Self-organizing Systems - IWSOS 2012

* IFIP IWSOS 2012
* 6th International Workshop on Self-organizing Systems
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* Main technical sponsor: the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)
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* Technical co-sponsor: the European Network of Excellence Euro-NF
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*http://iwsos2012.ewi.tudelft.nl/
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* Delft, The Netherlands
* March 15-16, 2012
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We cordially invite you to participate in IFIP IWSOS 2012.

The main theme of the workshop is to discover the network science behind self-organizing systems, to facilitate and advance the understanding, learning, modeling, and analysis of self-organizational processes in nature (e.g., metabolic, DNA, brain networks) and to apply the knowledge of self-organization to man-made networks and systems.

The goal of the IWSOS workshops is to bring together leading international researchers and practitioners to create a visionary forum for discussing the future of self-organization. IWSOS addresses theoretical aspects of self-organization as well as applications in communication and computer networks and complex systems.

The following key topics will be addressed:
- Design and analysis of self-organizing and self-managing systems
- Inspiring models of self-organization in nature and society
- Structure, characteristics and dynamics of self-organizing networks
- Techniques and tools for modeling self-organizing systems
- Robustness and adaptation in self-organizing systems
- Self-organization in complex networks like peer-to-peer, sensor, ad-hoc, vehicular and social networks
- Control of self-organizing systems
- Decentralized power management in the smart grid
- Self-organizing group and pattern formation
- Self-organizing mechanisms for task allocation, coordination and resource allocation
- Self-organizing information dissemination and content search
- Risks and limits of self-organization

IFIP IWSOS 2012 is a two-day workshop that features two keynote talks given by:
1.    Prof. Shlomo Havlin, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
2.    Prof. Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
The first day of the workshop will focus on presenting new research contributions in the field of self-organizing systems, while the second day revolves around short paper presentations, panel discussions, and interaction with the workshop participants.

The entire program can be viewed athttp://iwsos2012.ewi.tudelft.nl/?page_id=65.

** Venue
Delft University of Technology - Aula
Mekelweg 5, 2628 CC, Delft, The Netherlands
March 15 - 16, 2012

** Committees

* General Chairs
Piet Van Mieghem, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
David Hutchison, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

* Program Chairs
Fernando Kuipers, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Poul Heegaard, NTNU-Trondheim, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

* Publicity Chairs
Maria Kihl, Lund University, Sweden
Karin Anna Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria (on leave) and Marie Curie Fellow at ETH Zurich, Switzerland

* Local Organization
Christian Doerr, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Huijuan Wang, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Wendy Murtinu-van Schagen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

* Steering Committee
Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany
David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK
Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA
Randy Katz, UC Berkeley, USA
Georg Carle, TU Munich, Germany (IFIP TC6 Representative)
Karin Anna Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria (on leave) and Marie Curie Fellow at ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Agent-Oriented Software Engineering -AOSE 2012

                        AOSE 2012
13th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

********** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED ***********


Held with AAMAS 2012, Valencia, Spain, June 4, 2012
http://winf.in.tu-clausthal.de/events/aose12


MOTIVATION

Since the early 1990s, multi-agent system researchers have developed a
large body of knowledge on the foundations and engineering principles
for designing and developing agent-based systems. The 12 past editions
of the agent-oriented software engineering workshop (AOSE) had a key
role in this endeavor. For 2012, the workshop organizers and the
steering committee propose to organize an edition of AOSE workshop aimed
at exploring the new emerging role of agent-oriented software
engineering as a bridge from the now consolidated agent oriented
programming languages and platforms, to recent systems modelling
paradigms like self-*, autonomic systems, and systems of systems (SoS).
Thus, it is our hope to explore from an agent-based perspective,
foundations, models, methods, architectures, and tools for
engineering future software-intensive IT eco-systems.

The workshop organizers plan to publish accepted papers on a USB stick
as part of the AAMAS workshop registration package.
Revised post-proceedings papers will later be published in
a volume of the Lecture Notes for Computer Science series.


GOALS and TOPICS

The general goal of this year workshop is twofold: The first goal is to
study the role of agent-oriented software engineering in the design
phase of agents development. It is well known and accepted that agents -
from the software engineering perspective - are of particular interest
as an analysis abstraction. This has been true for several years but the
most recent advancements in agent-oriented programming languages have
proposed new challenges: software engineers may now design and code
their solutions in terms of agents. The old need of moving to the
object-oriented level of abstraction is overpassed and the new
developing platforms allow for a more natural transformation of AO
analysis models into AO design models. This reality has been soon
perceived by researcher and practitioners. An example of this new trend
may be found in the refreshed interest about testing of agents.

The second goal concerns the other side of the proposed ideal bridge:
the needs of new design approaches specifically suited for facing the
needs of self-organizing systems, autonomic systems and systems of
systems. In the last years we have seen considerable research efforts on
these topics; however, only few of them have their scope and foundations
in the software engineering field.

Novel efforts are necessary to cope with these new challenges in order
to find specific solutions that could bring such systems from research
to industrialization. In this context, a means for bridging the above
mentioned research (and application) streams may come from the advances
on organizations, norms, and institutions. Are they mature enough for
being applied to stable agent-oriented languages and for contributing to
the engineering of self-organizing and autonomic systems? The proposed
aim is find an answer to this question or to propose further hints for
future investigations on the application of organizations, norms and
institutions to the design of agent-oriented systems.

