From email at jamesodell.com Mon Mar 17 20:50:44 2008 From: email at jamesodell.com (email at jamesodell.com) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:50:44 -0400 Subject: [agents] IEEE FIPA meeting is scheduled Message-ID: <200803180050.m2I0oi9n001560@mail6.atl.registeredsite.com> IEEE FIPA meeting is scheduled for AAMAS 2008 From: James Odell To: FIPA chat , "Agents SIG (OMG)" , Agents Message-ID: Thread-Topic: IEEE FIPA meeting is scheduled IEEE FIPA meeting is scheduled for AAMAS 2008 Thread-Index: AciIkhijVv057vSFEdynYQADk8zkFg== Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="B_3288631845_2648979" > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --B_3288631845_2648979 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable ***Next FIPA meeting is scheduled for AAMAS 2008 in Portugal*** The meeting will be held on Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 11:10-12:10 (at the end of the "Agent System Development I" track). The purpose of this FIPA meeting will be to discuss some of these needs and explore possible directions for agent standardization. =A0It will also presen= t what other standards groups are already accomplishing in the area of agents= , such as W3C, OASIS, and OMG. =A0Many prominent companies are already participating, such as IBM, TIBCO, BEA, H-P, and Capgemini. It is expected that this will provide an excellent opportunity for discussion, information sharing and questions. If you would like to contribute to this session or just want to know more, contact fipa at jamesodell.com. Hope to see you there. All the best, Jim Odell Acting chair, IEEE FIPA --B_3288631845_2648979 Content-type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable IEEE FIPA meeting is scheduled IEEE FIPA meeting is scheduled for AAMAS 2008


***Next FIPA meeting is scheduled for AAMAS 2008 in Portugal***

The meeting will be held on Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 1= 1:10-12:10 (at the end of the "Agent System Development I" track).

The purpose of this FIPA meeting will be to discuss some of thes= e needs and explore possible directions for agent standardization. =A0It will = also present what other standards groups are already accomplishing in the ar= ea of agents, such as W3C, OASIS, and OMG. =A0Many prominent companies are alr= eady participating, such as IBM, TIBCO, BEA, H-P, and Capgemini. It is expec= ted that this will provide an excellent opportunity for discussion, informat= ion sharing and questions.  If you would like to contribute to this ses= sion or just want to know more, contact fipa at jamesodell.com.


Hope to see you there.


All the best,

Jim Odell
Acting chair, IEEE FIPA --B_3288631845_2648979-- From email at jamesodell.com Mon Mar 17 22:38:43 2008 From: email at jamesodell.com (email at jamesodell.com) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:38:43 -0400 Subject: [agents] IEEE FIPA meeting is scheduled Message-ID: <200803180238.m2I2ci34031041@mail12.atl.registeredsite.com> IEEE FIPA meeting is scheduled for AAMAS 2008 From: James Odell To: FIPA chat , "Agents SIG (OMG)" , Agents Message-ID: Thread-Topic: IEEE FIPA meeting is scheduled IEEE FIPA meeting is scheduled for AAMAS 2008 Thread-Index: AciIoS5rbP1X9vSUEdynYQADk8zkFg== Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable ***Next FIPA meeting is scheduled for AAMAS 2008 in Portugal*** The meeting will be held on Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 11:10-12:10 (at the end of the "Agent System Development I" track). The purpose of this FIPA meeting will be to discuss some of these needs and explore possible directions for agent standardization. It will also present what other standards groups are already accomplishing with agents, such as W3C, OASIS, and OMG. =A0Many prominent companies are already participating, such as IBM, TIBCO, BEA, H-P, and Capgemini. It is expected that this will provide an excellent opportunity for discussion, information sharing and questions. If you would like to contribute to this session or just want to know more, contact fipa at jamesodell.com. Hope to see you there. All the best, Jim Odell Acting chair, IEEE FIPA From ishida at i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Tue Mar 18 00:32:35 2008 From: ishida at i.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Toru Ishida) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:32:35 +0900 Subject: [agents] CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: ======================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS The Second International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC 2009) http://langrid.nict.go.jp/iwic2009/ February 20-21, 2009 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA USA Program Co-Chairs Pamela Hinds (Stanford University, USA) Susan R. Fussell (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan) The main theme of this workshop is intercultural collaboration, from both technical and socio-cultural perspectives. Topics will include collaboration support (such as natural language processing, Web, and Internet technologies), social scientific analyses of intercultural interaction, and case studies that increase