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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Dienstag, 20. November 2012
Freitag, 24. Februar 2012
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
Samstag, 18. Februar 2012
Multi-Agent System Technologies - MATES 2012
MATES 2012 - The Tenth German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies
"Research and Innovation for a Smarter Society"
October, 10th-12th, 2012.
Trier, Germany
http://mates2012.uni-trier.de
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The German conference on Multi-Agent system TEchnologieS (MATES) provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, users (members of business and industry) and developers of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. The thematic focus of this MATES 2012 is on technologies that enable societies and organisations to be more resilient, inter-connected and collaborative. The conference investigates technologies for truly open distributed systems --- covering a wide spectrum of approaches from self-organization and autonomous systems to agreement computing. Advances in research work, as well as prototyped or fielded systems of intelligent agents will be presented and discussed. The conference covers the whole range from theory to application of agent- and multi-agent technologies in order to promote theory and application of agents and multi-agent systems. The conference features an exhibition of practical applications with an advanced concept of agency. Integral part of the technical program will be an exhibition of a variety of tools for the development, and prototypes of all kinds of practical applications of agent and multi-agent technology at the conference venue. The conference will also host a doctoral consortium.
For the tenth time the German special interest group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence jointly with the steering committee of MATES organizes this international conference in order to promote theory and application of agents and multi-agent systems. Building on the sequence of agent-related events in Germany in the past such as VDI 1998 (Chemnitz), VertIS 2001 (Bamberg), and KI 2002 (Aachen), the MATES conference series (from 2003 to 2011) now is exclusively devoted to agents and multi-agent systems, and the cross-fertilization between agent theory and application. This year is also the 20th year of the German special inerest group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence – another reason for an inspiring conference on agents! The conference language is English.
Salve – welcome to Trier! The conference takes place in Germany’s oldest city - close to Saarbrücken, Frankfurt/Main and Luxemburg as well as the well-known Leibniz Center for Informatics (Schloss Dagstuhl).
The MATES series has been ranked by the Computing Research & Education initiative as a CORE B conference. The proceedings will be published as Springer LNCS.
Contact: mates2012@easychair.org
TOPICS OF INTEREST
MATES 2012 welcomes contributions from the field of agent-oriented computing and agent technologies. We solicit both basic as well as applied research papers on recent advances in the area of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems in general. Also papers reporting on the successful application of agent technologies in any kind of domain are very welcome. MATES 2012 encourages submissions from recent and emerging areas of interest such as a Autonomic Computing, Self-organisation and Agreement Technologies. Additionally, we encourage the submission of elaborated vision and challenge papers that discuss mid-term and long-term directions for research and application.
The topics of interest for MATES-2012 include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Agent-based simulation and analysis of social networks
• Agents and communities
• Large-scale agent-based simulation of cities, economies, etc.
• Adaptive agents and multi-agent learning
• Advanced theories of collaboration: Modelling and formation of teams, coalitions, groups, and organizations
• Agents and autonomic computing
• Agent and multi-agent architectures
• Agents and peer-to-peer computing
• Agents and pervasive computing
• Agents for Ambient Intelligence
• Agent-based service discovery, matchmaking, brokering, and composition
• Agent communication languages
• Agents for e-business and e-government
• Agent technologies in the context of service-oriented computing and architectures
• Agent to non-agent interoperability
• Agents in novel applications
• Application of agent-technologies in industrial practice
• Artificial social systems: Conventions, norms, institutions; trust and reputation
• Autonomous robots and robot teams
• Commitment, delegation, responsibility, and obligations in artificial and hybrid societies
• Complex systems and their management
• Coordination, negotiation, argumentation, and conflict resolution
• Deployed agent-based business applications
• Hybrid human and agent societies
• User modelling and interface agents
• Embodied conversational actors and believable agents
• Mobile agents
• Model-driven design of multi-agent systems
• Multi-agent-based simulation
• Multi-agent planning and scheduling
• Multi-agent platforms and tools
• Multi-agent (social) simulation and (cognitive) modelling with agents
• Practical aspects of programming agent systems: Robustness, fault tolerance, scalability and performance measurement
• Roles and structures, adaptive learning and cognition in organizational models
• Semantics of the dynamics of organizational models
• (Semantic) web services and agents
• Standards for agents and multi-agent systems
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Paper submissions to MATES-2012 will be handled using the EasyChair system at this link: www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2012.
Submissions must comply with the following requirements:
* For preparation of papers to be submitted please follow the instructions for authors available at the Springer LNCS Web page: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
* The length of each paper including figures and references shall not exceed 14 pages.
* All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format.
* Papers that have been accepted or are under review by other conferences or journals are not eligible for submission. However, we encourage interdisciplinary contributions submitted or presented in part to a forum outside of agent technology.
Submissions not conforming to the above instructions may be rejected without review.
Please notice that the submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the work.
MATES 2012 will include a doctoral mentoring program: This program will provide an opportunity for students to interact closely with established researchers in their fields, to receive feedback on their work and to get advice on managing their careers.
The Doctoral Mentoring Program will:
* Match each student with an established researcher who will act as a mentor.
* Allow students an opportunity to present their work to a friendly audience of other students, as well as mentors.
* Provide students with contacts and networking opportunities.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstracts due: April 21, 2012
Full papers due: April 28, 2012
Notification: June 19, 2012
Doctoral mentoring: July 13, 2012
Camera-ready submission: July 13, 2012
Early registration: August 5, 2012
Conference: October 10-12, 2012
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
* Christian Guttmann (EBTIC - Etisalat BT Innovation Centre, Abu Dhabi, UAE)
* Ingo J. Timm (U Trier, Germany)
STEERING COMMITTEE
* Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
* Winfried Lamersdorf (U Hamburg, Germany)
* Jörg P. Müller (TU Clausthal, Germany)
* Paolo Petta (U Vienna, Austria)
* Rainer Unland (U Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
* Gerhard Weiss (Maastricht U, The Netherlands)
"Research and Innovation for a Smarter Society"
October, 10th-12th, 2012.
Trier, Germany
http://mates2012.uni-trier.de
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The German conference on Multi-Agent system TEchnologieS (MATES) provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, users (members of business and industry) and developers of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. The thematic focus of this MATES 2012 is on technologies that enable societies and organisations to be more resilient, inter-connected and collaborative. The conference investigates technologies for truly open distributed systems --- covering a wide spectrum of approaches from self-organization and autonomous systems to agreement computing. Advances in research work, as well as prototyped or fielded systems of intelligent agents will be presented and discussed. The conference covers the whole range from theory to application of agent- and multi-agent technologies in order to promote theory and application of agents and multi-agent systems. The conference features an exhibition of practical applications with an advanced concept of agency. Integral part of the technical program will be an exhibition of a variety of tools for the development, and prototypes of all kinds of practical applications of agent and multi-agent technology at the conference venue. The conference will also host a doctoral consortium.
For the tenth time the German special interest group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence jointly with the steering committee of MATES organizes this international conference in order to promote theory and application of agents and multi-agent systems. Building on the sequence of agent-related events in Germany in the past such as VDI 1998 (Chemnitz), VertIS 2001 (Bamberg), and KI 2002 (Aachen), the MATES conference series (from 2003 to 2011) now is exclusively devoted to agents and multi-agent systems, and the cross-fertilization between agent theory and application. This year is also the 20th year of the German special inerest group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence – another reason for an inspiring conference on agents! The conference language is English.
Salve – welcome to Trier! The conference takes place in Germany’s oldest city - close to Saarbrücken, Frankfurt/Main and Luxemburg as well as the well-known Leibniz Center for Informatics (Schloss Dagstuhl).
The MATES series has been ranked by the Computing Research & Education initiative as a CORE B conference. The proceedings will be published as Springer LNCS.
Contact: mates2012@easychair.org
TOPICS OF INTEREST
MATES 2012 welcomes contributions from the field of agent-oriented computing and agent technologies. We solicit both basic as well as applied research papers on recent advances in the area of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems in general. Also papers reporting on the successful application of agent technologies in any kind of domain are very welcome. MATES 2012 encourages submissions from recent and emerging areas of interest such as a Autonomic Computing, Self-organisation and Agreement Technologies. Additionally, we encourage the submission of elaborated vision and challenge papers that discuss mid-term and long-term directions for research and application.