Topics of regular papers include but are not restricted to:

* Agent-based concepts for systems of systems engineering
* Agent-based solutions for managing complexity in software engineering
* Agents and model-driven approaches
* Agents and services
* Agents for self-adaptive systems
* Alignment of agents with service-oriented software development
* Autonomy vs. dependability and robustness
* CASE tools to support agent-oriented software development in practice
* Coordination infrastructures for multi-agent systems
* Engineering multi-agent organizations
* Engineering self-organizing systems
* Goal-oriented design
* Implications of introducing agent-based solutions on the development organization
* Integration of agents with legacy systems
* Middleware integration of agent-based software
* Multi-agent based simulation
* Programming agents and multi-agent systems
* Qualities and tradeoffs of agent-based architectures
* Reusable design knowledge: patterns and reference architectures
* Social engineering
* Software architectures for multi-agent systems
* Standardization efforts for multi-agent systems
* Testing of agent-based software
* Validation of agent technology in practice
* Verification of agent-based software


AUTHOR GUIDELINES

AOSE welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental,
methodological as well as application papers with a clear research focus
on the topics outlined above. Each paper will be evaluated by three
members of the PC. Papers that present a valuable idea that needs
further development can be accepted as a short paper.


SUBMISSIONS

Papers should be between 8 and 12 pages, including the text, figures,
and references. The submissions must be formatted according to the
Springer Verlag LNCS style. PDF format is required. Papers can be
submitted via EasyChair 'AOSE2012',
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aose2012
The good receipt of your submission will be confirmed by email.


PUBLICATIONS

Pre-proceedings containing all accepted papers are provided
electronically on a USB stick as part of the AAMAS workshop registration
package. The plan is to publish revised versions of accepted papers in a
Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume. For this purpose, authors will
be given the opportunity to revise and re-submit their contributions
after the conference.


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: 11th March 2012
Paper notifications: 6th April 2012
Camera ready paper (pre-proceedings): 8th April 2012
Workshop: 4th June 2012


COMMITTEES

Organizing Committee
* Massimo Cossentino, National Research Council of Italy, Palermo, Italy
* Joerg P. Mueller, Technische Universitaet Clausthal, Institut for Informatik, Germany

Preliminary Program Committee:

Carole Bernon,Universite Paul Sabatier, France
Lars Braubach,University of Hamburg, Germany
Scott A. Deloach,Kansas State University, USA
Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni,University Pierre and Marie Curie, France
Giancarlo Fortino,Universita della Calabria, Italy
Aditya Ghose,University of Wollongong, Australia
Holger Giese,University of Potsdam, Germany
Adriana Giret,Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Marie-Pierre Gleizes,Universite Paul Sabatier, France
Jorge Gomez-Sanz,Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
Juan Carlos Gonzalez Moreno,Universidad de Vigo, Ourense, Spain
Joao Leite,University of Lisbon, Portugal
Philippe Mathieu,Universite Lille 1, France
Frederic Migeon,Universite Paul Sabatier, France
Ambra Molesini,University of Bologna, Italy
Pavlos Moraitis,Universite Paul Descartes, France
Andrea Omicini,University of Bologna, Italy
Flavio Oquendo,Universite de Bretagne Sud, France
Juan Pavon,Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
Alexander Pokahr,University of Hamburg, Germany
Alessandro Ricci,University of Bologna, Italy
Fariba Sadri,Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, England
Valeria Seidita,University of Palermo, Italy
Onn Shehory,IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Danny Weyns,Linnaeus University, Sweden

Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence - ANTS 2012

ANTS 2012
Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence

September 12-14, 2012. Brussels, Belgium

Call for papers prepared on November 17, 2011
More details and up-to-date information at
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2012

Scope of the Conference
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Swarm intelligence is a relatively new discipline that deals with the
study of self-organizing processes both in nature and in artificial
systems. Researchers in ethology and animal behavior have proposed
many models to explain interesting aspects of social insect behavior
such as self-organization and shape-formation. Recently, algorithms
and methods inspired by these models have been proposed to solve
difficult problems in many domains.

An example of a particularly successful research direction in swarm
intelligence is ant colony optimization, the main focus of which is on
discrete optimization problems. Ant colony optimization has been
applied successfully to a large number of difficult discrete
optimization problems including the traveling salesman problem, the
quadratic assignment problem, scheduling, vehicle routing, etc., as
well as to routing in telecommunication networks. Another interesting
approach is that of particle swarm optimization, that focuses on
continuous optimization problems. Here too, a number of successful
applications can be found in the recent literature. Swarm robotics is
another relevant field. Here, the focus is on applying swarm
intelligence techniques to the control of large groups of cooperating
autonomous robots.

ANTS 2012 will give researchers in swarm intelligence the opportunity
to meet, to present their latest research, and to discuss current
developments and applications.

The three-day conference will be held in Brussels, Belgium, on
September 12-14, 2012.

Relevant Research Areas
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ANTS 2012 solicits contributions dealing with any aspect of swarm
intelligence. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest are:

Behavioral models of social insects or other animal societies that
can stimulate new algorithmic approaches.