mutual understanding in our multicultural world. Submissions will be considered for papers, panels, demonstrations, and posters. Papers Papers are solicited on any aspect of intercultural communication and collaboration. Papers can describe studies of intercultural communication and collaboration or present new technologies to assess and support intercultural interaction. Examples of suitable paper topics include: - Field studies of intercultural collaboration in global organizations or in local communities - Laboratory studies of intercultural collaboration - Survey studies of cultural differences in collaboration styles - Case studies of intercultural collaboration using information technologies - Cultural responses to cross-cultural interaction - Computer supported intercultural collaboration - Ubiquitous/ambient technologies for intercultural collaboration - Internet and web technologies for intercultural collaboration - Frameworks for manual or automatic measurement of properties of intercultural communication - Multilingual communication technologies - Interoperability of language resources - Usability of language resources for intercultural collaboration - New methods or measures for the study of intercultural collaboration All papers are expected to be suitable for a multidisciplinary audience and focus on issues of intercultural collaboration. Full papers should be no longer than 10 pages. Papers should be formatted according to the ACM SIGCHI template and submitted in PDF format. Details on the submission procedure will be provided in the near future. Please see the SIGCHI author instruction page (http://sigchi.org/chipubform/) for more information and downloadable templates. All full papers will be evaluated using a double-blind review process. Authors should omit their names and affiliations from the title area of the paper and conceal references to their own prior work by referring to it in the third person (e.g., authors should say “In an earlier study, Jones and Smith found …” instead of “In an earlier study, we found …”). Papers that have not been appropriately anonymized will be returned without review. Panels, Demonstrations and Posters IWIC will also feature three categories of nonarchival submissions: Panels, demonstrations and posters. Submissions for these categories should be no longer than 3 pages in length using the ACM template (see above). Unlike paper submissions, panels, demonstrations and posters will not be blind reviewed. Authors should include their complete names and contact information at the top of their submitted PDF file. Panels: Individuals may submit proposals for panels of three or four talks on a related theme in intercultural communication. Panel submissions will not be archival, so panelists may discuss previously published work. Submissions should provide each panelist's background and contact information, as well as a brief statement of his or her position on the panel theme. Demonstrations: Individuals may submit proposals to present demonstrations of new technologies for intercultural communication. Demonstration proposals should clearly describe the motivation for the tool and how it will be demonstrated at the workshop. Demonstration descriptions will not be archival; therefore, demonstrations can include both previously published work and work that is not yet ready for publication. Posters: Individuals may submit proposals to present informal posters during the workshop. Poster descriptions will not be archival; therefore, posters can describe both previously published work and work that is not yet ready for publication. Review Process: Submitted papers, panels, and demonstrations will be reviewed by a panel of distinguished researchers in the area of intercultural communication and collaboration. Important Dates: Deadline for papers, panels, posters and demonstrations: June 30th, 2008 Author notification: September 30th, 2008 Deadline for camera ready papers: November 30th, 2008 For further information, please contact iwic2009[at]khn.nict.go.jp. ======================================================= Toru Ishida Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University Yoshida-Honmachi, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan TEL 81 75 753 4821 FAX 81 75 753 4820 E-mail ishida at i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Web http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ishida/ From Zakaria.Maamar at zu.ac.ae Tue Mar 18 04:41:14 2008 From: Zakaria.Maamar at zu.ac.ae (Zakaria Maamar) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:41:14 +0400 Subject: [agents] Web Services Symposium Message-ID: <47DFB878.8D7A.0091.0@zu.ac.ae> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION THE FIRST UAE SYMPOSIUM ON WEB SERVICES www.zu.ac.ae/wss ZAYEDUNIVERSITY DUBAI, UAE APRIL 9-10, 2008 Zakaria From vargiu at diee.unica.it Tue Mar 18 07:48:02 2008 From: vargiu at diee.unica.it (Eloisa Vargiu) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:48:02 +0100 Subject: [agents] CFP: DART 2008 - 2nd International Workshop on Distributed Agent-based Retrieval Tools Message-ID: <47DFABF2.4000905@diee.unica.it> An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: