[agents] CFP ESAW08 - extended deadline

Thu May 22 06:52:14 EDT 2008

Due to several request, the full paper submission deadline of
ESAW 2008 is extended to *Tuesday 10th June 2008*.

This deadline is now very strict.

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                             2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
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                         Ninth International Workshop
            "Engineering Societies in the Agents World" (ESAW 08),

                            September 24-26 2008,

      Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne (ENSM-SE),
                            Saint-Etienne, France

                          http://www.emse.fr/esaw2008

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AIMS & SCOPE:

Software systems are undergoing dramatic changes in scale and
complexity. Whether at a planetary scale with Web-based systems or at a
microscopic scale with nanotechnologies, there is a huge amount of
components interacting dynamically. Whatever the component granularity
is, their interactions provide us with increasingly complex,
context-aware, and content-adaptive services and functionalities. There
is therefore a strong qualitative impact on the nature, substance and
style of interactions between components. At the macro-level the system
is viewed as the result of the interactions between micro-level
components. These interactions will occur in patterns and via mechanisms
that can hardly be grasped in terms of classical models of interaction.
To some extent, inspiration should be taken from natural systems and
societies for future software systems will exhibit characteristics
closer to these than to mechanical systems and traditional software
architectures. For example, future systems may need to have
self-assembling capabilities in order to enable the emergence of the
'correct' collective behaviour.

This situation poses exciting challenges to computer scientists and
software engineers. Already, software agents and multi-agent systems are
recognised as both useful abstractions and effective technologies for
the modelling and building of complex distributed applications. However,
little is done with regard to effective and methodical development of
complex software systems in terms of multi-agent societies. An urgent
need exists for novel approaches to software modelling and software
engineering that can support the successful deployment of software
systems made up of a massive number of autonomous components. We need to
enable designers to control and predict the behaviour of their systems,
but alternatively to enable emergent global system properties and
discovered functionality to be commonplace. It is very likely that such
innovations will exploit lessons from a variety of different scientific 
disciplines, such as sociology, philosophy, economics, organisation
science, modern thermodynamics, and biology. Furthermore, since these
systems will be ubiquitous, persistent, and pervasive, i.e. embedded in
the real world, we need to know what frameworks of law will facilitate
their regulation.

The sequel to successful editions since 2000, ESAW 08 remains committed
to the use of the notion of multi-agent system as seed for animated,
constructive, and highly inter-disciplinary discussions about
technologies,  methodologies, and tools for the engineering of complex
distributed applications. While the workshop places an emphasis on
practical engineering issues and applications, it also welcomes 
theoretical, philosophical, and empirical contributions, provided that
they clearly document their connection to the core applied issues.
Prospective papers about new paradigms, theories, models are also
appreciated.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- analysis, design, development and verification of agent societies
- engineering open, large-scale multi-agent systems
- models of complex distributed systems with agents and societies
- interaction-coordination patterns in agent societies
- inter-disciplinary approaches for agent societies engineering
- self-* approaches in agent societies
- security, trust and norms in agent societies
- agent-based autonomic systems
- middleware infrastructures for agent societies
- electronic institutions in agent societies
- Programming languages and IDE for agent societies
- The role of environment in MAS engineering
- organisatinal models for agent societies
- modelling and engineering simulations as agent societies
- virtual enterprises, organisations and supply chains as agent
societies

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INVITED SPEAKERS:

- Prof. Paul BOURGINE (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
     "Distributed Problem Solving in natural and artificial complex
      systems"
- Dr. Klaus Fischer (DFKI, Germany)
     "Designing Multiagent Systems - A Model-Driven Approach"

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DEMONSTRATION SESSION:

The aim of the demonstration session is to give participants an
opportunity to show and discuss their latest developments on software
related to the topics of ESAW'08. Developers interested to participate
should submit a short paper (max 3 pages) describing their
demonstration. The selection of demonstrations will be done by the
organisers based on the relevance for the workshop, quality, novelty,
and interest for the public. Selected papers and the corresponding
software will be included in the workshop pre-proceedings CD.

