[agents] Final CFP: ATSN 08 (Deadline Extended)

[Jennings, Prof NR]

Due to a number of requests, the deadline for submissions to this workshop has been extended.

NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday 1st February 2008

Nick
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Professor Nick Jennings FREng
Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group    t: +44 (0) 23 8059 7681
Electronics and Computer Science          f: +44 (0) 23 8059 2865
University of Southampton                 e: nrj at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.                 http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~nrj




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            CFP:  Second International Workshop on

             Agent Technology for Sensor Networks


               To be held in conjunction with the
Seventh Internationl Conference on Autonomous and Multi-Agent Systems
                       (AAMAS 2008)

                     12-13th May 2008
                   http://www.atsn08.org

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Sensor networks are increasingly seen as a solution to the problem of
performing wide-area monitoring and surveillance within environmental,
security and military scenarios. Such networks consist of multiple
sensors, deployed over a wide area, connected through a communication
network (wired or otherwise). To ensure minimal human intervention the
sensors within these networks should be able to self-organise,
autonomously manage their own resources, and co-ordinate their
behaviour to achieve system wide goals. The distributed nature of
these networks, and the autonomous behaviour expected of them,
naturally lend themselves to a multi-agent methodology, and many of
the technical challenges posed by these systems (e.g. decentralised
control, co-ordination, resource allocation) form the basis of main-
stream research within the agent community. However, such systems pose
many additional challenges, not least how to manage limited
computation and energy resources, constrained communication, and
unreliable or fault prone network components within a dynamic and
uncertain environment.

Furthermore, the increasing availability of sensor network data, and
the need to make use of it in real-time for informed decision making,
requires the development of intelligent agents that can autonomously
acquire data from these networks, and perform information processing
tasks such as fusion, inference and prediction.

Thus, the goals of this workshop are to explore the use of agent
technologies, both within the networks themselves (where agents
represent the actual sensors), and also for the collection and
processing of sensor network data. As such, topics of interest include:

- Agent based management of sensor networks
- Novel paradigms for sensor network management (e.g. game theoretic
and market-oriented programming approaches).
- Co-ordination and planning
- Adaptive and learning agents for sensor networks
- Energy and resource aware sensor networks
- Emergent behaviour
- Computational issues
- Data fusion and aggregation within sensor networks
- Reasoning with incomplete or uncertain information
- Security and trust in sensor networks
- Applications and real-world deployments of sensor networks
- Agent-based architectures for sensor networks
- Agent-based simulation of sensor networks
- Reliability, efficiency, and fault tolerance

Keynote Speaker
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Prof. Giuseppe Anastasi of the University of Pisa, Italy (http://info.iet.unipi.it/~anastasi/) will be presenting  a keynote talk titled 'Energy management in emerging practical wireless sensor networks'.

Important dates
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* FEBRUARY 1st, 2008 - Submission of contributions to workshop
* FEBRUARY 25th, 2008 - Workshop paper acceptance notification
* MAY 12/13th - Workshop takes place in conjunction with AAMAS 2008

Submission
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The workshop welcomes submissions of original works relevant to the
topics described above. This year, the workshop will accept
submissions of both full papers (maximum 8 pages) and short papers
(maximum 4 pages).

Short papers are encouraged as a means to present important results
that can be succinctly presented or preliminary work that may not yet
have the level of evaluation or detail that would be expected for a
full paper.

All submissions should conform to the AAMAS 2008 conference formatting
instructions. See http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas2008/paper_submission.html
  for more details.

Papers will be submitted through the following page in PDF format:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atsn08

See the conference site for more details: http://www.atsn08.org/.

For any questions e-mail: atsn08 at easychair.org

Reviewing process
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Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Criteria for
selection of papers will include: originality, readability, relevance
to themes, soundness, and overall quality.