France
   * Gensel Jerome, LIG, France
   * Hacid Hakim, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France
   * Halpin Harry, W3C, Scotland
   * Heckmann Dominikus, Saarland University, Germany
   * Ihara Masayuki, NTT Comware Corporation, Japan
   * Jalal Kawash, University of Calgary, Canada
   * Karageorgos Anthony, Technological Educational Institute of Larissa, Greece
   * Kristoffersen Steinar, Ostfold University College, Norway
   * Lopez Guillaume, University of Tokyo, Japan
   * Lumineau Nicolas, LIRIS, University of Lyon 1, France
   * Mazon Lopez Jose Norberto, University of Alicante, Spain
   * Nickles Matthias, University of Bath, United Kingdom
   * Occello Michel, University Pierre Mendes France, France
   * Robinson Philip, SAP Research, United Kingdom
   * Soulier Eddie, University of Technology of Troyes, France
   * Tarkkanen Kimmo, University of Turku, Finland
   * Tellioglu Hilda, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
   * van Beijnum Bert-Jan, University of Twente, Netherlands
   * Weiss Gerhard, University of Maastricht, Netherlands
   * Werthner Hannes, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
   * Zimanyi Esteban, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

-- *Laurent Vercouter* Maitre-Assistant / Assistant Professor
SMA Dpt/G2I Center, Ecole des Mines de St-Etienne, France
Phone: +33 4 77 42 66 03    http://www.emse.fr/~vercouter

The Eleventh Annual Trading Agent Competition

Call for Participation
TAC-2010

The Eleventh Annual Trading Agent
Competition - Call for Participation
June 7 - 8, 2010

Boston, MA,
USA
Collocated with EC'10 (ACM Conf. on Electronic Commerce) 

We would
like to ask all teams interested in participating in the competition to
register their intent to participate as soon as possible in order to
determine the number of participants and whether a qualification round (in
each game) is needed. 

***The official deadline for registering is: April
30, 2010 *** 

We ask teams to register early though. The registration site
url is: 

http://www.sics.se/tac/intent.php 

The tentative schedule for
the competition is as follows: 

- May 5-15: Qualification (where
necessary) 

- May 17-28 : Seeding 

- June (3 or 4) & 7  padding-left:
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Call for
Participation
TAC-2010

The Eleventh Annual Trading Agent Competition -
Call for Participation
June 7 - 8, 2010

Boston, MA, USA
Collocated with
EC'10 (ACM Conf. on Electronic Commerce)

Trading in electronic markets is
increasingly becoming both a
commonplace economic activity and a topic of
special interest within the
AI, Electronic Commerce, and Multiagent Systems
(MAS) research
communities.

We invite you to participate in the Eleventh
Annual Trading Agent
Competition (TAC-10), to be held in May and June of
2010, with the
finals taking place during the EC'10 conference in Boston,
Massachusetts,
preceded by qualifying and seeding rounds in May and
June.

Building on the success of previous Trading Agent Competition
events,
this year's event is again designed to spur research on common
problems,
promote definitions of benchmarks and standard problem
descriptions, and
showcase current technologies.

The competition will pit
software agents -- developed by research
groups, students, and others from
all over the world -- against each
other in challenging market games. This
year, there will be three games,
and up to two related challenge
events:

1. TAC Ad Auctions (AA). In the TAC/AA game, agents
representing
Internet advertisers bid for search-engine ad placement over a
range of
interrelated keyword combinations. A back-end search-user
model
translates placement over each simulated day to impressions,
clicks,
and sale conversions, yielding revenue for the advertiser.
Advertiser
strategies combining online data analysis and bidding tac tics
compete
to maximize profit over the simulated campaign horizon.

2. TAC
Market Design (reverse TAC, or "CAT"). CAT software agents
represent market
makers whose goals are to attract potential buyers and
sellers as
customers, and then to match buyers with sellers. The market
makers compete
with one another in doing this, such as the London Stock
Exchange competes
with the NYSE for the business of stock traders.

3. TAC Supply Chain
Management (SCM). TAC/SCM simulates a dynamic supply
chain environment
where agents compete to secure customer orders and
components required for
production of these orders. The game captures
many of the complexities of
actual supply chains, where both demand and
supply fluctuate and each
manufacturer has limited production
capacity. Participants also have the
option of entering two SCM
Challenge events: a Procurement Challenge and a
Prediction Challenge;
these will take place if enough teams (minimum 6)
register for them.

