Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems ITMAS 2011

Dear colleagues, I am pleased to invite you to submit a paper to ITMAS 2011, 2nd International Workshop on Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems.

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The 2nd International Workshop on Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems ITMAS 2011 Web page: http://itmas2011.gti-ia.dsic.upv.es

To be held with AAMAS 2011 (http://www.aamas2011.tw/)

2 - 6 May, 2011, Taipei, Taiwan

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DESCRIPTION

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ITMAS aims at bringing together leading researchers from both academia and industry to discuss issues on the design and implementation of infrastructures and tools for Multiagent Systems. When developing applications based on Multiagent Systems, developers and users demand infrastructures and tools which support essential features in Multiagent Systems (such as agent organizations, mobility, etc.) and facilitate the system design, management, execution and evaluation. Agent infrastructures are usually built using other technologies such as grid systems, service-oriented architectures, P2P networks, etc. In this sense, the integration and interoperability of such technologies in Multiagent Systems is also a challenging issue in the area of both tools and infrastructures for Multiagent Systems. A long term goal is the industrial development of infrastructures for building highly scalable applications comprising pre-existing agents that must be organized or orchestrated.

In order for Multiagent Systems to be included in real domains such as media and Internet, logistics, e-commerce and health care, infrastructures and tools for Multiagent Systems should provide efficiency, scalability, security, management, monitorization and other features related to building real applications.

We encourage the submission of papers describing any kind of infrastructures and tools that are used to provide support for Multiagent Systems. We are particularly interested in infrastructures and tools that allow agent-based systems to be adopted by designers and programmers both in academia and industry.

Specific topics for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

* Agent Infrastructures

* Agent Communication Technologies

* Interoperability and Standards

* Integration of technologies to support Multiagent Systems

* Integration of Agent Infrastructures with non-agent Infrastructures

* Efficiency and Scalability Evaluation

* Agent Infrastructure Benchmarks

* Security, Privacy and Identity Management in Multiagent Systems

* Secure Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems

* Infrastructures and tools supporting Social and Organizational Models

* Infrastructures and tools supporting Trust and Reputation Models

* Infrastructures and tools supporting Intelligent Virtual Environments

* Infrastructures and tools supporting Electronic Institutions

* Infrastructures for agent-based Service-Oriented Systems

* Design, Management and Monitoring tools for Multiagent Systems

* Models and Architectures for Designing Agent Infrastructures

* Coordination infrastructures for Multiagent Systems

* Environment infrastructures for Multiagent Systems

* Infrastructure support to Model-driven Engineering in Multiagent Systems

* Infrastructure mechanisms for self-organising Multiagent Systems

* Information Retrieval Tools for Multiagent Systems

* Semantic Web Tools for Multiagent Systems

* Mobile Agent Technologies

* Industry implementations of Multiagent Systems

* Experiences using Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems

* Infrastructures and Tools for Biomedical Multiagent Systems

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IMPORTANT DATES

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* Paper Sumbission Deadline: JANUARY, 30, 2011

* Paper Acceptance Notification: FEBRUARY 27, 2011

* Camera-ready copies due: MARCH 7, 2011

* Workshop Date: MAY 2-3, 2011

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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* Vicent Botti (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Ana Garcia-Fornes (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Michal Pěchouček (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)

* Alessandro Ricci (Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Italy)

* Jose M. Such (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Danny Weyns (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be confirmed)

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* Juan M. Alberola (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Makoto Amamiya (Kyushu University, Japan)

* Matteo Baldoni (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy)

* Fabio Bellifemine (Telecom Italia, Italy)

* Juan A. Botía (University of Murcia, Spain)

* Vicent Botti (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Frances Brazier (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands)

* Nadia Erdogan (I.staurkeynbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Turkey)

* Agustin Espinosa (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Jomi F. Hübner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

* Ana Garcia-Fornes (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Kamalakar Karlapalem (International Institute of Information Technology, India)

