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

Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems (ITMAS 2012)

The 3rd International Workshop on Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems
ITMAS 2012
Web page: http://itmas2012.gti-ia.upv.es

5 June, 2012, Valencia, Spain

Special issue in the *SCI-indexed journal*:
Information Systems Frontiers with a JCR Impact factor 1.596 (2010)

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

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

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

Specific topics for this workshop include, but are not limited to:
* Agent Infrastructures
* Agent Communication Technologies
* Interoperability and Standards
* Integration of technologies to support Multiagent Systems
* Integration of Agent Infrastructures with non-agent Infrastructures
* Efficiency and Scalability Evaluation
* Agent Infrastructure Benchmarks
* Security, Privacy and Identity Management in Multiagent Systems
* Secure Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems
* Infrastructures and tools supporting Social and Organizational Models
* Infrastructures and tools supporting Trust and Reputation Models
* Infrastructures and tools supporting Intelligent Virtual Environments
* Infrastructures and tools supporting Electronic Institutions
* Infrastructures for agent-based Service-Oriented Systems
* Design, Management and Monitoring tools for Multiagent Systems
* Models and Architectures for Designing Agent Infrastructures
* Coordination infrastructures for Multiagent Systems
* Environment infrastructures for Multiagent Systems
* Infrastructure support to Model-driven Engineering in Multiagent Systems
* Infrastructure mechanisms for self-organising Multiagent Systems
* Information Retrieval Tools for Multiagent Systems
* Semantic Web Tools for Multiagent Systems
* Mobile Agent Technologies
* Industry implementations of Multiagent Systems
* Experiences using Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems
* Infrastructures and Tools for Biomedical Multiagent Systems

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IMPORTANT DATES
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* Paper Sumbission Deadline: 2 April 2012
* Paper Acceptance Notification: 30 April 2012
* Camera-ready copies due: 6 May 2012
* Workshop Date: 5 June 2012

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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* Juan M. Alberola (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
* Vicent Botti (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
* Ana Garcia-Fornes (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
* Michal Pechoucek (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
* Alessandro Ricci (Alma Mater Studiorum-Universita  di Bologna, Italy)
* Jose M. Such (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
* Danny Weyns (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

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

Submissions must follow the itmas2012 paper format (http://itmas2012.gti-ia.upv.es) and should be a maximum of 14 pages.

Papers must be submitted in pdf format via the conference management system, available at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itmas2012

Proceedings will be published with ISBN and following an open access policy. At least one author for each accepted paper must register for the paper to be included in the proceedings.

Selected papers will be invited to submit extended and revised versions to a special issue in the SCI-indexed journal Information Systems Frontiers with a JCR Impact factor 1.596 (2010).

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CONTACT
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ITMAS2012 Organizers itmas2012(at)dsic(dot)upv(dot)es

Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS'12)

Tenth International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS'12)


ProMAS'12 is a satellite workshop at AAMAS 2012 Valencia, Spain, 4-5 June 2012


Over the last decade, the ProMAS workshop series has provided a venue
for state-of-the-art research in programming languages and tools for
the development of multi-agent systems. With the increasing commercial
application of multi-agent systems, the need for development tools and
platforms capable of supporting "professional" or "industrial
strength" MAS development has only increased. Such languages and tools
must be developed in a way that is principled and and at the same time
practical, and ProMAS aims to address both theoretical and practical
issues related to developing and deploying multi-agent systems.

Now in its 10th edition, ProMAS has proved to be an invaluable venue
for bringing together leading researchers from both academia and
industry to discuss key issues in the design of programming languages
and tools for multi-agent systems. In particular, the workshop
promotes the discussion and exchange of techniques, concepts,
requirements and principles central to multi-agent programming
technology. These include the theory and application of agent
programming languages, how to effectively implement a multi-agent
system specification or design, the verification and analysis of agent
systems, as well as the implementation of social structures in
agent-based systems (e.g., organisations, coordination, and
communication in multi-agent systems).