The topics of interest for MATES-2012 include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Agent-based simulation and analysis of social networks
• Agents and communities
• Large-scale agent-based simulation of cities, economies, etc.
• Adaptive agents and multi-agent learning
• Advanced theories of collaboration: Modelling and formation of teams, coalitions, groups, and organizations
• Agents and autonomic computing
• Agent and multi-agent architectures
• Agents and peer-to-peer computing
• Agents and pervasive computing
• Agents for Ambient Intelligence
• Agent-based service discovery, matchmaking, brokering, and composition
• Agent communication languages
• Agents for e-business and e-government
• Agent technologies in the context of service-oriented computing and architectures
• Agent to non-agent interoperability
• Agents in novel applications
• Application of agent-technologies in industrial practice
• Artificial social systems: Conventions, norms, institutions; trust and reputation
• Autonomous robots and robot teams
• Commitment, delegation, responsibility, and obligations in artificial and hybrid societies
• Complex systems and their management
• Coordination, negotiation, argumentation, and conflict resolution
• Deployed agent-based business applications
• Hybrid human and agent societies
• User modelling and interface agents
• Embodied conversational actors and believable agents
• Mobile agents
• Model-driven design of multi-agent systems
• Multi-agent-based simulation
• Multi-agent planning and scheduling
• Multi-agent platforms and tools
• Multi-agent (social) simulation and (cognitive) modelling with agents
• Practical aspects of programming agent systems: Robustness, fault tolerance, scalability and performance measurement
• Roles and structures, adaptive learning and cognition in organizational models
• Semantics of the dynamics of organizational models
• (Semantic) web services and agents
• Standards for agents and multi-agent systems
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Paper submissions to MATES-2012 will be handled using the EasyChair system at this link: www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2012.
Submissions must comply with the following requirements:
* For preparation of papers to be submitted please follow the instructions for authors available at the Springer LNCS Web page: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
* The length of each paper including figures and references shall not exceed 14 pages.
* All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format.
* Papers that have been accepted or are under review by other conferences or journals are not eligible for submission. However, we encourage interdisciplinary contributions submitted or presented in part to a forum outside of agent technology.
Submissions not conforming to the above instructions may be rejected without review.
Please notice that the submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the work.
MATES 2012 will include a doctoral mentoring program: This program will provide an opportunity for students to interact closely with established researchers in their fields, to receive feedback on their work and to get advice on managing their careers.
The Doctoral Mentoring Program will:
* Match each student with an established researcher who will act as a mentor.
* Allow students an opportunity to present their work to a friendly audience of other students, as well as mentors.
* Provide students with contacts and networking opportunities.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstracts due: April 21, 2012
Full papers due: April 28, 2012
Notification: June 19, 2012
Doctoral mentoring: July 13, 2012
Camera-ready submission: July 13, 2012
Early registration: August 5, 2012
Conference: October 10-12, 2012
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
* Christian Guttmann (EBTIC - Etisalat BT Innovation Centre, Abu Dhabi, UAE)
* Ingo J. Timm (U Trier, Germany)
STEERING COMMITTEE
* Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
* Winfried Lamersdorf (U Hamburg, Germany)
* Jörg P. Müller (TU Clausthal, Germany)
* Paolo Petta (U Vienna, Austria)
* Rainer Unland (U Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
* Gerhard Weiss (Maastricht U, The Netherlands)
Dienstag, 14. Februar 2012
Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems - PRIMA 2012
PRIMA 2012
The 15th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
September 3-7, 2012
Co-located with PRICAI 2012, DC 2012 and PKAW 2012
Paper submission: March 30, 2012
Author notification: May 28, 2012
Camera-ready papers: June 15, 2012
Agent computing is an exciting, transformational approach to developing computer systems
that can rapidly and reliably solve real-world problems that usually demand human knowledge
and expertise. The value, power and flexibility of agent and multi-agent systems has been
demonstrated in application areas such as logistics, manufacturing, simulation, robotics,
decision support, entertainment, and especially in online market environments. As one of
the largest and fastest growing research fields of Computer Science, agent research today
includes a wealth of topics. The PRIMA 2012 Program Committee invites submissions of
original, unpublished, theoretical and applied work on any such topic, and encourages
reports on the development of prototype and deployed agent systems, and of experiments
that demonstrate novel agent system capabilities.
PRIMA 2012 proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume in the LNAI series and
proceedings will be available at the conference. Submitted papers should be 12-15 pages
in Springer LNCS format and must be in a form suitable for "double-blind" review.
Each submission will be subject to peer review in two rounds coordinated by an international
Senior Program Committee, and authors will be able to provide a short "rebuttal" of the
reviews before final decisions are made. A broad range of agent topics are of interest,
but all papers should clearly identify how their scientific or technical contributions
advance the state-of-the-art of agent computing practice or have a strong potential to do so.
Submitted papers should not be under review or submitted for publication elsewhere during
the review period.
Springer LNCS Author Instructions: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
Enquiries: prima2012-pc-chairs@cse.unsw.edu.au
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Organization
General Chairs
Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA)
Toshiharu Sugawara (Waseda University, Japan)
Local Arrangements Chairs
Dickson Lukose (MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia)
Cheah Wai Shiang (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia)
Sponsorship Chairs
Longbing Cao (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Matthias Klusch (DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany)
Sarvapali Ramchurn (University of Southampton, UK)
Jie Zhang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Program Chairs
Iyad Rahwan (Masdar Institute, UAE and MIT, USA)
Wayne Wobcke (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Senior Program Committee
Stephen Cranefield (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Frank Dignum (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Guido Governatori (NICTA, Australia)
Katsutoshi Hirayama (Kobe University, Japan)
Kate Larson (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Rey-Long Liu (Tzu Chi University, Taiwan)
Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London, UK)
Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna, Italy)
Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College London, UK)
David Pynadath (University of Southern California, USA)
Alex Rogers (University of Southampton, UK)
Paolo Torroni (University of Bologna, Italy)
Tutorial Chair
Edith Elkind (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Workshop Chairs
Sherief Abdallah (British University in Dubai, UAE and University of Edinburgh, UK)
Hiromitsu Hattori (Kyoto University, Japan)
Publicity Chairs
Jacob Crandall (Masdar Institute, UAE and MIT, USA)
Koen Hindriks (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
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Topics
Foundations of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Logics of Agency
Logics of Multi-Agent Systems
Normative Systems
Computational Game Theory
Uncertainty in Agent Systems
Agent and Multi-Agent Learning
Agent and Multi-Agent System Architectures
Agent Programming Languages and Platforms
Multi-Agent System Languages and Platforms
BDI Architectures and Extensions
Normative Multi-Agent Systems
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
AOSE Methodologies
Tools for Agent and Multi-Agent System Development
Formal Specification and Verification
Deployed System Case Studies
Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation
Simulation Languages and Platforms
Artificial Societies
Virtual Environments
Workflow Simulation
Emergent Behaviour
Modelling System Dynamics
Application Case Studies
Collaboration/Coordination/Communication
Agent Communication Languages and Protocols
Distributed Problem Solving
Teamwork Models
Coalition Formation
Argumentation, Negotiation, Bargaining
Auctions and Mechanism Design
Trust and Reputation
Computational Voting Theory
Hybrid Technologies
Agents in Planning
Agent-Based Scheduling
Agent-Based Optimization
Distributed Constraint Satisfaction
Agents and Data Mining
Semantic Web Agents
Agents and Grid Computing
Agents and Service Oriented Computing
Agents and Pervasive Computing
Robotics and Multi-Robot Systems
Application Domains
Healthcare
Transport/Logistics
Emergency/Disaster Management
Energy/Utility Management
Sustainability/Resource Management
Games/Entertainment
eBusiness/eCommerce/eGovernment
eResearch/eLearning
Security/Surveillance
Smart Cities
Applications
Adaptive Personal Assistants
Embodied Conversational Agents
Virtual Characters
Multi-Modal User Interfaces
Autonomous Systems
Mobile Agents
Human-Robot Interaction
Social Recommender Systems
Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012
Agents in Traffic and Transportation
************************************************************************ * CALL FOR PAPERS * * 7th Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation @AAMAS 2012 * * 4 or 5 June 2012 - Valencia, Spain * * Website: http://www.ia.urjc.es/att2012 * ************************************************************************ Building effective and user-friendly transportation systems is one of the big challenges for engineers in the 21st century. The rapid change of location, enabled by plane, high-speed rail, sea and road travel, has constantly become easier and more natural. These days we travel without any of the difficulties that accompanied taking a trip less than a century ago. All we have to do is to organize and to pick up the transport mode that comes closest to our objectives. In much the same way, many new opportunities for the delivery of goods are being explored and commercially exploited. The purpose of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together in order to set up visions on how agent technology can be and is used for today's isolated IT-tools so as to model, simulate, and manage large-scale complex transportation systems. Therefore, we are interested in research papers, case studies and practitioners' reports on the implementation and use of Autonomous Agents in all areas related to transportation, traffic and logistics. Besides running real-world applications, we are also interested in papers concerning demonstrators or testbed that are still under development. Conceptual papers and those reporting on particular components of transportation systems are also welcome. This is the seventh of a well established series of workshops since 2000. Most of them have published post-proceedings in special issues of journals such as Transportation Research C. ************************************************************************ Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): - applications of multiagent technology in traffic, transportation, and transport logistics - coordination in multiagent transportation systems - agent-based traffic control - distributed decision making in traffic, transportation and transport logistics - multi-agent systems for intelligent vehicles - mobile devices and agents in transportation systems - intelligent monitoring of transportation