cfp.txt Url: http://www.cs.umbc.edu/pipermail/agents/attachments/20080318/c01fd839/attachment.txt From blecker at ieee.org Tue Mar 18 10:10:13 2008 From: blecker at ieee.org (Thorsten Blecker) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:10:13 +0100 Subject: [agents] CfP: HICL2008 - Extended Deadline Message-ID: <00c501c88901$c8e1e840$24b2a8c0@laptop2> Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. I would be grateful if you could kindly circulate this Call to groups/professionals/lists for whom this may be of interest. **************************************************************** Call for Papers - Extended Deadline - Hamburg International Conference of Logistics 2008 (HICL2008) "Logistics Networks and Nodes" 04 - 05 September 2008 HAMBURG, Germany **************************************************************** Conference Website http://www.hicl.org Submission of Abstract 31 March 2008 Notification of Acceptance (Abstract) 15 April 2008 Early Bird registration deadline 31 April 2008 Full paper submission 15 May 2008 Notification of Acceptance (Full paper) 15 June 2008 Author registration deadline 15 July 2008 Conference 04 to 05 September 2008 **************************************************************** We are pleased to announce and invite you to participate in the HICL 2008 Hamburg International Conference of Logistics, which will be held at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany from 04 - 05 September 2008. This international conference is co-organized by the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and the K?hne School of Logistics and Management (the former Hamburg School of Logistics). Theme and Objectives Today, there is a huge variety of logistics networks ? ranging from very simple locally oriented chains with only a few participants to internationally operating complex systems connecting firms all over the world. However, each of these networks is formed by logistics nodes connected by different types of edges. Various questions arise during the build-up and operation of these systems. In the design phase, partners have to be chosen, facilities have to be located, and connections have to be specified in a holistic way. On the operational level, logistics nodes have to be engineered, handling equipment has to be constructed, and last but not least, management systems have to be established in order to run and control operations within these networks. In recent years, logistics research has made extensive progress in the analysis of connections between different network nodes. Unfortunately, research concerning the logistics nodes themselves and the possible means of improving them is far less advanced. Therefore, this conference focuses on the interaction of networks as well as on the improvement of logistics nodes. In practice, this all-embracing approach provides the chance to optimize logistics nodes not only based on their own requirements, but to enhance them to meet network-wide demands. In consequence, it becomes possible to adjust node design and operation to the needs of the whole supply chain. Vice versa, in a holistic improvement process the network can be constructed in such a way that the requirements posed by the nodes are taken into account. Logistics Networks and Nodes - The HICL will provide a multidisciplinary network and forum for scientists and practitioners involved in logistics and supply chain management to interact with each other and exchange ideas and information on the latest issues in this field. We welcome scientific and practical contributions from different disciplines such as Business Administration & Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Science & Mathematics and Law. Topics Papers addressing any relevant topic within the broad area of networks and nodes in Logistics and Supply Chain Management including, but not limited to the following are welcome: - Creating services for logistics nodes and networks - profit and risk sharing in supply chain networks - Suppliers and service providers in logistics nodes and networks - Network and node design - Interrelationships between node operations and logistics networks - Bottlenecks in logistics nodes and networks - Managing complexity in logistics nodes and supply chain networks - Ramp-up management in supply chain networks - Innovative IT systems for logistics nodes and networks (RFID, SOA etc.) - Simulation approaches for logistics networks - Tracking and Tracing - Innovations in transport systems (air, rail, road, sea) - Infrastructure management for logistics nodes and networks - Technologies for management of logistics nodes in supply chain networks - Managing risks in network nodes and supply chain networks - Quality management in logistics nodes and networks - Implementation strategies for innovations in logistics nodes and networks - Sustainability in supply chain networks - Innovative concepts for modelling, simulation and optimization of nodes and transportation networks - Managing logistics service quality Submission of Abstracts Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research results/best practices for consideration in HICL 2008. All papers will be double-blind