We encourage the submission of papers describing proposals for
programming languages and tools that provide specific programming
constructs to facilitate the implementation of multi-agent system
concepts (e.g., mental attitudes, distribution, and social
interaction). We also welcome submissions describing significant
multi-agent applications, as well as agent programming tools that
allow the integration of agents with legacy systems. We are
particularly interested in approaches or applications that show
clearly the added-value of multi-agent programming, and explain why
and how this technology should be adopted by designers and programmers
both in academia and industry.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Programming languages, models and abstractions for MAS
- Extensions of traditional languages for multi-agent programming
- Programming mobile agents
- Semantics for multi-agent programming languages
- Computational complexity of MAS
- Algorithms, techniques, or protocols relevant to multi-agent
programming (e.g., coordination, cooperation, negotiation)
- Agent communication issues in multi-agent programming
- Programming social, organizational, and normative aspects of MAS
- Interoperability and standards for MAS
- Safety and security for mobile MAS deployment
- Fault tolerance and load balancing for mobile MAS
- Generic tools and infrastructures for multi-agent programming
- High-level executable multi-agent specification languages
- Formal methods and tools for specification and verification of MAS
- Agent/environment/interaction/organization development tools and platforms
- Benchmarks and testbeds for comparing multi-agent programming
languages and tools
- Applications of multi-agent programming languages including: legacy
systems, pervasive applications, multi-robot systems, autonomous
software (e.g., UAVs), (Semantic) Web and Grid-based applications, and
deployed (industrial-strength) multi-agent systems
- Integration of multi-agent and mainstream technologies

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline:                    28  February 2012
Notification of acceptance/rejection:         27  March    2012
Camera-ready copies due:                      10  April    2012
Workshop Date:                                4-5 June     2012

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors should submit their papers via the easychair conference
management system:


Papers should be formatted using Springer LNCS style

and should be less than 16 pages in length.

PUBLICATION

Accepted papers will be appear in informal proceedings to distributed
among participants during the workshop. As was the case with previous
editions of the ProMAS workshop, we are planning to publish extended
versions of selected and invited papers as a volume of the Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series by Springer-Verlag.


ORGANISING COMMITTEE

- Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Brian Logan (University of Nottingham, UK)
- Jomi Hubner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)


STEERING COMMITTEE

- Rafael H. Bordini (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
- Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Juergen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
- Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni (University of Paris VI, France)

Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems ITMAS 2011

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

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

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

2 - 6 May, 2011, Taipei, Taiwan

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DESCRIPTION

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

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

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

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

* Agent Infrastructures

* Agent Communication Technologies

* Interoperability and Standards

* Integration of technologies to support Multiagent Systems

* Integration of Agent Infrastructures with non-agent Infrastructures

* Efficiency and Scalability Evaluation

* Agent Infrastructure Benchmarks

* Security, Privacy and Identity Management in Multiagent Systems

* Secure Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems

* Infrastructures and tools supporting Social and Organizational Models

* Infrastructures and tools supporting Trust and Reputation Models

* Infrastructures and tools supporting Intelligent Virtual Environments

* Infrastructures and tools supporting Electronic Institutions

* Infrastructures for agent-based Service-Oriented Systems

* Design, Management and Monitoring tools for Multiagent Systems

* Models and Architectures for Designing Agent Infrastructures

* Coordination infrastructures for Multiagent Systems

* Environment infrastructures for Multiagent Systems

* Infrastructure support to Model-driven Engineering in Multiagent Systems

* Infrastructure mechanisms for self-organising Multiagent Systems

* Information Retrieval Tools for Multiagent Systems

* Semantic Web Tools for Multiagent Systems

* Mobile Agent Technologies

* Industry implementations of Multiagent Systems

* Experiences using Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems

* Infrastructures and Tools for Biomedical Multiagent Systems

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IMPORTANT DATES

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* Paper Sumbission Deadline: JANUARY, 30, 2011

* Paper Acceptance Notification: FEBRUARY 27, 2011

* Camera-ready copies due: MARCH 7, 2011

* Workshop Date: MAY 2-3, 2011

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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* Vicent Botti (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

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

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

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

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

* Danny Weyns (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be confirmed)

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

* Makoto Amamiya (Kyushu University, Japan)

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

* Fabio Bellifemine (Telecom Italia, Italy)

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

* Vicent Botti (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

* Frances Brazier (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands)

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

* Agustin Espinosa (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

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

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

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

* Yasuhiko Kitamura (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)

* Abder Koukam (University of Technology UTBM, France)

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

* Pavlos Moraitis (Paris Descartes University, France)

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

* Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)

* Michal Pechoucek (Agent Technology Center, Czech Republic)

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

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

* Murat Sensoy (University of Aberdeen, UK)

* Carles Sierra (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)

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

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

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

* Danny Weyns (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

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SUBMISSION and REVIEW DETAILS