systems using agents - data collection, filtering and distribution of traffic information - autonomous vehicles and collaborative driving - cognitive approaches to modeling traffic participants - machine learning approaches to transportation systems - agent-based approaches to modelling driver behaviour - agent-based simulation of traffic and transportation systems - agent-based pedestrian and crowd simulation - future technologies: opportunities for multiagent systems - vehicle2vehicle communication and multiagent systems - requirements and issues involved in electromobility For ATT2012 we specially encourage submissions on real-world applications using a minimum of assumptions about future equipments and using novel techniques from the area of Autonomic Traffic Control and Management. ************************************************************************ Submission Details Contributions should not exceed ten pages in English. For preparation of papers to be submitted please use the IFAAMAS template and follow the formatting instructions for authors available at the AAMAS-2012 website. Contributions should carry the title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation including e-mail address, and should include an abstract. Electronic submission via the conference management system is mandatory: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=att2012 Submissions are accepted as documents in PDF only. ************************************************************************ Important Dates Paper submission deadline: 28 February 2012 Notifications of acceptance/rejection: 27 March 2012 Camera-ready copies due: 10 April 2012 Workshop Date: 4 or 5 June 2012 ************************************************************************ Organizing Committee Matteo Vasirani, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), matteo.vasirani@urjc.es Eduardo Camponogara, Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil), camponog@das.ufsc.br Hiromitsu Hattori, Kyoto University (Japan), hatto@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Franziska Klügl, Örebro University (Sweden), franziska.klugl@oru.se ************************************************************************* PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THE WEBSITE FOR UPDATED INFORMATION *************************************************************************
Donnerstag, 17. März 2011
6th MASTA @ EPIA 2011 - Thematic Track on Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications
6th MASTA @ EPIA 2011
Thematic Track on Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications
10-13 October 2011, Lisbon, Portugal
http://epia2011.appia.pt/masta
Submission deadline: May 10, 2011
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Introduction
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Since 1993, the area of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has been present in all EPIA Conferences, both as individual tracks and as autonomous workshops. Focusing on a fundamental subject of Artificial Intelligence, the 6th edition of Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications - MASTA 2011 Thematic Track, will be a forum for presenting and discussing the most recent and innovative work on MAS.
Departing, from the end of the 1980’s, from the two main branches of Decentralized Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Problem Solving, research on MAS has developed in areas of increasing specialization and autonomy as diverse as agent theories and architectures, cognitive modelling, coordination, negotiation and argumentation, social organization and social simulation, swarm intelligence, and agent-oriented programming.
Agent technology has been used to solve real-world problems in a range of industrial and commercial applications, including manufacturing, supply chain management, process control, telecommunications, air traffic control, transportation systems, and business process management.
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Aims and Scope
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Research on MAS has a vigorous, exciting tradition and has led to important theories and systems. However, new trends and concerns are still emerging and form the basis of current and future research. This thematic track is intended to provide a discussion forum on the most recent and innovative work in all areas of MAS.
The unifying focus of the thematic track will be on methodological aspects. Both theoretical and practical research should be situated in the context of existing or new methodologies. This will not preclude any specific topic, but preference will be given to research work that establishes some connection with the methodological aspects or to successful applications built upon some methodology.
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Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Agent theories, Architectures and Languages;
* Cognitive models, including emotions and philosophies;
* Formal Methods for Modelling Agents and MAS;
* Cooperation, Coordination and Teamwork;
* Automated Negotiation and Computational Argumentation;
* Multi-Agent Evolution, Adaptation and Learning;
* Trust and Reputation in MAS;
* Communication: protocols and languages;
* Artificial Social Systems;
* Agent-Oriented Software Engineering;
* Multi-Agent Simulation and Modelling;
* Norms and Institutions in MAS;
* Ethical and Legal issues raised by Agents and MAS;
* Industrial and Commercial Applications;
* Scalability and Performance of MAS.
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Submission Information
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Submission of papers is made electronically through the Conference website (epia2011.appia.pt). Authors must remove their names from the papers and should take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity (blind reviewing process).
Papers should be no longer than 12 pages, including figures and references, and should be formatted according to the Springer's LNCS/LNAI format, following the instructions on Springer’s website (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Papers of higher quality will be published in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), by Springer (proceedings indexed by the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge). All other accepted papers will be published in the local proceedings.
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Important Dates
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* Full Paper Submission: May 10, 2011
* Notification of Acceptance: June 10, 2011
* Camera-ready Papers: July 1, 2011
* Conference Date: October 10-13, 2011
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Organizing Committee
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Paulo Urbano
Departamento de Informática
Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
Edifício C6, Piso 3, Campo Grande
1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
pub [at] di [dot] fc [dot] ul [dot] pt
Cesar Analide
Departamento de Informática
Universidade do Minho
Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
analide [at] di [dot] uminho [dot] pt
Fernando Lopes
Departamento de Modelação e Simulação
Laboratório Nacional de Energia (LNEG)
1649-038 Lisbon, Portugal
fernando [dot] lopes [at] ineti [dot] pt
Henrique Lopes Cardoso
Departamento de Engenharia Informática
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
hlc [at] fe [dot] up [dot] pt
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Additional Information
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Additional information can be found at the Conference website (epia2011.appia.pt/masta) or asked for by e-mail, using the address masta2011 [at] appia [dot] pt.
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Steering Committee
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Eugénio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
João Balsa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Luís Reis, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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Program Committee
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Alejandro Hérnandez, Universidad Veracruzana, Spain
Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany
Amal Elfallah, Université Paris VI, France
Amílcar Cardoso, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Ana Paula Rocha, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Andrea Omicini, Università di Bologna, Italy
António Pereira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
António Rocha Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Carlos Martinho, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Christian Lemaître, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Eugénio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
F. Jordan Srour, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Frank Dignum, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Huib Aldewereld, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jaime Sichman, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Javier Bajo, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Spain
Javier Carbó, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain
João Balsa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
João Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
John-Jules Meyer, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jomi Hübner, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Jordi Sabater-Mir, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Jörg Müller, TU Clausthal Institut für Informatik, Germany
Juan Burgillo, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Juan M. Corchado, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Laurent Vercouter, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France
Luís Botelho, ISCTE, Portugal
Luís Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Luís Macedo, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Luís Moniz, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Luís Reis, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Marc Esteva, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool, UK
Murat Sensoy, University of Aberdeen, UK
Neil Yorke-Smith, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Nicoletta Fornara, Università della Svizzera Italiana (University of Lugano), Switzerland
Nuno Lau, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Olivier Boissier, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France
Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Pablo Noriega, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Paolo Torroni, Università di Bologna, Italy
Paulo Ferreira Jr., Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Pavlos Moraitis, Université Paris Descartes, France
Pedro Mariano, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Reyhan Aydogan, Bogazici University, Turkey
Rosa Vicari, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Santiago Ontañón Villar, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Virginia Dignum, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, UK
Wojtek Jamroga, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Ya'akov Gal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Yun-Gyung Cheong, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technologies, South Korea
Yves Demazeau, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
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6th Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications - MASTA @ EPIA 2011
Thematic Track @ EPIA 2011 Lisbon, PORTUGAL
http://epia2011.appia.pt/masta masta2011@appia.pt
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Thematic Track on Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications
10-13 October 2011, Lisbon, Portugal
http://epia2011.appia.pt/masta
Submission deadline: May 10, 2011
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Introduction
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Since 1993, the area of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has been present in all EPIA Conferences, both as individual tracks and as autonomous workshops. Focusing on a fundamental subject of Artificial Intelligence, the 6th edition of Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications - MASTA 2011 Thematic Track, will be a forum for presenting and discussing the most recent and innovative work on MAS.