Empirical and theoretical research in swarm intelligence.

Application of swarm intelligence methods, such as ant colony
optimization or particle swarm optimization, to real-world problems.

Theoretical and experimental research in swarm robotics systems.

Publication Details
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Conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS
series.

The journal Swarm Intelligence will publish a special issue dedicated
to ANTS 2012 that will contain extended versions of the best research
works presented at the conference. Further details will be
published on the web site.

Best Paper Award
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A best paper award will be presented at the conference.

Invited talks
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- Prof. Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) on "Towards Simulating the Foundations of Society"

- Prof. Nigel R. Franks (University of Bristol, UK) on "Ants, Bees and Brains"

- Prof. Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania, USA) on "Architectures, abstractions, and algorithms for large teams of robots"

Further Information
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Up-to-date information will be published on the web site
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2012/. For information about local
arrangements, registration forms, etc., please refer to the
above-mentioned web site or contact the local organizers at the
address below.

Conference Address
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ANTS 2012
IRIDIA CP 194/6 Tel +32-2-6502729
Université Libre de Bruxelles Fax +32-2-6502715
Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50 http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2012
1050 Bruxelles, Belgium email: ants@iridia.ulb.ac.be

Important Dates
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Submission deadline March 2, 2012
Notification of acceptance May 3, 2012
Camera ready copy May 17, 2012
Conference September 12-14, 2012

ANTS 2012 Organizing Committee
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General Chair:
Marco Dorigo, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Technical Program Chairs:
Christian Blum, ALBCOM, LSI, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Andries Engelbrecht, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Roderich Groß, Sheffield University, UK

Publication Chair:
Anders Lyhne Christensen, Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, Portugal

Organization Chairs:
Mauro Birattari, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Thomas Stützle, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Local Arrangements:
Andreagiovanni Reina, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Arne Brutschy, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems (TruMAS'12)

1st International Workshop on Trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems (TruMAS'12)
KES-AMSTA 2012 Special Session, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 25-27 June 2012
http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~ndra/TruMAS12
Proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in a volume of LNCS/LNAI.

IMPORTANT DATES

5 February 2012  Submission of papers
22 February 2012 Notification of acceptance
7 March 2012 Camera ready
25-27 June 2012 TruMAS and KES-AMSTA

WORKSHOP AIM AND SCOPE

The rapid development of computer-based technologies has made computers more and more complex and ubiquitous. Many computer-based systems are in charge of critical tasks such as, to mention only a few, the management of financial and medical databases, the monitoring of nuclear plants, the flying of airplanes, etc. Multi-agent systems (MAS) have been proposed as a new paradigm for conceptualizing, designing, and implementing open and distributed software systems. The foundational idea behind a Multi-Agent System is to have a loosely coupled network of software agents (i.e., sophisticated computer programs that act autonomously on behalf of their users) which interact to solve problems that are beyond the individual capacities or knowledge of each single agent. Therefore, it is not surprisingly MAS have received a lot of attention as reference computing paradigm to tackle complexity in modern computer-based systems.

However, the complexity of modern computer-based systems as well as their numerous applications has inherently increased the challenges for ensuring trustworthiness. Trustworthiness encompasses vital characteristics of a system such as safety (the non-occurrence of catastrophic consequences for the environment the system works in), security (the non-occurrence of unauthorized disclosure of information), integrity (the non-occurrence of inadequate information alteration), availability (the readiness for correct service of the system), reliability (the property of the system to continuously provide service) or more generically dependability. The overall trustworthiness of a system is connected to all the aforementioned properties and should be regarded holistically. Functional correctness, security, safety, reliability are facets that have to be ensured for the system's components as well as for the system as a whole.

The 1st International Workshop on Trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems (TruMAS 2012) aims at bringing together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in all the different aspects of trust, dependability and security in Multi-Agent Systems. The workshop is expected to stimulate discussions about the future development of appropriate models, methods, notations, languages and tools for trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems. The overall goal is to explore the different facets of trustworthiness in Multi-Agent Systems, how every single aspect can be fostered, and how they relate.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
- Trust and reputation models, metrics and assessment in Multi-Agent Systems
- Dependability facets in Multi-Agent Systems
- Fault-tolerance and robustness in Multi-Agent Systems
- Architectures for trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems
- Robust and secure communication in Multi-Agent Systems
- Robust and secure negotiation in Multi-Agent Systems
- Software engineering methodologies for trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems
- Security and access control in open Multi-Agent Systems
- Self-configuration and adaptation
- Formal methods and frameworks to model, analyze, prove, or measure aspects of trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems
- Industrial experiences in the adoption of trust-based Multi-Agent Systems approaches
- Rigorous software development to ensure trustworthiness in Multi-Agent Systems

Since the overall goal of trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems includes the investigation of several cross- disciplinary issues such as a deep understanding of trust vs. trustworthiness, trust-based approaches, dependability, etc..., a synergy between different scientific communities and research disciplines is needed. For this reason, although the workshop seems naturally focused on multi-agent issues, contributions from different disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, psychology, communication sciences, as well as from computer science specific sub-disciplines such as software engineering and dependability are welcomed and encouraged.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submitted full papers must not exceed 10 pages in length, including bibliography and well-marked appendices. Papers can be submitted using the PROSE Online Paper Submission system available on the KES-AMSTA'12 Web site. Please remember to select the TruMAS invited session entry in the "Session Name" drop-down box when submitting your paper.