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

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

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

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

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

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CONTACT

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

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)

22th International IEEE Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (IEEE-ICTAI'10)

IEEE-ICTAI'10

22th International IEEE  Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence

                 October 27-29, 2010, Arras, France

          45 mn from Charles de Gaulle Paris 
International Airport by direct train
                               or
              50 mn from downtown Paris by direct train


                   http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/ictai10/

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Important Dates

Paper submission: June 6, 2010
Paper notification: July 15, 2010
Camera ready paper: August 31, 2010

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Aim & Scope
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The annual IEEE International Conference on Tools 
with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI)
provides a major international forum where the 
creation and exchange of ideas related to
artificial intelligence are fostered among 
academia, industry, and government agencies. The
conference facilitates the cross-fertilization of 
these ideas and promotes their transfer into
practical tools, for developing intelligent 
systems and pursuing artificial intelligence
applications. The ICTAI encompasses all technical 
aspects of specifying, developing and
evaluating the theoretical underpinnings and 
applied mechanisms of the AI based components
of computer tools (i.e. algorithms, architectures and languages).

Topics (not limited to)
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AI Algorithms
AI in Bioinformatics
AI in Computer Security
AI in Databases and Data Mining
AI in E-commerce
AI in Games
AI in Information Assurance
AI in Logistics
AI in Medicine
AI in Multimedia Systems
AI in Real-time & Embedded Applications
AI in Robotics
AI in Software Engineering
Case-Based Reasoning
Cognitive Modelling
Constraint Programming
Collaborative Software Agents
Reasoning Under Fuzziness or Uncertainty
Evolutionary Computing
Hybrid Intelligent Systems
Information Retrieval
Intelligent Tutoring/Training Systems
Intelligent Internet Agents
Intelligent Interface Agents
Knowledge-based Systems
Knowledge Extraction
Knowledge Management and Sharing
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing and Understanding
Neural Networks
Ontologies
Planning and Scheduling
Qualitative Reasoning
Search and Heuristics, SAT, CSP, QBF
Semantic Web-Techniques & Technologies
Speech Processing and Understanding
Vision/Image Processing & Understanding

Paper Submission
---------------------------

The submissions should contain original, high 
quality, not submitted or published elsewhere
work. Papers should be submitted electronically 
(through ICTAI 2010 web site) in pdf format
and should conform to IEEE specifications 
(single-spaced, double-column, 10-point font size,
up to 8 pages).

Paper Presentation
----------------------------

Each accepted paper should be presented by one of 
the authors and accompanied by at least
one full registration fee payment, to guarantee 
publication in the proceedings. All accepted
papers will be included in proceedings of ICTAI 
2010, which will be published by the IEEE.

IJAIT special issue
---------------------------

Extended versions of the best papers of the 
conference will be invited for publication in a
special issue of the International Journal on 
Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) (SCI
Indexed).

Further Information
---------------------------

Éric Grégoire (PC Chair)
CRIL UMR 8188 CNRS
Université d'Artois
rue Jean Souvraz SP18
F-62307 Lens, FRANCE

Email: gregoire [at] cril [dot] univ-artois [dot] fr

Steering Committee
-----------------------------

Nikolaos Bourbakis, (Chair)
Chittoor V. Ramamoorthy
Jeffrey Tsai
Benjamin W. Wah
Farokh B. Bastani
Soon Chung
Despina Kavraki
Ioannis Hatziligeroudis

Co-general chairs
-------------------------

Naohiro Ishii (Asian liaison)
Phil Sheu (USA liaison) 
Youssef Hamadi (European liaison)

Program Committee Chair
-------------------------------------

Éric Grégoire

Area Chairs
-----------------

Shyi-Ming Chen
Diane Cook
Alfredo Cuzzocrea
Jin-Kao Hao
Vasant Honavar
Nobuhiro Inuzuka
Daniel Kayser
Taghi Khoshgoftaar
Vasile Palade
Luigi Portinale
Henri Prade
Marie-Christine Rousset
Andreas-Georgios Stafylopatis
Karl Tombre
Zhi-Hua Zhou
Du Zhang
Sotirios Ziavras

