Workshop on WEB INTELLIGENCE & COMMUNITIES (WI&C'12)

4th International Workshop on WEB INTELLIGENCE & COMMUNITIES (WI&C'12)
http://wic.litislab.fr

to be held at the 2012 World Wide Web International Conferences (WWW'12)
Lyon, France, April 16-20, 2012

*Important Dates:*

Paper submission deadline: January 27th, 2012
Acceptance notification : February 27th, 2012
Camera ready paper : March 23rd, 2012
Workshop : April 16th, 2012

*INVITED SPEAKER*

We are honored to have a invited talk from Ashwin Ram (PARC & Georgia Tech).
Title: Health & Wellness 2.0 with social networks for healthcare

*SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP*

Web Intelligence consists of a multidisciplinary area dealing with exploiting data and services over the Web, to create new data and services using both Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. Communities appear as a first-class object in the areas of web intelligence and agent technologies, as well as a crucial crossroads of several sub-domains (i.e. user modelling, protocols, data management, data mining, content modelling, etc.). These sub-domains impact the nature of the communities 
and the applications which are related to them. These applications are numerous, and the success of well-known Social Network Sites for entertainment should not be allowed to over-shadow the other application domains, for instance in education, health, design, knowledge management, and so forth. 

The workshop will provide presentation and discussion opportunities for researchers working on web intelligence applied to collaborative networks, such as virtual communities. The possibilities and consequences of the web usage for collaborative networks are tremendous and new tools are required to satisfy users and service providers.

The workshop Web Intelligence and Communities expects contributions on topics such as:
 Multi-agent models and tools for Virtual Communities (VC)
 Services and Grid Services for VC, Service oriented architectures
 Web information mining, filtering and retrieval within/for VC
 Web-based applications and platforms for VC
 Intelligent web interaction, querying, diffusion
 Semantics and ontology engineering for VC
 Self-* models and techniques for VC
 Social networks modelling, virtual communities, social intelligence
 Context-based approach, profile management, personalization and recommendations for/through VC
 Privacy preserving, security, trust-based computing & reputation systems
 Applications: E-* (market, procurement, technologies, health, government, etc.) and VC
 VC and content and knowledge repositories, behaviour modelling and exchange
 Web intelligence, mobility and VC, Ambient Intelligence, Pervasive computing
 Performances evaluation, experiments, user feed-back
 Surveys on WI and VC
 Semantic Web technologies for Social Data integration and fusion
 Human-based behaviour patterns and modelling


*SUBMISSIONS*

The Web Intelligence and Communities workshop welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological as well as application papers. Discussion papers and demonstration papers (for presentation during the workshop) are also welcome.

Submitted papers should be 10 pages maximum in length (4 pages for the discussion and demonstration papers), including figures and references. The paper must be formatted in pdf according to style guidelines of ACM SIG Proceedings Template available here: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

All submissions should be done online on the workshop submission web site:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wic2012

The WI&C workshop are traditionnaly followed by post-proceedings
published in a renowned international journal (for the 2 last ones, it
was the International Journal on Web Intelligence & Agent
Systems). Discussions are in progress to decide which journal will
publish a special issue with the post-proceedings of WI&C 2012.

* WORKSHOP CHAIRS *

 • Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway
 • Pierre Maret, Hubert Curien Laboratory, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne, France
 • Laurent Vercouter, LITIS Laboratory, INSA de Rouen, France

* PROGRAM COMMITTEE *

Altmann Jorn, Seoul National University, South Korea
Amblard Frédéric, University of Toulouse I, France
Badica Costin, University of Craiova, Romania
Calmet Jacques, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Camacho Fernández David, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Corcho Oscar, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Currie Ken, CAPDM Ltd., Edinburgh, UK
De Coi Juri Luca, University of Saint Etienne, France
Delaforge Nicolas, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Dey Anind, Carnegie Mellon Institute, USA
El Morr Christo, York University, Canada
Favre Cécile, ERIC, University of Lyon 2, France
Gilani Wasif, SAP Research, United Kingdom
Halpin Harry, W3C, Scotland
Heckmann Dominikus, Saarland University, Germany
Kawash Jalal, University of Calgary, Canada
Kristoffersen Steinar, Ostfold University College, Norway
Letia Ioan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Lingras Pawan, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada
Lopez Guillaume, University of Tokyo, Japan
Molli Pascal, University of Nantes, France
Occello Michel, University Pierre Mendes France, France
Ramanath Maya, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
Ribière Myriam, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France
Rios Sebastián, University of Chile, Chile
Sasikumar M, C-DAC, India
Soulier Eddie, University of Technology of Troyes, France
Stahl Christoph, DFKI Saarbrucken, Germany
Stan Johann, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France
Story Henry, W3C
Tarkkanen Kimmo, University of Turku, Finland
Teigland Robin, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Tellioglu Hilda, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
van Beijnum Bert-Jan, University of Twente, Netherlands
Werthner Hannes, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Ying Ding, Indiana University Bloomington, USA