refereed. Abstracts for papers should describe the nature and relevance of the problems, the research methodology, and work-in-progress or final research results. Abstracts must not exceed 500 words and should be in MS Word. Abstracts for Papers should include three to four keywords and all authors? contact information. The official conference language for abstracts, papers and presentation is English. Please submit the abstracts to: hicl at hicl.org Conference Chairs Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kersten - Institute of Business Logistics and General Management Prof. Dr. Thorsten Blecker - Institute of Business Logistics and General Management Prof. Dr. Carsten Gertz - Institute for Transport Planning and Logistics Prof. Dr. Heike Fl?mig - Institute for Transport Planning and Logistics K?hne School of Logistics and Management at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) Contact Hamburg International Conference of Logistics 2008 Kuehne School of Logistics and Management at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) D- 21073 Hamburg, Germany WEBSITE: www.hicl.org CONTACT: hicl at hicl.org From wiiat at kis-lab.com Tue Mar 18 11:18:10 2008 From: wiiat at kis-lab.com (WI-IAT08) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:18:10 +0900 Subject: [agents] Call for WI-IAT 2008 Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <200803190018101440201@kis-lab.com> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ============================================================== Call for Workshop Proposals 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'08) Sydney, Australia, December 9-12, 2008. http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/wi/?index=about http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/iat/?index=about ******************************************************************* Workshop Proposals Due: ** April 10 **, 2008 All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI. =================================================================== The Program Committees of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'08) invite proposals for Workshops. The Workshops will be held within the Conference, December 9-12, 2008 at Sydney, Australia. The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and range of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the workshops. The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal issues. Workshops may be full-day or half-day. A full-day workshop should select 20-25 regular papers, while a half-day workshop should select 10-13 regular papers, from a large number of submissions. The workshop organizers should ensure the presence of authors of accepted papers at the workshops. I. Workshop Topics Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT). The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in these two fields. Suggested, but not limited to, workshop topics include: - Web Intelligence, Brain Informatics and Bio Technology - Intelligent E-Technology (including E-Science, E-Business, E-Learning, E-Finance, E-Government, E-Community) - Intelligent Web Interaction - Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence - Semantics and Ontology Engineering - Social Networks and Social Intelligence - Web Agents - Web Information Filtering and Retrieval - Web Mining and Farming - Web Personalization and Recommendations - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust - Web Services and Grid Services - Web Support Systems - World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) - Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology - Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents - Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation - Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) - Learning and Self-Adapting Agents - Agents and Data Mining Interaction - Multiagent Systems in E-business II. Workshop Proposal Submission Workshop proposals should include the following elements: - Title of the workshop - The organizers name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address - A description of the topic of the workshop (not exceeding 200 words) - Type of the workshop (full-day or half-day) - A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of Web Intelligence and/or Intelligent Agent Technology - A short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers After the acceptance of a workshop proposal the organizer(s) should: - Create a "Call for papers/participation" for the workshop - Create a Web page for the workshop, the link of which will be published on the Conference Web site - Create a Board of Reviewers (Program Committee) - Review and select papers - Schedule the workshop activities Those papers selected by the organizer(s) will also be reviewed by the Workshop Co-Chairs for final acceptance. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. We will provide an online paper submission and review system to support the workshops. Please submit your Proposals to both Workshop Co-Chairs by emails. III. Important Dates - Workshop proposal submission: April 10, 2008 - Electronic submission of full papers: July 10, 2008 - Workshop paper submission: July 30, 2008 - Notification of paper acceptance: September 3, 2008 - Camera-ready of accepted papers: September 30, 2008 - Workshops: December 9, 2008 - Conference: December 9 - 12, 2008 We look forward to your support in making 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT workshops an exciting event. Workshop Co-Chairs: Prof. Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia E-mail: y2.li at qut.edu.au Prof. Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy E-mail: pasi at disco.unimib.it Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee this year (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything). From simon.miles at kcl.ac.uk Tue Mar 18 08:19:00 2008 From: simon.miles at kcl.ac.uk (Simon Miles) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:19:00 +0000 Subject: [agents] MSc in Web Intelligence at King's College London Message-ID: MSc in Web Intelligence at King's College London ================================================ A new MSc is starting at King's College London that may be of interest to members of this mailing list. If you know final year undergraduates or others that may be interested, we would be grateful if you could pass this on. Full details are available at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/pse/dcs/programmes/msc/win.html The modules provisionally available on the course are titled: Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering of Internet Applications Policies and Norms Advanced Research Topics The Internet Algorithmic Issues of the Web Cryptography and Information Security Software Design and Architecture Distributed Systems Intelligent Systems for Legal and Administrative Applications -- Dr Simon Miles Agents and Intelligent Systems, http://ais.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/ Department of Computer Science Kings College London, WC2R 2LS, UK From broersen at cs.uu.nl Wed Mar 19 09:48:58 2008 From: broersen at cs.uu.nl (Jan Broersen) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:48:58 +0100 Subject: [agents] CFP: KR-workshop on knowledge representation for agents and MAS (Sydney, july 2008) Message-ID: <47E119CA.206@cs.uu.nl> This is a call for papers for a workshop on KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION FOR AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (KRAMAS 2008) http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html To enhance cross-fertilization between the KR (Knowledge Representation and Reasoning) and agent communities, this year's edition of KR features a one-day workshop on knowledge representation theories and techniques for agent-based systems. Papers are welcomed on KR-related work as applied to either single agent or multi-agent systems. POSSIBLE TOPICS (non-exhaustive list) - Knowledge Representation & Reasoning aspects of agent systems (languages, ontologies, techniques) - Reasoning about (actions of) agents - Reasoning methods (such as non-monotonic reasoning, abduction, argumentation, diagnosis, planning, decision-making under uncertainty, reasoning about preference, ...) applied to agents and multi-agent systems (MAS) - Theory of negotiation, communication, cooperation, group decision-making, game theory for MAS - Cognitive robotics - Representations of other agents / opponent models - Logics for intelligent agents and MAS - Specification and verification techniques for agents - Automated reasoning techniques for agent-based systems - Logical foundations of agent-based systems, normative MAS and e-institutions - Formal semantics of agent programming languages - Formal techniques for agent-oriented programming and agent-oriented software engineering PROCEEDINGS Informal pre-proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. All good quality papers will be included in the post-proceedings to be published in the Springer Lecture Notes series (pending confirmation of the preliminary agreement we have with Springer). SUBMISSION DETAILS Submission of papers describing relevant preliminary or completed but unpublished work are invited. Submissions should be formatted using Springer's LNCS style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and have a maximum of 15 pages. Authors can submit their abstracts and papers through the Cyberchair URL un the web site http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: June 1st Notification to Authors: July 1st Camera Ready due: July 15th Workshop: September 16-19 (exact date to be determined) PROGRAM CHAIR John-Jules Meyer WORKSHOP CHAIRS John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Jan Broersen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Thomas Agotnes (Berghen, Norway) Natasha Alechina (Nottingham, UK) Jamal Bentahar (Montreal, Canada) Rafael Bordini (Durham, UK) Jan Broersen (Utrecht, Netherlands) Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht, Netherlands) Giuseppe De Giacomo (Rome, Italy) Hans van Ditmarsch (Otago, New Zealand) Jurgen Dix (Clausthal, Germany) Andreas Herzig (Toulouse, France) Wiebe van der Hoek (Liverpool, UK) Wojciech Jamroga (Clausthal, Germany) Catholijn Jonker (Delft, Netherlands) Yves Lesperance (York Univ., Toronto, Canada) Alessio Lomuscio (London, UK) Timothy Norman (Aberdeen, UK) Henry Prakken (Utrecht, Netherlands) Alessandro Ricci (Cesena, Italy) Renate Schmidt (Manchester, UK) Carles Sierra (Barcelona, Spain) Francesca Toni (London, UK) Rineke Verbrugge (Groningen, Netherlands) -- ------- Jan Broersen ------------- Intelligent Systems Group -- -- www.cs.uu.nl/~broersen/ ---------- Universiteit Utrecht ---- ---- tel: +31 302533193 ------------ Padualaan 14, De Uithof -- ---- fax: +31 302513791 --------------- 3584 CH UTRECHT ------ -- From karin.hummel at univie.ac.at Thu Mar 20 14:01:34 2008 From: karin.hummel at univie.ac.at (karin anna hummel) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:01:34 +0100 Subject: [agents] CfP: IWSOS 2008 - 3rd Int. Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems Message-ID: <47E2A67E.807@univie.ac.at> Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the cfp. ************************ 1st CALL FOR PAPERS ************************ IWSOS 2008 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems - Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems - December 10-12, 2008 Vienna, Austria http://iwsos.ani.univie.ac.at/ Submission deadline (full papers): June 22, 2008 ********************************************************************* Workshop Scope -------------- IWSOS 2008 is the third workshop in a series of annual workshops dedicated to self-organization in networks and networked systems. The necessity for and expected benefit of self-organization is caused by the growing scale, complexity, and heterogeneity of future networked systems, like the future Internet. For example, these networks will consist of interconnected infrastructure-based, mobile ad-hoc, and sensor networks that could be spontaneously deployed in hostile environments, have a dynamic population and a potentially short life time. In spite of this, there will be stringent user requirements, such as resilience and real-time guarantees. Although self-organization is desirable for these kinds of networks, it is not yet clear to what extent self-organization can be exploited. Research into networked systems has recently started to systematically investigate self-organization, which has lead to a multitude of open research issues. The applicability of well-known self-organizing techniques to specific networks and networked systems has to be investigated, as well as adaptations and novel approaches inspired by, e.g., cooperation in nature and evolutionary dynamics, sociology, and game theory. Additionally, models originating from areas like feedback control and complex system's research, are required for these networked systems in order to analyze their controllability and emergent behavior. Aspects of engineering self-organizing networked systems should be studied that discuss paradigms like programmable networks, and tools and frameworks for deploying, testing, and monitoring self-organizing networks. The role of self-organization in the future Internet and the impact on its architecture is an important topic, as well as the application of self-organization in future intelligent transportation systems and vehicular ad-hoc networks. Building on the success of its predecessors, this workshop aims at bringing together leading international researchers to create a visionary forum for investigating the potential of self-organization for networked systems by including the following key topics (not a restricted list): * Self-organization and self-management * Self-configuration and self-optimization * Self-protection, -diagnosis, and -healing * Autonomic networking principles and practice * Control theory based models and approaches of self-organization * Feedback control in networked systems * Group-forming networks and techniques * Programmable and cognitive networks for self-organization * Visualization of network system state * Inspiring models of self-organization in nature and society (e.g., bio-inspired or based on game theory) * Risks in self-organization and risk management techniques * The (un-)controllability of self-organizing emergent systems * Quality of Service / service level agreements and self-organization * Resilience, robustness, and fault tolerance for networked systems * Security in self-organizing networked systems * Self-* sensor and ad-hoc networks * Self-* techniques in peer-to-peer networks * Self-organization of over- and underlays and in cross-layering * Self-* networks and networked systems for ubiquitous computing * Self-organization in heterogeneous network convergence * Evolutionary principles of the (future, emerging) Internet * Self-configuring place-and-play mobile networks * Self-organizing vehicular ad-hoc networks * Self-organizing multi-service networks and multi-network services * Methods for configuration and management of large, complex networks * Applications, e.g. the self-organizing home network * The human in the loop of self-organizing networked systems Important Dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline (full papers): June 22, 2008 * Notification of acceptance (full papers): September 1, 2008 Initial Submission (full papers) -------------------------------- IWSOS invites submission