Program Committee
-----------------------------

Hamid Aghajan
Charles Anderson
Spyros Angelopoulos
Asa Ben-Hur
Antonio Berlanga-de-Jesus
Philippe Besnard
Harry Bunt
Philippe Chatalic
Nicolae Constantin
Aaron Crandall
Belen Diaz Agudo
Xin Geng
Malik Ghallab
Francois Goasdoué
Jose Juarez Herrero
Yin-Tong Hsiao
Thomas R. Ioeger
Yuji Iwahori
Fabrice Jouanot
Hyunju Kim
Helge Langseth
Huey-Ming Lee
Giorgio Leonardi
Yung-Ho Leu
Xiaoou Li
Yanjun Li
Dan Lopresti
Congnan Luo
Tony R. Martinez
Bertrand Mazure
Stefania Montani
Naoto Mukai
Tsuyoshi Nakamura
Mehmet Orgun
Jeng-Shyang Pan
John Paxton
Jun Peng
Vir Phoha
Cedric Piette
Parisa Rashidi
Marek Reformat
Lorenza Saitta
Erik Sandewall
Lakhdar Saïs
Vincent Schmidt
Jianqiang Shen
Victor R. L. Shen
Marina Sokolova
ChewLim Tan
Alexandre Termier
Douglas Vieira
Toby Walsh
Marcel Worring
Ioannis Zaharakis
Daoqiang Zhang

Financial Chair Manuel Demont
---------------------

Registration Chair  Nadine Kucharski
--------------------------

Publication Chair Bertrand Mazure
------------------------

Webmaster Fabien Delorme
----------------

Local Arrangements Committee
----------------------------------------------

Assef Chmeiss
Jean-Luc Coquidé (chair)
Tiago de Lima
Anne Parrain
Cédric Piette
Lakhdar Saïs
Sébastien Tabary

CfP SIMPAR 2010 Conference

Call for Papers

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

       Darmstadt (Germany), November 15-18, 2010

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

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

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

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IMPORTANT DATES

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

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

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

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

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

       Award Chair
Itsuki Noda (AIST, Japan)
       Local Chair
T. Hemker (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
       Tutorial Chair
D. Brugali (University of Bergamo, Italy)
       Workshop Chair
E. Menegatti (University of Padua, Italy)
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More details can be found at http://www.simpar.org
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE GAME AND ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES (GET2010)

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

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE GAME AND ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES (GET2010)
Freiburg, Germany, 26 – 28 July 2010
(http://www.gaming-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems(MCCSIS 2010)
Freiburg, Germany 26 – 31 July 2010
(http://www.mccsis.org)


* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Matt Costello, Scriptwriter & Games Designer, USA

* Conference background and goals
This conference aims to bring together research and practice from creative, social and business practitioners and researchers in this challenging field. The focus of this conference is on design, development and evaluation of games, entertainment technologies and the nature of play.

* Format of the Conference 
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line).

* Best Papers
Selected authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to selected journals (i.e. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems - ISSN: 1646-3692) including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.

* Types of submissions 
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics related to Game and Entertainment Technologies are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following topics: 
 
- Development methodologies
- Design issues 
- Controversial issues – we welcome debate and dissension, for example; games as art, entertainment as purely for monetary returns etc
- Special Effects
- Animation
- Mobile and ubiquitous games and entertainment 
- Serious Games and entertainment –applications, critiques
- Philosophical issues
- Prototypes
- Social and cultural uses of/for Play
- Tools and technologies
- Skills, strategy, rules and chance
- Genre
- Immersiveness and engagement
- Research methodologies in creative practice

- Usability and playability
- User/player centered design
- Psychological, social, and cultural differences in perception and participation
- Communities, networks, social interaction and social capital
- Cross-cultural and intercultural approaches
- Assessment of exploratory learning approaches
- Emerging practices


* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (new date): 29 March 2010
- Notification to Authors (new date): 30 April 2010
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (new date): Until 24 May 2010
- Late Registration (new date): After 24 May 2010
- Conference: Freiburg, Germany, 26 – 28 July 2010

* Conference Location 
The conference will be held in Freiburg, Germany. 

* Secretariat 
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE GAME AND ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES 2010
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal 
E-mail: secretariat@gaming-conf.org
Web site: http://www.gaming-conf.org/

* Program Committee 
Game and Entertainment Technologies 2010 Conference Program Chair:
Katherine Blashki, University of Sydney, Australia

General MCCSIS 2010 Conference Co-Chairs:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands 
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal
Dirk Ifenthaler, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.gaming-conf.org/committees.asp

CALL FOR TUTORIALS -- EASSS 2010

      !!!   CALL FOR TUTORIALS -- EASSS 2010   !!!