* Yasuhiko Kitamura (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)

* Abder Koukam (University of Technology UTBM, France)

* Michal Laclavik (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic)

* Pavlos Moraitis (Paris Descartes University, France)

* Andrea Omicini (Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Italy)

* Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)

* Michal Pechoucek (Agent Technology Center, Czech Republic)

* Alessandro Ricci (Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Italy)

* Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)

* Murat Sensoy (University of Aberdeen, UK)

* Carles Sierra (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)

* Michael Shumacher (University of Applied Sciences Western, Switzerland)

* Jose M. Such (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Pavel Vrba (Rockwell Automation Research Center, Czech Republic)

* Danny Weyns (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

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SUBMISSION and REVIEW DETAILS

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Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers from the Program Committee. Criteria for the selection of papers will include: high quality, clear presentation, novelty of research, relevance to the topics, coverage of relevant state of the art and the practical implementation of the infrastructures and tools presented.

Submissions must follow the Springer LNCS paper format and should be a maximum of 12 pages.

Papers must be submitted in pdf format via the conference management system, available at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itmas2011

As in previous editions, we are negotiating the publication of extended versions of selected papers as a volume for a special issue in a journal indexed in the SCI.

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CONTACT

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Ana Garcia-Fornes (agarcia(at)dsic(dot)upv(dot)es)

WORKSHOP on Collaborative Agents -- REsearch and Development (CARE) 2010

Second INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on Collaborative Agents -- REsearch and Development (CARE) 2010
31st August 2010, York University, Toronto, Canada

Abstract submission: April 14, 2010
Full paper submission: April 16, 2010

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~xtg/CARE2010/
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The workshop is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT).
http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/

Summary
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Collaboration is required when multiple agents achieve complex goals that are difficult or impossible to attain for an individual agent. This collaboration takes place under conditions of incomplete information, uncertainty, and bounded rationality, much of which has been previously studied in economics and artificial intelligence. However, many real world domains are characterised by even greater complexity, including the possibility of unreliable and non-complying collaborators, complex market and incentive frameworks, and complex transaction costs and organisational structures. This workshop's thematic focus is on collaborative and autonomous agents that plan, negotiate, coordinate, and act under this complexity.

This workshop aims to foster discussions on computational models of collaboration in distributed systems, addressing a range of theoretical and practical issues. We seek contributions of members in research and industry that use the agent paradigm to approach their problems.

Some issues of interest of this workshop are:
o How to enable agents to form and follow joint agreements and contracts in complex organisational and market driven domains.
o How to develop a comprehensive contractual formation/maintenance framework applicable to many application domains.
o How to build comprehensive customer lifecycle management systems for customers, including telecommunication consumers, students and patients.
o How to deploy lifecycle management systems in real world applications, such as healthcare, telecommunication, and smart campuses.
o How to design markets that are adequate for agents to act with incomplete and uncertain information of the behaviour of collaborating agents. o How to build MAS that work efficiently in partially regulated markets (where governance policy or partnership agreements govern part of the market).
o What are the implications of partial regulation on the management of contractual relationships and service delivery.
o How organisational structures influence the negotiation of agents and the distribution/execution of tasks.
o How to cope with collaborators that exhibit unreliable and non-conformant behaviour, eg where agreements are made but are not always conformed with.
o How can interventions and incentive structures assist in managing contractual relationships and service delivery.
o How to assign transaction costs to actions in planning, assignment, and execution in organisational structures. o How can transaction costs influence the social outcome of the system which is further influenced by the organisational context under which the collaboration takes place. o Can lessons learnt in game theoretic computation inform collaborative agent settings.
o What role does learning and adaptivity play in building organisational MAS.

The one day workshop will feature a mixture of invited talks, discussions and submitted contributions describing current work or work in progress in collaborative agent research and technology. The workshop environment fosters open discussions among all participants, particularly encouraging students to discuss their research topics and seek feedback from senior agent researchers.