The market games have been specially designed to
present agents with
difficult decision problems and admit a wide variety of
potential
bidding and negotiation strategies.

Preliminary documentation
and software for participating in the AA
Tournament are accessible at:


http://aa.tradingagents.org/ 

Preliminary documentation and software for
participating in the CAT
Tournament are accessible via sourceforge. Access
details and other CAT
information is available at:


http://www.marketbasedcontrol.com/blog/index.php?page_id=5

Documentation
and open source software for participating in TAC SCM,
including servers
and sample agents, are available for download at:


http://www.sics.se/tac/

The qualifying and seeding rounds will be held in
May and early June, and
the first day of the final rounds is scheduled to
coincide with the
Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA) workshop to be
held at EC'10.

To register for TAC-10, please fill out the registration
form at:
(will be activated in the next weeks)


http://www.sics.se/tac/intent.php

The entry fee will be US$250 per team to
enter one game, or $400 for all
TAC games. For TAC SCM the entry fee is the
same independently of the
number of challenge events in which a team
competes.

The entry fee is waived for teams who send a representative to
the TAC
finals at EC'10, if that representative registers for the
TADA
workshop. A given individual may represent one team for one
game.

Note: Please send any questions regarding the fees to tac
[at]
tradingagents.org. Groups unable to afford the entry fee may
also
contact tac [at] tradingagents.org for special consideration.

General
information about TAC can be found at:

 http://www.sics.se/tac/

Exact
dates for the qualifying and seeding rounds will soon be posted on
this
site.

More information about the Trading Agent Analysis and Design
(TADA)
workshop is available at:


http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/tada2010/

Information about the
Association for Trading Agent Research running TAC
is available at:


http://tradingagents.org

Please circulate this announcement to anyone who
may be interested in
participating. Inquiries may be directed to
tac-support@cs.umn.edu  

WORLDCOMP'10

CALL  FOR  PAPERS
        Paper Submission Deadline: March 21, 2010

                      WORLDCOMP'10

       The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science,
       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
            July 12-15, 2010, Las Vegas, USA

        http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All
accepted papers will be published in the respective conference
proceedings. The proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET /
The Institute for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / Computer
Science Bibliography, and others.)


ACADEMIC & TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS (a partial list):

The Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC), University of
California, Berkeley, USA; Collaboratory for Advanced Computing
and Simulations (CACS), University of Southern California, USA;
Intelligent Data Exploration & Analysis Lab., University of
Texas at Austin, Texas, USA; Harvard Statistics Department
Genomics & Bioinformatics Lab., Harvard University,
Massachusetts, USA; BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Lab.,
Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University, Georgia,
USA; Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA; Minnesota
Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, USA; Center
for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia
Institute of Technology, USA; Medical Image HPC & Informatics
Lab. (MiHi Lab), University of Iowa, USA; University of North
Dakota, USA; NDSU-CIIT Green Computing & Communications Lab.,
North Dakota State University, USA; Knowledge Management &
Intelligent System Center (KMIS) of University of Siegen,
Germany; UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational
Research, Austria; SECLAB of University of Naples Federico II,
University of Naples Parthenope, & Second University of Naples,
Italy; National Institute for Health Research; World Academy of
Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; High Performance
Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano); Supercomputer Software
Department (SSD), Institute of Computational Mathematics &
Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences; Int'l
Council on Medical & Care Compunetics; The UK Department for
Business, Innovation and Skills, UK; VMW Solution Ltd.;
Scientific Technologies Corporation; HoIP - Health without
Boundaries; Space for Earth Foundation; and Manjrasoft (Cloud
Computing Technology company), Melbourne, Australia.


