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

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

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


Plenary Speaker

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems (OPTMAS V)

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

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

4 or 5 June 2012

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

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

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

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

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

Keywords
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Topics include but are not limited to:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Special Issue on Event Recognition
Applied Artificial Intelligence Journal
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Users and organisations collect data in various structured and unstructured digital formats, but they cannot fully utilise  these  data  to  support content and  resource  management.  It is evident that the analysis  and  interpretation  of  the  available  data  needs  to  be  automated,  in  order  for  large  data volumes to be  transformed into operational  knowledge. Events are particularly important pieces of 
knowledge,  as  they represent activities  of  special  significance  both  for  users  and  organisations. Therefore, the recognition of events is of utmost importance. Consider, for example, the recognition of trends given user contributions in social Web 2.0 applications, the recognition of attacks on nodes of a computer network given the exchanged TCP/IP messages, the recognition of suspicious trader 
behaviour  given  the  transactions  in  a  financial  market,  and  the  recognition  of  various  types  of cardiac arrhythmia given electrocardiograms. 
We  invite quality submissions focusing  on various aspects of event recognition, including  analysis of video, audio, text and other sensor data, as well as recognition on fused data sources. While we place  emphasis  on  theoretical  contributions,  we  also  welcome  papers  describing  interesting applications. 

Broad topics include:
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- Representation languages for event recognition
- Algorithms for real-time event recognition
- Probabilistic reasoning for event recognition 
- Machine learning for event recognition 
- Event recognition architectures 
- Benchmarks, performance evaluations, and testbeds
- Domain-specific deployments of event recognition systems 
- Multimedia and social media analysis for event recognition 
- Clustering, concept recognition and multi-modal/fusion techniques 
- User interaction and interfaces for event navigation, browsing and management

Key Dates
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December 1, 2010 - Submissions
July 10, 2011 - Final Decisions
Publication - November 2011

Info
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Email: events2010@iti.gr
Journal web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08839514.asp

Guest Editors
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Thomas Winkler, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Alexander Artikis, NCSR Demokritos
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH-ITI, Greece
Phivos Mylonas, NTUA, Greece

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB VIRTUAL REALITY AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS (WEB3DW)

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (new date): 29 March 2010 --


IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB VIRTUAL REALITY AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS (WEB3DW) 2010 
Freiburg, Germany, 27 – 29 July 2010
(http://www.web3dw-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2010)
Freiburg, Germany 26 – 31 July 2010 
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Conference background and goals
This conference addresses important topics of today like education, health, corporate image and make customers feel at home at your internet site. 
Virtual reality already proved its superiority in involving the user. Indeed, medical, defense, architecture and even the car industry managed to increase learning effects and sensation.
 
* Format of the Conference 
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line).
 
* Best Papers
Selected authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to selected journals (i.e. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems - ISSN: 1646-3692) including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.
 
* Types of submissions 
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. 
All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.
 
* Themes related to educational or edutainment web3DW, are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: 
 
- Web3D in education, health and energy
- Innovative 3D graphics applications for Web/Multimedia in industry, science, medicine, and education
- Geometric Modeling
- Methods for modeling and rendering complex geometry, structure and behaviors
- Virtual Reality
- Graphical User Interface
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer (Educational) Games
- User-interface paradigms and interaction methods for real-time 3D graphics and virtual environments
- Computer-Aided Design
- Computational Geometry
- Natural Phenomena Modeling 
- GPU and Graphics Systems
- Data Representation 
- Data Transformation
- Data Modeling
- Scientific Visualization
- Information Visualization
- Visualization Algorithms
- Software Visualization 
- Terrain Visualization
- Flow Visualization 
- Interactive 3D graphics and immersive systems
- High-performance 3D graphics
- Animated humanoids (avatars)
 
* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (new date): 29 March 2010
- Notification to Authors (new date): 30 April 2010
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (new date): Until 24 May 2010
- Late Registration (new date): After 24 May 2010
- Conference: Freiburg, Germany, 27 – 29 July 2010
 
* Conference Location 
The conference will be held in Freiburg, Germany. 
 
* Secretariat 
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB VIRTUAL REALITY AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS (WEB3DW) 2010
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal 
E-mail: secretariat@web3DW-conf.org
Web site: http://www.web3dw-conf.org/
 
* Program Committee 
WEB VIRTUAL REALITY AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS (WEB3DW) 2010 Program Chair
Tomaz Amon, Amnim, Center for Scientific Visualization, Ljubljana, Slovenia
 
General MCCSIS 2010 Conference Co-Chairs:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands 
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal
Dirk Ifenthaler, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
 
Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.web3D-conf.org/committees.asp