Contact
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CARE organisers

christian.guttmann@gmail.com
dignum@cs.uu.nl

Important Dates
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Abstract submission: April 14, 2010
Full paper submission: April 16, 2010

Notification: May 28, 2010
Camera ready: June 7, 2010


Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):
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RESEARCH
* Collaboration frameworks
* Models of teamwork and joint action
* Organisation/Institutes/Norms
* Auctioning/Negotiation
* Task/Resource allocation
* Behaviour modelling/monitoring
* Adherence/Intervention mechanisms
* Incentive frameworks
* Intervention mechanisms
* Agreement technology
* Contract networks/formation
* Cloud computing

APPLICATION AREAS
* Collaborative care planning/management * Disaster planning/management
* Traffic planning/management
* Transport/Logistics
* Applications in primary and preventative healthcare * Chronic disease planning/management
* Epidemiological agent models
* Unmanned air/land vehicles
* Robotic soccer/Robotic rescues
* Weather forecast
* Artificial and natural immune systems
* Social networks (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook,...)
* Smart grid network (e.g., electricity/gas metering)

Submission and Publication
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Submission is to be done electronically at Cyberchair at: http://wi-consortium.org/cyberchair/wiiat10/scripts/ws_submit.php. CARE 2010 seeks 4-page submissions formatted according to IEEE specification.
Style Files for Paper Submission
IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines:
DOC: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11.doc PDF:ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11.pdf PS: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.ps LaTex Formatting Macros:
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex8.5x11x2.zip

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by two or three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics.

Post-Proceedings will be published with a major international publisher (most likely Springer as for the CARE 2009).

Workshop Officials
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GENERAL CHAIRS
Christian Guttmann (Monash University, Australia)
Frank Dignum (University Utrecht, Netherlands)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Wei Chen (Intelligent Automation, Inc., United States of America)
Philippe Pasquier (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Michael Luck (King's College London, United Kingdom)
Lawrence Cavedon (NICTA and RMIT University, Australia)
Samin Karim (Accenture, Australia)
Cees Witteveen (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)   
Franziska Klügl (Örebro University, Sweden)
Toby Walsh (NICTA and UNSW, Australia)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy)
Alexander Pokahr (University Hamburg, Germany)
Lars Brauchbach (University Hamburg, Germany)
Wayne Wobcke (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Liz Sonenberg (Melbourne University, Australia) Kumari Wickramasinghe (Monash University, Australia)
Simon Thompson (British Telecom Research Laboratories, United Kingdom)
Gord McCalla (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Andrew Gilpin (Hg Analytics, United States of America)
David Morley (SRI International, United States of America)
Marcelo Blois Ribeiro (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Simon Goss (Defence Science and Technology Organisation DSTO, Australia)

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

3rd International Workshop on Logics, Agents, and Mobility (LAM'10)

3rd International Workshop on Logics, Agents, and Mobility (LAM'10)

http://www.dur.ac.uk/lam.10

15 July 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

organised as satellite workshop at the Twenty-Fifth Annual IEEE Symposium on
LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2010), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
(part of FLoC 2010)



Workshop Purpose:

The aim of this series of workshops is to bring together active researchers in the areas of logics and other formal frameworks that can be used to describe and analyse dynamic or mobile systems. The main focus is on the field of logics and calculi for mobile agents, and multi-agent systems. 

Many notions used in the theory of agents are derived from philosophy, logic, and linguistics (belief, desire, intention, speech act, etc.), and interdisciplinary discourse has proved fruitful for the advance of this domain. The workshop intends to encourage discussion and work across the boundaries of the traditional disciplines.