Please use the LNCS templates and style files available on the Springer Web site (Information for LNCS Authors).

Submitted papers will be evaluated by the program committee and chosen for presentation based on their scientific contribution and relevance to the topics of the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the workshop and participate presenting the paper.

Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in a volume of LNCS/LNAI.

CHAIRS

Nicola Dragoni
DTU Informatics
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
ndra@imm.dtu.dk

Manuel Mazzara
School of Computing Science
Newcastle University, UK
manuel.mazzara@newcastle.ac.uk

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Faycal Abouzaid, CRAC, Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, Canada
Enrico Denti, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy
Nicoletta Fornara, Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Katsuhide Fujita, Institute of Engineering Innovation, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Mauro Gaspari, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy
Paolo Giorgini, Information Engineering and Computer Science Department (DISI), University of Trento, Italy
Nathan Griffiths, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK
Koji Hasebe, Academic Computing & Communications Center, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Hiromitsu Hattori, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
Takayuki Ito, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Waqar Jaffry, Department of Artificial Intelligence, VU University, The Netherlands
Andrew J I Jones, Department of Informatics, King's College London, UK
Steve Marsh, Communications Research Centre, Canada
Hernan Melgratti, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Paul Scerri, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Eugen Staab, imc AG, Germany
Daniel Villatoro, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spanish Scientific Research Council, Spain
Mirko Viroli, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy

Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2012)

The 9th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2012)

September 17-21, 2012. San Jose, CA, USA
http://icac2012.cs.fiu.edu/
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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper and Poster Submission: March 9, 2012, 11:59pm PST
Notification: May 18, 2012
Camera-ready Due: June 8, 2012
Workshop Proposal Submission: February 10, 2012
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OVERVIEW
ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing techniques, foundations, and applications. Autonomic computing refers to methods and means for automated management of performance, fault, security, and configuration with little involvement of users or administrators. Systems introducing new autonomic features are becoming increasingly prevalent, motivating research that spans a variety of areas, from computer systems, networking, software engineering, and data management to machine learning, control theory, and bio-inspired computing. ICAC brings together researchers and practitioners across these disciplines to address multiple facets of adaptation and self-management in computing systems and applications from different perspectives. Autonomic computing solutions are sought for clouds, grids, data centers, enterprise software, internet services, data services, smart phones, embedded systems, and sensor networks. In these environments, resources and applications must be managed to maximize performance and minimize cost, while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior in the face of varying workloads, failures, and malicious threats. Papers are solicited from all areas of autonomic computing, including (but not limited to):

* End-to-end techniques for management of resources, workloads,  performance, faults, power/cooling, security, and others.

* Self-managing components, such as server, storage, network  protocols, or specific application elements, and embedded and  mobile end systems such as smart phones.

* Decision and analysis techniques and their use, such as machine  learning, control theory, predictive methods, probability and  stochastic processes, queuing theory methodologies, emergent  behavior, rule-based systems, and bio-inspired techniques.

* Monitoring systems for autonomic computing.

* Hypervisor, operating systems, hardware, or application support  for autonomic computing.

* Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic  systems.

* Management topics, such as specification and modeling of  service-level agreements, behavior enforcement and tie-in with  IT governance.

* Toolkits, frameworks, principles and architectures, from  software engineering practices and experimental methodologies  to agent-based techniques and virtualization.

* Fundamental science and theory of self-managing systems:  understanding, controlling or exploiting system behaviors to  enforce autonomic properties.

* Applications of autonomic computing and experiences with  prototyped or deployed systems solving real-world problems in  science, engineering, business and society.

Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, correctness, clarity and relevance to the broader community. Papers should report on experiences, measurements, user studies, or other evaluations, as appropriate. Evaluations of a prototype or large-scale deployment of systems and applications is expected.

PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS
Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages in the two-column ACM proceedings format) and posters (2 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Complete formatting and submission instructions can be found on the conference web site. Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings distributed at the conference and available electronically. Relevant top ICAC'12 papers will be invited for "fast-track" submissions to the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS).

WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION
ICAC'12 welcomes proposals for co-located workshops on topics of interest to the autonomic computing community. Workshop proposals should be submitted to the Workshop Chair, Fred Douglis (f.douglis@computer.org) by February 10, 2012. Workshops are expected to publish proceedings, and should cover areas that complement the main program. ICAC'12 will also feature a demonstration and exhibition session consisting of prototypes and technology artifacts such as demonstrating autonomic software or autonomic computing principles. Entries will be judged by a separate committee led by the demo/exhibit chair.