of manuscripts that present original research results, and that have not been previously published or are currently under review by another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. Submissions should be full-length papers up to 10 pages using the LNCS style, including all figures and references, and must include an abstract of 100 - 150 words. All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the international TPC and judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted Full Papers -------------------- The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes for Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must attend IWSOS 2008 to present the paper. Steering Committee ------------------ * Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany * David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK * Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA * Randy Katz, UC Berkeley, USA General Chair ------------- * Helmut Hlavacs, University of Vienna, Austria Technical Program Co-Chairs --------------------------- * Karin Anna Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria * James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA Technical Program Committee --------------------------- * Marin Bertier, IRISA/INSA-Rennes, France * Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt, Austria * Ernst Biersack, Institute Eurecom, France * Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany * Tarik Cicic, University of Oslo, Norway * Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA * Costas Courcoubetis, AUEB, Greece * Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland * Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany * Frank Fitzek, Univ. of Aalborg, Denmark * Michael Fry, University of Sydney, Australia * David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA * Hannes Hartenstein, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Manfred Hauswirth, National University of Ireland, Ireland * Joseph L. Hellerstein, Microsoft Developer Division, USA * Matthias Hollick, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany * Amine Houyou, University of Passau, Germany * Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Lab Europe, Germany * Alexander V. Konstantinou, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA * Rajesh Krishnan, BBN Technologies, USA * Guy Leduc, University of Liege, Belgium * Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada * Marco Mamei, University di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy * Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK * Paul Mueller, Kaiserslautern University, Germany * Masayuki Murata, Osaka University, Japan * Ben Paechter, Napier University, UK * Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA * Christian Prehofer, Nokia Research, Finland * Lukas Ruf, Consecom AG, Switzerland * Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany * Paul Smith, Lancaster University, UK * Marcus Schoeller, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany * Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland * John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA * Zhili Sun, University of Surrey, UK * Kurt Tutschku, Wuerzburg University, Germany * Patrick Wuechner, University of Passau, Germany * Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Local Organizing Committee --------------------------- * Shelley Buchinger, University of Vienna, Austria * Alexander Adrowitzer, University of Vienna, Austria * Harald Meyer, University of Vienna, Austria From virginia at cs.uu.nl Thu Mar 20 09:30:40 2008 From: virginia at cs.uu.nl (Virginia Dignum) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:30:40 +0100 Subject: [agents] CfP: COIN@AAAI'08: workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms Message-ID: <47E26700.3080406@cs.uu.nl> COIN at AAAI'08 =================================================== Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms co-located with the 23th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai08.php Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, July 13--17, 2008 ==================================================== Submission Deadline: 7 April 2008 ==================================================== In recent years, social and organizational aspects of agency have become a major issue in MAS research. Recent applications of MAS on Web Services, Grid Computing and Ubiquitous Computing enforce the need for using these aspects in order to ensure social order within these environments. Openness, heterogeneity, and scalability of MAS pose new demands on traditional MAS interaction models. Therefore, the view of coordination and control has to be expanded to consider not only an agent-centric perspective but societal and organization-centric views as well. The overall problem of analyzing the social, legal, economic and technological dimensions of agent organizations, and the co-evolution of agent interactions, provide theoretically demanding and interdisciplinary research questions at different levels of abstraction. The MAS research community has addressed these issues from different perspectives that have gradually