Outside of academia, distributed systems are a reality and agent programming is beginning established itself as a serious contender against more traditional programming paradigms. For example, the deployment of large-scale pervasive infrastructures (mobile ad-hoc networks, mobile devices, RFIDs, etc.) raises a number of scientific and technological challenges for the  modelling and programming of such large-scale, open and highly-dynamic distributed systems. The agent and multi-agent systems approach seems particularly adapted to tackle this challenge, but there are many issues remaining to be investigated. For instance, the agents must be location-aware since the actual services available to them may depend on their (physical or virtual) location. The quality and quantity of resources at their disposal is also largely fluctuant, and the agents must be able to adapt to such highly dynamic environments. Moreover, mobility itself raises a large number of difficult issues related to safety and security, which require the ability to reason about the software (e.g. for analysis or verification). 

Logics and type systems with temporal or other kinds of modalities (relating to location, resource and/or security-awareness) play a central role in the semantic characterisation and verification of mobile agent systems. In the past two or three years, some logics have been proposed that would be able to handle certain aspects of these requirements, but there are still many open problems and research questions in the theory of such systems. The workshop is intended to showcase results and current work being undertaken in the areas outlined above with a focus on logics and other formalisms for the  specification and verification of dynamic, mobile systems.


Scopes of Interest:

The main topics of interest include
- specification and reasoning about agents, MAS, and mobile systems
- modal and temporal logics
- model-checking 
- treatment of location and resources in logics
- security
- type systems and static analysis
- logic programming
- concurrency theory with a focus on mobility or dynamics in agent systems.


Previous Workshops:

LAM'08: 4--8 August 2008 at ESSLI in Hamburg, Germany 
LAM'09: 10 August 2009 at LICS in Los Angeles, USA


Format of the Workshop:

The workshop will be held as a one day event after LICS. There will 
be a short introduction and brief survey of the field by the 
organiser as an introduction to the workshop.

The workshop will contain invited talks, contributed talks, and a 
discussion session. The latter is will give the participants a 
chance to discuss informally research directions, open problems, and 
possible co-operations.


Submission details:

Authors are invited to submit a full paper of original work in the 
areas mentioned above. The workshop chair should be informed of 
closely related work submitted to a conference or journal in advance 
of submission. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to 
present it at the LAM'10 workshop. Submissions should not exceed 15 
pages, preferably using LaTeX and a suitable class for the proceedings. 
The following formats are accepted: PDF, PS. 

Please send your submission electronically via
EasyChair 
by the deadline listed below. The submissions will be reviewed by 
the workshop's programme committee and additional reviewers. 
Accepted papers will appear in electronic proceedings (probably in  EPTCS) 
and authors will be encouraged to re-submit papers to formal proceedings 
to be published as a separate publication, e.g. as a special journal issue.


Invited Speakers:

David Pym (University of Bath and HP)
TBA


Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: 9 April 2010
Notification: 1 May 2010
Workshop: 15 July 2010


Programme Committee:

Thomas Agotnes, Bergen, Norway
Matteo Baldoni, Torino, Italy
Marina De Vos, Bath, UK
Louise Dennis, Liverpool, UK
Jürgen Dix, Clausthal, Germany
Berndt Farwer (chair), Durham, UK
Michael Fisher, Liverpool, UK
Didier Galmiche, Nancy, France
James Harland, Melbourne, Australia
Andreas Herzig, Toulouse, France
Wojtek Jamroga, Clausthal, Germany
Michael Köhler-Bußmeier, Hamburg, Germany
João Leite, Lisbon, Portugal
Alessio Lomuscio, London, UK
Dale Miller, INRIA, France
Frederic Peschanski, Paris, France
Vladimiro Sassone, Southampton, UK
Wamberto Vasconcelos, Aberdeen, UK


Further Information:

About the workshop: http://www.dur.ac.uk/lam.10
About LICS: http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics10/

