[agents] KES special issue on Intelligent Agents and Services for Smart Environments

[Giuseppe Vizzari]

Intelligent Agents and Services for Smart Environments - A Special  
Edition of the
International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering  
Systems
(http://lidet.ime.usp.br/iasse.html)

Special Edition Guest Editors: F. S. Corrêa da Silva and S. Bandini

Call for papers

A smart environment is endowed with autonomous behaviour. It can sense  
what occurs within itself and its surroundings, and adapts its actions  
accordingly.

Intelligent multiagent systems and Semantic Web Services constitute  
relevant technologies to design and implement smart environments. They  
provide for decentralised and robust platforms upon which autonomous  
software modules can interact with themselves and with sensors and  
actuators.

Among the challenges related to the design and implementation of smart  
environments, we highlight:

* Technical requirements related to real-time response using  
heterogeneous devices with possibly limited storage and processing  
capabilities.
* Socio-technical requirements due to smart environments being  
inhabited by humans, who typically produce partially reliable  
information.
* Ethical requirements related to smart environments interfering  
directly with social activities. Data collected by smart environments  
can raise confidentiality, privacy and ownership issues.

Applications of smart environments are many and diverse: they can be  
employed to enhance the human experience in interacting with systems  
for entertainment, arts and culture, public services and education.

This special issue of the KES Journal is devoted to the exploration of  
multiagent systems and Semantic Web Services to support the design and  
implementation of smart environments. We are interested in theoretical  
and foundational issues, as well as project reports of practical  
applications.

All contributions related to these issues are welcome. In particular,  
topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* models, languages, and methodological issues in the application of  
Intelligent multiagent systems and Semantic Web Services to smart  
environments
* environments for Intelligent multiagent systems and smart environments
* ontologies for the description of relevant Semantic Web Services
* frameworks and tools supporting the design and implementation of  
smart environments based on multiagent systems and Semantic Web Services
* insights about experiences and lessons learnt when applying  
Intelligent multiagent systems and Semantic Web Services to the  
development of smart environments

Submission and Publication Details

Submitted contributions shall be sent through the journal submissions  
PROSE system, which can be accessed from the Journal website (http://www.kesjournal.org/journal/ 
); . The length of contributions is expected to be about 12 to 16  
pages. Further editorial details and formatting instructions can also  
be found at the Journal website (http://www.kesinternational.org/journal/submit.php 
). Please state explicitly when submitting the paper that it should be  
directed to the IASSE SPECIAL ISSUE.

Important Dates

* Submission deadline: July 31st 2008
* Notification of acceptance: September 15th 2008
* Final version due: October 31st 2008

Guest Editors Contacting Addresses

Flávio Soares Corrêa da Silva
(fcs at ime . usp . br)
Department of Computer Science
University of São Paulo

Stefania Bandini
(stefania . bandini at csai . disco . unimib . it)
Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligence research center
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Guest Review Board
* TBA