The twelfth edition of the European Agent Systems Summer
School (EASSS 2010) will be in conjunction with MALLOW 2010
and take place at

  Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne
                  Saint-Etienne, France
                   23-27 August, 2010
                http://easss2010.emse.fr

Researchers and lecturers in the field of autonomous agents
and multi-agent systems are invited to submit a proposal
for a state-of-the-art course in the twelfth edition of the
European Agent Systems Summer School. Like its very successful
predecessors, EASSS 2010 aims to offer a valuable forum for
knowledge exchange between various research groups in this field
for the benefit of students and researchers at both beginner and
advanced level. The success of this summer school is essential not
only for the mutual benefit of research groups, but also in
forming future generations of researchers to maintain the
excellence of Agents research and development in Europe.

Tutors are encouraged to submit a 1-page course proposal including:
the topic and its importance for the field, intended audience and
their required background knowledge, outline of the topics to be
presented, how the course material will be prepared, the tutors
and their experience, level of the course (beginners/advanced),
duration (typically 4 or 6 hours), and any special equipment
requirements. Proposals will be evaluated based on the importance and
quality of the topic description, the quality of the presentation
material, and the teaching ability of the proposed speakers.

Deadline for proposals:         April 18, 2010
Notification:                   May 24,   2010
material for reader (< 26 pp)   July 4,   2010

A typical course has 4 hours in total, but variations are
possible. Courses should be broad enough to provide a general
introduction to the chosen topic, but it should also cover
the most important contributions in depth. Courses are expected
to take a wider perspective than one specific approach practised
by an individual or group. For an impression, the courses given in
2001 are collected in a volume of Springer's LNAI series (No 2086),
and programmes of previous editions of EASSS can be found via the
webpage of EASSS09 (http://agents009.di.unito.it/EASSS.html).

The summer schools attract about 100 students each year. We intend
to give a modest contribution towards tutors' expenses by providing
free accommodation, but EASSS would not normally cover tutors'
travel costs. Please note that this year EASSS is in conjunction
(but not co-located) with MALLOW 2010 for the third time and takes
place one week before that event. MALLOW 2010 will be in Lyon
(very close to Saint-Etienne).

Submissions of tutorial proposals should be sent to Mehdi Dastani
(mehdi@cs.uu.nl).

The EASSS-2010 Committee members are:

Local Chairs:
Olivier Boissier                Saint-Etienne, France
Gauthier Picard                 Saint-Etienne, France
Laurent Vercouter               Saint-Etienne, France

Program Committee:
Mehdi Dastani (chair)           Utrecht, Netherlands
Rafael Bordini                  Durham, UK
Catholijn Jonker                Delft, Netherlands
Barbara Keplicz                 Warszawa, Poland
Nicolas Maudet                  Paris, France
Andrea Omicini                  Bologna, Italy
Michal Pechoucek                Prague, Czech Republic

For information about local organisation please contact
Laurent Vercouter (easss2010@emse.fr).

POSSIBLE TOPICS:

* action selection and planning in multi-/agent systems
* adaptation, evolution and learning in multi-/agent systems
* agent-based simulation and modeling
* agent communication, agent dialogues and agent argumentation
* agents, ontologies, web services and semantic web
* agent-oriented software engineering and development methodologies
* agent programming languages and development tools   
* agent standardizations in industry and commerce
* applications and deployment for agents and multi-agent systems
* architectures for multi-agent systems
* artificial market systems, auctions, trading agents and electronic
  commerce, electronic institutions
* autonomous robots and robot teams
* believability, human-like qualities of synthetic agents, humanoid
  and sociable robots
* game theory and coalition formation for agents based systems
* computational complexity in agent systems
* conventions, commitments, norms, social laws and legal issues in
  multi-agent systems
* coordination, cooperation, and collaboration in multi-agent systems
* emergence, self-organisation and collective behavior in agent-based
  systems
* foundational issues and theories of agency     
* information agents, routers, brokering and matchmaking
* logics for specification, verification and validation of
  multi-agent systems
* mobile agents
* negotiation, task and resource allocation, and conflict handling
  in multi-agent systems
* privacy, safety and security in multi-agent systems
* scalability, robustness and dependability of multi-agent systems
* social and cognitive models for agents   
* social and organizational structures of multi-agent systems
* trust and reputation in multi-agent systems
* Multi-agent systems and/for Web Intelligence
* Multi-agent systems and/for Ambient Computing