[agents] SARC2008 - Second Call for Papers

[Emmanuel ADAM]

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_/         First International Workshop on              _/
_/  Self-Adaptation for Robustness and Cooperation      _/
_/            in Holonic MultiAgent Systems             _/
_/  http://www.univ-valenciennes.fr/congres/SARC2008/   _/
_/  http://sarc.2008.free.fr/                           _/
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Located at the Second International Conference on Self-Adaptive and 
Self-Organizing Systems
            October 20-24, 2008, Venice, Italy,
            http://polaris.ing.unimo.it/saso2008/

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_/ OBJECTIVES _/
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Holonic Multi-Agent Systems, mainly used and developed in manufacturing 
systems, are more and more used in other fields such as complex system 
simulations, information systems, cooperative work...

Holonic Multi-Agent Systems are flexible; the only strict obligation is 
to follow a pyramidal structure. They really have an interesting 
potential, however, methods and tools to facilitate their design and 
management, in particular regarding to their Self-Adaptation and 
Self-Organization properties, are required.
Indeed, the main characteristics of an Holonic Multi-Agent System, that 
are the robustness and the cooperation, are dependent of the dynamic of 
the multi-agent system.

Robustness enables Holonic Multi-Agent Systems to cope with 
perturbations, faults and hard constraints. Implementing such a property 
is typically a self-organization problem where regeneration of faulty 
agents, generation of new agents and/or migration of agents between 
Holonic Multi-Agent Systems are some examples of the proposed answers.
Cooperation means that even if each agent has classically its own goals 
and strategies in the pyramidal organization, all agents taken together 
have to collectively lead the Holonic Multi-Agent System to its intended 
global goal. This property is generally processed by letting the agents 
locally and autonomously modifying their roles or behaviors, by adapting 
their strategies to work with other agents; it is a self-adaptation 
property.

Emergence of behaviors, roles or organization is a reality and a need in 
Holonic Multi-Agent Systems and has to be analyzed and controlled.

First International Workshop on Self-Adaptation for Robustness and 
Cooperation in HOLOMAS proposes a framework to discuss on models and 
methods linked to robustness and cooperation in dynamic systems, 
enabling emergence of new behaviors and sub-organizations. The workshop 
also aims to lead to a proposition of an Holonic Multi-Agent System 
model including the models discussed.


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_/ TOPICS OF INTEREST _/
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A particular attention will be given to papers which address case 
studies, and which present self-adaptation or self-organization 
mechanisms in holonic multi-agent systems.

We seek contributions on ongoing innovative work and applications on 
robustness and cooperation issues based on Self-Adaptation and 
Self-Organization capacities, suitable to holonic multi-agent systems.
Specifically, the workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

    * holonic multi-agent system
    * fault-recovery in holonic multi-agent systems
    * models of cooperation and coordination for autonomous holonic agents
    * predicting and controlling emergence of behavior in holonic 
multi-agent systems
    * self-adaptation of roles and/or services in holonic multi-agent 
systems
    * delegation tasks, reconfiguration tasks in holonic multi-agent systems
    * self-organization of pyramidal-structured holonic multi-agent systems
    * case studies that shows self-adaptation or self-organization in 
holonic multi-agent systems
    * aspects of holonic multi-agent systems
    * models of self-management for holonic multi-agent systems
    * models and meta-models of self-organizing holonic multi-agent systems
    * models and meta-models for hybrid multi-agent systems
  

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_/ IMPORTANT DATES  _/
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Paper submission deadline: July 5, 2008

Paper notifications: August 5, 2008

Camera ready paper: September 10, 2008

Workshop: October 20 or 21, 2008 just before the technical tracks of the 
conference.

*****!!! Workshop attendees are requested to register for the main 
conference. !!!*****



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_/  Authors Guidelines and Submission   _/
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A particular attention will be given to papers which address case 
studies, and which present self-adaptation or self-organization 
mechanisms in holonic multi-agent systems.

Each paper will be reviewed by three members of the program committee.

The submission should be 10 pages in length, including figures and 
references. The paper must be formatted according to the IEEE Computer 
Society Press proceedings style guide. 
(http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/index.html)
Submission

Authors can submit their propositions before July 5th 2008, in pdf 
format, through the EasyChair URL on the web site 
http://www.univ-valenciennes.fr/congres/SARC2008/


// Publication Channels //
The proceedings of SCAR2008 will be published by the IEEE Computer 
Society on a CD and made available on the IEEE digital library.



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_/  ORGANIZING COMITTEE   _/
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Emmanuel Adam (contact),
LAMIH - UMR CNRS 8530, Universite de Valenciennes et du 
Hainaut-Cambresis - FRANCE
Email: emmanuel.adam at univ-valenciennes.fr

Vincent Hilaire
SET - UTBM Belfort France
Email: vincent.hilaire at utbm.fr

Jean-Pierre Muller                                            
CIRAD jean-pierre.muller at cirad.fr
LIRMM jean-pierre.muller at lirmm.fr
Montpellier, FRANCE

Paul Valckenaers
Division of Production Engineering, Machine Design and Automation (PMA)
KUL, Leuven, Belgium
email : Paul.Valckenaers at mech.kuleuven.be



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_/    PROGRAM COMITTEE    _/
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Jose Barata, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Carole Bernon, IRIT Toulouse, France
Valerie Camps, IRIT Toulouse, France
Virginia Dignum, Utrecht University, Nederlands
Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italie
Salima Hassas, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Paulo Leitao, Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, Portugal
Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Viviana Mascardi, Universita di Genova, Italy
Andrea Omicini, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Olga Pacheco, University of Minho, Portugal
Gauthier Picard, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France
Leon Van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
George Vouros, University of the Aegean, Greece
Valeriy Vyatkin, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Alois Zoitl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

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