INDUSTRY SESSION
One of ICAC's important roles is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. In its industry session, ICAC helps fulfill this role by presenting an industry viewpoint on technologies, products, and market needs. The industry session also addresses current challenges, and opportunities for academic and corporate research collaborations. We encourage industry leaders, including entrepreneurs, product developers, architects, managers, marketers and end users, to submit their papers and posters reflecting such industry perspectives as part of the regular submission process.
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ORGANIZERS

GENERAL CHAIR
Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Dongyan Xu, Purdue University
Vanish Talwar, HP Labs

INDUSTRY CHAIR
Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware

WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Fred Douglis, EMC

POSTERS/DEMO/EXHIBITS CHAIR
Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research

FINANCE CHAIR
Michael Kozuch, Intel

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR
Jessica Blaine

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Daniel Batista, University of SãPaulo Vartan Padaryan, ISP/Russian Academy of Sci. Ioan Raicu, Illinois Inst. of Technology Jianfeng Zhan, ICT/Chinese Academy of Sci.
Ming Zhao, Florida Intl. University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC
Umesh Bellur, IIT, Bombay
Ken Birman, Cornell University
Rajkumar Buyya, Univ. of Melbourne
Rocky Chang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Yuan Chen, HP Labs
Alva Couch, Tufts University
Peter Dinda, Northwestern University
Fred Douglis, EMC
Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida
Mohamed Hefeeda, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Joe Hellerstein, Google
Geoff Jiang, NEC Labs
Jeff Kephart, IBM Research
Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research
Fabio Kon, University of SãPaulo
Michael Kozuch, Intel
Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs
Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC
Priya Narasimhan, CMU
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University
Ioan Raicu, Illinois Inst. of Technology
Omer Rana, Cardiff University
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida Intl. University
Rick Schlichting, AT&T Labs
Hartmut Schmeck, KIT
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech
Onn Shehory, IBM Research
Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research
Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware

Eighth International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2011) ICCS Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to March 7
June 26 - July 1, 2011 Boston Marriott Quincy, MA, USA	Host: New England Complex Systems Institute (http://necsi.edu/) http://necsi.edu/events/iccs2011/
NEW UPDATES
	Due to many requests from interested prospective authors, the formal deadline for the submission of abstracts to ICCS 2011 is being extended until March 7, 2011. Authors who have already submitted abstracts may continue to revise them until that date.
CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS
	Eshel Ben-Jacob (Tel Aviv University) Johan Bollen (Indiana University) Steven Bressler (Florida Atlantic University) Eric Davidson (California Institute of Technology) Leah Edelstein-Keshet (University of British Columbia) John Hopfield (Princeton University) Kunihiko Kaneko (University of Tokyo) Hod Lipson (Cornell University) Mark Newman (University of Michigan) Stuart Pimm (Duke University) Thomas Schelling (University of Maryland) Sorin Solomon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Didier Sornette (ETH Zurich) Gene Stanley (Boston University) Nassim N. Taleb (New York University) Elizabeth Tran (National Science Foundation) Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research) (More plenary speakers TBA)
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION
	For presentation at the conference, authors should submit an abstract through EasyChair, the online submission/reviewing system. Submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee and sorted into four categories: Oral presentation in a plenary session, oral presentation in a parallel session, poster presentation, or rejection. All the accepted abstracts will be published in the online proceedings (with an ISBN) on the conference website. Authors of accepted abstracts may submit full papers for inclusion in the online proceedings. Full paper submission is optional.
IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES
	Abstract submission: March 7, 2011 Notification to authors: April 1, 2011 Early registration: April 15, 2011 Camera-ready abstract & full paper submission: (full paper submission is optional) April 30, 2011 Conference: June 26 - July 1, 2011 Online registration is available on the conference website (http://necsi.edu/events/iccs2011/). Space is limited, so please register early. Contact us at iccs@necsi.edu
cx-web@necsi.org If you prefer not to receive messages about this and future programs please let us know by sending an email to: cx-web-off@necsi.org. If this does not work send an e-mail to: complex@necsi.org
New England Complex Systems Institute 238 Main Street Suite 319 Cambridge, MA 02142 Phone: 617-547-4100 Fax: 617-661-7711

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

Call for Workshop Proposal

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

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

http://wi-iat-2011.org

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

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

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

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

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

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

Topics of Interest
------------------

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

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

Important Dates
---------------

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

Workshop Co-Chairs
---------------

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

Special Issue on “State of the Art in Self-Adaptive Software Systems”

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Call for Papers
Special Issue on “State of the Art in Self-Adaptive Software Systems”
Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)
=======================================================

Modern software systems have to operate under highly dynamic and
unpredictable operating conditions. User needs may change dynamically,
availability of resources may vary, subsystems may come and go at runtime,
etc. To deal with such dynamics, systems must be self-adaptive, i.e. they
must be able to adapt themselves at runtime to optimize performance, protect
from intrusions, heal from failures, etc. During the last decade, multiple
approaches have been proposed to engineer self-adaptive systems. From these
efforts, we learned that the construction of self-adaptive systems is
significantly more challenging than traditional systems. The aim of this
special issue is to provide an overview of the state of the art in the field
of self-adaptive software systems and outline the challenges for future
research.