WORLDCOMP 2010 CONFERENCES: (all will be held simultaneously;
ie, same location and dates - tracks that have already received
a sufficient number of papers have been excluded from this list.)

o  BIOCOMP'10 - 11th annual Conference on Bioinformatics and
   Computational Biology
o  CDES'10 - 10th annual Conference on Computer Design
o  CGVR'10 - 14th annual Conference on Computer Graphics and
   Virtual Reality
o  CSC'10 - 7th annual Conference on Scientific Computing
o  DMIN'10 - 6th annual Conference on Data Mining
o  EEE'10 - 9th annual Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,
   Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government
o  ESA'10 - 8th annual Conference on Embedded Systems and
   Applications
o  FCS'10 - 6th annual Conference on Foundations of Computer
   Science
o  FECS'10 - 6th annual Conference on Frontiers in Education:
   Computer Science and Computer Engineering
o  GCA'10 - 6th annual Conference on Grid Computing and
   Applications
o  GEM'10 - 7th annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary
   Methods
o  ICAI'10 - 12th annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence
o  ICOMP'10 - 11th annual Conference on Internet Computing
o  ICWN'10 - 9th annual Conference on Wireless Networks
o  IKE'10 - 9th annual Conference on Information and Knowledge
   Engineering
o  IPCV'10 - 14th annual Conference on Image Processing,
   Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition
o  MSV'10 - 7th annual Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
   Visualization Methods
o  PDPTA'10 - 16th annual Conference on Parallel and Distributed
   Processing Techniques and Applications
o  SAM'10 - 9th annual Conference on Security and Management
o  SERP'10 - 9th annual Conference on Software Engineering
   Research and Practice
o  SWWS'10 - 6th annual Conference on Semantic Web and
   Web Services

Each of the conferences listed above has its own proceedings;
its own program committee members, and infrastructure. A
link to each of these conferences can be found at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org


GENERAL INFORMATION:

WORLDCOMP 2010 will be composed of research presentations,
keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel
discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past,
keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A.
Patterson (pioneer/computer architecture, U. of California,
Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of
Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of
Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known
as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena
Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry
Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys
(known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC),
Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming,
Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U.
of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern
California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director &
Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.),
Anousheh Ansari (CEO, Prodea Systems & first female private
space explorer), and many other distinguished speakers. To get
a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2009 delegates
photos available at: http://www.pixagogo.com/1672514104
Featured keynote speakers for 2010 are (this is a partial list;
there are 22 other keynotes/invited talks):
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic) and Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director,
Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA).


WORLDCOMP 2010 MEMBERS OF STEERING COMMITTEE:
(Each conference has its own committee members - what appears
below is a partial list of members of the steering committee
of the federated event.)

Dr. Selim Aissi
Chief Strategist - Security, Manageability and Virtualization,
Ultra Mobile Group, Intel Corporation, USA

Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (Contact Person)
Coordinator & General Co-Chair, WORLDCOMP 2010,
ISIBM Fellow & Professor, Department of Computer Science,
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer),
Co-Editor/Board, Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier),
Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing,
The University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
email: hra@cs.uga.edu

Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
Member, National Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow,
Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

Prof. Hyunseung Choo
ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication, Korea,
Director, ITRC: Intel. HCI Convergence Research Center, Korea,
Director, Korea Information Processing Society,
Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology,
Assoc. Editor, Transactions on Computational Science, Springer;
Director, Korean Society for Internet Info. (KSII);
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

Prof. (Winston) Wai-Chi Fang
IEEE Fellow
TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor,
National Chiao Tung University,
Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC

Prof. Andy Marsh
Director HoIP (Healthcare over Internet Protocol),
Secretary-General WABT (World Academy of Biomedical Sci. & Tech.),
Vice-president ICET (Int'l Council for Engineering & Technology),
Vice-president ICMCC (Int'l Council on Medical & Care Compunetics),
Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK

Prof. Layne T. Watson
IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow,
Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace,
Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University,
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
Member, National Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow,
Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing,
Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, PUBLICATION, INDEXING INFORMATION:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers
by uploading them to the evaluation web site at:
http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/
Submissions must be uploaded by the end of March 21, 2010
and they must be in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf
formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of
10 to 12). At this time, all reasonable typesetting formats
are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will
be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to
prepare their final papers for publication.)

The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be
limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been
previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include:
title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and
email address for each author. The first page should also
identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5
topical keywords that would best represent the content of
the paper.

All accepted papers will be published in the respective
conference proceedings (in both, printed book/ISBN form as
well as online). The proceedings will be indexed in Inspec /
IET / The Institute for Engineering and Technology, DBLP /
Computer Science Bibliography, and others. 7247) The printed
proceedings will be available for distribution on site at
the conference.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected
authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their
papers for publication in a number of research books being
proposed/contracted with various publishers (such as,
Springer, Elsevier, IOS, ...) - these books would be
composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of sessions
and workshops will be forming journal special issues to be
published after the conference.