become more cohesive around the four notions that give title to the workshop: coordination, organization, institutions and norms. In order to reach those different research communities working in related topics, COIN will facilitate and coordinate the organization of twin yearly events co-located with large international conferences, diverse in focus and geographically. The COIN workshop series, started in 2005 and have been held yearly since, as a dual event at two world class conferences, in different geographic regions. In 2008, COIN is planned to co-locate with AAAI in Chicago and AAMAS in Portugal. We aim for a one-day workshop that combines an invited talk by a leading researcher (to be determined) with paper presentations and ample time for general and/or group discussions. We are seeking papers that clearly exemplify central notions in a research field or try to synthesize unified views. To encourage interaction and a broad exchange of ideas, the workshop will be limited to 30 participants. Topics ===== * Modeling multi-agent organizations * Models and architectures for social agents * Coordination in dynamic and emergent agent organizations * Organization design, monitoring and adaptation * Ontologies, methodologies, tools and standards for regulated MAS. * Social science background for regulated MAS: Roles, authority, motivation, social power and other social relationships and attitudes. * Languages for norms: expressiveness VS efficiency. * Electronic institutions and virtual organizations. * Coordination and interaction conventions, technologies and artifacts. * Institutional aspects of peer to peer interactions * Issues in regulatory dynamics (creation, evolution, change, disappearance). * Issues in regulated MAS implementation * Simulation, analysis and verification of regulated MAS * Engineering organizations (validation, implementation and tools for agent organizations * Scaling and control issues in agent organizations * Norms, institutions and organizations: authority, power, dependence, penalty and sanctions, contracts, trust, reputation as regulating tools for autonomous agents within organizations * Application of organizational theory to MAS * Simulation, analysis and verification of dynamics of multi-agent organizations * Dynamic, adaptive and emergent organizational structures * Practical applications of agent organization systems Submissions ========== Submissions may discuss work in any stage of development, from concepts and future directions to finished work. Authors should submit an extended abstract (3-4 pages) or a full paper of up to 8 pages, in the AAAI format (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/authorinstructions.pdf). Manuscripts are to be in English (with American spelling preferred). Only PDF submissions will be accepted. The type of submission (position paper, work in progress, finished work, statement of interest) must be clearly indicated on the first page of each submission. Submissions and inquiries should be sent to Virginia Dignum (virginia at cs.uu.nl). Proceedings will be available at the workshop. It is planned to publish revised and extended versions of the papers as a Springer LNCS volume (pending confirmation). Important dates ============ * April 7: Submissions due * April 21: Notification of acceptance * May 5: Camera-ready copy due to organizers * May 12: Camera-ready copy due to AAAI * July 13-14: AAAI-08 Workshop Program Organizers ========= Virginia Dignum Department of Information and Computing Sciences Universiteit Utrecht The Netherlands e-mail: virginia at cs.uu.nl Eric Matson Department of Computer Science and Engineering Wright State University Dayton, Ohio, USA e-mail: eric.matson at wright.edu Program Committee ================ * Alexander Artikis, National Centre for Scientific Research-Demokritos (Greece) * Guido Boella, University of Torino (Italy) * Olivier Boissier,EMSE-St. Etienne (France) * Rosaria Conte, CNR & University of Siena (Italy) * Ulisses Cortes, UPC (Spain) * Shaheen Fatima, University of Liverpool (UK) * Nicoletta Fornara, University of Lugano (Switzerland) * Scott Harmon, Kansas State University (USA) * Henry Hexmoor, Southern Illinois University (USA) * Koen Hindriks, Delft University of Technology (NL) * Jomi Fred Hubner, EMSE-St. Etienne (France) * Christian Lemaitre, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (Mexico) * Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts (USA) * Pablo Noriega, IIIA-CSIC (Spain) * James Odell, James Odell Associates (USA) * Andrea Omicini,DEIS Universit di Bologna (Italy) * Sascha Ossowski, University Rey Juan Carlos (Spain) * Julian Padget, University of Bath (UK) * Juan-Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar, IIIA (Spain) * Paul Scerri, Robotics Institute-Carnegie Mellon University (USA) * Jaime Sichman, University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) * Maarten Sierhuis, RIACS-NASA (USA) * Catherine Tessier, ONERA-CERT (France) * Walt Truszkowski, NASA (USA) * Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen (UK) * Javier Vazquez-Salceda, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Spain) * Mario Verdicchio, University of Bergamo (Italy)