We invite quality submissions focusing on all aspects of self-adaptation,
with an emphasis on the engineering of self-adaptive software systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

- models and theories for self-adaptation
- formal methods for self-adaptive systems
- architectural styles and patterns for self-adaptive systems
- control loops and reflective architectures for self-adaptation
- quality of service concerns in self-adaptive systems
- mechanisms that support monitoring, analysis, planning, and execution
phases of self-adaptation
- dealing with uncertainty in self-adaptive systems
- self-adaptation versus self-organization
- verification of self-adaptive systems, including runtime verification
- methods for engineering self-adaptive systems
- evolution of self-adaptive systems
- case studies and empirical experiments involving self-adaptive systems
- validation of self-adaptation
- application of self-adaptation techniques in industrial and real world
settings
- self-adaptation in component-based system
- self-adaptation in service-oriented systems
- agent-based approaches to self-adaptation
- aspect-oriented approaches to self-adaptation
- self-adaptation in pervasive and mobile systems
- application of principles from biology, sociology, and physics to engineer
self-adaptive systems

All articles should consider the practical application of the idea through
case studies, experiments, empirical validation, or systematic comparisons
with other approaches already in practice.

Submissions
==========
Papers are limited to 20 pages and have to be prepared according to the
author instructions available at:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505732/authorinstructions

All papers will be refereed by at least two reviewers knowledgeable in the
domain of self-adaptive systems.

Papers have to be submitted using the Elsevier manuscript system:
http://ees.elsevier.com/jss/

Please select the article type “Special Issue: Self-Adaptive Systems” on the
submission website.

Key Dates
=========
March 15, 2011 – Submission website open
March 31, 2011 – Submission deadline
July 31, 2011 – Final Decisions
Publication – Tentatively December 2011

Info
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Email: JSS-special-issue2010@cs.kuleuven.be
Web site:
www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505732/description#description

Guest Editors
=============
Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Sam Malek, George Mason University, USA
Jesper Andersson, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Bradley Schmerl, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

ICSOFT 2010 - 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies

Due to several requests, we are extending the submission deadline to the following workshops that will be held with ICSOFT 2010 (5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies).


WORKSHOPS IMPORTANT DATES
    Regular Paper Submission: April 30, 2010 (deadline extended)
    Authors Notification: May 12, 2010 (deadline extended)
    Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 19, 2010


CXCS


- ACT4SOC 2010 -
4th International Workshop on
Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/ACT4SOC.htm 

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


- ACES 2010 -
1st International Workshop on
Autonomic Computing for Enterprise Systems 
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/ACES.htm 

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



- DMIA 2010 -
1st International Workshop on
Data Management and Information Analytics
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/DMIA.htm

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



- RTABIS 2010 -
1st International Workshop on
Recent Trends in Aspect based Information Systems
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/RTABIS.htm

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



- RTSE4CAA 2010 -
1st International Workshop on Recent Trends
in Software Engineering for Context-Aware Applications
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/RTSE4CAA.htm

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



- S2C 2010 -
1st International Workshop on
Software and Simulation Components
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/S2C.htm

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

Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing IDC-2010

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

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


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


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


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

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

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


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

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

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


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


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


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

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

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

IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2010

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        IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2010
                  CALL FOR PAPERS
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2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on 
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-10)

August 31 - September 3, 2010, York University, Toronto, Canada 

http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10

Sponsored By
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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# Papers Due: *** March 26, 2010 ***
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
# by the IEEE Computer Society Press.
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IAT 2010 will provide a leading international forum to bring together
researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer
science, information technology, business, education, systems
engineering, and robotics, to (1) examine the design principles and
performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent
technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the
development of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems among
different domains.  By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the
underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and sociological foundations
as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT 2010
will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions
in agent-based computing.

IAT 2010 will be jointly held with the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-10).  The two conferences will have
a joint opening, keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need
to register for one conference and can attend workshops, sessions,
tutorials, panels, exhibits and demonstrations across the two
conferences. We are also planning a joint panel, joint paper sessions,
and a doctoral mentoring program to discuss
common problems in the two areas.

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Topics of Interest
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We invite submissions in all IAT related areas. Areas of interest include, 
but are not limited to:

* Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)

- Autonomy-Oriented Modeling and Computing Methods
- Complex Behavior Characterization
- Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
- Emergent Behavior
- Hard Computational Problem Solving
- Large-Scale Systems Applications (e.g., Social, Policy, Sustainability,
  Brain Informatics (BI), and Web Intelligence (WI) Applications) 
- Nature-Inspired Computing
- Regularities and Models of AOC
- Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems
- Self-Organized Complex Networks
- Swarm or Collective Intelligence
- Unconventional, Self-Organized Computing Paradigms

* Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents

- Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery and Sharing
- Autonomous Information Services
- Distributed Data Mining
- Distributed Knowledge Systems
- Evolution of Topics, Trends, Knowledge Networks and Communities
- Human-Agent Interaction
- Information Filtering Agents
- Knowledge Aggregation
- Ontology-Based Services
- Recommender Systems

* Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology

- Agent Interaction Protocols
- Cognitive Architectures
- Cognitive Modeling of Agents
- Emotional Modeling
- Fault-Tolerance in Multi-Agent Systems
- Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Systems
- Information Exchanges in Multi-Agent Systems
- Learning and Self-Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems
- Mobile Agent Languages and Protocols
- Multi-Agent Autonomic Architectures
- Multi-Agent Coordination Techniques
- Multi-Agent Planning
- Neuroeconomics
- Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems
- Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems
- Task-Based Agent Context
- Task-Oriented Agents

* Distributed Problem Solving

- Agent-Based Cloud Computing
- Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving
- Collective Group Behavior
- Coordination and Cooperation
- Distributed Intelligence
- Distributed Search
- Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations
- Efficiency and Complexity Issues
- Market-Based Computing
- Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments

* Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation

- Agent-Based Marketplaces
- Auction Markets
- Combinatorial Auctions
- Hybrid Negotiation
- Integrative Negotiation
- Mediating Agents
- Pricing Agents

* Applications

- Agent-Based Assistants
- Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise
- Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications
- Games
- Interface Agents
- Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems
- Perceptive Animated Interfaces
- Scalability
- Social Simulation (e.g., Social Behavior, Social Inference, Social
  Networks, and Social Norms)
- Socially Situated Planning
- Software and Pervasive Agents
- Tools and Standards
- Ubiquitous Systems and e-Technology Agents
- Virtual Humans
- XML-Based Agent Systems

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. 
Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in 
the IEEE 2-column format. 
The same format will be used for final camera-ready papers
(see the Author Guidelines at
http://www.ieeeconfpublishing.org/cpir/AuthorKit.asp?Community=CPS&Facility=CPS_Dec&ERoom=WI%2DIAT+2008).  
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee 
on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. 

Note that IAT'10 will accept ONLY on-line submissions in 
PDF format. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'10
website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that is
indexed by EI.

Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 8 pages in the
proceedings and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference. 
Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4
pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at
the conference than regular papers.

All co-authors will be notified at all time, for the submission,
notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper
to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted,
at least one author should attend the conference to present the
paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published
on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a
notification.

Papers receiving outstanding review scores from IAT'10 will be 
invited for possible inclusion, in an expanded/revised form, 
in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal 
(http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html). Those that are recommended by 
reviewer(s) to the Journal will also be considered.

The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the
authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application
paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the
best application paper award. 

More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form will be
found on the IAT'10 homepage: 
http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/contributors.php

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Workshops
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An important part of the conference is the workshop program which will
focus on new research challenges and initiatives.  All papers accepted
for workshops will be allocated 4 pages and will be included in the
Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press that
are indexed by EI, and will be available at the workshops. Detailed
information is available at the conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee
(i.e., conference registration covers everything).

Accepted Workshops:

The Third WI-IAT Doctoral Workshop (WI-IAT DW)
http://roughsets.home.pl/www/WI-IAT2010/DoctoralWS.html

First International Workshop on the Adaption of Web Services (AWS)
http://www.uc.rnu.tn/aws2010.html

Second International Workshop on Collaborative Agents - 
Research and development (CARE)
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~xtg/CARE2010/

Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence: Agent Technology, 
Human-Oriented Knowledge, and Applications (HAI)
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~tbosse/HAI10/

Service Intelligence and Engineering (SIE)
http://166.111.68.103/WI-SI2010/

Service-Oriented Computing for Collective Intelligence (SOC4CI)
http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~melania/SOC4CI2010.html

Third Workshop on Logics for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 
(WLIAMAS)
http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/conferences/wliamas10/

3rd Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and 
Social Networks (CISWSN)
http://resources.smile.deri.ie/ciswsn2010/

4th International Workshop on Intelligent E-government and 
Emergency Management (IEEM)
http://management.dlut.edu.cn/IEGEM10/index.htm

International Workshop on Computational Social Networks (IWCSN)
http://arg.vsb.cz/iwcsn2010/

International Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction (IWI)
http://ymd.ex.nii.ac.jp/ws/iwi/10/

10th International Workshop on Meta-synthesis and Complex Systems (MCS)
http://meta-synthesis.iss.ac.cn/mcs2010/

Natural Language Processing and Ontology Engineering (NLPOE)
http://nlpoe2010.pqpq.net/

First International Workshop on Opinion Mining for Business Intelligence (OMBI)
http://www.yorku.ca/xhyu/OMBI10/

2nd Workshop on Soft Approaches to Information Access on the Web (SAIAW)
http://scdmir.ugent.be/node/16

Trust and Recommender Systems for Social Search and Web Logs Analysis (TReSSS)
http://www.tresss.org/public/

International Workshop on Web-scale Knowledge Representation, Retrieval, 
and Reasoning (Web-KR3)
http://www.wici-lab.org/wici/web-kr3-2010/

3rd International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems (WIRSS)
http://uxlab.cs.mun.ca/wirss2010/

Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (WebPRES)
http://www.webpres-workshop.com/

Optimization-based Data Mining and Web Intelligence (ODMWI)
http://www.feds.ac.cn/kxyj/WI-IAT2010.htm

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Tutorials
++++++++++

IAT'10 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. IAT'10 will include tutorials
providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest
to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half
day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the
main conference technical program. Detailed information is available
at the conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee
(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).

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Industry/Demo-Track
++++++++++++++++++++

We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods.

(1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as
    the research track.
(2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule.
(3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option.
    That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to
    specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of
    demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing
    process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration.

