[agents] ECOSOA submission deadline extended until July 18
Danny Weyns
Danny.Weyns at cs.kuleuven.be
Thu Jul 10 13:56:14 EDT 2008
Submission deadline extended until July 18.
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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
International Workshop on
Environment-Mediated Coordination in
Self-Organizing and Self-Adaptive Systems (ECOSOA)
www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~distrinet/events/ecosoa/2008/
ecosoa at cs.kuleuven.be
to be held at the
Second International Conference
on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO)
Isola di San Servolo (Venice), Italy, October 20-24, 2008
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline : July 5, 2008 > July 18
Paper notification : August 5, 2008
Camera ready paper : September 10, 2008
Workshop : October 20 or 21, 2008
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INTRODUCTION
Self-organization is an approach to engineer decentralized, distributed
and resource-limited systems that are capable of dynamically adapting to
changing conditions and requirements without external intervention. This
useful system property is often reflected in functions such as
self-configuration, self-optimization, and self-healing. Engineering
approaches to self-organizing systems often rely on global functionality
to emerge from local and autonomous decisions of individual agents that
communicate through a shared coordination medium. Models for
environment-mediated coordination are often inspired by biological,
physical and other naturally occurring systems. Typical examples are
gradient fields and digital pheromones that guide agents in their local
context and as such facilitate the coordination of a community of agents.
Since environment-mediated coordination has shown to result in manageable
solutions with very adaptable qualities, it is a promising paradigm to
deal with the increasingly complexity and dynamism of distributed
applications.
Although we have some initial understanding how to engineer such systems,
many research issues are still open. When designing a system that is based
only on local interactions and the emergent properties resulting from these
interactions, it is a difficult research problem on the one hand to obtain
the required global behavior of the system and on the other hand to avoid
undesired global properties. A particular issue in the design of
self-organizing systems is determining the suitable complexity of the
individual agents required to achieve the desired emergent functions.
Typically, agents in self-organizing systems are less complex in their
sensing, reasoning, and acting capabilities than agents in traditional
multi-agent systems that follow a deliberate organizing approach. But,
epending on the application domain, the functional requirements, and the
sheer number of agents available in a particular setting, individual
agent complexity may vary. As agent complexity increases,
self-organization may become harder to achieve and to prove. ECOSOA
addresses the approach of environment-mediated coordination among
self-organizing agents that off-loads some of the agent complexity into
the processes of the coordination medium (e.g., truth maintenance through
pheromone evaporation). Off-loading agent complexity into the coordination
medium simplifies agent design, implementation, and evaluation and thus
increases the likelihood of a successful application development.
ECOSOA aims to establish a forum for researchers and engineers interested
in environment-mediated coordination in self-organizing and self-adaptive
systems. The event should result in an improved understanding on the role
of the coordination medium, the principles that underlie self-organization,
and the engineering of emergent organizations. The intended audience of
the workshop includes researcher and engineers with an interest/expertise
in environment-mediated coordination in self-organizing and self-adaptive
systems, particularly the engineering of emergent organizations. Related
domains of interest include: multi-agent systems, context-aware and
pervasive computing, service-oriented architectures, autonomic computing,
middleware and coordination, computational mechanism design, software
architecture, and aspect-oriented software development. The workshop also
aims to attract engineers and practitioners with expertise in applying
mediatd coordination in specific application areas such as logistics,
intelligent transportation systems, manufacturing control, peer-to-peer
applications, sensor networks, etc.
SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP
The general goal of ECOSOA is to advance state of the art theories and
engineering of environment-mediated coordination in self-organizing and
self-adaptive systems. A specific focus of the workshop will be on
engineering emergent organizations. Emergent organizations result from
the dynamic interactions of agents that exploit a shared coordination
medium to coordinate their behavior. This contrasts to organizations in
the form of 'mental concepts in the mind of agents' in which agents
interact directly via exchanging high-level messages. Particular topics
of interest include:
Foundation
- Exploitation of biological and physical principles to engineer emergent
organizations
- Theories, models and mechanisms for self-organizing
- Theories and models of environment-mediated coordination and emergent
organizations
Engineering
- Software architectures of environment-mediated coordination
- Design approaches for self-organizing and emergent properties
- Engineering of environment-meditated coordination for self-* systems
- Middleware for self-organizing and self-adaptive systems
- Implementation of environment-mediated coordination
- Assessment metrics and performance evaluation
Applications
- Experience reports of complex distributed applications with
environment-mediated coordination and emergent organizations
- Practical applications of environment-mediated coordination of
self-organizing and self-adaptive systems
SUBMISSIONS
ECOSOA welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental,
methodological as well as application papers. Papers may report on
completed work, descriptions of work in progress or discussion papers.
Submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process. Each paper
will be reviewed by three members of the program committee. Papers
that present a valuable idea that needs further development can be
accepted as a short paper.
The submission should be 6-10 pages in length, including figures and
references. The paper must be formatted according to the IEEE Computer
Society Press proceedings style guide (IEEE Conference Proceedings).
All papers should be prepared in pdf format and submitted by email
to: ecosoa [at] cs.kuleuven.be. The good receipt of your submission
will be confirmed by email.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
- Danny Weyns, DistriNet Labs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- Sven Brueckner, NewVectors, TechTeam Government Solutions, Inc., USA
- Yves Demazeau, CNRS, Laboratoire dInformatique de Grenoble, France
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Flavien Balbo, LAMSADE, Université Paris-Dauphine, France
- Tibor Bosse, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Valerie Camps, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
- Cristiano Castelfrachi, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy
- Vincent Chevrier, Universite Henri Poincaré Nancy, France
- Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of London, UK
- Jacques Ferber, Université de Montpellier II, Lirmm, France
- Marie-Pierre Gleizes, IRIT Toulouse, France
- David Hales, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
- Alexander Helleboogh, DistriNet Labs, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
- Tom Holvoet, DistriNet, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
- Mark Jelasity, Hungarian Acad. Sci. & Univ. Szeged, Hungary
- Jeff Kephart, IBM, USA
- Franziska Kluegl, University of Wurzburg, Germany
- Marco Mamei, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Fabien Michel, LERI, Reims, France
- R. Zalila Mili, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
- Andrea Omicini, Università di Bologna, Italy
- Juan Pavón, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
- H. Van Dyke Parunak, NewVectors LLC, Ann Arbor, USA
- Wolfgang Renz, Hamburg University of Applied Science, Germany
- Alessandro Ricci, Università di Bologna, Italy
- Nicolas Sabouret, LIP6 Paris, France
- Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
- John Sauter, NewVectors LLC, Ann Arbor, USA
- Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Guy Théraulaz, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
- Karl Tuyls, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Adelinde Uhrmacher, University of Rostock, Germany
- Paul Valckenaers, PMA, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
- Mirko Viroli, Università di Bologna, Italy
- Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and R. Emilia, Italy
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