[agents] OAMAS at AAMAS 2008: Deadline Extended

[Kostas Stathis]

--------- * Submission Deadline Extended until 1st of Feb 2008 *-----------

                        * Paper submission is now open *

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                              CALL FOR PAPERS
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                        International Workshop on
            "Organised Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems" (OAMAS 08),

                            May 12 or 13, 2008,
                            Estoril, Portugal.
    
                         To be held with AAMAS 08

                       http://oamas08.iit.demokritos.gr

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AIMS & SCOPE:

Multi-agent systems (MAS) such as formal organizations, electronic institutions 
and computational economies, often have to adapt in order to reflect, among 
others, environmental, social and economic changes in them. Adaptation may take 
place in several levels. The environment of a MAS may need to be reorganised by 
introducing or removing new resources to make the operation of the MAS more 
efficient. Changes in the MAS environment may cause the existing members of the 
MAS to be re-organized: existing members leave the MAS, new agents are 
introduced, or the current members are allocated to different roles. The roles 
themselves may be the subject of adaptation as the eligibility conditions for 
occupying a role, and/or the permissions, obligations, authorities, entitlements, 
responsibilities, institutional powers, and other normative positions that are 
associated with a role, may be subject to adaptation.

We welcome high-quality, original contributions that address issues of organized 
adaptation in a MAS, as opposed to unintended, emergent modification of a MAS.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

-Organizational models of adaptive MAS.
-Methodologies for analysis, design and development of adaptive MAS.
-Formal models of norm (policy, law) change.
-Practical engineering issues of norm (policy, law) change. 
-Protocols and procedures for carrying out adaptation.
-Cooperative human-agent models of adaptation.
-Evaluating methods of adaptation in a MAS.
-Simulations of adaptive MAS.
-Real-world applications of adaptive MAS. 
-Scalability in adaptive MAS. 
-Legal implications of adaptation. 
-Agent architectures for adaptive MAS.

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IMPORTANT DATES:

* Submission Deadline: February 1, 2008
* Acceptance/Rejection Notification:  February 25, 2008
* Camera-Ready Copies: March 7, 2008

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SUBMISSION:

There is a plan to publish the accepted papers as a Springer LNAI volume.

We welcome both short papers (eg, position statements), ranging between 4-8 
pages, and full papers, not exceeding 16 pages.

Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNAI guidelines.
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ORGANISERS:

- George Vouros, (University of the Aegean, Greece)
- Alexander Artikis, (NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece)
- Kostas Stathis, (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
- Jeremy Pitt, (Imperial College London, UK)