For options (1) and (2), more detailed instructions will be found at
the homepage: http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/participants.php 

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Important Dates
++++++++++++++++

 * Electronic paper submission (8 pages): March 26, 2010
 * Tutorial proposal submission: March 26, 2010
 * Workshop paper submission: April 16, 2010
 * Author notification: May 28, 2010
 * Conference dates: August 31-September 3, 2010

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Conference Organization
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Conference General Chair:
  * Nick Cercone, York University, Toronto, Canada 

Program Chair:
  * Jimmy Huang, York University, Toronto, Canada

IAT Program Co-Chairs:
  * Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan 
  * Ali A. Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
  * Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France 

WI Program Co-Chairs:
  * Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA 
  * Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  * Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland 

Organizing Co-Chairs:
  * Aijun An, York University, Toronto, Canada 
  * Thomas Lynam, York University, Toronto, Canada 
  * Marshall Walker, York University, Toronto, Canada 

Workshop Co-Chairs:
  * Orland Hoeber, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
  * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia 

Industry-Demo Co-Chairs: 
  * Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc., Canada 
  * Tony Abou-Assaleh, GenieKnows.com, Canada 

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
  * Sourav Saha Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
  * Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow, UK 

Publicity Co-Chairs: 
  * Vlado Keselj, Dalhousie University, Canada 
  * Markus Kirchberg, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore 
  * Jianhan Zhu, University College London, UK

IEEE-CS-TCII Chair:
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

ACM-SIGART Chair
 * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA

WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
 * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong 

WIC Advisory Board: 
 * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
 * Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
 * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
 * Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
 * L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA

WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:
 * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
 * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
 * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
 * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
 * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
 * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
 * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
 * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
 * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
 * Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan
 * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
 * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

*** Contact Information ***

Jimmy Huang (Conference General Program Chair)
Email: wiiat10@yorku.ca 

The WIC Office
Email: wi10@wi-consortium.org

International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS)

International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS)
***SIXTH and SEVENTH ISSUES***

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: March 31 2009 (sixth issue), June 30, 2010 (seventh
 issue)

Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association
www.igi-global.com/IJARAS

Editor-in-Chief: Vincenzo De Florio, University of Antwerp/PATS & 
IBBT, Ph.D.

Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

International Editorial Review Board

Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp / PATS & IBBT, Belgium
Gabriella Caporaletti, EICAS automazione, Italy
Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Spain
Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, University of Naples
Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy
Filip De Turck, Intec group, University of Ghent, Belgium
Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Markus Endler, PUC Rio, Brazil
Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy
Eija Kaasinen, VTT, Finland
Konrad Klöckner, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Gianluca Mazzini, University of Ferrara, Italy
Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
Francesca Saglietti, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Luca Simoncini, University of Pisa, Italy
Andrew M Tyrrell, University of York, UK
Josef Van Vaerenbergh, Center for Multidisciplinary Approach and Technology, Belgium
Yan Zhang, Simula Research Lab, Norway

 MISSION OF IJARAS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems. The primary objective of IJARAS is to provide worldwide readership to high quality, novel, effective approaches to design, develop, maintain, evaluate, and benchmark adaptive-and-dependable systems, i.e. devices and services that are built to sustain quality of service and quality of experience despite the occurrence of potentially significant and sudden changes or failures in their infrastructure and the surrounding environments.

IJARAS has multiple focuses, ranging from conceptual models and paradigms to technological aspects. IJARAS builds upon a core mission statement and research direction:

The awareness of today's urgent need to structure our computer systems as adaptive systems constantly re-optimizing in view of changes both exogenous (environmental) and endogenous (pertaining to internal assets). It introduces a problem, which implies a research direction --- a thesis. The truth about this statement is drastically reverberating through several domains, and in so doing several seemingly unrelated research domains such as cross-layer adaptation for mobile devices and business process re-engineering are regarded as special cases of a larger theory of systems. This vision paves the way to cross-fertilization; and through that, IJARAS aims at becoming apowerful tool to steer novel ideas and inject new research directions in this area.

 RECOMMENDED TOPICS:
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:
 

* Mechanisms, both general and special-purpose, to model, design, express, and develop adaptive, autonomic and resilient systems;
* Analytical and simulation tools to measure a system's ability to withstand faults and optimally re-adjust to new environments;
* Conceptual models and paradigms to express change tolerance;
* Methods, models, and architectures to manage and express strategies and provisions for cross-layer adaptation;
* Design-time / run-time methods and tools to identify and enforce optimal trade-offs between energy consumption, performance, safety, and security;
* Scalable, maintainable, cost-effective provisions, located at all system levels, to achieve adaptability and dependability;
* Resilience engineering;
* Autonomic business process execution;
* Adaptive service-oriented computing;
* Evolutionary and embryogenic approaches to autonomic computing, resilience, and adaptive systems;
* Recovery-oriented computing;
* Methods focusing on optimizing quality of experience e.g. adaptive user interfaces;
* Adaptive fault-tolerance;
* Adaptive fault-masking;
* Adaptive data integrity;
* Autonomous and adaptive systems in robotics;
* Adaptive and context-aware multimedia;
* Personalization;
* Adaptive data mining;
* Adaptive fault models;
* Adaptive system models;
* Adaptive routing;
* Autonomic applications;
* Agents;
* Architecture-based adaptation;
* Self-* systems.

SUBMITTING TO IJARAS:

Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at  

http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines%20submission.pdf
PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to vincenzo.deflorio@ua.ac.be
 

PUBLISHER:

The International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the 'Information Science Reference' (formerly Idea Group Reference) and 'Medical Information Science Reference' imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com

All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:

Vincenzo De Florio
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems
E-mail: vincenzo.deflorio at ua.ac.be
www.igi-global.com/IJARAS