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*Laurent Vercouter* Professor in Computer Science
LITIS lab, INSA de Rouen, Rouen, France
Ph: (+33) 232 959 986

Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS 2012)

Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS) 2012



A full-day workshop to be held as part of AAMAS-2012 and to accompany the AAMAS Special Track on Robotics



June 2012, Valencia, Spain

Website: http://mmi.tudelft.nl/arms2012/



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Important Dates

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  Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2012

  Notification of acceptance: March 27, 2012

  Submission of camera-ready version: April 10, 2012



Overview

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Robots are agents, too.  Indeed, agent researchers are sometimes inspired by robots, sometimes use robots in motivating examples, and sometimes make contributions to robotics. Both practical and analytical techniques in agent research influence, and are influenced by, research into autonomous robots and multi-robot systems. Areas of particular recent cross-fertilization include (but are not limited

to):



- motion planning and path planning for single and multiple mobile robots

- market-based for coalition formation and task allocation

- machine learning in robotics

- multi-robot teams and swarms

- human-agent-robot teamwork

- analysis of large-scale multi-robot systems and swarms

- decision-theoretic single- and multi-robot planning

- imitation and learning by demonstration/example

- formal methods and control architectures

- Canonical robotics problems, such as robotic soccer, coverage,

   foraging, or patrolling



Despite the rich cross-fertilization between AAMAS and robotics research areas, roboticists and agents researchers have only a few opportunities to meet and interact. The recently established robotics track at AAMAS is one such opportunity. The goal of the proposed workshop is to extend and widen this opportunity, by offering a forum where researchers in this area of research can interact and present promising innovative research directions, and new results. The workshop is coordinated and associated with the AAMAS robotics track.



Submissions and Publication

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The submission website is http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arms2012.



Contributions are sought in all areas of robotics, in particular as related to autonomous agents research, but not necessarily so.

Theoretical papers are welcome, as long as they clearly address challenges in robotics. Empirical studies should ideally present experiments with real robots, though physical simulation studies are also acceptable.  Papers that focus on mechanical aspects and low-level control should be make an effort to relate to the agents community.



Submissions should follow Springer's LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and should not exceed 16 pages in length.



Organizing Committee TBA

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The contact organizers are Gal Kaminka (galk@cs.biu.ac.il) and Koen Hindriks (k.v.hindriks@tudelft.nl).

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

Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT 2012)

            10th International Workshop on
             Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
                             (DALT 2012)

                          4 or 5 June 2012

                           Valencia, Spain
                (held in conjunction with AAMAS 2012)

         URL: http://www.di.unito.it/~baldoni/DALT-2012/

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The workshop  on Declarative Agent Languages  and Technologies (DALT),
in  its tenth  edition this  year,  is a  well-established forum  for
researchers  interested  in  sharing  their experiences  in  combining
declarative  and  formal approaches  with  engineering and  technology
aspects  of agents  and  multiagent systems.   Building complex  agent
systems calls for models  and technologies that ensure predictability,
allow for  the verification of properties,  and guarantee flexibility.
Developing  technologies  that can  satisfy  these requirements  still
poses  an  important   and  difficult  challenge.   Here,  declarative
approaches  have the  potential of  offering solutions  satisfying the
needs   for  both  specifying   and  developing   multiagent  systems.
Moreover,  they  are gaining  more  and  more  attention in  important
application   areas  such  as   the  semantic   web,  service-oriented
computing, security,  and electronic contracting.

DALT 2012 will be held as a satellite workshop of AAMAS 2012, the 11th
International  Joint Conference  on Autonomous  Agents  and Multiagent
Systems,  in June  2011 in Valencia, Spain.   Following the  success of
nine previous editions, DALT will again aim at providing a discussion
forum to  both (i) support  the transfer of declarative  paradigms and
techniques  to   the  broader  community  of   agent  researchers  and
practitioners, and (ii) to bring  the issue of designing complex agent
systems  to  the  attention  of  researchers  working  on  declarative
languages and technologies.

DALT 2012 will have as a special interest topics those future trends of
the web, where declarative languages and technologies for multiagents
systems will play an effective role: in particular, social computing
(models of social interactions, trust, commitments, and contracts;
social  environments based on declarative technologies) and its related
semantic issues (explicit representation of knowledge and mechanisms for
allowing societies of agents to reason on that).