The short paper for the demonstration session should be formatted
according to the Springer LNAI guidelines and include: title, authors,
affiliations, abstract, keywords, software URL (if available), and the
description of the software including application domain, used
technologies, innovations, and relation to the conference topics. Refer
to the ESAW web site for further details.

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SUBMISSION:

The ESAW post-proceedings are typically published by Springer in the
LNAI series.
Papers should not exceed 16 pages and should be formatted according to
the Springer LNAI guidelines.

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IMPORTANT DATES:

* Extended Submission Deadline for full papers: June 10, 2008
* Submission Deadline for demonstration: June 30, 2008
* Acceptance/Rejection Notification:  July 7, 2008
* Revised Papers for Workshop Notes:  September 1, 2008

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ORGANISERS:

- Alexander Artikis, (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece)
- Gauthier Picard, (Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France)
- Laurent Vercouter, (Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France)

STEERING COMMITTEE:

- Marie-Pierre Gleizes, (IRIT Universite Paul Sabatier, France)
- Andrea Omicini, (DEIS Universita di Bologna, Italy)
- Paolo Petta, (Austrian Research Institute for AI, Austria)
- Jeremy Pitt, (Imperial College London, UK)
- Robert Tolksdorf, (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
- Franco Zambonelli, (Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

- Federico Bergenti (Universita di Parma, Italy)
- Michael Berger (Siemens, Germany)
- Carole Bernon (IRIT Universite Paul Sabatier, France)
- Holger Billhardt (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
- Guido Boella (Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy)
- Olivier Boissier (Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France)
- Jeff Bradshaw (IHMC, USA)
- Davy Capera (UPETEC, France)
- Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
- Luca Cernuzzi (Universidad Catolica "Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion",
Paraguay)
- Rem Collier (University College Dublin, Ireland)
- Dan Corkill (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
- Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
- Paul Davidsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
- Keith Decker (University of Delaware, USA)
- Oguz Dikenelli (Ege University, Turkey)
- Rino Falcone (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
- Paul Feltovich (IHMC, USA)
- Paolo Giorgini (University of Trento, Italy)
- Frank Guerin (University of Aberdeeen, UK)
- Salima Hassas (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France)
- Mark Jelasity (University of Szeged, Hungary)
- Lloyd Kamara (Imperial College London, UK)
- Anthony Karageorgos (Technological Educational Institute of Larissa, 
Greece)
- Rene Mandiau (Universite de Valenciennes, France)
- Fabien Michel (Universite de Reims, France)
- Frédéric Migeon (IRIT Universite Paul Sabatier, France)
- Simon Miles (King's College London, UK)
- Tim Miller (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Pablo Noriega (IIIA, Spain)
- Julian Padget (University of Bath, UK)
- Juan Pavon Mestras (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
- Alessandro Ricci (Universita di Bologna, Italy)
- Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar (IIIA, Spain)
- Jaime Simao Sichman (University of Sao Paolo, Brazil)
- Leon Van der Torre (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
- Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeeen, UK)
- Mirko Viroli (Universita di Bologna, Italy)
- Danny Weyns (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
- David Wolpert (NASA, USA)
- Pinar Yolum (Bogazici University, Turkey)

LOCAL ORGANISATION COMMITTEE:
- Philippe Beaune (Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France)
- Yazid Benazzouz (Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France)
- Gregoire Berthezene (Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France)
- Olivier Boissier (Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France)
- Noury Bouraqadi (Ecole des Mines de Douai, France)
- Segolene Courant (Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France)
- Jomi Fred Hubner (Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France)
- Rosine Kitio (Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France)
- Christelle Urtado (Ecole des Mines d'Ales, France)

-- 
Laurent Vercouter, Maitre-Assistant / Assistant Professor
SMA Dpt/G2I Center, Ecole des Mines de St-Etienne, France
Phone: +33 4 77 42 66 03    http://www.emse.fr/~vercouter