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

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

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


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

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

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

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


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


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


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


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

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

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

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

Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering

5th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering

                        Website: http://www.enase.org

                             July 22 - 24, 2010 
                                Athens, Greece


ENASE 2010 will be held in conjunction with ICSOFT 2010
Hosted by the University of Piraeus
Proceedings indexed by THOMSON REUTERS - Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Awaiting confirmation of indexation)

Let me kindly inform you that ENASE 2010 is now welcoming the submission of position papers, whose deadline is set to March 29th. ENASE will be held in Athens, Greece, during 22 - 24 July 2010. The deadlines are:

> Position Paper Submission: March 29, 2010
> Authors Notification (position papers): April 26, 2010
> Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: May 3, 2010

A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".
 
Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and CD-ROM support. 
We are still awaiting the confirmation of indexation by INSPEC, DBLP, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index and EI.
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes on Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) Series.
 
You may obtain further information at the conference Website (http://www.enase.org/). 
 
Don't hesitate to contact me should you have any questions.
 
Best regards,
Monica Saramago


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

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CONFERENCE TOPICS OF INTEREST

    * agile software development
    * software development methodologies
    * aspect-oriented software development
    * agent-oriented software engineering
    * multi-agent systems
    * model-driven engineering
    * component-based software engineering
    * meta programming systems and meta-modeling
    * Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) systems
    * knowledge management and engineering
    * architectural design and meta architectures
    * business process management, engineering and reengineering
    * process-centric paradigms
    * service-oriented architectures
    * service science, management and engineering
    * application integration technologies
    * enterprise integration strategies and patterns
    * e-business technologies
    * requirements engineering frameworks and models
    * collaborative requirements management systems
    * business and software modeling languages
    * software quality management
    * software change and configuration management
    * geographically distributed software development environments
    * cross-feeding between data and software engineering
    * design thinking as a paradigm for software development
    * formal methods
    * software process improvement

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Loucopoulos, Peri     Loughborough University, U.K.
Maciaszek, Leszek A.     Macquarie University ~ Sydney, Australia and University of Economics ~ Wroclaw, Poland

 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Peri Loucopoulos, Loughborough University, U.K.
Stephen J. Mellor, Freeter, UK
Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, The Heritage Laboratory (LaPa), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain


SATELITE EVENTS
 
- WORKSHOPS 

  - 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Service Management - ISM
 (http://www.enase.org/ISM.htm)

  - 1st International Workshop on Implementing the ISO Software Engineering Metamodel for Collaboration and Traceability Tools - ISOMeta/CTT
 (http://www.enase.org/ISOMeta_CTT.htm)
 
  - 4th International Workshop on Metamodelling - Utilization in Software Engineering - MUSE
 (http://www.enase.org/MUSE.htm)

  - 2nd International Workshop on Model-Driven Architecture and Modeling Theory-Driven Development - MDA & MTDD
 (http://www.enase.org/MDA_MTDD.htm)

  - 1st International Workshop on The Role of Business Process Management in Software Engineering - BPM/SE 
 (http://www.enase.org/BPM_SE.htm)


- Research Students Forum (RSF)

Research Students Forum (RSF) Chair:
Gonzalez-Perez, Cesar     The Heritage Laboratory (LaPa), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain Web 

ENASE 2010 will feature the Research Students Forum (RSF). The forum will accept papers authored by students, most likely PhD students. Papers will be evaluated along the usual conference criteria and must clearly address the evaluation spirit of the conference, focusing on the appraisal or assessment of a novel approach to software engineering or on a critique of a popular approach.

  RSF Important Dates
  Regular Paper Submission: April 06, 2010
  Authors Notification: May 04, 2010
  Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 19, 2010

VI Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care (A2HC / ECAI 2010)

*VI Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care (A2HC / ECAI 2010) *
http://deim.urv.cat/~itaka/workshops/a2hc2010/

*Important dates *
Workshop paper submission: *April 27th, 2010 *
Notifications on Workshop paper submissions:  *June 7th, 2010 *
Final paper submission:  *June 28th, 2010 *

*Topics *
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Co‐operation between intelligent agents to improve patient management
(e.g., distributed
patient scheduling).
• Agents that provide remote or elderly care delivery.
• Agents that provide information about medical services.
• Multi‐agent systems for patient monitoring and diagnosis.
• Agent‐based execution of clinical guidelines.
• Successful applications of agents and multi‐agent systems in health care.
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Multi‐agent systems that improve medical training or education (e.g.
tutoring systems).

• Patient‐centered agent‐based applications.
• Medical agent‐based decision support systems.
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Information agents that gather, compile and organise medical knowledge
available on
Internet.
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Solutions to the basic methodological and technological problems
associated to the real
deployment of health‐care agent‐based systems:
   • Security, privacy of medical data.
   • Social acceptance of agent‐based systems.
   • Lack of clinical ontologies.
   • Lack of centralised control.
   • Communication standards (HL7 and EN13606).
   • Integration with other types of software.
   • Legal and ethical issues related to the use of agents in health care.
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Surveys providing an up to date view of the state of the art in the
area of agents in health
care.

*Contact
Antonio Moreno* (ITAKA Research Group )
 e-mail: antonio.moreno_at_urv.cat