Data Mining in Cloud Computing

Special Session on "Data Mining in Cloud Computing"
Brief Description
     The ‘Data Mining in Cloud Computing Session’ of the Fifth International Conference on Rough Set and Knowledge Technology (RSKT 2010) invites the submission of original high-quality research papers. The goal of this session is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of Cloud computing, Data mining and Knowledge Technology together to addresses the problems and emerging opportunities about Cloud Computing in the era of Knowledge Technology. Submissions will be in Springer LNCS style. Accepted and registered papers will be included in the Springer LNAI proceedings available at the conference. Extensions of selected papers from the RSKT2010 proceedings will be considered for publication in special issues of some international journals, such as Fundamental Informatics (EI, SCI indexed), International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (SCI indexed), etc.
Scope and Topics
   Topics of interest include but not limited to:
   * Knowledge technology in cloud computing
   * Compute and storage cloud architectures and implementations
   * Data intensive scalable computing
   * Distributed data intensive computing
   * Service models
   * Programming models
   * Charging models
   * Virtual appliance management and composition
   * Models, frameworks and systems for cloud security
   * New applications on cloud
Important Dates
   Full paper submission due: March 20, 2010
   Paper acceptance/rejection notification: May 20, 2010
   Camera ready submission and registration: July 6, 2010
Instructions for Authors
   Articles should be submitted electronically. PDF format are acceptable and submissions should be according to the instruction for authors (see http://rskt2010.bjtu.edu.cn/paper.htm). Please specify that the paper is for the Knowledge Technology meet Cloud Computing session, and send an electronic copy of paper in PDF format in English to cqupt.yangyong@gmail.com. Same electronic copy must also be submitted online at EasyChair Login Page for RSKT 2010（https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?a=a03a9c904a6d;iid=19053）.
Special Session Cochairs
   Prof. Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R.China
   Prof. Dr. Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R.China
   Prof. Dr. Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
   Dr. Yong Yang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R.China

CfP SIMPAR 2010 Conference

Call for Papers

           2nd International Conference on
         SIMULATION, MODELING and PROGRAMMING
          for AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS (SIMPAR 2010)

       Darmstadt (Germany), November 15-18, 2010

               http://www.simpar.org
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The objective of the International Conference on Simulation,
Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR) is
to offer a unique forum for the next generation of methodologies
and tools for robot development and to bring together researchers
from academia and industry to identify and solve the key issues
necessary to ease the development of increasingly complex robot software,
and to boost a smooth shifting of results from simulated to real applications.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

     * 3D robot simulation
     * Reliability, scalability and validation of robot simulation
     * Simulated sensors and actuators
     * Offline simulation of robot design
     * Online simulation with realtime constraints
     * Simulation with software/hardware in the loop
     * Middleware for robotics
     * Modeling framework for robots and environments
     * Testing and validation of robot software
     * Standardization for robotic services
     * Communication infrastructures in distributed robotics
     * Interaction between sensor networks and robots
     * Human robot interaction and collaboration
     * Multirobot systems

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IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission of papers:    June 1, 2010
Proposals for tutorials/workshops:    June 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance:          July 19, 2010
Submission of camera-ready papers: August 20, 2010

Conference proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series.
Workshop proceedings will be published online with ISBN number.
A special issue of the Journal of Software Engineering
for Robotics related to the conference will be planned.

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       General Chair
O. von Stryk (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

       International Program Co-Chairs
S. Balakirsky (NIST, USA)
N. Ando (AIST, Japan)
M. Reggiani (University of Padua, Italy)

      International Steering Committee
M. Gini (University of Minnesota, USA)
L. Parker (University of Tennessee, USA)
T. Arai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
X.P. Chen (University of Science and Technology of China)
H. Bruyninckx (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
E. Pagello (University of Padua, Italy)

       Award Chair
Itsuki Noda (AIST, Japan)
       Local Chair
T. Hemker (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
       Tutorial Chair
D. Brugali (University of Bergamo, Italy)
       Workshop Chair
E. Menegatti (University of Padua, Italy)
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More details can be found at http://www.simpar.org
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The 8th International Workshop on SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING: AGENTS, SEMANTICS, AND ENGINEERING (SOCASE)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 8th International Workshop on

SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING: AGENTS, SEMANTICS, AND ENGINEERING (SOCASE)

http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2010/

to be held at the 9th International Joint Conference on AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND

MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-2009) Toronto Canada, May 10-14 2010,

(http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/)

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Please realize that we had to shorten the submission deadline by a week. For those who cannot make it till the 28 February we will still accept the paper till 7 March as long as we are informed about the possible paper submission till 28 February. The problem is that the AAMAS organizers need the final version of the papers by 28 February. Moreover, the deadline for early registration will end on 12 March. We will try our best to inform you about the outcome of our review process by 11 March but cannot guarantee that, especially not if we get the paper pretty late. Thus, be prepared to have to pay a slightly higher fee if you don't want to register for the workshop and AAMAS without knowing the result of the review process for your paper. Also, make sure that you can revise your paper till 28 March. This deadline cannot be extended any further.

 

Submission Deadline Acceptance Notification Final Version Submission Deadline Workshop held

28 Feb 2010 (7 March 2010 (see above)) 20 March 2010 27 March 2010 11 May 2010

 

DESCRIPTION

The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the recent significant developments at the intersections of Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Technology, and Service-oriented Computing, and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. 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, and adaptability.

The Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering (SOCASE) workshop continues the theme of the previous SOCASE workshops successfully held at AAMAS’09, AAMAS’08 and AAMAS’07, the SOCABE workshops held at AAMAS’06, AAMAS’05 and the WSABE workshops held at AAMAS’04 and AAMAS’03, with an expanded theme reflecting the wide spectrum of issues of the cross section between agent-based and service-oriented paradigms.

 

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, hearing and reasoning, and ontology-oriented dynamic mediation among agents

 

SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION

Submission is to be done electronically. The detailed instructions are provided at the SOCASE'10 web page https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=socase10.

Contact Zakaria Maamar (Zakaria.Maamar@zu.ac.ae) for help if required.

Submitted papers have a page limit of 15 pages and should be formatted according to LNCS specification. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format. Instructions and templates can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include:

Relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics. Since this is associated with the AAMAS conference, accepted papers must be of real relevance to the multi-agent research community. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Similarly to the previous years the SOCASE 2010 post-proceedings will be published with Springer’s LNCS, subject to an appropriate number and quality of submissions. A selection of best papers will also be invited to submit extended and enhanced versions of the papers to a special issue of a major international journal.

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

* Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

  (point of contact: rainer.unland@icb.uni-due.de)

* Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University, Australia

* Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA

* Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE

* Quoc Bao Vo, Swinburne University, Australia

* Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Swinburne University, Australia

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

* Taleb Bendiab, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

* M. Brian Blake, University of Notre Dame, USA

* Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

* Cherif Branki, University of West Scotland - Paisley, UK

* Frances Brazier, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

* Owen Cliffe, University of Bath, UK

* Christian Derksen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

* Frank Dignum, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

* Virginia Dignum, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

* Antonio Garcia Dominguez, University of Cadiz,

* Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth, Germany

* Christian Guttmann, Monash University, Australia

* Benjamin Hirsch, Berlin University of Technology, Germany

* Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany

* Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany

* Tim Lessner, University of Scotland - Paisley, UK

* Wathiq Mansoor, American University of Dubai, Dubai

* Lars Moench, University of Hagen, Germany

* Ganna Monakova, University of Stuttgart, Germany

* Volker Nissen, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany

* Andreas Oberweis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

* Guadalupe Ortiz-Bellot, University of Cadiz, Spain

* Sascha Ossowski, University Rey Juan Carlos, Span

* Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK

* Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

* Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania

* Thomas Quillinan, Thales Netherlands, Netherlands

* Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA

* Sebastian Stein, University of Southampton, UK

* Huaglory Tianfield, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

* Ingo Timm, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

* Alexander Walz, University of Stuttgart, Germany

* Danny Weyns, K.U. Lueven, Belgium

* Franco Zambonelli, Universita' di Modena e Reggiio Emilia, Italy