[agents] SARC2008 - New deadline

[Emmanuel Adam]

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Submission deadline is extended until July, 18th.

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_/         First International Workshop on              _/
_/  Self-Adaptation for Robustness and Cooperation      _/
_/            in Holonic MultiAgent Systems             _/
_/  http://sarc.2008.free.fr/                           _/
_/  http://www.univ-valenciennes.fr/congres/SARC2008/   _/
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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 *NEW* deadline: July 11, 2008 ==> July 18th, 2008

Paper notifications *NEW*: August 11, 2008

Camera ready paper: September 10, 2008

Workshop: October 20th, 2008

*****!!! 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, in PDF format.
The paper must be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society  
Press two-column proceedings style guide (see 'Information for Authors  
-> Formating' on http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/).


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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