Departing, from the end of the 1980’s, from the two main branches of Decentralized Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Problem Solving, research on MAS has developed in areas of increasing specialization and autonomy as diverse as agent theories and architectures, cognitive modelling, coordination, negotiation and argumentation, social organization and social simulation, swarm intelligence, and agent-oriented programming.
Agent technology has been used to solve real-world problems in a range of industrial and commercial applications, including manufacturing, supply chain management, process control, telecommunications, air traffic control, transportation systems, and business process management.
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Aims and Scope
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Research on MAS has a vigorous, exciting tradition and has led to important theories and systems. However, new trends and concerns are still emerging and form the basis of current and future research. This thematic track is intended to provide a discussion forum on the most recent and innovative work in all areas of MAS.
The unifying focus of the thematic track will be on methodological aspects. Both theoretical and practical research should be situated in the context of existing or new methodologies. This will not preclude any specific topic, but preference will be given to research work that establishes some connection with the methodological aspects or to successful applications built upon some methodology.
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Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Agent theories, Architectures and Languages;
* Cognitive models, including emotions and philosophies;
* Formal Methods for Modelling Agents and MAS;
* Cooperation, Coordination and Teamwork;
* Automated Negotiation and Computational Argumentation;
* Multi-Agent Evolution, Adaptation and Learning;
* Trust and Reputation in MAS;
* Communication: protocols and languages;
* Artificial Social Systems;
* Agent-Oriented Software Engineering;
* Multi-Agent Simulation and Modelling;
* Norms and Institutions in MAS;
* Ethical and Legal issues raised by Agents and MAS;
* Industrial and Commercial Applications;
* Scalability and Performance of MAS.
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Submission Information
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Submission of papers is made electronically through the Conference website (epia2011.appia.pt). Authors must remove their names from the papers and should take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity (blind reviewing process).
Papers should be no longer than 12 pages, including figures and references, and should be formatted according to the Springer's LNCS/LNAI format, following the instructions on Springer’s website (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Papers of higher quality will be published in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), by Springer (proceedings indexed by the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge). All other accepted papers will be published in the local proceedings.
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Important Dates
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* Full Paper Submission: May 10, 2011
* Notification of Acceptance: June 10, 2011
* Camera-ready Papers: July 1, 2011
* Conference Date: October 10-13, 2011
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Organizing Committee
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Paulo Urbano
Departamento de Informática
Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
Edifício C6, Piso 3, Campo Grande
1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
pub [at] di [dot] fc [dot] ul [dot] pt
Cesar Analide
Departamento de Informática
Universidade do Minho
Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
analide [at] di [dot] uminho [dot] pt
Fernando Lopes
Departamento de Modelação e Simulação
Laboratório Nacional de Energia (LNEG)
1649-038 Lisbon, Portugal
fernando [dot] lopes [at] ineti [dot] pt
Henrique Lopes Cardoso
Departamento de Engenharia Informática
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
hlc [at] fe [dot] up [dot] pt
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Additional Information
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Additional information can be found at the Conference website (epia2011.appia.pt/masta) or asked for by e-mail, using the address masta2011 [at] appia [dot] pt.
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Steering Committee
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Eugénio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
João Balsa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Luís Reis, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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Program Committee
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Alejandro Hérnandez, Universidad Veracruzana, Spain
Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany
Amal Elfallah, Université Paris VI, France
Amílcar Cardoso, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Ana Paula Rocha, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Andrea Omicini, Università di Bologna, Italy
António Pereira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
António Rocha Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Carlos Martinho, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Christian Lemaître, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Eugénio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
F. Jordan Srour, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Frank Dignum, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Huib Aldewereld, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jaime Sichman, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Javier Bajo, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Spain
Javier Carbó, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain
João Balsa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
João Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
John-Jules Meyer, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jomi Hübner, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Jordi Sabater-Mir, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Jörg Müller, TU Clausthal Institut für Informatik, Germany
Juan Burgillo, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Juan M. Corchado, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Laurent Vercouter, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France
Luís Botelho, ISCTE, Portugal
Luís Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Luís Macedo, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Luís Moniz, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Luís Reis, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Marc Esteva, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool, UK
Murat Sensoy, University of Aberdeen, UK
Neil Yorke-Smith, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Nicoletta Fornara, Università della Svizzera Italiana (University of Lugano), Switzerland
Nuno Lau, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Olivier Boissier, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France
Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Pablo Noriega, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Paolo Torroni, Università di Bologna, Italy
Paulo Ferreira Jr., Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Pavlos Moraitis, Université Paris Descartes, France
Pedro Mariano, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Reyhan Aydogan, Bogazici University, Turkey
Rosa Vicari, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Santiago Ontañón Villar, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Virginia Dignum, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, UK
Wojtek Jamroga, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Ya'akov Gal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Yun-Gyung Cheong, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technologies, South Korea
Yves Demazeau, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
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6th Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications - MASTA @ EPIA 2011
Thematic Track @ EPIA 2011 Lisbon, PORTUGAL
http://epia2011.appia.pt/masta masta2011@appia.pt
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Mittwoch, 2. März 2011
2011 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods
MSV'11
The 2011 International Conference on Modeling,
Simulation and Visualization Methods
Date and Location: July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, USA
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
The 2011 International Conference on Modeling,
Simulation and Visualization Methods
Date and Location: July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, USA
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
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You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in the MSV conference proceedings (in printed book form; later, the proceedings will also be accessible online) - the proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / Computer Science Bibliography, and others. Those interested in proposing workshops/sessions, should refer to the relevant sections that appear below. The main keynote lecture will be delivered by Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; MRIA); there will also be 8 other distinguished speakers, 12 planned tutorials and panel discussions as well as about 50 research paper presentations. SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: O Simulation languages O Modeling and simulation for computer engineering O Modeling and simulation for education and training O Molecular modeling and simulation O Performance modeling, simulation, and prediction O Modeling, simulation, and emulation of large-scale, volatile environments O Modeling and simulation tools for nanotechnology O Information and scientific visualization O Real-time modeling and simulation O Geometric modeling O Perceptual issues in visualization and modeling O Modeling methodologies O Specification issues for modeling and simulation O Visual interactive simulation and modeling O Visualization tools and systems for simulation and modeling O Java-based modelers O Scalability issues O Numerical methods used in simulation and modeling O Finite and boundary element techniques O Process simulation/modeling O Device simulation/modeling O Circuit simulation/modeling O Performance evaluation and simulation tools O Multi-level modeling O Simulation of machine architectures O Simulation of wireless systems O Simulation and modeling with applications in biotechnology O CAD/CAE/CAM O Prototyping and simulation O Biomedical visualization and applications O Databases and visualization O Interaction paradigms and human factors O Parallel and distributed simulation O Discrete and numeric simulation O Geographic information systems and visualization O Internet, web and security visualization O Virtual reality and simulation O Virtual environments and data visualization O Petri nets and applications O Finite element methods O Soft computing / fuzzy logic O Tools and applications O Object-oriented simulation O Knowledge-based simulation O Emerging technologies and applications USEFUL WEB LINKS: The DBLP list of accepted papers of MSV 2010 appears at: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/msv/msv2010.html The main web site of MSV'11 can be accessed via: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/ IMPORTANT DATES: March 10, 2011: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages) April 03, 2011: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days) April 24, 2011: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration July 18-21, 2011: The 2011 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'11) ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS: Currently being prepared - The Academic sponsors of the last offering of MSV (2010) included research labs and centers affiliated with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; University of Southern California; University of Texas at Austin; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia; Emory University, Georgia; University of Minnesota; University of Iowa; University of North Dakota; NDSU-CIIT Green Computing & Comm. Lab.; University of Siegen, Germany; UMIT, Austria; SECLAB (University of Naples Federico II + University of Naples Parthenope + Second University of Naples, Italy); National Institute for Health Research; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM); The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; Eastern Virginia Medical School & the American College of Surgeons, USA. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org Submissions must be uploaded by March 10, 2011 and they must be in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. Finally, the name of the conference (ie, MSV) that the paper is being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page. The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program committee will be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject) - often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees by using a double-blinded review process. In addition, all papers whose authors included a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels). All proceedings of WORLDCOMP will be published and indexed in: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / CS Bibliography, and others. The printed proceedings will be available for distribution on site at the conference. In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a number of research books being proposed/contracted with various publishers (such as, Springer, Elsevier, ... 7247) - these books would be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of sessions and workshops will be forming journal special issues to be published after the conference. MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES: The members of the Steering Committee of The 2010 congress included: Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, USA); Prof. Hamid Arabnia (ISIBM Fellow & Professor, University of Georgia; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer; Advisory Board, IEEE TC on Scalable Computing);