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


DALT 2012 special topic: declarative approaches for agent-based social
computing
* models of social interactions among agents
* models of buiness interactions among agents
* models of trust, commitments, and reputation for agents
* declarative description of contracts and negotiation policies
* social environments based on declarative technologies
* Semantic Web-aware declarative agents

General themes:
* specification of agents and multi-agent systems
* declarative approaches to engineering agent-based systems

Formal techniques:
* (constraint) logic programming approaches to agent systems
* distributed constraint satisfaction
* modal and epistemic logics for agent modeling
* game theory and mechanism design for multi-agent systems
* semantics of agent communication
* model checking agents and multi-agent systems
* agent communication and coordination languages
* protocol specification, verification, and reasoning

Declarative models:
* declarative models of agent beliefs, goals and capabilities
* declarative models of bounded rationality
* declarative approaches for agent-based grid computing
* declarative paradigms for the combination of heterogeneous agents
* declarative approaches to organizations and electronic institutions
* agent-inspired declarative approaches to Web services and
service-oriented computing

Applications of declarative techniques to:
* multi-agent systems for service-oriented computing
* agent-based grid computing
* security and trust in multi-agent systems
* e-health, e-commerce, e-learning, sociotechnical systems, social
networks, virtual organizations.

Evaluation of declarative approaches:
* experimental analysis of declarative agent technologies
* industrial experiences with declarative agent technologies

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We  welcome and  encourage  the submission  of high-quality,  original
papers, which  are not being submitted  simultaneously for publication
elsewhere.  Papers  should be written in  English, formatted according
to the Springer LNCS style,  and not exceed 16 pages. Paper submission
is electronic via the conference website.

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Printed copies of  the proceedings will be available  at the workshop.
Assuming a sufficient number of high-quality submissions, we are again
going to  consider the publication of formal  post-proceedings with an
international  publisher.   The post-proceedings  of  DALT 2003  (LNAI
2990), DALT 2004  (LNAI 3476), DALT 2005 (LNAI  3904), DALT 2006 (LNAI
4327),  DALT 2007 (LNAI  4897), DALT  2008 (LNAI  5397),  DALT 2009
(LNAI  5948), and DALT 2010 (LNAI 6619) have  been published  by
Springer-Verlag  in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.

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

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Matteo Baldoni (University of Torino, Italy)
Louise Dennis (University of Liverpool, UK)
Viviana Mascardi (University of Genova, Italy)
Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK)
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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)

Agents in Traffic and Transportation

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* 7th Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation @AAMAS 2012     *
* 4 or 5 June 2012 - Valencia, Spain                                   *
* Website: http://www.ia.urjc.es/att2012                               *
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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Ambient Intelligence Environments (AmI Environments 2011)

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Special Track on Ambient Intelligence Environments (AmI Environments 2011) 

15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA 2011 

10th-13th October, 2011 :: Lisbon, Portugal http://epia2011.appia.pt

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Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a paradigm emerging from Artificial
Intelligence (AI), where computers are used as proactive tools assisting
people with their day-to-day activities, making everyone's life more
comfortable.
These environments should be aware of the needs of people, customizing
requirements and forecasting behaviours. 

AmI environments may be highly diverse, such as homes, offices, meeting
rooms, schools, hospitals, control centers, transport facilities, tourist
attractions, stores, sport installations, music devices, etc.

In the track on AmI Environments we will create a multi-disciplinary
discussion forum that will bring together researchers from the different
fields addressed discussing issues in Artificial Intelligence topics
included in the Ambient Intelligence environments. Researchers are welcome
to present both theoretical and practical works as well as the lessons
learned with their application in the varied range of domains. Emphasis will
be placed on the presentation of concrete systems, discussion of
implementation and development challenges and sharing of conclusions
achieved and relevant results. 


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In order to fulfill these objectives, submissions of substantial, original
and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of Ambient
Intelligence. 
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 
- Applications
- Ambient Assisted Living
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Artificial Intelligence for AmI
- Intelligent Environments
- Pervasive Computing
- Context Aware Computing
- Agent & Multiagent Systems for AmI
- Mobile Computing
- Sentient Computing
- e-Health
- Context Modelling
- AmI for e-Learning
- On-line Dispute Resolution
- Memory Assistant


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Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted
according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted in
PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will not be accepted in
any other format. 

Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being
rejected automatically without a review. At least one author of each
accepted paper must register for the conference. More information about the
Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) are available on the
Springer LNCS Web site
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.

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conference management system (available soon), using the entry of the
AmI_Environments.

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Submission deadline:           10th May, 2011
Notification of acceptance:    10st June, 2011
Camera-ready papers:           1st July, 2011
EPIA 2011 Conference:          10th - 13th October, 2011 

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As usual in the EPIA conference series, a set of the best full accepted
papers will be published in a volume of the LNAI series published by
Springer, edited by EPIA 2011 Conference Chairs. 

All other accepted papers presented at the conference appear in a published
book.  

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal (pjon@di.uminho.pt) 

Ana Almeida, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
(ana@dei.isep.ipp.pt) 

Sara Rodriguez, University of Salamanca, Spain (srg@usal.es)

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CONTACTS AmI_Environments@EPIA2011
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http://epia2011.appia.pt
http://isrt.di.uminho.pt/ae2011/

email: amie2011@appia.pt