IMPORTANT DATES:

March 21, 2010:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
April 10, 2010:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 1, 2010:       Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 12-15, 2010:  The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science,
                   Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                   (WORLDCOMP'10)

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

See:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/location

Mittwoch, 24. Februar 2010

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

Sonntag, 21. Februar 2010

Trading Agent Competition - TAC-2010

The Eleventh Annual Trading Agent Competition 
Call for Participation
June 7 - 8, 2010

Boston, MA, USA
Collocated with EC'10 (ACM Conf. on Electronic Commerce)
Trading in electronic markets is increasingly becoming both a commonplace economic activity and a topic of special interest within the AI, Electronic Commerce, and Multiagent Systems (MAS) research communities.

We invite you to participate in the Eleventh Annual Trading Agent Competition (TAC-10), to be held in May and June of 2010, with the finals taking place during the EC'10 conference in Boston, Massachusetts, preceded by qualifying and seeding rounds in May and June.

Building on the success of previous Trading Agent Competition events, this year's event is again designed to spur research on common problems, promote definitions of benchmarks and standard problem descriptions, and showcase current technologies.
 
The competition will pit software agents -- developed by research groups, students, and others from all over the world -- against each other in challenging market games. This year, there will be three games, and up to two related challenge events:

1. TAC Ad Auctions (AA).
In the TAC/AA game, agents representing Internet advertisers bid for search-engine ad placement over a range of interrelated keyword combinations. A back-end search-user model translates placement over each simulated day to impressions, clicks, and sale conversions, yielding revenue for the advertiser. Advertiser strategies combining online data analysis and bidding tac tics compete to maximize profit over the simulated campaign horizon.

2. TAC Market Design (reverse TAC, or "CAT"). 
CAT software agents represent market makers whose goals are to attract potential buyers and sellers as customers, and then to match buyers with sellers. The market makers compete with one another in doing this, such as the London Stock Exchange competes with the NYSE for the business of stock traders.

3. TAC Supply Chain Management (SCM). 
TAC/SCM simulates a dynamic supply chain environment where agents compete to secure customer orders and components required for production of these orders. The game captures many of the complexities of actual supply chains, where both demand and supply fluctuate and each manufacturer has limited production capacity. Participants also have the option of entering two SCM Challenge events: 


  • a Procurement Challenge and 


  • a Prediction Challenge;
these will take place if enough teams (minimum 6) register for them.

The market games have been specially designed to present agents with difficult decision problems and admit a wide variety of potential bidding and negotiation strategies.

Preliminary documentation and software for participating in the AA Tournament are accessible at:

http://aa.tradingagents.org/ 

Preliminary documentation and software for participating in the CAT Tournament are accessible via sourceforge. Access details and other CAT information is available at:

http://www.marketbasedcontrol.com/blog/index.php?page_id=5

Documentation and open source software for participating in TAC SCM, including servers and sample agents, are available for download at:

http://www.sics.se/tac/

The qualifying and seeding rounds will be held in May and early June, and the first day of the final rounds is scheduled to coincide with the Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA) workshop to be held at EC'10.

To register for TAC-10, please fill out the registration form at:
(will be activated in the next weeks)

http://www.sics.se/tac/intent.php

The entry fee will be US$250 per team to enter one game, or $400 for all TAC games. For TAC SCM the entry fee is the same independently of the number of challenge events in which a team competes.

The entry fee is waived for teams who send a representative to the TAC finals at EC'10, if that representative registers for the TADA workshop. A given individual may represent one team for one game.

Note: Please send any questions regarding the fees to tac [at] tradingagents.org. Groups unable to afford the entry fee may also contact tac [at] tradingagents.org for special consideration.

General information about TAC can be found at:

http://www.sics.se/tac/

Exact dates for the qualifying and seeding rounds will soon be posted on this
site.

More information about the Trading Agent Analysis and Design (TADA) workshop is available at:

http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/tada2010/

Information about the Association for Trading Agent Research running TAC is available at:

http://tradingagents.org

Please circulate this announcement to anyone who may be interested in participating. Inquiries may be directed to tac-support@cs.umn.edu