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University of California, Berkeley, USA);
Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information Processing Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology; Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea);
Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang (IEEE Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC);
Prof. Andy Marsh (Director HoIP, Secretary-General WABT; Vice-president ICET and ICMCC, Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK); Dr. Rahman Tashakkori (Director, S-STEM NSF Supported Scholarship Program and NSF Supported AUAS, Appalachian State U., USA); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA); and Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy of Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; Director, BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA). The list of Program Committee of MSV 2010 appears at: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/conferences/msv10/committee The MSV 2011 program committee is currently being compiled. Many who have already joined the committee are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research labs., members of National Academy of Engineering, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program directors of research funding agencies, deans and provosts as well as members of chapters of World Academy of Science. Program Committee members are expected to have established a strong and documented research track record. Those interested in joining the Program Committee should email editor@world-comp.org the following information for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address, a one-page biography that includes research expertise and the name of the conference (ie, MSV 2011) offering to help with. GENERAL INFORMATION: MSV conference is an important track of a federated research conference. It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP). WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,000 or more attendees from over 85 countries. WORLDCOMP 2011 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates photos available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789 An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives." One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different branches of computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines. PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS: Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops). The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books. Proposals to organize sessions should include the following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, his/her biography, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, the name of the conference the session is submitted for consideration (ie, MSV), and a short description on how the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the session proposer). email your session proposal to editor@world-comp.org We would like to receive the session proposals as soon as possible.
Mittwoch, 27. Oktober 2010
Technical Forum Group on Agent- and Multi-Agent Based Simulation (TFGSIM)
************************************************************************* Technical Forum Group on Agent- and Multi-Agent Based Simulation (TFGSIM) Co-located with EUMAS 2010 15 December 2010, Paris, France Call for Participation & Position Statements ************************************************************************* http://www.irit.fr/TFGSIM Following the tradition of Agent Link Technical Forum Groups, we announce the first edition of a Simulation Technical Forum Group focussing discussions on methodological and technical aspects of agent- and multi-agent-based simulation. We will work on identification of and solution suggestions for challenges of agent- and multi-agent-based simulation. We also want to establish links between members of the agent-based simulation community which could lead to common research activities and projects. Topics of interest are (but are not limited to): * Can modelers creativity be supported by engineering? * What are the particular challenges in agent-based simulation engineering? * Suggestions for design, testing, calibration, verification and validation strategies, methods, tools? * Can we come up with a shared meta model of an agent-based simulation model? * Challenges and solutions for multi-scale modeling? * Can AOSE specification languages be used for simulations? * Is a simulation problem more than just a particular set of requirements? * What kind of AOSE models for supporting Agent-based simulation design? * How can we systematically involve human experts and stakeholders? * What kind of tools do we need for supporting agent-based simulation and modelling? * What are the particular properties that a modeller must be able to expect from a simulation platform/engine? ************************************************************************* Preliminary Program The meeting will be held on December 15th at University of Jussieu in Paris, France, near the location where EUMAS 2010 (http://lipade.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/eumas10/index.html) will be held directly after the Technical Forum - that will this year consist of a groups working on Self-Organisation and on Agent-based Software Engineering in addition to this group on agent- and multi-agent based simulation. The initial agenda for this meeting plans sessions with talks focussed on particular challenges followed by a general panel session. In the first part, a small number of focussed presentations will be given followed by discussions on the topics raised by the presentations. In the second one, a broad panel-like discussion on most relevant topics for participants will be held. The speakers for each panel are to be selected and will be announced through the Simulation TFG web page. Suggestions are welcome. Schedule, contributions (both in form of papers and presentation slides) and other working documents will also be published on this web page. ************************************************************************* Contributions Participants are strongly encouraged to submit position papers. The deadline for contributions related to talks to be held during the meeting is November 15th 2010. Papers should be sent to the working group chairs (see below). They will be made available for all participants well before the meeting in order to prepare discussions. We accept position papers, papers illustrating new researches in the area as well as any other scientific relevant contribution (also demonstration of prototypes) in the area the above listed topics or others suitable for discussing in the frame of the TFG. There will be no formal proceedings therefore already published papers are welcome too (provided that in this way no existing copyright is infringed). The format and length of position papers are open. ************************************************************************* Registration for TFGSIM is free. Unfortunately, there will be no funding for attendants in this edition. For any question or comment, do not hesitate to contact the TFGSIM chairs. See you in Paris, Franziska Klügl Modeling and Simulation Research Center, Örebro University, Sweden franziska.klugl@oru.se and Carole Bernon Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, University of Toulouse III, France bernon@irit.fr
Montag, 19. April 2010
Workshop on Goal-based Business Process Engineering
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WGBP 2010 - Call for Papers
International Workshop on Goal-based Business Process Engineering (WGBP 2010)
at the Fourteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (The Enterprise Computing Conference)
Vitória/ES – Brazil
25-29 October 2010
Papers submission deadline: 17 April 2010
Web site: http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br/wgbp2010
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- ABOUT THE WORKSHOP -
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Competitive businesses and an ever changing market have demanded that current organizations constantly evolve. To achieve that, it becomes necessary to develop a deep understanding of the organizational practices and systems. This motivates an increasing interest in business processes engineering. Such interest has the benefit to allow a deep understanding of the processes that generate the main products and services offered by the organization. This may lead to: a) enhance these processes to obtain higher quality both in products and services; b) develop information systems which are more in line with the current processes, so that such systems more appropriately satisfy user requirements; and c) provide documentation of the applied practices, reading to more efficient knowledge management, which enables the integration of newcomers within the organization.
However, to guarantee that business process engineering is applied to its full potential, keeping the organization competitive, it is necessary to understand how these processes achieve the local and strategic goals of the organization. This may guide the decision regarding which activities and processes should be the priorities of that particular organization.
Goal modeling has gained a lot of attention in the past few years, especially in the field of Requirements Engineering. In this context, goals are applied as a natural modeling construct to capture the requirements of a system to-be. Within the Business Process Engineering community, some works have included the concept of goal as modeling primitive, acknowledging its importance to motivate processes that underlie organizations. However, up to very recently, such goal models have remained peripheral and often ignored in current business process engineering practices.
The International Workshop on Goal-based Business Process Engineering (WGBP 2010) is the first of what we hope to be many events that bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of goals and business process engineering to discuss how these two complementary areas may be integrated. This way, we hope to contribute to the development of each of these areas, as well as to create a forum where works that combine them may be published and discussed.
- TOPICS -
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The workshop encourages submissions on the relation of Goals and Business Process Engineering with the following topics, but not limited to:
• Methodologies for Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Goal-based Organizational Modeling
• Enterprise Architectures
• Viewpoint Alignment in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Ontologies in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Semantics in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Service-oriented architectures in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Simulations of Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Monitoring of Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Formal Description, Verification and Validation in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Reengineering in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Requirements Engineering in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Knowledge Management in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Security issues in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Quality of service in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Norms and Regulations in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Autonomic Systems in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Product Line in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Industrial Case Studies in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -
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This workshop accepts two kinds of papers: short papers (up to 4 pages long) and full papers (up to 8 pages long). All submissions to workshops must comply with the IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings format guidelines (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) (please use the latest template as there have been updates recently). Submissions must be in English and must be made using EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wgbp2010).
Workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be accessible through IEEE Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. In order to have the paper published, at least one author of each accepted workshop paper will have to register for the whole EDOC 2010 conference and attend the workshop to present the paper. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the workshop.
All papers will be refereed by at least 3 members of the international program committee. Reviews are based on originality, relevance, technical soundness and presentation (all paper sections are considered for review, not only an extended abstract).
- IMPORTANT DATES -
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Paper submission due (extended!!!!): 2 May 2010
Paper notification: 4 June 2010
Paper camera-ready paper due: 16 June 2010
Workshop held: 25th or 26th October 2010 (in one of the two first days of EDOC’10)
- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -
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Renata S.S. Guizzardi (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil), rguizzardi@inf.ufes.br
Anna Perini (FBK-IRST Trento, Italy), perini@fbk.eu
Jaelson Castro (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil), jbc@cin.ufpe.br
- PROGRAM COMMITTEE -
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Alberto Siena (CIT, FBK-IRST Trento, Italy)
Angelo Susi (CIT, FBK-IRST Trento, Italy)
Anthony Finkelstein (UCL, UK)
Carson Woo (UBC, Canada)
Claudia Cappelli (NP2TEC/UNIRIO, Brazil)
Collete Rolland (Univ. Paris I Panthéon-Sourbonne, France)
Daniel Amyot (Univ. Ottawa, Canada)
Dimitris Karagiannis (Univ. Wien, Austria)
Eric Yu (Univ. Toronto, Canada)
Fernanda Baião (UNIRIO, Brazil)
Fernanda Alencar (UFPE, Brazil)
Gerd Wagner (Cottbus Univ. Technology, Germany)
Giancarlo Guizzardi (UFES, Brazil)
João Paulo A. Almeida (UFES, Brazil)
John Mylopolous (Univ. Toronto, Canada)
Jolita Ralyte (Univ. Geneva, Switzerland)
Julio Leite (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Lin Liu (Tsinghua, China)
Lucineia Heloísa Thom (UFRGS, Brazil)
Luiz Olavo Bonino (Univ. Twente, The Netherlands)
Manfred Reichert (Ulm Univ., Germany)
Maria Beatriz Felgar de Toledo (IC/UNICAMP, Brazil)
Maria-Eugenia Iacob (Univ. Twente, The Netherlands)
Oscar Pastor (UPV, Spain)
Paul Johannesson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Xavier Franch (UPC, Spain)
Yiyun Yu (Open Univ., UK)
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WGBP 2010 - Call for Papers
International Workshop on Goal-based Business Process Engineering (WGBP 2010)
at the Fourteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (The Enterprise Computing Conference)
Vitória/ES – Brazil
25-29 October 2010
Papers submission deadline: 17 April 2010
Web site: http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br/wgbp2010
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- ABOUT THE WORKSHOP -
--------------------------------------------
Competitive businesses and an ever changing market have demanded that current organizations constantly evolve. To achieve that, it becomes necessary to develop a deep understanding of the organizational practices and systems. This motivates an increasing interest in business processes engineering. Such interest has the benefit to allow a deep understanding of the processes that generate the main products and services offered by the organization. This may lead to: a) enhance these processes to obtain higher quality both in products and services; b) develop information systems which are more in line with the current processes, so that such systems more appropriately satisfy user requirements; and c) provide documentation of the applied practices, reading to more efficient knowledge management, which enables the integration of newcomers within the organization.
However, to guarantee that business process engineering is applied to its full potential, keeping the organization competitive, it is necessary to understand how these processes achieve the local and strategic goals of the organization. This may guide the decision regarding which activities and processes should be the priorities of that particular organization.
Goal modeling has gained a lot of attention in the past few years, especially in the field of Requirements Engineering. In this context, goals are applied as a natural modeling construct to capture the requirements of a system to-be. Within the Business Process Engineering community, some works have included the concept of goal as modeling primitive, acknowledging its importance to motivate processes that underlie organizations. However, up to very recently, such goal models have remained peripheral and often ignored in current business process engineering practices.
The International Workshop on Goal-based Business Process Engineering (WGBP 2010) is the first of what we hope to be many events that bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of goals and business process engineering to discuss how these two complementary areas may be integrated. This way, we hope to contribute to the development of each of these areas, as well as to create a forum where works that combine them may be published and discussed.
- TOPICS -
--------------------------
The workshop encourages submissions on the relation of Goals and Business Process Engineering with the following topics, but not limited to:
• Methodologies for Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Goal-based Organizational Modeling
• Enterprise Architectures
• Viewpoint Alignment in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Ontologies in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Semantics in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Service-oriented architectures in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Simulations of Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Monitoring of Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Formal Description, Verification and Validation in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Reengineering in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Requirements Engineering in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Knowledge Management in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Security issues in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Quality of service in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Norms and Regulations in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Autonomic Systems in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Product Line in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
• Industrial Case Studies in Goal-based Business Process Engineering
- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -
----------------------------------------------
This workshop accepts two kinds of papers: short papers (up to 4 pages long) and full papers (up to 8 pages long). All submissions to workshops must comply with the IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings format guidelines (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) (please use the latest template as there have been updates recently). Submissions must be in English and must be made using EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wgbp2010).
Workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be accessible through IEEE Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. In order to have the paper published, at least one author of each accepted workshop paper will have to register for the whole EDOC 2010 conference and attend the workshop to present the paper. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the workshop.
All papers will be refereed by at least 3 members of the international program committee. Reviews are based on originality, relevance, technical soundness and presentation (all paper sections are considered for review, not only an extended abstract).
- IMPORTANT DATES -
--------------------------------------
Paper submission due (extended!!!!): 2 May 2010
Paper notification: 4 June 2010
Paper camera-ready paper due: 16 June 2010
Workshop held: 25th or 26th October 2010 (in one of the two first days of EDOC’10)
- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -
---------------------------------------------
Renata S.S. Guizzardi (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil), rguizzardi@inf.ufes.br
Anna Perini (FBK-IRST Trento, Italy), perini@fbk.eu
Jaelson Castro (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil), jbc@cin.ufpe.br
- PROGRAM COMMITTEE -
---------------------------------------------
Alberto Siena (CIT, FBK-IRST Trento, Italy)
Angelo Susi (CIT, FBK-IRST Trento, Italy)
Anthony Finkelstein (UCL, UK)
Carson Woo (UBC, Canada)
Claudia Cappelli (NP2TEC/UNIRIO, Brazil)
Collete Rolland (Univ. Paris I Panthéon-Sourbonne, France)
Daniel Amyot (Univ. Ottawa, Canada)
Dimitris Karagiannis (Univ. Wien, Austria)
Eric Yu (Univ. Toronto, Canada)
Fernanda Baião (UNIRIO, Brazil)
Fernanda Alencar (UFPE, Brazil)
Gerd Wagner (Cottbus Univ. Technology, Germany)
Giancarlo Guizzardi (UFES, Brazil)
João Paulo A. Almeida (UFES, Brazil)
John Mylopolous (Univ. Toronto, Canada)
Jolita Ralyte (Univ. Geneva, Switzerland)
Julio Leite (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Lin Liu (Tsinghua, China)
Lucineia Heloísa Thom (UFRGS, Brazil)
Luiz Olavo Bonino (Univ. Twente, The Netherlands)
Manfred Reichert (Ulm Univ., Germany)
Maria Beatriz Felgar de Toledo (IC/UNICAMP, Brazil)
Maria-Eugenia Iacob (Univ. Twente, The Netherlands)
Oscar Pastor (UPV, Spain)
Paul Johannesson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Xavier Franch (UPC, Spain)
Yiyun Yu (Open Univ., UK)
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Donnerstag, 8. April 2010
BWSS 2010 - SECOND BRAZILIAN WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL SIMULATION
BWSS 2010 - SECOND BRAZILIAN WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL SIMULATION [Workshop co-located with the 20th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence - SBIA, the XI Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Neural Network - SBRN, the IV Intelligent Robotics Meeting - JRI (with IX Latin American Robotics Competition - LARC, and Latin American Robotics Symposium - LARS)] São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil, 23-28 October, 2010 The BWSS 2010 Website is http://www.ncc.furg.br/bwss2010 . BWSS 2010 - Social simulation has a dialectical relationship to Artificial Intelligence, in general, and Multi-agent Systems, in particular. It is both an area for the application of methods, techniques and technologies of AI and MAS, as well as a source of inspiration for new theories, models and methods for AI and MAS, as it draws upon the theories, models and methods of the social sciences (anthropology, sociology, political science, economy, government, management, etc.). This one-day workshop will address theoretical, methodological, technical and instrumental issues concerning the area of simulation of social systems. The workshop will thus have an interdisciplinary character. Theories and models of societies and smaller social systems that embody a computational concern are at the center of area. Micro-level and macro-level issues concerning structures and processes at the social and individual levels, as well as the mutual influence between such conceptual levels, and problems of upward and downward causation between them should also be contemplated. Techniques, tools and computational environments for the simulation of those models, specially those based on agent and multi-agent technology, and AI methods in general, should be of primary concern. Application of social simulation to the various areas of social sciences (anthropology, sociology, political science, economy, government, management, etc.) should also be of interest to the audience. BWSS 2010 will have two invited speakers: - Prof. Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK) Title: Intra & inter-network dynamics, and the 'semantics' of the links - Prof. Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Title: Modelling complex social systems: opportunities and challenges We are cordially inviting you to submit a paper to BWSS 2010. The topics of interest are (not exclusively): - theoretical foundations of social simulation - methods and models for social simulation - AI and MAS tools, techniques, models and environments for social simulation - applications of social simulation (in research, government, management, education, etc.) Important dates: - Deadline for paper submission: June 28, 2010 - Notification to authors: July 28, 2010 - Camera-ready copies of papers: August 12, 2010 - Workshop date: co-located with SBIA, 23-28 October, 2010 (day yet to be announced) Paper format: Papers should be written in English, with at most 12 pages, and submitted in PDF format, following the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The submission system will be JEMS/SBC, through the BWSS 2010 website. At least one author of any accepted paper should attend the workshop. Proceedings: The papers accepted for the workshop will be published in the Workshop Proceedings. Best Paper: An extended version of the best paper presented at the workshop, selected by the Program Committee, will be invited to be submitted for the JBCS - Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society. (http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?language=2&subject=309) Post-Proceedings: Depending on the number of submissions, we are planning to propose a special issue on Social Simulation of the JBCS, where the authors of a selection of best papers presented at workshop, among other possible submissions, would be invited to submit extended versions of their papers, including the discussions and suggestions arised at the workshop oral presentations and working meetings. Organizing committee: * Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro, FURG, Brazil (corresponding chair, email: gracaliz@gmail.com) * Diana Francisca Adamatti, FURG, Brazil * Jaime Sichman, USP, Brazil * João Balsa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal * Luis Antunes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal * Patricia Tedesco, UFPE, Brazil Program committee (preliminary list):
*Alessandro de Lima Bicho (FURG, Brazil) *Alexei Sharpanskykh (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) *Ana Lucia Cetertich Bazzan (UFRGS, Brazil) *André Maurício Cunha Campos (UFRN, Brazil) *Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa (FURG, Brazil) *Armando Geller (George Mason University, USA) *Bruce Edmonds (Centre for Policy Modelling, UK) *Claudio Cioffi-Revilla (George Mason University, USA) *Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC-CNR, Italy) *Diana Francisca Adamatti (FURG, Brazil) *Fabio Yoshimitsu Okuyama (FTEC, Brazil) *Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto (UPE) *Fernando Lopes (INETI, Portugal) *Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Brescia, Italy) *Frederic Amblard (Universite Toulouse 1, France) *Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro (FURG, Brazil) *Gustavo Lugo (UTFPR, Brazil) *Harko Verhagen (Stockholm University, Sweden) *Helder Coelho (University of Lisbon, Portugal) *Iqbal Adjali (Unilever R&D Colworth Lab, UK) *Jaime Sichman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) *Jean-Daniel Kant (University of Paris Pierre et Marie Curie, France) *João Balsa (University of Lisbon, Portugal *Jorge Louçã (ISCTE, Portugal) *Juan Pavón (Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain) *Julie Dugdale (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France) *Juliette Rouchier (Greqam/CNRS, France) *Keith Sawyer (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) *Klaus Troitzsch (University of Koblenz, Germany) *Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon, Portugal) *Laszlo Gulyas (AITIA Intl. Inc., Lorand Eotvos University, Hungary) *Maíra Ribeiro Rodrigues (UFMG, Brazil) *Maria das Graças Bruno Marietto (UFABC, Brazil) *Mario Paolucci (ISTC/CNR, Italy) *Nick Gotts (Macaulay Institute, Scotland, UK) *Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK) *Nuno David (ISCTE, Portugal) *Patrícia Restelli Tedesco (UFPE, Brazil) *Paulo Roberto Ferreira Junior (UFPel, Brazil) *Paulo Trigo (ISEL, Portugal) *Pedro Andrade (INPE, Brazil) *Pietro Terna (University of Torino, Italy) *Ricardo Rodrigo Stark Bernard (UFSC, Brazil) *Rino Falcone (ISTC-CNR, Italy) *Rosaria Conte (ISTC-CNR, Italy) *Samer Hassan (Univ. Complutense Madrid, Spain) *Tibor Bosse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) *Wander Jager (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Samstag, 27. März 2010
Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S)
*************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** 4th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S) "Engineering Complex Systems through Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation" to be held at MALLOW (Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops) 2010, Lyon (France), 30 Aug.-03 Sept. Multi-agent systems (MASs) provide powerful models for representing both real-world systems and applications with an appropriate degree of complexity and dynamics. Several research and industrial experiences have already shown that the use of MASs offers advantages in a wide range of application domains (e.g. financial, economic, social, logistic, chemical, engineering). When MASs represent software applications to be effectively delivered, they need to be validated and evaluated before their deployment and execution, thus methodologies that support validation and evaluation through simulation of the MAS under development are highly required. In other emerging areas (e.g. ACE, ACF), MASs are designed for representing systems at different levels of complexity through the use of autonomous, goal-driven and interacting entities organized into societies which exhibit emergent properties The agent-based model of a system can then be executed to simulate the behavior of the complete system so that knowledge of the behaviors of the entities (micro-level) produce an understanding of the overall outcome at the system-level (macro-level). In both cases (MASs as software applications and MASs as models for the analysis of complex systems), simulation plays a crucial role which needs to be further investigated. Areas of Interest ----------------- MAS&S'10 aims at providing a forum for discussing recent advances in Engineering Complex Systems by exploiting Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation. In particular, the areas of interest are the following (although this list should not be considered as exclusive): * Agent-based simulation techniques and methodologies * Discrete-event simulation of Multi-Agent Systems * Simulation as validation tool for the development process of MAS * Agent-oriented methodologies incorporating simulation tools * MAS simulation driven by formal models * MAS simulation toolkits and frameworks * Testing vs. simulation of MAS * Agents as modeling concept enabling communication between domain experts and simulation experts * Industrial case studies based on MAS and simulation/testing * Agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) * Agent Computational Economics (ACE) * Agent Computational Finance (ACF) * Agent-based simulation of networked systems * Scalability in agent-based simulation Program Chairs -------------- Carole Bernon - Université Paul Sabatier, IRIT (France) - carole.bernon@irit.fr Alfredo Garro - Università della Calabria (Italy) - alfredo.garro@unical.it Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz - Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) - jjgomez@sip.ucm.es International Program Committee ------------------------------- Jean-Paul Arcangeli, Université Paul Sabatier, France Juan Antonio Botía Blaya, Universidad de Murcia, Spain Paul Davidson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Paolo Giorgini, Università di Trento, Italy Samer Hassan, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Vincent Hilaire, Université de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Franziska Klügl, Örebro Universitet, Sweden Adolfo López-Paredes, University of Valladolid, Spain Muaz Niazi, Foundation University, Pakistan Michael J. North, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Andrea Omicini, Università di Bologna, Italy Paolo Petta, OFAI, Austria Gauthier Picard, ENSM, Saint-Etienne, France Sébastien Picault, LIFL, Lille, France Luca Sabatucci, ITC-irst, FBK, Italy Valeria Seidita, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy Pietro Terna, Università di Torino, Italy Erwan Tranvouez, LSIS, France Giuseppe Vizzari, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy Steering Committee ------------------------------- Massimo Cossentino - ICAR/CNR, Italy Giancarlo Fortino - University of Calabria, Italy Juan Pavon - Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain Marie-Pierre Gleizes - Université Paul Sabatier, France Wilma Russo - University of Calabria, Italy Web Site and Contact Email for Inquiries ---------------------------------------- http://lisdip.deis.unical.it/workshops/mass10/ MALLOW web site: http://mallow2010.emse.fr/ Submission Guidelines --------------------- Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered. Please submit full papers: 8 pages maximum in IEEEtran style and PDF format. You can find styles for LaTeX, BibTeX and documentations at the following address: http://www.michaelshell.org/tex/ieeetran/. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the International Program Committee. The submission link will be at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mass10atmallow10 Publication ----------- The workshop proceedings will be published and distributed at the conference. Journal Special Issue --------------------- Selected papers presented at the workshop will be invited to a special issue on “Engineering Complex Systems through Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation” of a premier International Journal which is under selection; the chosen journal will be communicated on the Workshop Web Site. Important Dates --------------- May 30, 2010: Submission of Papers July 08, 2010: Notification of Acceptance/ Rejection July 30, 2010: Submission of Camera-Ready Copies 30 Aug - 03 Sept, 2010: Workshop Takes Place
Dienstag, 23. März 2010
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
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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/.
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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 ================================ 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 ========== 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
Dienstag, 16. März 2010
WORLDCOMP'10
CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper Submission Deadline: March 21, 2010
WORLDCOMP'10
The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
July 12-15, 2010, Las Vegas, USA
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All
accepted papers will be published in the respective conference
proceedings. The proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET /
The Institute for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / Computer
Science Bibliography, and others.)
ACADEMIC & TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS (a partial list):
The Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC), University of
California, Berkeley, USA; Collaboratory for Advanced Computing
and Simulations (CACS), University of Southern California, USA;
Intelligent Data Exploration & Analysis Lab., University of
Texas at Austin, Texas, USA; Harvard Statistics Department
Genomics & Bioinformatics Lab., Harvard University,
Massachusetts, USA; BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Lab.,
Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University, Georgia,
USA; Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA; Minnesota
Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, USA; Center
for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia
Institute of Technology, USA; Medical Image HPC & Informatics
Lab. (MiHi Lab), University of Iowa, USA; University of North
Dakota, USA; NDSU-CIIT Green Computing & Communications Lab.,
North Dakota State University, USA; Knowledge Management &
Intelligent System Center (KMIS) of University of Siegen,
Germany; UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational
Research, Austria; SECLAB of University of Naples Federico II,
University of Naples Parthenope, & Second University of Naples,
Italy; National Institute for Health Research; World Academy of
Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; High Performance
Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano); Supercomputer Software
Department (SSD), Institute of Computational Mathematics &
Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences; Int'l
Council on Medical & Care Compunetics; The UK Department for
Business, Innovation and Skills, UK; VMW Solution Ltd.;
Scientific Technologies Corporation; HoIP - Health without
Boundaries; Space for Earth Foundation; and Manjrasoft (Cloud
Computing Technology company), Melbourne, Australia.
WORLDCOMP 2010 CONFERENCES: (all will be held simultaneously;
ie, same location and dates - tracks that have already received
a sufficient number of papers have been excluded from this list.)
o BIOCOMP'10 - 11th annual Conference on Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology
o CDES'10 - 10th annual Conference on Computer Design
o CGVR'10 - 14th annual Conference on Computer Graphics and
Virtual Reality
o CSC'10 - 7th annual Conference on Scientific Computing
o DMIN'10 - 6th annual Conference on Data Mining
o EEE'10 - 9th annual Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,
Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government
o ESA'10 - 8th annual Conference on Embedded Systems and
Applications
o FCS'10 - 6th annual Conference on Foundations of Computer
Science
o FECS'10 - 6th annual Conference on Frontiers in Education:
Computer Science and Computer Engineering
o GCA'10 - 6th annual Conference on Grid Computing and
Applications
o GEM'10 - 7th annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary
Methods
o ICAI'10 - 12th annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence
o ICOMP'10 - 11th annual Conference on Internet Computing
o ICWN'10 - 9th annual Conference on Wireless Networks
o IKE'10 - 9th annual Conference on Information and Knowledge
Engineering
o IPCV'10 - 14th annual Conference on Image Processing,
Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition
o MSV'10 - 7th annual Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
Visualization Methods
o PDPTA'10 - 16th annual Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Processing Techniques and Applications
o SAM'10 - 9th annual Conference on Security and Management
o SERP'10 - 9th annual Conference on Software Engineering
Research and Practice
o SWWS'10 - 6th annual Conference on Semantic Web and
Web Services
Each of the conferences listed above has its own proceedings;
its own program committee members, and infrastructure. A
link to each of these conferences can be found at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org
GENERAL INFORMATION:
WORLDCOMP 2010 will be composed of research presentations,
keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel
discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past,
keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A.
Patterson (pioneer/computer architecture, U. of California,
Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of
Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of
Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known
as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena
Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry
Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys
(known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC),
Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming,
Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U.
of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern
California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director &
Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.),
Anousheh Ansari (CEO, Prodea Systems & first female private
space explorer), and many other distinguished speakers. To get
a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2009 delegates
photos available at: http://www.pixagogo.com/1672514104
Featured keynote speakers for 2010 are (this is a partial list;
there are 22 other keynotes/invited talks):
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic) and Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director,
Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA).
WORLDCOMP 2010 MEMBERS OF STEERING COMMITTEE:
(Each conference has its own committee members - what appears
below is a partial list of members of the steering committee
of the federated event.)
Dr. Selim Aissi
Chief Strategist - Security, Manageability and Virtualization,
Ultra Mobile Group, Intel Corporation, USA
Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (Contact Person)
Coordinator & General Co-Chair, WORLDCOMP 2010,
ISIBM Fellow & Professor, Department of Computer Science,
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer),
Co-Editor/Board, Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier),
Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing,
The University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
email: hra@cs.uga.edu
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
Member, National Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow,
Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Prof. Hyunseung Choo
ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication, Korea,
Director, ITRC: Intel. HCI Convergence Research Center, Korea,
Director, Korea Information Processing Society,
Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology,
Assoc. Editor, Transactions on Computational Science, Springer;
Director, Korean Society for Internet Info. (KSII);
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Prof. (Winston) Wai-Chi Fang
IEEE Fellow
TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor,
National Chiao Tung University,
Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC
Prof. Andy Marsh
Director HoIP (Healthcare over Internet Protocol),
Secretary-General WABT (World Academy of Biomedical Sci. & Tech.),
Vice-president ICET (Int'l Council for Engineering & Technology),
Vice-president ICMCC (Int'l Council on Medical & Care Compunetics),
Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK
Prof. Layne T. Watson
IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow,
Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace,
Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University,
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
Member, National Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow,
Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing,
Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, PUBLICATION, INDEXING INFORMATION:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers
by uploading them to the evaluation web site at:
http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/
Submissions must be uploaded by the end of March 21, 2010
and they must be in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf
formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of
10 to 12). At this time, all reasonable typesetting formats
are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will
be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to
prepare their final papers for publication.)
The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be
limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been
previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include:
title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and
email address for each author. The first page should also
identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5
topical keywords that would best represent the content of
the paper.
All accepted papers will be published in the respective
conference proceedings (in both, printed book/ISBN form as
well as online). The proceedings will be indexed in Inspec /
IET / The Institute for Engineering and Technology, DBLP /
Computer Science Bibliography, and others. 7247) The printed
proceedings will be available for distribution on site at
the conference.
In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected
authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their
papers for publication in a number of research books being
proposed/contracted with various publishers (such as,
Springer, Elsevier, IOS, ...) - these books would be
composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of sessions
and workshops will be forming journal special issues to be
published after the conference.
IMPORTANT DATES:
March 21, 2010: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
April 10, 2010: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 1, 2010: Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 12-15, 2010: The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
(WORLDCOMP'10)
LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:
See:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/location
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